ALAN J. SUKIN

Wolfforth, TX

806-***-**** ● aczesf@r.postjobfree.com ● https://www.linkedin.com/in/sactowndesign

SVP of Information Technology / SVP Software Engineering

Collaborative Executive Leader, Business Partner, & Solution Manager

“Building Responsive IT Organizations that Enhance the Customer User Experience”

The strategic executive with CIP-level success in leading information technology for companies and clients including global planning, capacity/cost projections, IT governance, and business solutions. Logical thinker and strong communicator noted for transforming IT organizations with support to global, enterprise-wide infrastructures. Strategically and cost effectively utilize technology in alignment with corporate goals. Consistently improve delivery times and service levels while reducing costs. Excel at strategic planning, building high-performance teams, project management, and implementing best practice methodologies and continuous improvement programs. Earned a reputation as a big picture change agent who champions business objectives while harnessing and driving next-level technology performance.

LEADERSHIP ASSETS

Leadership & Mentoring

Agile SDLC Methodology

Entrepreneurial/Client Facing

Strategic Planning/Vision

Design/Spec/Prioritize

Relationship Building

Roadmap/Feedback Loop

Financial/Costing/P&L

IT Network Infrastructure

Sales Savvy/Negotiating

Requirements/Scope

IT Operations/Budgets

Proposals/Written

Interpersonal/Verbal

Acceptance Criteria

Development Liaising

Tech Consulting

Data Software Expertise

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP

Texas Tech University, College of Education Lubbock, TX 2015 – Present

Sr. Director of Software Development

Oversee full-time and research assistant staff in both database and software development using technologies including Tableau, MS-SQL, C#, Net, Qualtrics, Cognos, Banner, and Scantron to improve K12 teachers that come out of the undergraduate and graduate programs of the TTU College of Education. Configure, troubleshoot and maintain production quality trend analysis, statistics, surveys, and dashboards. Maintaining the Roadmap, storyboarding, and product ownership, artifact collecting amongst faculty, staff, and other stakeholders within both the College of Education and the University IT Departments.

Key Results:

In charge of architecture, design, development and integration of secure software, database and quality multi-level dashboards for the Texas Tech’s College of Education.

Drove cross-functional teams in partaking in storyboarding participation in backlog prioritization and small iterations conversions to sprints. Integrated, databases, data warehousing (University Oracle, SQL ODBC, API’s, scripts) and visual interactive and multi-level dashboards and queries.

Monitored needs assessment, functional and requirement gathering along with architectural requirements by interacting with all stakeholders within the College of Education to understand through data and visual dashboards that tell a story goals to increase enrollment, and the quality of teacher prep programs.

Collaborated with authoritative university IT departments to assure concepts, practices, procedures, security requirements.

Developed and collaborated with other entities or colleges to build grant funded data and dashboards systems as well. Software tools including Tableau 9.1, SQL Server 2012, Oracle, SQL Developer, C#, NET, OmniUpdate, JavaScript, Sharepoint, SQL Script, Windows Server 2012 and Active Directory.

Sacramento Design Network, Inc. Folsom, CA 2005 - 2015

Chief Information Officer, Director of Digital/Software Product Management

Leveraged leadership abilities to define and negotiate product strategy, defining the vision, designing, architecting, prototyping, writing roadmaps, narrative stories, defining acceptance criteria and presenting the vision to teams. Managed and estimated budget including ongoing scope creeping, release planning and analytic reporting using Microsoft Project®, Harvest, Bidsketch, Jira, Basecamp, and Trello.

Key Results:

Directed, drove and managed teams of up to thirty (30) distributed teams making up multiple scrum teams including scrum masters, product managers, product owners, multi-software developers, architects, programmers, analysts, QA experts, testers, and UI designers.

Selected to lead the Franchise Scrum E-commerce Software Development Project: Acting as Agile Product Manager/Owner for a new SaaS portal platform for a franchise sales system, overseeing teams of up to thirty (30) cross-functional teams including developers, UX, DBAs and QA members along with offshore teams.

Analyzed applications performance and implement advanced data optimization techniques which increased overall efficiency by over 200%.

Contribute & recommend strategies which met corporate cost plans and saved over 1 million in revenues after release expenditures.

OTHER WORK HISTORY

SDI Construction, Inc. Folsom, CA 2005- 2015

Owner, Residential General Building Contractor, Project Manager

TEKwatch, Inc. Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA 1996 - 2005

Chief Information Officer, Director of IT Product Management – Network Architect SME

Wells Fargo Bank by Ajilon, IMI Systems, San Francisco, CA: PM + Network Engineer 1996 - 1998

Entex Systems, Foster City, CA: Senior Network Engineer + Project Manager 1995 – 1996

For complete work history: Available on Request

For projects and clients, I have worked with: Available on Request

EDUCATION

Tulane University School of Business, New Orleans, LA

Bachelor of Science in Business Management, 1990

Concentration: Accounting, Finance, Information System

Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX

Masters of Business Administration, MBA, 2016-2018

CERTIFICATIONS

PMI-ACP, JIRA, SAFe®, CSPO Certification in progress

Sunrun Professional Direct Sales Certification, SunRun 2015

Certified Scrum Master #000379952 (CSM), by Scrum Alliance 2014

SEO Expert, Bruce Clay Search Engine Optimization 2012

Licensed General Contractor, CSLB 2005

Certified Netware Engineer #6214321 (CNE), by Novell 1993

DIGITAL SKILLS

Custom Applications/API

Sales/SalesForce

IT Infrastructure

UX Design Skills

Shopping Carts/POS

Help Desk Systems

Digital Products/Websites

Digital /Social Marketing

Payment Processing

Ecommerce Products

CRM/CMS/ERP

Data Center

Branding/Marketing

SaaS/NetSuite

Lexis/Nexis

TECHNICAL TOOLS

Photoshop/Visio/Lucidchart

Agile/Scrum

Network Architecture

Story Narratives

Visio/Pidoco/Evolus Pencil

Tableau

Writer/RFP/Proposals

MS Office Full Suite

WordPress CMS

Cpanel/WHM

Basecamp/MS Project®

Edit: CSS/HTML/PHP

Inherent Troubleshooter

Rally/Jira/Analytics

Trello/Harvest Forecast

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