Allyn McGillicuddy's IT leadership experience with large-scale, high technology solution delivery spans more than two decades, most recently as CIO at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA. There, she led her teams to establish the University's private, cloud computing environment including a wide area network based on Cisco's MPLS network architecture. In addition, she implemented the institution's first Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone system, installed comprehensive classroom technology, and launched its enterprise content management system.

In various software engineering executive roles at Filenet Corporation, Delta Dental (Dentegra), and Prudential Real Estate of California, Nevada, and Texas, McGillicuddy successfully led the design and development of a wide range of products and solutions including financial systems based on Oracle Applications; a dynamic website architecture to support more than 10,000 unique, real estate agent websites; Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, and Enterprise Content Management Systems (CMS).

As Director for Scient Corporation, she led the teams that designed and delivered Wells Fargo Bank's Corporate Electronic office (CEO), the first commercial banking system offered via the Internet in the United States. This achievement followed her successful delivery, as IBM Global Services Project Executive, of Washington Mutual Bank's (WAMU) Internet retail banking system at wamu.com.

A certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a certified IBM Project Executive, Ms. McGillicuddy earned her Bachelor's degree at Case Western Reserve University, her M.S. in Information Technology at University of San Francisco, and her Master's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.

Expertise

Principal, Office of the CIO, San Jose, CA
Collaborates with major Northern California enterprises to deliver strategic solutions for challenging business andinformation technologyobjectives. Establishes and leads process-based methodology to efficiently achieveproject goals. 

Enterprise CollaborationSystem Development, Trimble Navigation, Santa Clara, California 

• Program Manager for global enterprise directory services solution
• Managed requirements, solution specifications, and implementation
• Collaborated with senior technical professionals for on-time delivery of  application architecture and database solution
• Leveraged SharePoint 2010 for project collaboration, solution design, and production implementation

Chief Information Officer, Golden Gate University, San Francisco CA

• Led strategic implementation, operation, and support for information technology projects across eight university campuses
• Managed project management office (PMO) and project management processes
• Delivered more than thirty enterprise systems and solutions over three years
• Managed project financials, risk, staffing, scheduling, reporting
• Led development of application development strategy and architecture based on Redhat Linux

Director, Information Technology,Prudential Realty of CA, NV and TX
Led architectural design, development and deployment of

• Seven commercial, Internet websites including mortgage (Chase Home Loan) website
• System architecture to support over 4,000 agent websites
• Web based agent applications including contact management, online newsletters and email campaigns
• Directed Systems Design and Development, Quality Assurance, Deployment, and Support.

Director of Applications, Delta Dental of California, Pennsylvania and Texas
Led enterprise application development, operations, and support, including

• Led transition from three accounting and finance systems to Oracle Finance
• Led enterprise solution development to replace use of social security numbers as Insured ID numbers with an alternate ID

Director, Software Engineering, Filenet Corporation (acquired by IBM)
Led software engineering to deliver enterprise content management and process automationsoftware

• Managed on-time development, QA, documentation, level 3 support for licensed enterprise software
• Led on-schedule delivery of seven commercial, licensedsoftware products

Director, Technology Solution, Scient Corporation
Led teams to design, deliver, and operate Wells Fargo’s commercial banking architecture and systems

• Managed on-time design, development, implementation for the Corporate Electronic Office (CEO)

Past employers: Golden Gate University, Prudential Real Estate, Filenet Corporation (acquired by IBM), Delta Dental, Scient Corporation, IBM

Education

• M.S., Information Systems, University of San Francisco
• B.A. Special Interdisciplinary Studies, CaseWestern ReserveUniversity, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum Laude
• Master’s Certificate, Project Management, GeorgeWashingtonUniversity
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute