Pete Corcoran

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About

I have had many roles in my 20+ years in technology - Agile Coach, Mobile Development Manager, Enterprise Solution Architect, Senior/Lead Programmer, Continuous Service Improvement & Help Desk Analyst, to name a few. I've worked in both the Energy & Finance industries, and the experience has made me appreciate the effort it takes to deliver products and services to a range of customers.

Technologist

Because of my variety of roles, I view myself as a technologist, someone who can operate in any technology driven role.

  • Website: www.corcoranp.com
  • Phone: +1 205 317 1721
  • City: Birmingham, USA
  • Age:
  • Degrees: Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering
  • Email: peter@corcoranp.com
  • Consulting: Available

I have grown to become a results-oriented technology leader with engineering principles, who manages complex IT solution designs (including a multi-million user Mobile application, Core Banking Deposit System replacement & Mainframe modernization). I'm an experienced & innovative full-stack solution developer who learned how to build relationship and focus on process management. I have a proven track record of analytical, technical, conceptual, and creative thinking skills - along with a strong commitment to customer service and support.

I value:
  • Customer centric businesses which spend time understanding customer's concerns, and ensure products/services improve customer's lives.
  • Problem solving over problem avoidance
  • Working to understanding other's perspectives
  • Working with a team to solve problems
  • Analytical decision making over gut feelings
  • Smart risk over risk avoidance
  • Creativity over templates
  • Continuous improvement, learning, and growing

Resume

Sumary

Pete Corcoran

Innovative and deadline-driven technology unicorn with 20+ years of experience in Information Technology.

  • McCalla, AL
  • (205) 317-1721
  • peter@corcoranp.com

Personal

Husband & Father

The most challenging and rewarding part of my life is being a husband & father!

Family

From left to right: Zachary, Jennifer, Lily, Me, Lucas, Jonathan

Education

Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering

2011 - 2016

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Graduation

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

Graduation

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

Professional Experience

Enterprise Solution Architect - Deposits & Lending Modernization, AVP

2020 - Present

Regions Bank, Birmingham, AL

  • Part of a specialized group of Architects leading Core Deposit and Lending modernization architecture design efforts for the bank
  • Completed Vendor evaluations, current & target-state architectural design for Consumer Lending & Omni-Channel Origination
  • Worked with customers, stakeholders and development teams to define high-level solution
  • Determined the primary components/subsystem and analyzed technical trade-offs of both lending and deposit systems
  • Identified deposit & lending system interfaces and interactions between componenets; Developed integration patterns and approaches to solving complex and legacy patterns (VSAM, COBOL, WebAPI, MQ Messaging, etc.)
  • Identified and documented Nonfunctional requirements (NFRs)
  • Currently working on Vendor evaluations, Proof of Concept, current & target state architectural design for core deposit system modernization that defines a shared technical and architectural vision.
  • Assisted in the development of an incremental roadmap, architectural sequencing and prioritization

Enterprise Solution Architect - Shared Services, AVP

2018 - 2020

Regions Bank, Birmingham, AL

  • Joined team at the beginning of newly defined Enterprise Architecture team. Worked with team to establish Architecture expectations & processes.
  • Worked with Customer Journey teams to identify key architectural improvements & designs.
  • As a certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) I continued to coach teams in Agile methodologies
  • Designed enterprise replacement for Regions Text Banking & Notification solution. Built team great team of developers to iterate over product. Lead the team as product manager, IT development manager and solution architect. Delivered system system with improved reliability & incredible speed without impacting customers.
  • Designed enterprise architecture for Fraud Management Solution. This included multiple vendor evaluations, custom application design, and current system rationalizations. Contributed to saving bank over $25 million in fraud losses
  • Completed Architectural design for Money Transfer System (wire-transfer), Remote Deposit Capture, Card Controls, FTM upgrade, ATM Software replacement, Cash Management systems

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