PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Strategic leader with hands-on IT, accounting, bookkeeping, and business process skill-set.

 

EXPERIENCE

HIGHER ED Specific Experience and Tools:

I have over 25 years experience working in Higher Ed…

Ellucian Banner SIS, experience with all modules.

Ellucian ODS/EDW

Ellucian Ethos and API integrations

Evisions Apps – expert in all.

Oracle Cloud, HCM

Oracle E-Business Suite

+ countless add-ons and 3rd party apps…

With my background in Accounting, Finance and Payroll, I specialize in supporting those systems…

Independent IT and Financial Consulting

  • Use my technical, IT planning, and vendor skills to best plan for and implement projects at scale
  • Use my financial and payroll background to create efficiencies and transition clients to digital automation
  • Use my systems, database, and applications developments skills to create custom business solutions

Chief Information Officer and CISO in Higher Ed:

  • Provide leadership and vision
  • Manage vendors, contracts and IT budget
  • Planning and PM for all strategic IT functions
  • Analyze core business processes and create workflows for improved efficiency
  • CISO – Developed Info Sec Plan, and drafted policies, bringing the college into compliance (GLBA, PCI, etc.)
  • Completed projects include: full wi-fi refresh, full DC refresh, PC purchasing and roll-out, ERP implementation, departmental re-org, innovating to cloud, major construction and renovation projects

Director of Planning and Business Analysis

  • Analyzed core business processes for gaps and efficiencies
  • Implemented new systems for web forms, workflows and integrations (moving data)

Director, Enterprise Systems and Applications

Responsible for the design, implementation, operation, maintenance and growth of all campus enterprise technology.

  • Manage and lead the Web Development, Systems, PM, and Applications departments
  • Responsible for maintaining, administrating and securing all ERP, 3rd party, and custom systems
  • Responsible for enterprise budget, vendor relations, negotiations, software evaluation and selection, and technology implementations
  • Develop policy, improve procedures, and maintain availability, stability and security of systems
  • Develop strategies for change; plan for future technology cloud, process improvement/efficiencies
  • Coordinate with faculty to design and deliver research/classroom needs, like new HPC system and departmental apps
  • Moved critical infrastructure to AWS cloud for redundancy; optimized the data center with 3-5yr purchase plan
  • Improve inter-departmental relations (between IT and functional offices), work to collaborate and build relationships
  • Chair and founding member of Data Standards Committee, and Enterprise Scheduling Committee

Training, Teaching and Faculty Adjunct – Computer Science

Taught CS 111 and CS120.

  • Adjunct faculty for CS division (2012-2016)
  • Also taught multiple years in Continuing Ed (Microsoft Certified training)

Web, Applications, and Database Programmer/Analyst

  • Website design, development and support of version 1 and 2 of entreskills.org
  • Project planning and application delivery
  • Developed curriculum used by High School teachers to teach entrepreneurship

Accountant and Corporate Controller

  • Implemented new project planning and Job estimating process, still used in operation today
  • Developed zero-based yearly Budget ($20M) process (4 locations, bundled to the corporate level)
  • Complete accounting cycle functions and reporting
  • Completed audits and worked with auditors for tax and financial prep
  • Hiring and management of accounting staff of 6-8 A/P, A/R and Payroll employees and interns
  • Designed, administered and maintained network, network server and PC’s.
  • Integrate accounting software with new software for completely automated time sheets and payroll processing
  • Hiring and management of internal IT staff, interns, and coordinated with contract IT staff
  • Monthly financial statement analysis
  • Prepared monthly management reports
  • Converted Fixed Asset system (over 20k assets) from flat file into Lawson

EDUCATION                        

State University of New York Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY

Master of Arts in Leadership

State University of New York College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY

Bachelor of Science: Business/Economics

AFFILIATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) – (member) since 2000

MS Office Excel Certified MCP – (certification) since 2010

Project Management Certificate – State of NY GOERs (SUNY) Certification, April 2015

Educause Community Group Leader – Administrative Systems Mgt, Since 2017

PeopleAdmin Certified Admin – 2021

CJIS Clearance – FBI & SLED Since 2021

SKILLS:

I am fluent in over 30 programming languages and have worked with most modern database.

Technologies & Concepts that I am generally fluent/expert in:

Core Programming Skills:

C# (Advanced)

LINQ

Async/Await

Dependency Injection

Delegates & Events

Memory management

.NET (Modern .NET 6/7/8/9)

ASP.NET Core (Web APIs & MVC)

Building APIs

Middleware

Background services

Object-Oriented Design

SOLID Principles

Design Patterns

Repository

Factory

Clean Code & Refactoring

Front-End & UI Development:

HTML5 / CSS3

JavaScript (ES6+)

Modern frameworks:

Blazor expert

MVC expert

Responsive design principles

Basic UX thinking for business apps

Database & Data Skills:

Business software = data-heavy.

SQL (Advanced Queries)

Database design & normalization

Indexing & performance tuning

Microsoft SQL Server

Entity Framework Core

Stored procedures

NoSQL (MongoDB)

Cloud & Deployment:

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Environment configuration management

DevOps & Tooling:

Git (branching strategies)

GitHub

Logging (Serilog, NLog)

Monitoring

Unit Testing (xUnit, NUnit)

Integration testing

Postman / API testing tools

Swagger / OpenAPI

Security (Very Important for Business Apps):

Especially relevant if you’re working with EFT, payroll, or financial automation.

Authentication & Authorization

JWT

OAuth2

IdentityServer

Role-based access control

Data encryption at rest & in transit

Secure coding practices

Business Systems Knowledge:

Accounting fundamentals

Payroll processing workflows

Banking / EFT workflows

API integrations (banking, payment processors)

Automating repetitive workflows

Reporting & dashboards

ACH, EFT, NACHA

File parsing & generation utilities

Architecture & Scalability:

REST API design best practices

Microservices

Monolith vs microservices tradeoffs

Soft Skills:

Requirements gathering

Writing technical proposals

Estimation & scoping

Explaining technical solutions to non-technical clients

Documentation writing

Time management & project planning

High-Value Business Automation Skills:

QuickBooks API integration

Payroll system integration

Document automation (PDF generation)

Excel automation

E-signature workflows

Secure file processing systems

Advanced C# + .NET

SQL Server + EF Core

ASP.NET Core Web APIs

Azure deployment

Security & authentication

Payroll automation

Accounts Payable automation

‘ACH/EFT file automation tools