Dave Wilson

Director of IT Engineering @Kar Global

Responsible for the leadership, guidance, growth, and transformation of the Information Technology teams for KAR Global. Supporting the logistics and asset recovery business lines, the IT teams include Scrum Masters/RTE’s, Applications Development, Application Architecture, DevOps, Quality Assurance, Technology Vision, and Strategy. • Lead, manage, and mentor IT Teams building cloud based web and mobile applications, services, and application frameworks. Products were SaaS model leveraging cloud hosting to provide PaaS implementation with regards to infrastructure. • Successfully completed the Agile transformation of multiple IT teams to SAFe Agile. • Certified SAFe Agile Practitioner. • Collaborate with Executive Leadership, Business Unit Leadership, and Product Owners to define project needs, delivery timelines, and resource requirements. • Streamlined and automated multiple business process’s resulting in a $4 million annual cost savings. • Technical leadership building and evangelizing the utilization of SAFe Agile, defined SOA approach, and software development best practices. • Responsible for distributed/remote IT teams, with multiple locations across the U.S. and offshore. • Ensure on-time delivery of innovative technical solutions that meet and exceed business expectations. • Forward focused on leading edge technical architecture, leveraging state of the art technologies, and ensuring quality driven application development approach. • Empowered managers and technical leads to leverage skills and expertise assisting with the continual career growth of the application development staff. • Manage department budgets, resource allocations, and offshore needs.