Professional Experience
A timeline of my career journey, roles, responsibilities, and key achievements.
Vice President of Information Technology
Apr 2021 - May 2024Coordinated alongside executive peers to strategically advance organizational goals by prioritizing initiatives against available resources and leading efforts via the agile methodology & scrum framework. Provided insight & guidance as the subject matter expert for topics surrounding technology, product, operations, data analytics, and project management. Led the Information Technology and Operations departments, defining divisional structures, budgets, charters, implementations, policies, procedures, and KPIs to improve ROI while adhering to regulatory compliance standards.
Key Achievements:
- Directed an IT department and related divisions with 40 team members, strategically planning efforts to align with the company goals of a growing BPO consisting of 1500 employees across 5 sites in 4 different countries
- Prioritized the IT budget to support outsourcing operations in coordination with all departmental leaders
- Implemented solutions promoting adherence to ISO 27001 requirements & the NIST cybersecurity framework
- Led daily scrums while directly overseeing the software development division, provided guidance around development best practices, gathered requirements, performed technical writing for tickets, and defined efficient, normalized data structures
- Trained entry-level developers and QA analysts on development best practices while aiding in the growth of a lead developer to become well versed in DevOps cloud engineering
- Created and managed a company-wide project management committee to maintain oversight of company efforts
- Leveraged the agile methodology & scrum framework to coordinate efforts between all departmental leaders in a standardized and scalable fashion, providing insight for executive staff to make educated decisions
- Followed Six Sigma best practices while implementing foundational product solutions across all departments
- MS365 (SharePoint, Teams, Power BI, & Azure AD), Flectra ERP (HRIS, Payroll, & Accounting), AWS Cloud deploys, BitDefender, ITSM/ITAM (FreshWorks), IoT solutions (LogicMonitor), MFA (YubiKey), and the departmental policies & procedures to accompany them
- Led Operations department consisting of 1400 employees & established a formal departmental structure by creating divisions to enable specialists around true Workforce Management, Quality Assurance, Training, and Operations responsibilities
- Represented FTO on client calls and coordinated with account managers to strategically prioritize efforts
- Coordinated effort to migrate on-premises applications to AWS and alternative SaaS + Cloud solutions
- Oversaw the expansion of new agent outsourcing branch locations in the Philippines, Ghana, Mexico & Texas
- Infrastructure for servers, network devices, workstations, cameras, and facility access control (ZKTeco)
- Strategically planned & executed alongside Operations, Facilities, and Human Resources regional stakeholders to meet deadlines promised to clients and begin contracted work
- Managed vendor relationships and contracts for SaaS products, network infrastructure, desktops, peripherals and outsourced MSPs in support of regional branch locations and headquarter operation requirements
- Drove initial creation of a formal Information Security Manual & Disaster Recovery + Business Continuity Plans
- Made all infrastructure purchasing decisions and handled global shipping logistics for global outsourcing locations
- Designed & implemented a time tracking solution to standardize invoice hours, revenue, and attendance reports, migrating the payroll process from Excel sheets into an open-source ERP system
- Handled the project management, requirements gathering, data architecture, technical writing, functional design, reporting, documentation, training, and official release to global operational teams
- Defined Microsoft SharePoint & Teams Groups, Sites, Document Libraries, Term Stores, Lists, and permissions to enforce regulatory adherence and promote standardized cross-departmental communication + file management
- Established environments for organizational policies & procedures + project management templated material
Director of Product Management
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021Managed internal & external software engineering teams, translated business requirements, prioritized foundational products, and led the implementation of tailored ERP, HRIS, CRM, and EMR solutions. Defined organizational SDLC policy, software development best practices, normalized data structures, and master data management processes to create a source of truth for company data.
