Chief Information Officer

Business and Technical Leadership, Risk and Technology Professional

Motivated proven achiever with highly visible senior leadership and technology industry accomplishments. Highly skilled at connecting the dots among technology, business and profitability while executing on a plan and operating within the modes of mentorship, integrity, and service. Award winning technology executive and organizational change agent for all size IT organizations.

_____________________________________Professional Profile_____________________________________

• Performance-driven senior collaborative executive leader with 40 years of continuous advancement and expertise in strategic technology leadership, planning, and tactical operations management.

• Documented success in senior IT leadership at the CIO, CTO, VP, Senior Director, and Director levels across multiple industry verticals including, Financial Services (Banking) Telecommunications, Manufacturing, and Biotechnology.

• Strong leader who effectively motivates others through both delegation and participative management and directs top-level strategic and tactical corporate initiatives. Significant expertise and proven track record of assembling, developing, mentoring, and leading existing and new technology teams.

• Subject Matter Expert on Information Security and Technology Risk Management.

• Proactive self-starter with a proven track record of initiative, personal accountability, honesty, integrity and a reputation for removing obstacles and making things happen.

• Highly detailed thinker with recognized ability to analyze and comprehend technical and financial data and make solid, fact-based decisions to the benefit of the organization and the team.

• Extraordinarily strong interpersonal communicator, presenter and negotiator who has delivered effective presentations to corporate senior executives, internal associates of all levels, and supplier partners.

• Creative, dependable, and enthusiastic change agent with proven successes in improving morale, efficiencies, reducing costs and increasing overall departmental effectiveness.

• Subject Matter Expert in cloud-based computing, advanced information/cyber security, LAN/WAN design, data network design and management, server administration, virtualization, storage, backups, application development, data center design & operations and complex information security solutions.

• Designed and built 20+ data centers from the ground up, including one built in 84 days.

• Considerable experience in leading application development teams, including ERP systems development.

______________________________________Critical Core Competencies___________________________________

• IT Strategy & Planning  40 years of Proven Senior Leadership

• Significant Risk Management Experience  Infrastructure Engineering & Network Leader

• Significant Risk Policy Gap Analysis Reviews Cloud Computing Infrastructure/Process Design

• Significant Cyber Security Experience    Cyber Security Program Design and Mgmt.

• Proactive/Predictive Infrastructure Monitoring Facilities Design, Management/Maintenance

• Strong Relationship Based Leadership Style Experience Leading Application Development

• DR/BC Contingency Planning  Significant Experience working at the “C” Level

• Voice and Data Telecommunications Design Outstanding Oral and Written Communications

• CapEx and OpEx Budget Development Metrics and KPI Development & Tracking

• Practical ITIL, and COBIT Experience   Staff Analysis and Augmentation Experience

• Six Sigma/DMAIC and CMM Experience Leadership of SAP BASIS Functions

• IT Skill Set Assessment Expertise – Gap Analysis  High Maturity Level in Decision Making

• Software and Hardware Change Management Experience Building/Leading Teams of All Sizes

• Significant Risk Management Experience  Go-To Resource for Complex Problem Solving

__________________________________Professional Experience _________________________________

Executive Director, Information/Cyber Security & Technology Senior Lead Control Management Officer - COO

Wells Fargo Bank, Charlotte, NC 11/2019 - Present

Senior IT Consultant, Information Security/Cyber Security Specialist IV – CTO Risk Management Team

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC 05/2018 – 10/2019

Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CISO & Global Director of IT

DuraFiber Technologies – 6/2015 to 4/2018

Director – Strategic Operations & Service Delivery

Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) – Charlotte, NC  1/2014 – 6/2015

Director - Cloud Architecture & Complex Technologies/Cyber Security Expert

Lowes Corporation – 4/2012 to 1/2014

VP/Senior Director of Technology & Cyber Security

North Carolina Research Campus Technology Group – Kannapolis, NC 3/2010 to 04/2012

Director of Technology Services

Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Company – Charlotte, NC 7/06 – 2/2010

_________________________________________Education________________________________________________

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics/Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Charlotte, NC 1981

• Significant product and technology specific technical and leadership education classes spanning a 40-year professional IT career. Formidable team development and leadership skills.

• Significant information/cyber security architecture and management experience including international experience

• Significant knowledge of Six Sigma/DMAIC and CMM processes, practices, and standards.

• Significant knowledge of Cloud Computing designs, methodologies, offerings, and providers in that space

• Delegation Boot Camp Instructor

____________________________________Professional Recognition_________________________________________

• Published author of a number of articles focused on IT Leadership and Technology Management

• vop one hundred Innovators for IT Leadership in North Carolina

• Numerous awards and recognitions for superior IT Leadership/Mentoring and Building Technology Teams

• Frequent Guest Speaker at multiple CIO Forums and leadership focused events as well as technical forums

• ITIL Certified

• Certified Disaster Recovery Engineer

• Certified Data Center Designer/Architect

• Certified Leadership Coach

• MPM Certified (Master Project Manager)

• VMWare VCP6

• CISM Certification

• Member – National Information Management Forum

• Member – Multiple CIO/CISO forums

• CISSP Certification