Executive Project
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D. Brooks Lobingier II
Fort Worth, TX 76179
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Profile
Dedicated professional with 18+ years’ experience in Information Technology focusing on the management and operations of networking systems, software/system development, relational databases and telecom technology. Highly motivated, results oriented with outstanding communication, presentation, personal and project skills.
Experience
Innovate Auto Finance March 2016 - Present
Vice President Information Technology
Manage the performance of the IT department to achieve project goals as established by Executive Management.
Weekly Project reporting and updates to the Executive team.
Working to align the technology vision with business strategy by integrating company processes with appropriate technologies, including review and purchase or appropriate software and hardware when needed.
Manage 13 + staff members daily.
Manage network systems to provide the company with highest possible degree of reliability, efficiency, security and performance. Continuing to improve on reliability and security of all systems. Replaced end of life servers with Virtual environment upon move to new facility.
Establishing process and policy for the tracking of life cycle for system equipment to maximize its value including budgeting replacement hardware.
Develop written policies, procedures and documentation for the necessary standards to run daily operations of the department staff.
Manage development and infrastructure areas to ensure on-time and with-in budget completion of projects.
Responsible for reviewing and approving all project plans for all major corporate initiatives, allocating the proper resources, setting priority based on senior management recommendations, and managing the implementation process to a successful conclusion. Migrated all users as well as existing data center to new facility.
Responsible for business growth planning and budgeting of all hardware and software creating a 3-year plan. Including scoping new hardware for growth upon migration to new facility.
Manage capital expenditures and prepare monthly status reports.
Oversight of development to create new web presence, as well as an Enterprise Data Warehouse.
Responsible for selection process and implementation of new contact center software (Interactive Intelligence).
Extensive understanding of computer networking concepts (drives, servers, security, cabling, interfaces, routers, modems).
Experience in managing multiple data centers, in both Fort Worth, TX and Phoenix, AZ.
Strong staff management, development and leadership skills.
Successfully migrated Fort Worth, TX data center, staff and operations to new offices December 2016.
Residential Credit Solutions Inc. 2014-February 2016
Vice President Information Technology
Managed the performance of each IT department to achieve service levels and performance targets as established by Executive Committee. Monthly reporting to the Executive Committee as well as the Board of Directors.
Align the technology vision with business strategy by integrating company processes with appropriate technologies
Manage 15+ staff daily
Responsible for design, implementation and annual testing of both the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans.
Ensure that the network operation centers meet all disaster recovery standards as determined by the business with regards to documentation, data retention, intrusion detection, recovery, and restoration services.
Successfully completed various audits throughout each year for Investors, SOX testing, and annual SSAE16 reporting (SOC1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2).
Managed network systems to provide the company with highest possible degree of reliability, efficiency, security and performance.
Managed the life cycle of all system equipment to maximize its value including budgeting replacement hardware annually.
Developed written policies, procedures and documentation for the necessary standards to run daily operations of the department staff and updated annually.
Manage development and support managers to ensure on-time and with-in budget completion of projects.
Responsible for reviewing and approving all project plans for all major corporate initiatives, allocating the proper resources, setting priority based on senior management recommendations, and managing the implementation process to a successful conclusion.
Manage capital expenditures and prepare monthly status reports. Successfully managed budget in 2015 to $880K under budget for the year.
Extensive understanding of computer networking concepts (drives, servers, security, cabling, interfaces, routers, modems)
Experience in managing multiple staff in different locations, including FTE across the United States as well as offshore development teams.
Experience in managing multiple data centers in Fort Worth, TX and San Antonio, TX.
Strong staff management, development and leadership skills
Budget management skills
Residential Credit Solutions Inc. 2007-2014
Director Application Development
Monthly KPI reporting, monitoring daily metrics to ensure monthly goals were met.
Manage 6+ FTE, various contractors as well as offshore development team.
Direct team toward using best practices for all aspects of the SDLC.
Established and implemented knowledge based processes and methodologies.
