Senior Director

of Strategic Information Systems at the Nation Content & Technology Cooperative

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Senior director at nctc

Tactical

Employed: January 2015 to Present
Manages $1M annual capital budget, $750k annual operating budget
Manages a department of 8; including software developers, architects, and system administrators
Maintains 5 Year Strategic Road map
Responsible for Launch and Operations of VUIT Business Unit
Responsible for all technology related to business operations

Strategic

Highest authority in the organization with respect to technology
Built a collaborative highly productive department of 8 team members based on Key Performance Indicators
Strategically aligned all systems and architectures to business objectives
Educate and lead executive staff on technology
Experience at all levels of the business and it’s operational processes (technical and non-technical)

1,400

Agile User Stories Completed

$1M

Annual Recurring Operational Expenses

$750k

Annual Recurring Capital Expenses

8

Members of the team, including Developers, Architects, and System Admins

About the NCTC

Company overview

Starting with 12 cable operators in 1984, NCTC has grown to serve over 900 cable companies, ranging from less than 50 to over 1 million subscribers across the United States representing approximately 24 million subscribers (for context, Comcast has 23 million subscribers). NCTC manages approximately $3 billion dollars annually in programming and technology sales and provides member cable companies with capabilities on terms not possible on their own. In addition, NCTC has provided forums for its members to work together on new approaches to their businesses. In the last three years the NCTC has consistently grown in number of members, supplies relationships, scope of service and attendance at major events.

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Responsibilities

Strategy

Prioritize on-going IT related Business Operational tasks against strategic execution of Projects
Responsible for internal billing systems which manage $2.5 Billion dollars annually
Billing of Programming contracts between Members (Cable Companies) and Programmers (Networks such as Fox)
Billing of Hardware sales between Members (Cable Companies) and Vendors (Manufacturers such as Samsung)
Billing of Broadband services between Members (Cable Companies) and Vendors (Cogent or Zayo)

Management

Champion the Agile Methodology within the technology team and throughout the organization as the guide for executing projects as the Scrum Master
Manages all technical / IT resources (internal and external)Build alliances with NCTC partners and vendors to enable new services and improve supply chain efficiencies
Design and Oversee Software Development Process
Project Requirements and Priority to the Organization
Project Management – Scrum / Kanban process
Code Versioning and Backups – GitHub Repositories
Unit Testing – Mocha & Should.js
User Acceptance Testing – Selenium
Formal Documentation
Management of “Technical Debt”
User Acceptance Testing – Selenium

Operations

Prioritize on-going IT related Business Operational tasks against strategic execution of Projects
Responsible for internal billing systems which manage $2.5 Billion dollars annually
Billing of Programming contracts between Members (Cable Companies) and Programmers (Networks such as Fox)
Billing of Hardware sales between Members (Cable Companies) and Vendors (Manufacturers such as Samsung)
Billing of Broadband services between Members (Cable Companies) and Vendors (Cogent or Zayo)

Senior Director

Key Projects

Federated Provisioning Platform

Cyber Security and Risk Management

FCC Technical and Legal Analysis

Unified Architecture

Responsibilities

Strategy

Management

Operations

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