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Selected executive and technical roles from a 30+ year career.

Experience

Senior Vice President, CIO – Shared Services and Infrastructure

2023-01-01 - Present

USAA (San Antonio, TX)

  • Led engineering, infrastructure, and IT business services organization of 2,500+ resources.
  • Held $800M budget responsibility and PMO oversight for $100M in annual IT projects.
  • Ran shared services and infrastructure in a large, regulated financial-services environment with accountability for operational reliability, modernization, and execution discipline.

Vice President – Enterprise IT Architecture

2015-08-01 - 2023-01-31

USAA (San Antonio, TX)

  • Led enterprise architecture across USAA's multi-line business, including Life, Property & Casualty, Banking, and enterprise technology.
  • Set architecture direction for cloud adoption across line-of-business platforms.
  • Advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in financial-services use cases.
  • Provided enterprise technology direction during a significant period of modernization and platform change.

CIO, Property & Casualty (Interim)

2017-04-01 - 2017-10-31

USAA

  • Led 1,200+ technology resources supporting USAA's Property & Casualty business during a leadership transition.
  • Drove initial selection of a core-system replacement for a $20B+ direct written premium insurance company, replacing a 20-year legacy platform.

Assistant Vice President – P&C Systems

2014-10-01 - 2015-08-31

USAA

  • Led the software development organization supporting USAA's Property & Casualty business.

Assistant Vice President – Quality Assurance

2011-10-01 - 2014-10-31

USAA

  • Led a 190-employee and 950+ contractor QA organization supporting roughly $650M+ in annual software development.
  • Built a 3-year strategy for the QA organization and led its transition to agile development practices.
  • Managed $133M+ budget.

Assistant Vice President – Distributed Systems & Systems Management

2010-03-01 - 2011-11-30

USAA

  • Led day-to-day operations for distributed systems, server environments, desktop support, and core operational tooling.
  • Managed 11 groups with 140+ employees and roughly $40M operating budget.
  • Achieved more than 70% datacenter virtualization and negotiated multimillion-dollar hardware and software deals that delivered more than $5M savings in 2011.

Assistant Vice President – Availability Assurance

2007-08-01 - 2010-03-31

USAA

  • Built USAA's Availability Command Center, a virtual NOC spanning the United States and India, in eight months.
  • Led a direct team of 50 and indirect team of 600 in support of 24x7x365 operations and 1.5M+ monthly batch jobs.
  • Reduced return-to-service time 25% year over year and eliminated on-call schedules while maintaining round-the-clock support.

Director, Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture and Standards Management

2006-06-01 - 2007-08-31

Honeywell (Phoenix, AZ)

  • Led worldwide enterprise infrastructure architecture and standards and helped guide Honeywell's global IT technology roadmap.
  • Developed architecture supporting consolidation of more than 500 data centers into two global facilities.
  • Helped reshape a $300M global telecommunications network and established TOGAF-based enterprise architecture consistency at executive level.

Global Leader, Infrastructure Applications

2004-09-01 - 2006-06-30

Honeywell International

  • Led global infrastructure application hosting, messaging, identity, and security operations for more than 100,000 users across 1,300+ facilities.
  • Delivered the largest Microsoft Exchange migration in company history, moving 22,000 users in three days.
  • Consolidated more than 400 resource domains and integrated 18 acquisitions in 12 months, generating multimillion-dollar annual savings.

Director, Standards & Architecture

2003-01-01 - 2004-09-30

LSG Sky Chefs (Dallas, TX)

  • Served as principal technical authority for global infrastructure and IT security.
  • Designed and led a global infrastructure refresh with EUR 8M capital budget.
  • Deployed MPLS across 25+ countries, cutting annual telecommunications spend 25%, and drove data-center consolidation that reduced operating costs 35%.

Consultant

2000-12-01 - 2003-12-31

Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting)

  • Led infrastructure engineering on enterprise client engagements across North and South America.
  • Implemented ITIL-based service-delivery organizations, managed IT RFPs exceeding EUR 25M, and led system-engineering teams through complex transformation programs.

Consultant

1999-01-01 - 2000-12-31

Clearview Management Consultants

  • Led technical delivery on data-center, SLA, and infrastructure improvement engagements.
  • Delivered a data-center build-out that saved a client $1.5M annually and managed transition from IBM contract support to in-house operations.

Patents

Education

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

B.S. in Economics

Skills

Technology StrategyEnterprise ArchitectureTechnology OperationsOperational ResilienceCloud StrategyDigital TransformationIT GovernanceInfrastructure ModernizationArtificial IntelligenceIT Financial Management
Enterprise Program DeliverySRE and Reliability EngineeringVendor ManagementArchitecture GovernanceShared ServicesPMO Oversight
Strategic leadershipCross-functional executionOrganizational transformation