SUMMARY:
Financial services and technology professional with backgrounds in banking, electronic payments, and enterprise systems.
– TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS STRATEGY
– APPLICATION SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE & DEVELOPMENT
– BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
– TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE
– PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
– MARKET ANALYSIS
– FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & COST CONTROL
– IT GOVERNANCE
– PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
– REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
– VENDOR MANAGEMENT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
BBVA Compass Bank - Birmingham, AL
Lead Functional Architect
2010 - Present
Partner with project management, business areas, and Accenture to research, design and develop the product, technology and process transformation for BBVA Compass enterprise risk management and lending products:
* Consumer Lending products and their transformation to Accenture’s Alnova Financial Solutions, a modular core-banking solution for the financial services industry.
* Commercial Lending products and their transformation to Automated Financial Systems’ (AFS) Commercial Lending Origination, Administration, and Servicing platforms.
* Commercial Credit Risk Management and its transformation to Moody’s RiskAnalyst.
Budgeting and expense forecasting for the bank's software and its maintenance.
TSYS (Total System Services, Inc.) - Columbus, GA
Director Application Systems, Finance and Supply Chain
2000 - 2009
Led and managed the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Financial Performance Management (FPM) strategic software evaluation and selection, development and delivery for a publicly traded $2 billion credit card and electronic payment services company:
* Outlined and sold the total business value of new BI, ERP, and FPM solutions to executive business management and IT executive committees to obtain the necessary approvals.
* Managed software vendor sales and business partner professional services engagements.
* Recruited, staffed and managed the workload and professional development of project managers, system analysts, ASP.NET/C# developers, SQL DBA and hosting analysts.
* Led and managed the delivery and ongoing SDLC development and production support of Infor’s Web-Enabled (Java Client) mainframe ERP business and supply chain software for TSYS and its domestic affiliate companies: Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Purchasing, Inventory Control and Warehousing.
* Architected and developed corporate Business and Accounting systems: Accounts Receivable, Budgeting and Expense Forecasting, Client Billing, Cost Accounting and Profitability, Revenue Forecasting, T&E, and Personnel.
* Led and managed the business and IT teams to develop and deliver the ASP.NET software solutions for B2B Internet Electronic Invoice Presentation and Payment.
* Partnered with Avanade, a subsidiary of Accenture, to design, develop and deliver the ERP product, technology, and process transformation to Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP business and supply chain software for TSYS and its global affiliate companies.
* Partnered with the IT Operations PMO to establish and manage the Production, UAT/Testing, and failover Disaster/Recovery managed hosting environments.
* Developed and managed the ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley operational compliance with KPMG and Internal Audit: COBIT, ITIL, ITSM.
* Developed and managed the hosting Service Level Agreements with IT Operations.
* Took the global 400 user Dynamics AX solution live on time and on budget for TSYS core plus the subsidiary affiliate companies who previously had used ERP software from: Infor, SAP, JD Edwards, and Sage.
* Implemented and integrated Oracle Hyperion and SAP Outlooksoft with Dynamics AX and legacy ERP systems for financial consolidations and revenue forecasting.
* Evaluated IBM Cognos/TM1 and Microsoft SharePoint/PerformancePoint Server Business Intelligence solutions to integrate with corporate ERP systems for FPM budgeting and forecasting, and financial consolidations and reporting.
TSYS (Total System Services, Inc.) - Columbus, GA
AVP, Finance and Supply Chain Project Manager
1990 - 1999
Led and managed the introduction of financial data processing for a $500MM credit card and electronic payment services company:
* Led and managed the delivery and ongoing SDLC development and production support of Computer Associates’ Web-Enabled (Java Client) mainframe ERP business and supply chain software for TSYS and its domestic affiliate companies: Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Purchasing, Inventory Control and Warehousing.
* Managed CA software sales and professional services engagements.
* Architected and developed corporate Business and Accounting systems: Accounts Receivable, Budgeting and Expense Forecasting, Client Billing, Cost Accounting and Profitability, Revenue Forecasting, T&E, and Personnel.
* Partnered with CA to design and launch ASP (early cloud) ERP financial applications, offering servicing organizations on-line application delivery.
* Staffed and managed the workload and professional development of programmer/analysts.
* Interfaced the CA ERP supply chain solutions with an AS/400 material handling system.
First National Bank of Tuskaloosa - Tuscaloosa, AL
Banking Officer, Programmer/Analyst
1981 - 1989
Installed and provided the subsequent SDLC development and production support for fully integrated banking systems:
* Kirchman Corp. (now Fidelity) integrated banking platform: Loans, Deposits, CIF, Item Processing, ATMs and Card Management
* Credit Card Software’s (now First Data) CardPac authorization and servicing platforms
* IBM DOS/VSE and CICS system software
* Assumed project manager role to convert all FNB banking applications to AmSouth Bank computer systems during a bank merger.
EDUCATION:
University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, AL
Bachelor of Science Degree, Administrative Sciences
* Concentrations in business and computer science.
Received numerous American Institute of Banking certificates.
Completed Servant Leadership training provided by the Emory University Leadership Institute. |
