Experience

Ally Financial
Director, Lending Engineering

March 2022 - Present

Cigna
Applicaton Development Director, Digital Engineering

September 2019 - March 2022

Application Development Senior Manager, Digital Engineering

May 2018 - September 2019

Systems Analysis/Architecture Manager, Digital Engineering

April 2016 - April 2018

Novelis
Global IT Program Manager, Finance & Legal

April 2015 - April 2016

Cigna
Technical Project Manager, Digital Engineering

November 2011 - April 2015

Global Content Management Development Lead, Digital Engineering

November 2010 - November 2011

Ally Technology Leadership Development Program
Fall 2022
    Cigna LEAD IT
    April 2019 - March 2021
    • Nominated and accepted by senior leadership into Cigna’s LEAD IT development program for experienced professionals
    • Two-year, cohort-based program that Cigna IT uses to build a leadership pipeline through self/peer assessments, instruction from qualified talent/management consultants, and networking opportunities
    Cigna CEO’s Quarterly Champion
    June 2018
    • Project Manager and lead for Cigna Behavioral Health (CBH) migration to myCigna, Cigna’s customer digital asset
    • Selected as one of a handful of teams companywide to win the prestigious award and join the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) in New York City for the annual CEO’s Champions banquet
    • Teams/individuals are chosen based upon the impact the work had to customers and clients, as well as company performance

    Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
    Microsoft

    Issued: December 2022

    AWS Certified: Cloud Practitioner
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Issued: June 2021 | Expires: June 2024

    Project Management Professional (PMP)
    Project Management Institute

    Issued: June 2014 | Expires: June 2024

    SAFe 4 Certified Agilist (SA)
    Scaled Agile

    Issued: August 2017

    Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Basic Course
    CITI Program

    Issued: January 2022

    Group 2 Social / Behavioral Research Investigators and Key Personnel
    CITI Program

    Issued: January 2022 | Expires: January 2025

    Development/Markup: Java, JavaScript (Express, jQuery, Node, React), Python, C, HTML, CSS

    Cloud/Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services/Microsoft Azure

    • S3/Blob Storage
    • IAM/Active Directory
    • DynamoDB/Cosmos DB
    • EC2/Virtual Machines
    • Lambda/Functions
    • Simple Queue Service/Queue Storage
    • API Gateway/API Manager
    • Cloudfront/Front Door
    • Polly/Speech Services
    • Rekognition/Cognitive Services
    • CloudWatch/Application Insights

    Big Data/Database: Hadoop Hive/Hue, MongoDB, Microsoft Access, MySQL

    Web Analytics/Monitoring: Adobe Analytics, Adobe DTM/Launch, Dynatrace, Splunk, Tealeaf CX

    Quality Engineering/Production Support: HP Service Manager, ServiceNow, ObservePoint

    Collaborative: Confluence, Jira/JiraAlign, Microsoft SharePoint, Rally (Agile Central), Version One

    Project Management: CA Clarity PPM, Microsoft Project

    Modeling: Business Process Modeling (BPMN), Data Modeling, Solution/Technical Architecture

    Other: Git, GitHub/GitLab, OpenText Teamsite, Postman, SoapUI

    Georgia Institute of Technology
    College of Computing

    MS, Computer Science (2023)

    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Professional Certificate

    Full Stack Coding Boot Camp (2019)

    • Six-month, rigorous (ten hours of instruction per week, plus outside assignments) professional education program focusing on current application development technologies
    • Applied and enrolled in this program to stay up to speed with current technologies and to better support my team of full stack engineers
    • Technologies in scope: JavaScript, jQuery, React, Node.js, Express, AWS, MySQL, MongoDB, AJAX, Heroku
    University of Georgia
    Terry College of Business

    BBA, Management Information Systems (2010)