Kit Tham

About Kit Tham

Analytical and strategic IT executive with 15+ years of technology strategy, implementation, and management consulting experience at top-tier organizations. Proficient in quality assurance/quality engineering, strategy development, financial planning, operations management, advanced analytics, executive leadership relations, stakeholder partnerships, business process improvement, vendor management, and organizational transformation. Provide leadership in talent development and recruitment. Extensive management experience with track record of motivating, supporting, and engaging high-performing employees. Passionate about bringing teams together to innovate, plan, build and execute large-scale consumer software products; and transformational programs for web, mobile, enterprise systems, cloud, and collaboration technology. Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).

Experience

1. SVP - IT Shared Services Solutions Delivery Head of Testing Center of Excellence

   Bank Of The West

   Feb 2015 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Drive, support, and influence product development, design, software engineering, and QA/QE teams impacting Mobile platforms, Core Banking platforms, Data Hub/Data Lake (HDFS), Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Master Data Management (MDM) platform, analytics, and data services. Utilize onshore/offshore delivery model across various disciplines and delivery methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall. Conduct staff performance management, workforce planning and delivery management with OKR’s and metrics (KPI’s, KRI’s). Eliminate roadblocks and drive solutions- Manage annual budget and engineering and QA/QE professionals- Oversee data security, privacy, and governance program- Continuously collaborate with and present to all levels of senior management and C-suite executives- Ensure applications meet regulatory, compliance, information security, and business requirements- Serve as Product Owner for a cybersecurity modernization program- Spearheaded enterprise data modernization and quality engineering transformation- Key technologies: JIRA, Confluence, X-ray, Micro Focus ALM, Oracle, Informatica, Tableau, SAS, HDFS (Cloudera/Hortonworks), IBM Cloud, FIS (core banking). SQL, C/C++, Hive, Spark, R, Python.

Education

• University of Bridgeport

  Finance

  1997 — 1997

• Florida State University - Herbert Wertheim College of Business

  BSc, Management Information Systems

  1998 — 2000

Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Teradata
• Business Intelligence
• Data Modeling
• Embarcadero
• Banking
• Project Management
• Information Management
• Sdlc
• Requirements Gathering
• Data Warehousing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Data Architecture
• Cognos