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Corey Terrell

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Professional Profile

  • Senior technology leader with strong business acumen and expertise in architecting and delivering customer-focused, cloud-based digital capabilities, driving efficiency and creating economic impact through innovation.
  • Skilled strategist with master understanding of digital architecture at scale, transforming organizations with thought leadership.
  • Extensive experience building relationships and influencing business and technical leaders across domains, identifying opportunities for business impact.
  • Self-starter managing multi-million-dollar blended portfolios of business capabilities (staffing, architecture, delivery, infrastructure, vendor commercial terms negotiation, financials, etc.) in highly regulated environments.
  • Servant leader with successful history of staffing organizations with modern, diverse, and effective teams across multiple geographies.
  • International consulting expertise in Asia, leading architecture and design for an enterprise martech modernization at a large financial institution.

Experience

FIS

Jacksonville, Florida

March 2024 - Currently

Vice President, Head of Architecture, Digital Technology

  • Reimagined and staffed Solution Architecture within the Digital Technology organization as a collaborative community of practice, aligning business strategy with technology capabilities required to deliver outcomes
  • Led the charge on modernization and transformation of legacy technology stacks into public cloud-native business capabilities that converge and rationalize the tech footprint to increase speed to market and reduce operational cost and risk

Genesys

Menlo Park, California

August 2022 - August 2023

Vice President, Enterprise Architecture & Data Platforms

  • Created vision for, staffed, and launched new Enterprise Architecture practice within IT, aligning business strategy with technology capabilities required to deliver outcomes with a foundational EA framework (process maps, business capability map, maturity and solution evaluation analysis frameworks, engineering standards & patterns, etc.) to drive process rationalization and business transformation
  • Simultaneously led the Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Data and Analytics organizations, delivering data science & AI, engineering, visualization, governance, and change management capabilities aligned toward business value delivery
  • Led architecture and engineering design for adoption of cloud-native enterprise data platform capabilities, lowering cost to operate by more than $2M annually
  • Executive sponsor of engineer-led cross-functional leadership team tasked with defining and seeding modern engineering patterns, practices, and capabilities (DevSecOps, test driven development, microservices & APIs, etc.) to be consumed by product delivery teams across the organization

Pegasystems

Cambridge, Massachusetts

April 2020 - August 2022

Chief Architect & Practice Leader, Enterprise Architecture

  • Assembled and launched new client-facing Enterprise Architecture practice offering strategic partnership and thought leadership in driving business outcomes
  • Created enterprise transformation, digitization, and cloud adoption programs designed to deliver iterative value with adoption of new product capabilities
  • Drove more than $75M in annual business (212% of quota) with large enterprises across financial services, insurance, communications, transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, and government
  • Infused engineering acumen and sound architectural practices across domains to express a strategic transformation vision backed with a target state architecture and tactical roadmap to achieve business outcomes

Ally Financial

Charlotte, North Carolina

April 2018 - April 2020

Senior Director, Digital Channel Technology

  • Owned cradle-to-grave software delivery and operation of ally.com, modernizing operations and instilling culture of engineering excellence while increasing delivery velocity across lines of business
  • Principal architect and technology strategist for $150M multi-year enterprise digital transformation program to unify customer experiences across multiple channels and eight lines of business, defining reference architecture and solution roadmaps
  • Led solution architecture practice for the digital channel covering 100+ applications
  • Key resource for evaluation of emerging technology, capabilities, and potential strategic investment opportunities

Bank of America

Charlotte, North Carolina

August 2011 - April 2018

Sr. Manager, Digital Technology

  • Software delivery and operational responsibility for architecture, development, integration, and data management of the martech stack and numerous applications in customer facing digital experiences driving world class customer experiences while reducing $5M in cost
  • Devised strategy, architecture, and business case for modern enterprise customer behavior data collection solution, enabling real time personalization of customer experiences
  • Technology strategy lead for strategic partnership with China Construction Bank at multiple sites throughout China to build an enterprise marketing technology foundation

International Business Machines

Austin, Texas

November 2009 - August 2011

Sr. Consultant, IBM Digital Analytics

  • Developed scalable implementation strategy and JavaScript codebase for collection of behavioral interaction data from digital experiences
  • Managed migration to first-party data collection, driving new insights and enhancing business value, increasing data acquisition rates from 60% to 98%

NexAira

San Diego, California

October 2008 - June 2009

Sr. Product & Application Engineer

  • Lead customer-facing sales engineer, consulting on application & implementation
  • Created product strategy for suite of devices to share mobile Internet connectivity
  • Developed test process and negotiated ODM test contracts for hardware and software validation

Kyocera Wireless

San Diego, California

September 2004 - October 2008

Global UI Test Manager, Test Program Engineering Lead

  • Global leadership of 75+ person user interface test team in San Diego & Bangalore
  • Managed all software test, product certification, and customer acceptance test activities in accordance with requirements and international standards
  • Developed internal test process to facilitate meeting dynamic organizational goals

Education

Stephen F. Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas

BA, Communication

May, 2004

Contact Details

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