My Resume

M & T Bank

• Modernized enterprise applications by architecting and deploying scalable Azure-based solutions, establishing a standardized DevOps pipeline that significantly reduced infrastructure provisioning time while enhancing overall system resiliency and scalability.
• Drove modernization of data lifecycle management across the portfolio, implementing a standardized framework for evaluating and assigning data retention requirements to application datasets. This strategy resulted in the compliant decommissioning of multiple legacy systems and significant reductions in storage costs.
• Facilitated comprehensive Software Architecture Document reviews, contributing to their continuous refinement and improvement. Ensured solution compliance with systems engineering standards, enabling application teams to modernize their systems for enhanced scalability and resilience, directly supporting data center exit strategies.

Capital One

• Orchestrated 6 engineering teams (30+ engineers) in delivering distributed, scalable, and highly resilient enterprise applications.
• Managed a $10M organizational budget, successfully recruiting and developing high-performing teams that consistently met KPIs.
• Led the design and implementation of the Loyalty Management Platform, enabling real-time customer benefit adjustments to align with business objectives.
• Drove the implementation of a security enhancement for the miles transfer program, addressing $300k of monthly fraudulent activity.
• Established an SRE team, setting up SLOs/SLIs and driving adoption of best practices, leading to over 70% of components transitioning to serverless infrastructure.

Capital One

• Directed 4 teams (20+ engineers), driving modernization initiatives and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
• Conducted an ROI analysis of high-cost applications, devising and executing a strategy that delivered over $2.8M in annual savings.
• Replaced a vendor tool with an internal microservice solution, cutting exposure by over $1M annually and reducing a monthly 2-day process to just 2 hours.
• Automated financial close processes, saving analysts 400 person-hours per month.

Capital One

• Led 2 engineering teams in developing custom web applications, significantly improving the efficiency and accuracy of financial processes.
• Crafted a custom web and mobile app to automate quarterly earnings, earning the prestigious Circle of Excellence award.
• Designed and implemented a cloud-based pilot environment for OneStream on AWS, leading to its successful implementation to replace Oracle Essbase.

Capital One

• Coordinated cloud migration teams, overseeing the transition of critical business processes and applications to AWS.
• Architected technical build components and frameworks on AWS, driving the migration of finance platforms, including the general ledger and enterprise reconciliation.
• Modernized monolithic applications, transitioning them to a microservices-based API architecture for cloud compliance.

Capital One

• Led the technical delivery of the Recon engineering team, successfully completing major finance initiatives including SSO migration, IE11 upgrade, and resiliency improvements.
• Implemented data enrichment on the Reconciliation system, automating reclassifications to reduce risk and eliminate a manual task, resulting in significant time savings for the business.

Sodexo

• Contributed as an integral member of a team to develop processes for an accurate and automated payroll reconciliation.
• Implemented a sub-account banking structure that improved automated reconciliation and enhanced the accuracy of bank and GL data.
• Completed an in-house upgrade of ReconPlus, optimizing the reconciliation system.
• Developed a custom ACH application to analyze daily ACH transfers and transmit files in standard NACHA format, resulting in a 75% reduction in bank fees.
• Created a custom program to automatically retrieve bank balances and data files, retiring a manual process.

Citigroup, Commercial Business Group

• Translated business logic into regular and ad-hoc reports using Acrobat and Excel.
• Utilized VBA and Access to prototype new account logic before implementation into the production ReconPlus application.
• Saved hundreds of person-hours by developing a workaround for a complex import process.