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SUMMARY: Contribute my SAP systems experience and skill sets to improve overall business value to a results -oriented organization. J.P. Morgan Chase Co.: Strategy Architect (2005 - Present) Create business continuity solutions within the Finance organization: * Realized an overall cost savings of $100K per year by evolving the business continuity solution within J.P. Morgan Chase Co. Finance organization. * Implement the overall strategic context of the technology architecture to bring greater value to the business through increased system uptimes by 20%. * Establish and maintain governance processes which improved stability and standardization across the SAP Finance platform. * Directed infrastructure compliance to increase pass rates up to 30% initiated by both external and internal auditors. * Ensure implemented architectural accuracy within core systems as defined by specifications provided by the business and technical review board. SAP Basis Management Specialist 2010 - 2014 Managed SAP Basis team within the Finance organization: * Increased business engagement with multiple technology teams by 200%, thereby ensuring a highly effective, reliable, and resilient platform. Leveraging the synergy of people, processes and strong working relationships resulted in a well run business. * Developed and promoted standardized processes to stakeholders at all levels. * Fostered a strong culture of trust which kept clients coming back to our team when looking for optimal solutions. * Exceeded planned forecasts for headcount and technology assets by at least 10% each year. This saved an average of $300K annually. * Mentored ten direct reports assisting them in meeting or exceeding their career goals and paving a way for their mobility and promotion throughout the J.P. Morgan Chase organization. Total Cost Of Ownership Program Manager - Overall Cost Savings of $2.25M 2008 - 2010 Contributed efforts to reduce technology costs across multiple areas following large mergers and acquisitions: * Harvested excess capacity within data centers by identifying redundant data delivery systems and retiring out of date assets, which saved $500K. * Implemented additional cost save opportunities through implementation of data archival and retrieval toolset, which saved $750K. * Ensured ever changing data retention policies were met throughout the evolution of financial reporting requirements. * Optimized backup and operational batch scheduling, which saved $750K by streamlining data flow volumes. 2 Christopher Citro * Coordinated with test managers and technical architects to keep platform costs in check, which saved $250K. Automation Specialist (Overall Cost Savings of $552.5K) 2014 - 2016 Implement standard repeatable processes, tools, and other smart practices to reduce overall spending and ensure organization objectives: * Establish automated monitoring solutions within the Finance platform saving manual efforts for one FTE ($135K annually). * Lead efforts to automate promotion of code changes throughout the SAP landscape. This saved one half FTE ($67.5K annually). * Implement SAP certified third party tools including Attunity, Automic, and PBX to assist with automation of several SAP business processes ($200K save annually). * Design quarterly maintenance plans to automate infrastructure hygiene maintenance ($150K save annually). Regulatory Compliance Expert - Sarbanes-Oxley 2014 - 2018 * Adhered to change management standard operating procedures for all SAP production enhancements. This brought an elimination of mistakes leading to increased system availability from 95% to 99%. * Using the Enterprise Security Management tool, ensured compliance to high visibility security protocols throughout the SAP platform. This decreased detected violations by 15% overall leading to cost savings in fines by $250K. * Directed automated monitoring of any intrusive attacks to the SAP platform. Ability to catch intrusions increased by 30% after automating business processes. * Rapidly mitigated security breaks that were detected by the risk management team. Time to repair breaks decreased by 30% over two years.
Education
SCHOOL | MAJOR | YEAR | DEGREE |
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DePaul University | Management Information Systems | 2010 | Master Degree |
University of Illinois Chicago | Electrical | 1995 | Bachelor Degree |