Experience

Scott Credit Union

• United States
• Banking
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief Information Officer

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Edwardsville, Illinois, United States Responsible for development, communication and execution of the IT strategy defined by working collaboratively with business stakeholders focused on supporting the credit union members and achieving the organization’s goals. Cultivated an environment of inclusiveness that supported the professional growth, training, and engagement of the IT team. Instilled an environment of customer focus leading to continuous innovation and improvement resulting in operational excellence.



Mastercard

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President Information Technology

  • 2020 - 2021

  Greater St. Louis Responsible for providing global operational support of Consumer Facing Digital Products in the Loyalty Products and Advisory Information Services areas consisting of $300 Million in revenue. Leading 24x7 operations, disaster recovery, PCI and SOC1 compliance, deployment and automation, capacity planning and security across 6 global regions. Consisting of a staff of ~100 engineers.



Enterprise Mobility

• United States
• Travel Arrangements
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Vice President of Information Technology - Shared Services

  • Mar 2016 - 2020

  St Louis, Missouri, United States Provided visionary leadership for Information Technology Shared Services and Infrastructure organization. Experience in development of strategy, design, engineering, security and operations for network, systems, storage, database, capacity planning, financial, portfolio and project management. Management of a staff of ~400 and $110 Million annual budget. • Increased data center and network security posture. Engineered and built next generation firewalls, malware detection, URL filtering… Show more Provided visionary leadership for Information Technology Shared Services and Infrastructure organization. Experience in development of strategy, design, engineering, security and operations for network, systems, storage, database, capacity planning, financial, portfolio and project management. Management of a staff of ~400 and $110 Million annual budget. • Increased data center and network security posture. Engineered and built next generation firewalls, malware detection, URL filtering, privileged account management, network segmentation, security logging, for platforms, and networks. Decreased overall security risk profile and surface area attacks. • Transformed from IaaS based private cloud to public/internal cloud-based technology with container technology. Oversaw virtualization and cloud migration for platforms, storage, network switching, routing, firewalls, and load balancing technologies using SaaS, Public Cloud, and Internal Private Cloud Technology. Resulted in $10M/10% Return on Investment in capital and labor costs in 2-year timeframe. • Developed operational automation for infrastructure technologies. Transformed operational organization from manual processes to automation for patching, monitoring, event management, and incident response. Reduced cost by 10% in 1 year and patch cycle from annually to quarterly.

• Assistant Vice President of Information Technology - Infrastructure

  • Mar 2011 - Mar 2016

  St Louis, Missouri, United States Responsible for leadership and direction of Infrastructure team. Included development of strategy, design, engineering and security of internal private cloud, virtualized and physical systems, database platforms, security tools and storage. Staff of 150 and $50+ Million annual budget. • Directed implementation of internal private cloud, with VMWare, x86 technology and open source. Led cross-functional architecture/engineering team. Architected, evaluated/selected technology (VMWare, x86,… Show more Responsible for leadership and direction of Infrastructure team. Included development of strategy, design, engineering and security of internal private cloud, virtualized and physical systems, database platforms, security tools and storage. Staff of 150 and $50+ Million annual budget. • Directed implementation of internal private cloud, with VMWare, x86 technology and open source. Led cross-functional architecture/engineering team. Architected, evaluated/selected technology (VMWare, x86, and open source), and built platform. Realized cost savings of 50% for platform technology. • Restructured storage efficiency, lowering cost, and increasing capacity. Utilized virtualization, automation, over subscription, object, and block storage services enterprise-wide. Lowered total cost per Peta Byte by 50% over 3 years producing cost avoidance of ~$7M and lowered headcount by 22%. • Decreased overall security risk through Vulnerability Management. Implemented vulnerability scanning solution and process, identified, classified, prioritized, remediated, and mitigated software vulnerabilities. Shortened patching cycles and improved software development, lowering overall security risk profile.

• Assistant Vice President Information Technology - Application Development

  • May 2008 - Mar 2011

  St Louis, Missouri, United States Responsible for primary rental car solution software development. Included architecture, design, implementation, performance/disaster recovery testing, release management, security, iSeries and open systems applications. Staff of 100 with annual budget of ~$33 Million. • Headed multi-year implementation, and operational transformation of iSeries rental solutions. Completed organizational/skillset change for 100+ developers from iSeries to UNIX/Oracle open system architecture. Integrated… Show more Responsible for primary rental car solution software development. Included architecture, design, implementation, performance/disaster recovery testing, release management, security, iSeries and open systems applications. Staff of 100 with annual budget of ~$33 Million. • Headed multi-year implementation, and operational transformation of iSeries rental solutions. Completed organizational/skillset change for 100+ developers from iSeries to UNIX/Oracle open system architecture. Integrated processing using 7 iSeries systems to centralized system, rolled out to 60,000+ employees. • Created Service Oriented Architecture strategy. Managed a centralized architecture team, created the SOA across all lines of business to accelerate the development of consumable services related to specific business functions. Resulted in a faster time to market, removed redundancy, and improved data quality.

• Management - Information Technology Software Development

  • Dec 1998 - May 2008

  St. Louis County, Missouri, United States Experience in Multiple Management positions within software development teams responsible for the delivery and operations of the Fleet Management and Rental System. Ensured delivery of strategic project initiatives, and effective user experience to meet the business operational needs.



Mastercard

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manager

  • 1995 - 1998

  St Louis, Missouri, United States Project Management of large development of Consumer Product software for use in the payment industry.