Randy C. Chetko
Franklin, Tn. 37064
Cell Phone # 615-***-****
aczj89@r.postjobfree.com
Technology Experience Summary
Senior Leadership Qualification - 24 plus years experience, managing
all areas of Information Technology. CMM level 5 qualified, Master
Black Belt - Six Sigma, ITIL 12 years P&L experience.
Sarbanes, FFIEC, Federal Reserve audit experience. M&A experience. Industry
experience with established leadership in object-oriented analysis & design
and formulating enterprise architecture and systems integration solutions
for large transformational programs.
Financial Services Qualifications - 22 years experience in Online
Banking, Bill Payment, Credit Card, Smart Card, Private Label Card,
Loans, Deposits, Mortgage, Mortgage Servicing, Bank Operations
Automation, Data Mining, Business Intelligence.
Education - Penn State University, Executive Management Programs from
Wharton School of Finance & Harvard Business School.
Application Development - 15 plus years Application & Product
Development.
Hardware / Software Architecture Experience - 10 plus years managing
large technical operations, Data Centers, Service Oriented Architecture,
Infrastructure, new & emerging technology.
Unique ability to formulate concepts and turn vision into profitable
actions.
Disciplined focused team oriented leader that excels in the ability to
create and execute high impact business initiatives, goals, and vision
to internal & external customers.
Customer focused with the ability to understand accountability and
commitment in a decisive manner, set and meet aggressive targets with
unyielding integrity.
Experience in non standard auto domain and standard messaging frameworks
such as ACORD/IAA.
Strong consultant oriented approach, working across business and technology
teams across international boundaries, to establish a target state vision
for enterprise integration platform aligned with business and IT strategy
. Accountable for leading large scale integration technology strategy and
roadmap with end-to-end data management and solution development against
wide-range of regional and local systems across international boundaries
. Assess products, messaging frameworks, and services for their integration
capabilities and compatibility with published corporate standards
. Responsible for presenting solutions to global Architecture Review Board
to develop standard guidelines, processes, and documentation
. Create systems integration architecture and technical interface designs
. Plan and design new integration services by maximizing the reuse of
existing services, components and application patterns,
. Design reliable, real-time and batch oriented application integration
solutions by applying appropriate Enterprise Application Integration
technologies and methodologies (Publish and Subscribe, SOA, Micro services
etc.)
. Consult with C-level client and business and technology leadership teams
to enable proper tracking and governance integration platform architecture
business, applications, data, and infrastructure
. Conduct in-depth analysis of client situation and data across multiple
dimensions (Program Management, Technology Stack, Technical Architecture,
SDLC, Release Management, Integration etc.) to identify and develop
application integration assets
. Experience working as a lead technologist on large scale J2EE-based SOA
re-engineering projects with stated emphasis on non-functional requirements
Security, Scalability, Maintainability etc.
. Strong working knowledge of all phases of software development such as
Architecture, Security, Design, Development, Testing, Administration,
Migration, and Production Support
. Knowledge of patterns & best practices around common cross cutting
concerns and ability to think out-of-the-box to recommend sound technical
solutions
. Experience with Micro-Services Architecture to support multi-channel/Omni-
Channel.
. Expert-level knowledge on proven Opensource and commercial enterprise
Integration technologies
. Deep knowledge in J2EE based EAI, ESB, BPM, MQ and integration frameworks
and patterns (WebSphere/ Mule/JBoss/Tibco/Apache Camel/Spring)
IBM MQ 7.x/8.x, IBM Integration Bus 9.x/10.x, IBM DataPower Gateway 7.x,
IBM API Management 4.x
. Expert-level knowledge in developing WebServices/REST API/Event Messaging
. Experience with Source Control & Build management tools
(TFS,Maven/Gulp/Git/SVN) and Continuous Integration tools
(Atlassian/Jenkins etc.)
. Operating Systems Windows NT / XP / 2000 / 98, MS DOS, LINUX, and UNIX
. Success-oriented high energy leader. . Ability to execute in a fast-paced
environment
. Excellent problem solving skills
. Ability to develop work plans and follow-through on assignments with
minimal guidance
. Able to drive collaborative efforts across the team members to improve
solution quality and increase productivity
. Experience with Agile SCRUM and iterative SDLC processes and
methodologies
Major Accomplishments Summary
. Directed all Six Sigma Business Process and Operational Excellence
transformation, including strategic business articulation and key
performance business indicators implementation and monitoring. First
year customer savings exceeded $10 million.
. Responsible for the day to day operations and the growth of revenue
from $30 million to $127 million through new product and service
offerings. Realized double-digit profitability. Responsible for all
strategic business planning.
. Facilitated a team of business leaders, board members and McKinsey
management consultants and participated in the strategic development
of a new "for profit" business model.
. Provided applications development leadership for a Sales Force
Automation and Service Management initiative for the Appliance Sales &
Consumer Service businesses. Due to these initiatives, new product
commercialization, quick market intelligence and inventory turns
realized a 15 percent base cost productivity improvement. Annual
savings exceeded $8million.
. Consolidation of the worldwide voice and data network and the
development of a tariff agreement with AT&T. Annual savings $12.7
million.
. Successfully originated and implemented a plan that initiated the
consolidation of thirty General Electric Data Centers and Networks
into four physical sites. Annual savings exceed $100
million.
. Periodic participation on the business acquisition and integration
management team - Worked closely with the newly acquired company's
management team during pre / post acquisition of the acquired to
insure the target company practices were consistent with G.E.
financial & operating standards.
. Assisting the new company with the addition of proven G.E. functions
such as risk management and quality improvement. Implemented G.E. best
practices to rapidly improve the integrated company's performance.
. $2 billion incremental revenue realized over a 5-year period.
Career Skills / Knowledge
. Oracle 12 RAC, Golden Gate Global project management
. Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming Cost Productivity improvements
. Product Management, Content Delivery SaaS, AWS, Hadoop,
. Business Operational Management Building cross functional
diverse teams
. Extensive Server Consolidation Software Capabilities
Maturity Model
. Data warehouse design & Implementation Cloud Computing, Hosting
. Outsourcing, onshore, offshore SalesForce, Oracle
Financials
. Cloud Computing, Web-Hosting SEI Level 5 experience
. Service Oriented Architecture implementations .net, Java,
Websphere, IBM Service Bus
. Experience architecting and building a massive parallel processing
platforms
. Responsive Design, Angular, Bootstrap designs
. Web application (Model View Controller (MVC), My Virtual Model (MVM))
frameworks
. Building applications using cloud APIs* Representational State
Transfer (REST)ful services
. Languages
. Java SE, Java EE, C, C++, C#
. HTML/HTML5, JavaScript, CSS
. Database
. JDBC, Oracle, SQL, DB2, MYSQL, Mongo DB
. Environment
. .net, Maven, Ant, Eclipse, Websphere, Tomcat, Jetty,
Linux/Unix, Windows
. Frameworks
. JSF/RichFaces, Hibernate/JPA, Seam, jQuery, junit, Bootstrap,
Swing, Struts
. Experience leading full stack software development
Object-Oriented Design, Functional Design, High-Availability,
Transaction Management, Thread Management and Concurrency
Professional experience
Major Insurance Company 2011 - present
Vice President Application & Infrastructure Solutions
Responsible for all packaged and in house .net and Java SaaS applications.
Custom Java & .net applications include Mobile, Consumer Web, Kiosk, Accord
and all Retail store point of sale solutions. Packaged applications include
Guidewire Claims, Policy, Billing and SunGard Financial Systems. Trained
and implemented Agile / Scrum capable staff. Experience implementing
Responsive & Single Page Web solutions utilizing Angular and Bootstrap
methodologies.
Provide leadership to the development group and help to set the overall
technical direction and strategies of the larger organization. Work with
the product team to manage the roadmap and backlog and ensure quality and
on time delivery. Experience with extensive collaboration with business
teams and other technology leaders.