Work closely with management to understand projects and business priorities and schedule work with development staff based on those priorities. Included weekly and monthly reporting on project statuses to Executive management.
Communicate with clients, peers, and executive management to foster collaboration and positive information flow.
Developed annual plans and reforecast project timelines when necessary.
Constantly improving the development processes, tools and methodologies used in the development group.
Monitored and ensured the development of systems were within scope, budget, objectives, schedules, and resources commitments.
Responsibilities included release and project management, requirements management, solution architecture, product/service development and business intelligence/reporting.
Saxon Mortgage Services Inc. (Morgan Stanley) 2005 -2007
Manager QA/Acquisitions
SOX coordinator for IT department. Achieved full SOX compliance each quarter with no deficiencies noted.
Responsible for IT Acquisitions team who load 60,000+ loans to the servicing system per year.
Managed acquisition projects to include accurately estimating level of effort, developing detailed project plans, planning project staffing requirements, managing daily project progress, reporting project status and exceptions, reporting development process metrics and managing projects to meet quality, budget and schedule goals.
Participated with business associates / peers to establish the feasibility of a software solution(s) for newly identified business need(s).
Established goals and direction for subordinates and provided needed resources, training, leadership, and performance feedback.
Initiated process improvements by participating in formal teams and refining processes.
Recommended, implemented, and monitored short and long term goals and business plans for the group in conjunction with the corporate strategic plan and objectives.
Over saw the definition of departmental policies, procedures, standards, and methodologies and ensure implementation of these within the Application Support group.
Saxon Mortgage Services 2003-2005
Sr. Business Analyst/Team Lead
Received President’s Club award for outstanding achievement - 2004
Led Business Analyst team on addition of second servicing site. All applications had to be revised to include additional servicing site. Managed and led process through the use of project plans.
Responsible for the individual assistance, growth and development of team members.
Lead system design sessions on various high profile projects (Delinquency Reporting, Western Union interfaces, Monthly Remittance interfaces for Investor Accounting groups).
Performed SOX testing for IT group.
Saxon Mortgage Services (formerly Meritech) 2002-2003
Business Analyst
Worked closely with the Financial Operations and Performing Assets groups.
Worked closely on the project team to successfully convert servicing system from Excelis to MortgageServ.
Participated in defining business requirements for functional enhancements or systems development, specifically for the financial operations of the company and the call center.
Worked with MSSQL Server 2000 to map and plan reporting of financial information for Investor Accounting department.
Created many processes for the Investor Accounting department to allow them the ability to track and remit amounts to the investors on a monthly basis. (P&I Advance, TICA Advance)
Prepared, documented, and executed test plans.
Established test data that accurately represented conditions necessary to meet application testing and certification requirements.
Participated in system design sessions.
Researched, documented and followed-up on discrepancies that occurred during functional testing and or production rollout.
Meritech Mortgage Services 2001-2002
Junior Business Analyst
Worked for the IT group as a liaison between the Financial Operations group and IT
Assisted in defining business requirements for functional enhancements or systems development.
Assisted with the preparation, documentation, execution, and validation of test plans.
Helped establish test data that accurately represents conditions necessary to meet application testing and certification requirements.
Participated in system design sessions.
Assisted with the research, documentation and follow-up on discrepancies that occurred during functional testing and or production rollout
Ray & Berndtson 2000 to 2001
Application programmer
Worked as both Analyst and developer on functions of in-house Executive search software (Searchnet 2000)
Responsible for developing crystal reports to deliver information as it pertained to executive searches.
Developed solutions for in- house software, integrating new features as requested into Searchnet.
SKILLS
MS Office, Oracle 8i, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, TOAD,
MS SQL Server 7, MS SQL Server 2000, MS SQL Server 2008 R2, MS SQL Server 2016, Microsoft Project, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, VMWare environments, Data Center Management
Budget and Financial Planning, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Networking, Telecommunications, Disaster Recovery planning and testing
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Bachelor of Business Administration, MIS
Texas Wesleyan University 2000
Various Saxon Manager’s Courses 2004- 2007
References
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