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Professor Emeritus Genetics

Edward Jones is a financial-services company which is headquartered in St. Louis,Missouri and founded in 1922.

Visionary technology leader with over 25 years of experience delivering strategic vision and governance enterprise-wide leveraging decisive and insightful leadership, guiding operations and policy implementation through strategic thinking and decision-making. Strategically and cost effectively utilize technology in alignment with corporate goals. Excel at strategic planning, building high-performance teams, project management and implementation of best practices, methodologies and continuous improvement. Steers business requirement gathering and analysis, application development, infrastructure and operations, together with championing integration of new technologies. Consistently delivers technology strategies and solutions critical to operational efficiency and powering business growth. Skilled in developing, maintaining and enhancing relationships with internal/external clients, vendors and key stakeholders. Proactive in positively influencing executive leadership and decision-making process, linking business and IT strategy. QUALIFICATIONS ★★ Develop technology strategy ★★ Advance the capability of leadership and teams ★★ Drive the creation and management of the innovation process ★★ Implement technologies that enhance efficiencies ★★ Drive business process improvement ★★ Strengthen and improve core systems and integration CORE COMPETENCIES ✦Digital Transformation ✦Program & Project Management ✦Mainframe & Data Center Operations ✦Staff Training & Development ✦License & Maintenance Management ✦Strategic Planning & Analysis ✦IT Strategy Development ✦Regulatory Compliance ✦Enterprise IT Governance ✦Resource Optimization ✦Modernization ✦Risk Management ✦Business Continuity Planning ✦Resource Management ✦Process Improvements ★★ Let's Connect ★★