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LAWRENCE “WAYNE” FI E L DS

VP DI R ECTOR, INFOR MAT ION TECHNOLOGY & SOFTWARE APPL ICAT ION DEVELOP MEN T

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E XECUT I VE SU M MARY

Senior technology strategist who’s planned and governed technology architecture and

environments at the global Fortune 500 level. Transformational leader: envision, articulate and

execute technology innovations that optimize business operations, increase market share and

customer acquisition, and raise competitive position. Directed multi-million-dollar technology

i nitiatives for MetLife, and a series of business-critical enterprise projects for First Horizon.

V isionary and Coaching leadership approach; dedicated to providing the technology team with all

t hey need to deliver the organizational mission and vision. Willing to relocate for the r ight

opportunity.

Strategic IT Leadership Enterprise, Application & System

Security

Application Software Development

Identity & Access Management

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

M anagement Agile & Waterfall Project

M anagement

System Design & Implementation

Process Re-engineering & IT I L

Enterprise Technology Development

Global IT Team Leadership

Technology Architecture & Operations

Shared Services & SaaS

WORK E XPER I ENCE

BJ C RU IS I NG WAXAHACH I E, TX

Vice President, Technology (2014 - Present, part-t ime): Technology leadership and

p resentations for t ravel shows.

M ET L I F E G ROUP I rving, TX

D i rector, Application Development (2008 to 2014): Advanced to this role when MetLife acquired

t he home loans division of First Horizon (below), and retained by Senior Executives to close the

department.

Established and led the new shared services division, which required partnering with the

P IMO organization to t ransfer all service agreements for 25 business-critical applications, then

i nstall those on the new infrastructure, hardware and systems.

Ar ticulated the technology vision, int roduced SOA and directed all technology architecture

development.

Oversaw 19 technical specialists, including 3 technical directors, 3 project managers, on-site

developers, and offshore staff conducting data management, records management, network

security, mobile and web development, and software application development.

Provided expertise on enterprise technical review board, and issued buy, sell or hold

decisions on potential acquisition or divestiture entities and member of the Architectural team

setting SDLC and other standards.

Defined policies to uphold government and SOX compliance.

Ul timately, managed closure of applications, infrastructure, 3rd party solutions and Big

Data.

Drove $5 million vir tualization: incorporated VSI tools, migrated to shared services and

i nstituted security protocol to authenticate origination, B2B and B2C sales, and commission

t ransactions.

Championed $2.5 million PCI DSS compliance, which involved leading vulnerabili ty

remediation to achieve merchant level 4 certification.

Directed technology t ransformation to institute $1 million HR solution providing identity

verification and access management that reduced new employee onboarding from 14 days to 3.

Orchestrated $500K init iative to architect single sign-on functionality for the bank division,

w hich impacted 10 million+ users in wholesale lending and reverse mortgages.

Achieved 30% cost savings by engineering an enterprise service bus (SOA/Java), using Open

Source solutions including JBoss.

In t roduced Veracode application security scanning into the SDLC process for customer

i nformation protection.

FI RST HOR IZON NATIONAL CORP . I rving, TX

VP, In ternet & Technical Services (2000 to 2008): Recruited by SVP who was formerly VP at

Cybertek (below) to effect organization-wide change management, articulate the vision, and define

t he strategic plan and roadmap. Transformed the unit from primarily contractor-based into a

d ivision with full-time, dedicated software, database and QA teams. Led technology assessment

and immediately captured $500K annual savings by bringing outsourced equipment in-house.

I dentified major systems for overhaul, including the intranet, document management, access

control, online presence, and lending and underwri ting tools. Also directed application, mobile and

web development. Init iated the organization’s 1st 3-year business continuity plan, required for

government compliance.

Leader of I rving, Texas Architectural team setting SDLC, BCP, Web Services, SOA, SaaS

and other standards.

In t roduced web contact management tool increasing data availabili ty for underwri ting and

loan closing 50%.

Used SharePoint and Web Services for storing and validation of corporate policies,

p rocedures, underwrit ing information and marketing collateral in compliance with regulatory

p ractices.

Overhauled the int ranet portal, facilitating ongoing records history in preparation for

government audits.

Impacted 1,700+ member sales team by launching solution to onboard new hires 25% faster.

E ngaged M icrosoft consultant to customize tool to migrate HR data into the sales portal and

authenticate users.

Increased production support levels 50% as verified by external assessment, which proved

key to corporate-wide operational excellence initiative. Merited the President’s Award.

In tegrally guided technology ini tiative to increase online mortgage applications 10%, by

optimizing Internet and int ranet portals offering marketing and sales collaterals in real time

nationwide.

Delivered $500K annual savings by renegotiating web hosting services contract and

s tructuring 35% price reduction.

PMSC/CYBERTEK Dallas, TX

Di rector, Manager & Lead Application Developer (1996 to 2000): Served as principal C++

developer for new workflow / decision engine, presented that process to executive team, and passed

M icrosoft’s product certification for the workflow/decision engine product. Led team of technical

leads, managers, supervisors, DBAs, client services specialists and quality assurance associates.

Merited the President’s Award of Excellence for leading ISO9001 registration achievement.

TECHNOLOGY SNAPSHOT

JAVA, JAVA EE, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, HTM L5, CSS, XML, C++, .NET (C#, ASP), VB SCRIPT,

SQL (ORACLE, MS SQL, MYSQL), SOA, WEB SERVICES, REST, NODE.JS, ANGULARJS,

W INDOWS, L I N UX, MAC OS, JBOSS, IOS, ANDROID OPEN SOURCE

E D UCAT ION & C ERT I F ICAT ION

B.S., M AT HE MAT ICS, University of Texas A rlington, TX

C ERT I F ICATE, I T I L V 3 F OUNDAT ION I rving, TX

ACCOMPL ISH MENTS

P RESI DENT ’S AWARD, C ORPORATE V I D EO O PERAT IONAL E XCELL ENCE ( F I RST H OR IZON N AT IONAL

S PEAKER F OR

C ORP .) 2006

P RESI DENT ’S AWARD F OR L EAD I NG I SO 9001 E F FORTS ( CYBERTEK) 1999

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