Key Achievements:
- Coordinated with department leaders to implement an effective product stack in support of respective outsourcing operations
- Managed a team of 10 developers and 2 QAs using agile methodologies and the scrum framework
- Led the design, implementation, and project management to deploy Flectra's ERP environment (Python + PostgreSQL) for all global regions
- Created a source of truth (MDM) for company data in PostgreSQL databases and Snowflake data warehouse
- Employee detail, attendances, leaves, approvals, disputes, payroll reporting, coaching, reviews, recruiting, separations, benefits management, historical tracking + related data governance activities
- Worked alongside the Human Resources and Learning + Development departments to deploy a customized learning management system (LMS) where agents could up-level across outsourcing industries
- Created Business Intelligence reports and provided data analytics to department leaders, helping track employee + finance metrics and trends (i.e., attrition detail breakdowns, EBITDA, P&L)
- Assisted in the start-up of a rapid COVID testing operation (15toKnow) with 13 locations in southeast Pennsylvania
- Acted as the project manager & coordinated efforts between operational teams while outfitting new testing locations to support staff responsibilities within planned timelines
- Designed & released an administrative portal for nurses & technicians to track testing + vaccination detail
- Produced policies & procedures and performed on-site training for staff at each remote testing location
- Created Business Intelligence reports and analyzed healthcare data to identify trends and markers related to patient demographics
Technical Product & Account Manager
May 2012 - Apr 2020Administered SaaS offerings for internal and external stakeholders to enable the measurement of customer experience (CX) metrics for numerous industries. Built business intelligence outputs to measure & analyze KPI trends after implementing process improvements for call center operations. Managed Capital One relationship and acted as a product liaison for all clients.
Key Achievements:
Technical Product Manager
- Managed product support team and led project management efforts in coordination with internal developers
- Handled tier 3 support functions, identifying bugs, performing root cause analysis, managing data integrity, creating technical documentation, and coordinating release fixes via change management meetings for proprietary SaaS offerings
- Coordinated with account managers to design & create quality measurement scorecards & datasets via SQL
- Designed & created BI reports, provided training, and created policies & procedures to promote usage of SaaS solutions and improve quality + efficiency around business processes for 5,000+ end-users
- Attended annual client summit meetings as the company product & technical SME, running presentations and building rapport with leadership across all clients by sharing product knowledge and business process improvement insights gleaned from data analytics
- Designed, configured, and maintained a simplified, system-wide access strategy to standardize security privileges
- Salvaged $5 million contract with Sprint by securely enabling additional customer capabilities, alleviating roadblocks that were pushing clients to competitor solutions due to system limitations
- Created custom datasets for over 100 programs via complex SQL stored procedures from a proprietary data warehouse and built packaged reporting & BI solutions using dataset outputs within Excel pivot tables
- Participated in product scrums, presenting business & technical writing requirements based off feedback from end-users, helping prioritize efforts based around system roadblocks and marketable feature opportunities
- Configured & administered SysAid as a service desk software solution for all internal and external end-users
- Led infrastructure initiatives, identifying & performing server, workstation, and peripheral equipment upgrades
Account Manager
- Managed client relationship with Capital One Financial in support of their risk department
- Leveraged interpersonal skills & knowledge of Capital One's risk processes to define KPIs for data analytics, produce BI outputs from evaluations, and provide guidance on a quarterly basis to improve their scorecards
- Adhered to defined SLA timelines on technical changes for 350 unique scorecard configurations and partnered with external stakeholders to stage standardized month-end releases
- Coordinated with relationship stakeholders and designed a data extract for integration with Tableau
- Grew adoption across 4 risk divisions, integrating company SaaS offerings for the entire risk department
- Met with clients and implemented SaaS offerings to measure & analyze call center KPIs, creating business intelligence reports tailored to track respective industry metrics
Software Developer & Support Specialist
Apr 2011 - May 2012Worked alongside skilled software engineers and leveraged C# in an ASP .NET environment to develop features for SaaS offerings. Provided technical product support for internal and external stakeholders, performed root-cause analysis, and managed data integrity within databases + data warehouses.
Key Achievements:
- Leveraged knowledge in C# & ASP .NET to develop within a proprietary, object-oriented, framework
- Absorbed workload from 3 support technicians by implementing process improvements via product solutions
- Provided all needed tier 1, 2, and 3 support functions for internal SaaS solutions
- Partnered with CEO and account managers to develop quality scorecards via SQL queries for all clients
- Handled client needs for audio + video call recording ingestion, testing, and codec conversion to support analyst playback
Systems Specialist & Administrator
Jun 2005 - Aug 2009Led full product deployments for different county departments during summer internships between college semesters. Provided as-needed technical coverage for network and system implementation projects.
Key Achievements:
- Met with different county department leaders to convert business requirements into technical requirements and implemented product solutions, created reports, and trained end-users to improve process efficiency & quality
- Migrated & implemented legal case management software for the Public Defender's office (LegalEdge)
- Implemented an ASP-based maintenance tracking system for the county jail in place of paper requests
- Created a time tracking tool in MS Access to see total time spent on programs for yearly budgeting purposes
- Configured and installed 30 new 48-port CISCO switches for Norristown area business complex