Steve Gaffney

About Steve Gaffney

s••••••••@gmail.comA forward-thinking and accomplished INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE with a breadth of specialized knowledge and experience in ecommerce and information technology. Highly skilled in strategic planning, operational management, cross-functional team leadership, application development, and maintaining client and vendor relationships. Communicates efficiently and effectively, advising all levels of business stakeholders and working with technology teams to implement solutions. Approaches problem solving logically and ambitiously, designing and executing innovative broad-vision solutions to meet strategic needs, accelerating revenue and profit growth.Specialities: IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite, java, mobile, ecommerce.NET, Retail, IT Management, Agile, service delivery, leadership, Sterling Distributed Order Management, Oracle Endeca Guided Search, Coremetrics Web Analytics, Apache Solr Search Engine, Oracle Enterprise Database, Java, Groovy, Ruby on Rails, WebSphere Application Server, Sterling Integrator, IBM WebSphere MQ, ADP Taxware, HP LoadRunner, Hudson Continuous Integration Server, Atlassian JIRA, Compuware dynaTrace, Agile Methodology, Scrum, Atlassian Crucible, FindBugs, CheckStyle, Security, Cobertura, SONAR, JUnit, Mashery, API.NET, MongoDB, Infrastructure,Startup, Six Sigma, Program Management

Experience

1. Chief Information Officer

   State of Illinois

   Sep 2017 — Present

   Chief Information Officer for Illinois Workers\' Compensation Commission which adjudicates approximately workers\' compensation claims per year. Responsible for planning, budgeting, and execution of all IT initiatives and operations.• Directing Digital Transformation initiative to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the Commission.

Education

• Omicron IT Executive Development Program

  Information Technology Executive Development

  2003 — 2003

• North Central College

  B.S., Computer Science

  1987 — 1990

• The University Of Chicago Graduate School of Business

  High Performance Leadership Program Graduate

  2007 — 2007

Skills

• Web Analytics
• Saas
• Project Management
• Cloud Computing
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Business Intelligence
• Mobile Applications
• Vendor Management
• Leadership
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Product Management
• IT Transformation
• SEO
• Business Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Integration
• Sterling Commerce
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Program Management
• Crm
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Retail
• B2b
• Analytics
• Process Improvement
• Information Technology
• Ruby on Rails
• Web Applications
• Strategic Planning
• Ibm Websphere Commerce
• IT Management
• Team Leadership
• Soa
• Sdlc
• Solr