Ryan Whitaker

OppenheimerFunds

AVP, Business Transformation Office & eBusiness Product Owner

Denver, CO     2008 - Present

Hired as a leadership change agent by the incoming President and COO. Established the Business Transformation Office responsible for IT investment management, consulting, self-servicing, and quality management. As eBusiness product owner was responsible for managing the pipeline of web initiatives for the shareholder and advisor websites using web analytics to drive selection.

Key Accomplishments:

• Led and delivered web initiatives which increased web usage by 20% and reduced expenses by over $2 million dollars
• Created a pragmatic project portfolio management aligning IT projects with strategic value and financial value against investment risk including the establishment of business case standards resulting in greater strategic alignment and higher return on IT investments worth over $15 million dollars
• Planned, facilitated, and managed the development of the three-year vision, strategy, and roadmap with senior executives from both the business, technology, and PMO covering process, people, and systems
• Successfully executed strategic projects covering all aspects of mutual fund technology, operations, and corporate culture transformation while receiving the highest performance score possible for two consecutive years

Sapient

Sr. Manager of Technology

Denver, DC, San Francisco, Chicago     1999 - 2008

Strategically consulting with clients to create technical, business, and organizational solutions that solve complex problems (sample of consulting work found below).

Key Accomplishments:

• Facilitated alignment of IT investments with business strategic goals and drivers including architectures and roadmaps with business cases and technical performance models to justify strategic recommendations
• Lead strategy, estimation, planning, organization, pricing, and delivery activities for multi-year, multi-million dollar client engagements with team sizes between 1 to 50 people.
• Provide project leadership and management over full project lifecycle to create high quality innovative solutions in a fixed-time/fixed-price and globally distributed environment.
• Leader of Government Service’s Business and IT Strategy Center of Excellence responsible for leading and developing business and IT strategy competencies in the business unit including: IT and project portfolio management, IT governance, enterprise architecture, and business application planning, road mapping and strategic planning
• Responsible for the technical delivery of over 5 very large scale web projects that were delivered on time at a fixed time and fixed price, including: internet site redesign for large mutual fund company including trading capabilities, intranet redesign for large mutual fund company, global website redesign for fortune 500 real estate company, director of website engineering at precycle.tonic.com, SOA development for fortune 500 entertainment firm, lead architect over US Government intelligence sharing program involving secure website, SOA and data services to facilitate greater information sharing between all of the intelligence agencies

Netschools Corporation

Software Developer and DBA

Provo, UT     1997 - 1999

Developed the content management system, which included a custom database, client APIs and the back end tools to manage content into the educational system.