David R. King

South Elgin, IL 312-***-**** adzcea@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/david-king-32687110

VP OR SVP OF IT

Driving revenue generation and business objectives by strengthening technology and security.

Visionary, collaborative and innovative IT Executive operating at the intersection of IT Production Operations, Risk Management, Security and Data Management, and Cloud. Extensive experience leading key business initiatives in development, infrastructure operations, data management, data engineering, and security across entities from startups to the Big 4 in banking, finance, and healthcare. Leaves a lasting imprint on growing a company, entering with no infrastructure, building, growing, scaling and refining through intellect and ingenuity. Delivers reliable, secure, modernized, forward-future infrastructure. Creates loyal employees, strategic alliances, and cross functional partnerships, ensuring success of all initiatives. Known as a mission driven leader with impact and influence throughout all business domains.

EXECUTIVE IMPACT

Strategic Planning & Execution Change Management Cross Functional Collaboration Risk Management M & A Integration Cloud Technology Program & Project Leadership Complex Problem Solving Budgeting Variance Reporting Contracts & Negotiation Business Operations & Culture Audits Stakeholder Relations Governance & Compliance Networking Talent Sourcing Team Retention & Development Coaching & Mentoring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BLUE HEALTH INTELLIGENCE Chicago, IL 2013 to Present

A big data tech solutions company: private subsidiary of 17 Blue Cross and Blue Shield programs with 34 independent Blues.

Vice President of IT, Data Management & Security Officer

Supported the company as the first official IT hire, selling data to the marketplace and external research in educational and pharmaceutical sectors, building tech solutions and providing consulting services to Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans in a spin off from a small 10 employee company. Manage budget and two Directors and a team of 31. Lead IT security and compliance, infrastructure and operations, business intelligence technologies as well as application integration and data management. Chair the board level Cyber-Security subcommittee and lead internal Privacy and Security Executive Committee.

Oversaw $4M SOW relationship with BCBSA, delivering data warehouse and data analytics platforms.

Authored a three-year cyber-security maturity and technology roadmap, presenting to the Board of Directors.

Established and built the IT program, including laying the groundwork for an ecosystem and independence from BCBSA. Set up the network, servers, storage, security, and data center.

Sourced and seated top talented new hires to support the current and growing business, networking for talent.

Originated the security program from scratch, ensuring all compliance from HQ and aligning with best practices.

Expanded footprint from Chicago to Florida during an acquisition, consolidating a data center through designing and implementing a migration strategy.

Built out a data management, data governance, and data technology program (future target data solution).

Concentrated on security and data operations with a team of experts in security, cyber security, and audits, proactively preparing for other programs.

Oversaw servers, storage, help desk and infrastructure supporting all solutions and products sold.

Executed enterprise-wide business resilience plan with a third party, supporting remote workers and launching a crisis management program and business continuity plan, ensuring proactive and effective resilience in case of security events. Created a Business Resilience Governance Committee to communicate and adopt changes to policies and objectives.

Rejuvenated work and programs during C Suite transitions in leadership.

Supported all application programs, software and tech stacks for the products in development and utilities such as source code repositories.

Managed DBAs and administered data base on SQL and cloud, focusing on cloud first, remigrating to the cloud.

Guaranteed proper security controls and protections in the cloud, stabilizing healthcare data, meeting all audit controls ( and passing all audits) to warranty safety from a data breach.

Assumed leadership for BI developers, overseeing database, Snowflake, Vertica, and MS SQL server, with future Snowflake for the cloud.

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION Chicago, IL 2008 to 2013

Executive Director of Infrastructure Operations & Service Delivery

Owned service management, support, datacenter operations, unified communications, security administration, client computing, network engineering and operations, server, storage and backup, database services, business analytics support and data warehouse operations. In charge of a $70M IT budget, including hardware and operational costs with more than 100 staff and contractors.

ADDITIONAL CAREER EXPERIENCE

CITIBANK, N.A. Vice President, North America Infrastructure Technology I Vice President, Cards Infrastructure Technology

Led key strategic and cost reduction initiatives for North America IT Server, Storage and Backup Computing. Directed a team of high-caliber system engineers and administrators in a matrix environment. Managed the computing systems integration team by providing the review and analysis of new project and infrastructure technologies supporting call centers.

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. / BARNETT BANK, N.A. Senior Vice President, Consumer Credit Risk Systems I Vice President, Wealth Management Systems I Vice President, Asset Management Systems I Assistant Vice President, Trust Systems I Senior Programmer Analyst, Trust Systems

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF GENERAL STUDIES, Computer Information Management, Jacksonville U.

ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE, Data Processing, Florida Junior College

Design for Six Sigma and Green Belt, BofA

ITIL v2.0 Foundations Certification &

ITIL 2.0 Change, Configuration and Release Management Practitioner Certification, CitiBank

ITIL v3.0 Foundations Trained &

Stop at Nothing High Impact Leadership Training, BCBSA

ACCOLADES

Restlessly pursues innovative improvements that pay dividends in terms of savings and efficiencies that benefit the company and the clients alike.

A natural and humble demeanor that encourages team involvement and support, which in turn ensures loyalty by his staff and ultimately success of his initiatives and projects.

Very intelligent and has boundless knowledge of all things related to Information Technology.

A brilliant and gifted leader with a keen and astute business mind. David's unique talents across technology, strategy, and execution along with his relational, people-centric approach make him a powerful and dynamic leader who can take any organization to the next level.

As a leader of technology, he keeps up with infrastructure, technology and security trends and latest innovations while meeting budget constraints.

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