Responsibilities include planning and adherence to SOA common architecture,
shared components, lifecycle management products and tooling across
all sales and marketing channels. Oversee tactical and strategic product
evolution in delivering software products with functionality to support key
verticals
Fidelity Information Systems - Comdata 2006 - 2011
Senior Director Distributed Systems Engineering, Shared Services,
Websphere & Database Administration
Responsible for the design development and implementation of SaaS Comdata
Card Payment Services Infrastructure. Products include Gift Card, Stored
Value Card, Payroll Card, Private Label Card and all Merchant Servicing
functions. Provide leadership to the ongoing development and support of
numerous Data Warehouses, Business Intelligence and ODS technology
products. Managed teams of DBA's, Unix, Linux and Websphere professionals.
Provided .Net and Websphere development teams with architectural,
technical direction, guidance, and support. Strong track record in
developing Java web applications and console application using J2EE design
patterns and Web Application Frameworks, specifically using Struts.
Experience leading teams utilizing C#, MS.Net Framework 2.0-4.0, MVC,
ASP.Net, Object-Oriented design patterns, Window Communication Foundation,
SQL Reporting Services, XML technologies, Visual Studio, SQL Server 2005-
2008, Java, Javascript, jQuery, and SQL Server database design. Knowledge
of Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 and Microsoft Enterprise Library 5
5 plus years experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies. Responsible for
integrated product delivery for numerous large transportation and credit
card, gift card customers.
Honeywell - Clarke American 2004 - 2006
Executive Director E-Commerce & Customer Service, Sales Products
Develop and execute the online E-Commerce SaaS check ordering product
development vision, strategy, definition, and hosting infrastructure
implementation. Provide leadership for the design and system engineering
support for all Unix, Mainframe, .Net Framework, Websphere Application
Server technology based products in a primary e-Financial institution,
including the adherence to Websphere Studio IDE, J2EE standards.
Expertise in creating applications using technologies such as ASP, C#,
JAVA, Delphi, COM, DCOM, Web Services, XML, XSL, SSL, .NET, SQL Server,
MSMQ, MTS, JavaScript. Skilled in three-tier Web application development
. Develop product, hosting concept proposals and life-cycle plans for
new Internet and Call Center products. Define and prioritize
enhancements to existing products. This includes the creation of
Banking requirements specifications, release notes, feature lists and
specifications. Develop and drive new product and enhancements
releases. Creating a revenue channel shift totaling $54 million over a
5 year period
. Responsible for design, implementation and support of all E-Commerce,
Call Center applications and data warehouse solutions delivery.
Including infrastructure planning, implementation, service delivery,
engineering, architecture design and oversight.
. Provide Marketing with business intelligence analysis and data content
to create product positioning sales support tools, etc.) Increasing
revenue by 20%
. Responsible for hiring a team of DB2, Oracle, DBA's, data
architects/modelers to enable the design and construction of 5 large
bank data warehouse products.
. Implemented retail bank data dredging scanning to analyze cross sell,
up sell relationships and cross product opportunities. Applied
statistical analysis to project and recommend high margin market
segmentation.
. Supported real time, collection, transformation and loading of large
bank customer information.
Reducing errors by 11% and rework by 8%.
. Design and implementation of Business Intelligence Analysis & Customer
Data Reporting Solutions. Increasing revenue by 9%
. Manage gathering and analysis of information on competing products in
the marketplace. Create a process for systematically and consistently
gathering competitive business intelligence. Work with the Marketing,
Services and Sales on all aspects of product specifications, position
and releases.
. Position products and technology among competing technologies.
Establishing policy and strategies to ensure appropriate management of
the organization's information hosting and infrastructure resources to
support corporate goals and objectives. Streamlining business
functions, identifying cost reduction opportunities, and defining new
revenue streams.
. Provide the design and adherence to Secure Programming standards.
Token Authentication, and AES encryption sub systems.
Fidelity Information Systems - Metavante 2002-2004
Vice President Technology Solutions, Product Development, & Service
Delivery
Provided technology and financial institution outsourcing solutions,
support and hosting infrastructure to improve the financial experience for
more than 5,100 clients - including the largest 20 banks in the United
States - and their thousands of customers. Responsible for all banking,
financial services technology and support for customer organizations.
Technology solutions include customer relationship management, electronic
banking, electronic funds transfer and card solutions, electronic
presentment and payment, financial technology services, and wealth
management. Report to corporate CIO.
. Responsible for the strategic planning, implementation, and operation
of 9 IBM S/390 mainframe, 8500 NT and 600 Sun client server based
technology environments. Responsible for staff of 200 and developed
multi year Budget and Strategic Capital Plans. Managed yearly budget
totaling $75M. Negotiated 1-3 year vendor software agreements ranging
in value from $5M - $40M.
. Responsible for all design, development and support of Online e-
Banking and Electronic Payment and Presentment products. Both Java /
J2EE and .Net products. . Increasing new product revenue by $35
million
. Develop and execute the product vision, strategy and definition.
Conduct ongoing market research and analysis to identify new product
market opportunities and gather market requirements including market
objectives, share, trends, pricing, revenue and customers' needs and
perspectives. Develop product concept proposals and life-cycle plans
for new products. Define and prioritize enhancements to existing
products. This includes the creation of requirements specifications,
release notes, feature lists and specifications. Develop and drive new
product and enhancements releases.
. Provide Marketing with content to create external message and product
positioning (product collateral including product sheets,
presentations, product demos, white papers, sales support tools, etc.)
. Represent the company's product development efforts personally, and
through qualified staff at conferences, professional organizations and
key customer demonstrations. This will involve giving presentations,
demonstrations, speaking on panels, etc.
. Manage gathering and analysis of information on competing products in
the marketplace. Create a process for systematically and consistently
gathering competitive intelligence. Work with the Marketing, Services
and Sales on all aspects of product specifications, position and
releases.
. Position products and technology among competing technologies.
Establishing policy and strategies to ensure appropriate management of
the organization's information resources to support corporate goals
and objectives. Streamlining business functions, identifying cost
reduction opportunities, and defining new revenue streams.
. Directed all Six Sigma Business Process Excellence transformation,
including strategic business articulation and key performance business
indicators implementation and monitoring. Yearly savings $4 million
. Reviewing the effectiveness and efficiency of ongoing information
processing facilities and the associated support divisions. Realized
20% first year technology budget cost savings.
. Responsible for IBM DB2 Universal Data Base and Oracle Data
Warehouses. Implemented 300 Microsoft/J2EE web sites, Onyx CRM and
integrated to back end data warehouses.
ITEX Consulting Group Inc. 1997-2002
Senior Vice President Hosting Operations, Product Development, Consulting
Services.
Responsible for 120 people, including two software factories in India, and
$127M revenue generation.
Reported to CEO. Responsible for all activities pertaining to profit and
loss, compliance of company goals, objectives and policies established by
the CEO and Board of Directors. Directed and administered all aspects of
Worldwide Operations, Business Development, Sales, Technology Service
Delivery, Human Resources, Asset Management, Strategic and Capital
Planning.
. Provide Senior Executive team with quarterly overview of business
discontinuities, competition, technology, global and regulatory
changes that present new consulting opportunities and or anomalies.
Present alternative viewpoints.
. Directed the formulation, interpretation, and communication of broad
corporate long-range principles, policies and objectives. Ensure that
adequate plans for future development and growth of the business are
prepared. Recommend to the President areas of strategic industry
concern, appropriate anticipatory alternatives, and requisite
evaluative criteria.
. Analyzes operating results of the company and its principle components
relative to established objectives and ensures that appropriate steps
are taken to correct unsatisfactory conditions.
. Direct reports included the Vice President Business Development and
Sales, Controller, Vice President Solutions Delivery and Director
Human Resources.
. Responsible for the object oriented applications development and
support of Originations, Loan Servicing, Capital Markets, Banking,
Credit, Closing, Property Management, Advisory Services, Private /
Public Funds, Risk Management, Securitization, and Investor Relations
applications.
National Council Compensation Insurance 1995-1997
Director of Enterprise Applications Systems and Technology
NCCI collects and processes information from 400 plus insurance companies.
