Stephen Sepulveda

About Stephen Sepulveda

Strategic and Results-Oriented leader with a distinctive combination of product engineering skills, diplomacy, presentation, and drive leading to successful business and technical outcomes for a demanding client baseCORE COMPETENCIES• Strategy & Change Management • Global Financial Services• Program and Product Management • Partnership with Executive Committees• Matrixed Organization Management • Enterprise Architecture and Roadmaps • Resource Planning, Budgeting, and P&L • Technology Advancement and Process Design • Scaled Agile Software Development • Analytics and Application Performance • Transaction Processing and e-Commerce • Vendor ManagementCAREER HIGHLIGHTS• Strong leadership portfolio delivering enterprise business and technology solutions for Healthcare, Banking, Investment and Asset Servicing, Lending, & US Government organizations• Led talented and diverse groups in R&D, Service Delivery, Professional Services, & Implementations• Led successful implementations of key strategic IT initiatives partnering with CIOs and executive committees• Led a center of excellence (COE) with an enterprise product and services offering rooted on a data-driven culture of software excellence emphasizing equal importance of FR and NFR in the SDLC• Involved in a core group for the design and development of a world class, comprehensive financial software designed for multi-billion dollar international banks• Traveled internationally for high profile software development & professional services engagements

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Software Engineering

   Kaiser Permanente

   Sep 2020 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Oversees architecture, development, and delivery for a portfolio of Azure cloud-based web, data and analytics applications that provide digital solutions for Kaiser Permanente\'s Pricing, Underwriting, and Actuarial business units.• Works closely with executive management to establish technology and organizational strategies that promote innovation, scalability, quality, and operational efficiency.• Leads the strategy creation and execution of a multi-year Data Analytics program for the modernization of Business Intelligence capabilities using Azure, Informatica, and Databricks cloud services.• Established an agile Architecture Runway practice from interconnected disciplines (Solution, Technical, Application, and Data) embedded into an Agile Release Train (ART) providing architecture and design leadership, technical foundation and components that support new feature and capability development.• Co-led the creation and execution of a metrics-driven, continuous improvement culture implemented in a Product development operating model based on Scaled Agile.

Education

• The Wharton School

  Leadership and Management Program

• University of San Carlos

  Bachelors, Computer Science

• University of Central Florida

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Skills

• Agile Methodologies