Senior-Level Innovation and Technical Delivery Specialist

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High-performing technical leadership executive with expertise in building and optimizing development processes, measurement systems, infrastructure, innovative solutions, and development teams

Ability to identify and maximize ROI driving speed to market software innovations

Highly strategic leader who transforms company vision into executable goals

Aligns best practices and KPI’s to drive operational improvements

Seasoned executive that gained fast-track promotion through roles including developer, architect, consultant, manager, director, and CTO

MBA with an extensive scope of responsibility, proven success, and long track record of delivering quality software products in high growth markets that exceed operational performance targets and produce quantifiable results including:

Agile transformation

Cost restructuring

Innovation funnel

Productivity gains

Revenue growth

Leadership

Operational improvement

Sales and consulting support

Reduction in time to market deliveries

Agile process

Operational effectiveness

Innovation & transformation

Strategic planning

Productivity and efficiency

Leadership

Project planning

Organizational design

Mobile applications

Complex technical systems

Multi-site development

Performance management

Mentorship

Total Quality Management

Leader Member Exchange

Health Care

Health insurance

Pharmaceuticals

Continuous improvement

Profit and loss management

Kanban, Scrum, Agile and Waterfall

Cross-functional team leadership

Budgeting

Revenue growth

Financial planning

Negotiation, persuasion and communication

Training and leadership development

Problem solving

Asset deployment

Technical architecture

Technical Infrastructure

Technical solutions

Director of Innovation and Delivery, BRIDGE2 SOLUTIONS - Alpharetta, GA - August 2016 to Present

Recruited by the CTO and responsible for Bridge2 Solutions (B2S) largest client

Innovations in credit card points market allowing creative solutions to customers challenges

Oversee 80 employees with a $15 million budget driving innovative solutions and 24 independent releases per year.

Improving operational performance, oversee security, and regulatory ADA compliance and enhancing cost structures.

Orchestrates 3 distinct development and operational support teams in development and delivery of new features and technical products.

Implemented Innovation Funnel and Agile processes to provide fast to market technical products.

Part Time CTO, Docsnap - Atlanta, GA - August 2016 to Present

Drive the Health Care Interoperability for major government clients of Docsnap.

Provide technology direction and implementation with the HL7 FHIR and Smart on FHIR standards I am able to provide interoperability between Cerner, VISTA, Government Departments, 3rd Party Vendors and Docsnap Mobile and Web Based applications.

Setting the Docsnap technology strategy and engagement model with Georgia Tech's Research Group to provide interoperability platforms that utilize exponential technologies.

Build a technology delivery team from the ground up

Director of Information Technology Innovation and Mobility, Anthem, Inc. - Atlanta, GA - June 2010 to August 2016

Attained fast track promotion and leadership via roles including Enterprise/Infrastructure Architect, Manager of Mobile Solutions, Director of Mobility Strategy, and Director of IT Innovation.

Created Mobility strategy for Anthem providing the first mobile technology platform for engagement of members overseeing worldwide staff of 90+ technologists.

Created the Innovation studio for Anthem. Grew team to 12 technologists in innovation and implemented the innovation funnel to drive new products and business in the health insurance and chronic care spaces.

Responsible for 350 Million in ROI through innovation projects in 2016.

Implementation of strategic technical plans for the future of Anthem market growth and delivery.

As a leader, I am seen as a person who teams want to work for and somebody who can work with all levels of the organization to drive Technology strategy forward generating new features and products using legacy and exponential technologies.

Other successes include delivery and overseeing:

oAnthem’s complex network of solutions and integrations of systems.

oCreation of SOA platform and service bus, API strategy and implementation (APIGEE/Micro services), DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Test Automation. Supported the CTO in POC and selection of new products, vendors, and technologies.

These foundational projects will allow Anthem to provide a key differentiation in the Health Insurance space.

Principal Consultant, Aetna - Orlando, FL - November 2005 to June 2010

Defined and implemented the technology strategy for Aetna Specialty Pharmacy ordering system.

This system integrated Oracle CRM, Walters Kluwer Medispan, Si Baker Pharmacy Application, UPS and Fedex for the ordering of mail order specialty drugs.

The implementation included business analysis and directing technical staff from both architectural and technical levels.

The success of this platform enabled Aetna to ship an average of 6 million dollars in specialty pharmaceuticals per day 6 days per week.

Technical Project and Release Manager, CPT International - Atlanta, GA - April 2005 to Nov 2005

Responsible for development of Voice Harbor a voice application hosting service, providing standards-based hosting capacity for VXML, speech, multi-modal and traditional DTMF-only telephony applications.

A major component of this job included sales presentations and trade show lead generation. General duties also included requirements gathering, use case documentation, running review boards, and code and construction of the platform.

Senior Principal Consultant, Oracle - Atlanta, GA - September 2004 to April 2005

Senior Principal Consultant for CompuCredit. Responsible for the development and implementation of the RCAT rules engine to increase the productivity of collection activities.

This project encompassed project management, requirements gathering, use case generation, coding and delivery of a WSDL compliant rules engine deployed into an XML Gateway. This service was the central mechanism for legacy integration with diverging systems. The technical structure included java technologies JDOM, Reflection, Multithreading and WSDL.

Principal Consultant, Obvient Strategies Inc. - Atlanta, GA - September 2002 to September 2004

Principal Consultant on the implementation of a data warehouse and business intelligence solution for companies such as Exide Batteries, General Electric and Bermuda Electric Power.

This included leadership in architecture, tooling, requirements gathering, use case creation, database design, ETL construction, portal creation, coding, and customer interaction. As a key Technical Leader, my responsibilities included project scope definition, resource allocation, budgeting and executive level interaction for sign off and demonstration of new features.

Release Manager, Principal Consultant, and Analyst Programmer, Indus International Inc. - Atlanta, GA - February 1994 to September 2002

Attained fast-track promotion through a series of increasingly responsible positions including Release Manager April 2000 – August 2002 responsible for the release of the Empac J2EE compliant

Enterprise Asset Management System using an onshore/offshore model.

Principal Implementation Consultant July 1996 – April 2000

Analyst Programmer February 1994 – July 1996

MBA in Business, Australian Institute of Business - Atlanta, GA 2015 to 2016

Bachelor of Information Technology in Information Management, Queensland University of Technology - Brisbane Australia 1991 to 1994

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CSM 2014 to Present CSPO 2015 to Present

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