Developed an Application / Data Warehouse Architecture to guide the
replacement of existing mainframe based legacy applications and data
architecture. Responsible for architecting a new framework for IBM AS400,
MVS / AIX client server applications development and implementation.
Provided leadership in the design, implementation and support of numerous
multi-terabyte IBM DB2, and Oracle data warehouses.
Reported to the Chief Information Officer of NCCI. Provided Leadership to
the Information Resource
Organization, which consisted of 200+ Employees with an operating budget of
$45 million and a capital budget of $90 million. Direct reports included
eleven managers and numerous project managers and team leaders. Negotiated
1-3 year vendor software agreements ranging in value from $2M - $30M.
. Responsible for Applications Development, Strategic Systems Planning,
Data Center Operations, Network, Telecommunications, Technical
Architecture, Systems Software & Data Base Administration.
. Created an emerging technology group, which accelerated the
organizations ability to leverage new technology for NCCI's business
growth and maintain cost effectiveness. Responsible for architecting
NCCI's enterprise wide application and data warehouse environment to
incorporate over 400 electronic data, reporting feeds to our insurance
customers.
. Established and directed an organization and culture that produced
cost effective solutions to business challenges.
. Personally hired 20 IBM DB2, Oracle DBA's and 100 plus application
programmers. Built an environment that fostered a customer- focused
team that partnered with the business leaders to deliver quality
solutions.
General Electric 1977-1995
Group Manager Global Technology Management Services
Reported to Chief Information Officer. Provided leadership for all
activities of 100+ GE Information Services object oriented application
professionals, including 35 IBM DB2, Oracle DBA's, first line managers,
project leaders, system programmers, contractors and vendors. $85M budget
responsibility.
. Provided integrated application information delivery for Sales Force
Automation, ERP, Call Center Automation, Manufacturing,
Service/Support, e-Business solutions and Logistics/Distribution.
. Developed internal and external state of the art mission critical
Object Oriented (Corba), OLTP, and high volume IBM mainframe and AIX
based client server application solutions. Accessing over 100 back
office IBM AS400, MVS / VM mainframe applications, multiple IBM DB2
and Oracle multi-terabyte data warehouses.
. Managed all Technical Support activities associated with Customer
Relationship Management & Supply Chain Management for internal and
external customers. Member of corporate Mergers & Acquisition
integration team.
General Electric - Divisional Manager Corporate Data Center Operations &
Network Services
Reported to Chief Information Officer. Successfully originated and
implemented a plan that initiated the consolidation of thirty General
Electric North American Data Centers and Networks into four physical sites.
. Annual savings exceeded $100 million. This project included all
external quality & service level planning/execution, vendor
negotiations, network design, and overall project implementation
management. Directed the planning and installation of a Sonet Fiber
Ring within the Louisville campus. Consolidated network savings $3
million per year.
General Electric - Manager Technical Services & Telecommunications
General Electric - Manager Operations & Applications Development / Support
for all online, high availability processing on Tandem, and IBM mainframe
platforms supporting GE Credit Card Services.
Education & Certifications
Penn State University
Attended customized GE related curriculum at Harvard Business School.
Executive Business Management Program 1989.
GE curriculum at Pennsylvania Wharton School Finance. Executive Financial
Management program 1991.
Process Reengineering - Six Sigma accomplished in strategic business and
process management specialist with a proven track record in project
management, business process development and process evaluation for diverse
industries and business groups.
Practiced in Designing, Managing and Executing Process Innovation Projects,
utilizing Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions and work, data and
activity flow diagrams, for multi-million / billion dollar organizations.
Spearheading customer focused process improvement efforts; executing
projects that are aligned to key business outcomes; supporting refinement
of business metrics to integrate learning from project efforts;
Collecting data to identify root cause of problems; Engaging stakeholders
in identification of improvement alternatives; Conducting cost and benefit
analysis; Working with key stakeholders to ensure changes are implemented
and establishing monitoring or other control mechanisms to ensure lasting
improvement.
Key outcomes include: Completing projects that improve business metrics;
Building bridges between functional areas; Reinforcing customer focus;
Building enthusiasm for Process Excellence.