Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering

2011 - 2016

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

This was an exciting experience, earning an EE degree while a Development Manager of Regions' Mobile Program and being involved in:

• Campus Ministry International (President)
• Engineers without Borders
• Yearly IEEE Competitions & Member

Associate in Arts - Business Administration

2009-2011

Lawson State Community College, Birmingham, AL

I started this journey of education at Lawson to remake myself, along the way I was involved in:

• Lawson State Ambassador program
• Phi Theta Kappa
• Phi Beta Lambda
• SkillsUSA State and National 1st place winner in programming
• Part of the 2011 All Alabama Academic Team
• 2011 Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team Gold Scholar
• President's List
• Graduated at the top of the class with a 4.0 GPA

Business Transformation & Engineering Manager, SVP

Jun 2023 - Present

Regions Bank, Birmingham, AL

• Lead architecture and engineering teams for one of the most ambitious Core Banking Deposit Modernization programs in the U.S., transforming a mainframe-based, highly regulated system into a cloud-native financial architecture
• Architected a multi-layered, microservice architecture, enabling 100+ integrated systems to operate across multiple deposit cores with minimal disruption
• Led innovations in cross-core transaction handling, general ledger processing, reverse data transformation, and migration planning
• Built and led high-performance teams across customer, account, product, and transaction domains — hiring over 30 engineers
• Designed strategic integration patterns and governance frameworks to ensure modernization aligned with regulatory requirements, auditability, and long-term adaptability
• Partnered with Executive Management to align technical strategy with business value, customer experience, and ethical system design
• Created Executive dashboards and metrics to drive continuous improvement across engineering and architecture teams
• Focused on building AI-native architecture patterns to position the bank for future AI and real-time capabilities

Enterprise Solution Architect - Shared Services, AVP

2018 - 2020

Regions Bank, Birmingham, AL

• Shaped Core Modernization Strategy, architecture vision, NFRs, and target-state designs for enterprise banking modernization
• Led RFI/RFP evaluations across core banking, integration, and testing domains
• Designed integration patterns, built architectural repositories, and created an application capability landscape to inform modernization priorities
• Delivered target-state architectures for Enterprise Text Banking & Notifications, Fraud Management Solution (contributing to $25M+ in fraud loss prevention), Customer Onboarding, Money Transfer System, Remote Deposit Capture, Card Controls, ATM software, Cash Management, and Real-Time Payments
• Established and led adoption of Architecture Frameworks (inspired by TOGAF), Application Portfolio Management, and cloud-based architecture tools
• Created Solution Architecture templates and reusable patterns, advanced API-first and cloud adoption frameworks
• Provided ongoing Agile coaching as a Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
• Focused on building modern, resilient architectures positioning the bank to adopt future real-time, event-driven, and AI-ready patterns

Mobile Application Program Manager, AVP

2013 - 2018

Regions Bank, Birmingham, AL

• Management and oversight of a multiple large scale distributed system used in the delivery of mobile & text banking, and customer alerts
• Served as part of the Digital Leadership Team, facilitating the company’s agile transformation, process improvement, and management of program strategic and tactical goals.
• Managed the development roadmap for over 100 projects and features, prioritizing assignments, and providing technical guidance and architecture.
• Document and communicate designs, estimates, and implementation plans to business partners
• Managed effort to move from physical to virtual hardware multiple mobile environments.
• Managed four agile teams and one system team in a SAFe agile methodology for the building and design of the Regions Mobile App and Enterprise Notification functions.
• Responsible for the full SDLC life cycle of the Mobile Banking App at Regions including quality assurance testing, penetration and performance testing.
• Coached teams on agile principles and agile program management.
• Managed Application Lifecycle Management Tools for the Enterprise (Jira, BitBucket, Bamboo, Confluence)
• Designed and architected in-house Enterprise Alerts system for delivery of SMS messages, Push Notifications and Email totalling nearly 20,000,000 messages per month.
• Developed a mobile strategy for moving from a proprietary vendor based system, to in-house developed Mobile Application.
• Architected a future state mobile system focusing on containerization and micro-services.
• Obtained Electrical Engineering degree while managing multiple teams both domestic and internationally.
• Assisted in vendor management, including contract negotiations, quarterly reviews and assessments.
• Organized and coordinated the activities associated with installation, deployment, and upgrade of the Mobile Banking software, hardware, systems, and networks.
• Worked to ensure technology solutions were compliant with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices.
• Managed multiple apps stores including Apple Enterprise & Consumer stores, Google Play, and Amazon stores
• Managed over 100 test devices used in regression and quality testing, leveraging a device cart for the bulk of devices (Kindles, iPads, iPhones, Android Tablets & phones).

Service Improvement Analyst, Help Desk Analyst

2000 - 2013

Southern Company, Birmingham, AL

• Using extensive knowledge of the support environment - provided process improvement, research, ad hoc reporting, root-cause/trend analysis and automation of tasks. This required collecting and using customer’s business requirements to manage and/or construct databases (creation of tables, views, stored procedures, indexes, and functions in SQL Server, MySql, and Oracle), generate reports using C#, VB, Excel, and Access, and develop new application.
• Worked closely with IT customers to gather requirements, design, develop, implement, and maintain a number of applications for the support of IT. Applications were developed in a wide range of languages from VB to C#, and environments (fat client, web, & mobile devices). These applications have saved over a million dollars in otherwise lost analyst productivity.
• Integrated data from multiple enterprise database systems to provide seamless display of core business information in multiple systems using RESTful web services.
• Provided metrics and business driver information while participating in the industry benchmarking studies, resulting in improvements in business processes
• Participated on development teams by providing insight into complex, multi-tiered systems; and full life-cycle development.
• IT required a web portal for distributing reporting from ticketing system. Was asked to design a system that would allow users to login and access dynamic web reports. Designed the complete system (from infrastructure to system design), pulled resources together to build and deploy infrastructure, and fully developed system in ASP.NET, C#, Javascript, CSS, HTML. Built a custom JavaScript library, and integrated third-party libraries (such as Sencha ExtJs). System was primarily built for the Help Desk but was so successful as a platform, other applications were written and hosted on the platform.
• After IT conversion to BMC Remedy (IT ticketing system), was asked to build a management portal to address gaps with the Remedy Tool (specifically the lack of management level reporting). Designed and built a system that indexes data, and provides dynamic reporting, chart building, mapping, and spreadsheet like functionality. Added the ability to share views, export data to Excel, and subscribe to dynamic queries through RSS.
• Assisted a team in getting a SSIS, SSAS, SSRS system in place after new ticketing software was in place. Worked with Microsoft Contractor to develop fact and dimension tables. Transition initial work to Business Intelligence partner once platform ownership was determined.
• Developed Southern Company's first mobile application that field agents used to resolve incidents and change management tickets.
• Earned ITIL certification, participated in IT Service Management transformation project. Identified ticketing system integrations, and helped migrate them to BMC.
• Conceived, designed, developed and implemented (using agile methodology) an outage management system for use at the Help Desk. System automatically monitored outages and notified stakeholders of changes. System increased productivity, increased visibility of critical system outages, and saved thousands of hours in otherwise lost productivity.
• Used problem solving, technical, and customer service skills to ensure client’s problems and requests were resolved completely and in specified timeframe