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Chief Information Officer

Bank of the West is one of the United States' largest banks, yet it preserves its local feel and award-winning style of relationship banking.

Top performing Senior IT Executive with more than 20 years of progressive experience impacting critical decision making, operational quality, performance, and profitability of major organizations through expert orchestration of large-scale technical and business operations within multimillion-dollar platforms. Equipped with a strong portfolio of successes and promotions, as well as recognition for key contributions in the areas of corporate development and planning, advanced analytics, investment strategies, process automation, and application development. Significantly increases ROI through strong leadership, management, and advanced business and technical acumen. A sample of achievements includes: * Establishing robust Technology Strategies and Roadmaps and best-in-class operational platforms aligned with unique business needs, serving as leader and liaison to cross-functional teams on all levels. * Elevating the productivity, cost effectiveness, and overall operational quality of both technical and non-technical areas through the introduction of new systems, processes, and best practices. * Serving a major role in executive leadership groups focused on driving business optimization and cohesiveness through strategic planning, critical decision making, and expert utilization, placement, and management of IT / human resources. * Designing creative solutions to maximize quality and value of key information, and empower multidisciplinary employees. * Effectively leading and delivering highly complex concurrent projects within tight budgets, and strict and competing deadlines, capturing superior levels of recognition and honors. Specialties: Business & Technology Analysis, Strategic & Technical Planning, Finance Technology Roadmaps, Infrastructure & Cross-Functional Platform Integration, Risk Management, Risk Adjusted Performance Management, Problem Solving, Critical Decision Making, Bottom-Line & ROI Optimization, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Enterprise Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Controls & Compliance, Team Building, Large-Scale Operations & Project Management.