Art is a technical leader with extensive experience in Fortune-500 financial and insurance institutions, like Bank of America and Great American Insurance Group. He has built teams and championed critical projects with a $40M revenue increase. Art raised productivity by 50% and saved more than $24M in annual cost. He has a BS in Electronics Engineering and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Art has been leading and managing Agile/Scrum projects for over a decade, including training, product backlog, user stories, sprint planning meetings, minimal viable product (MVP) definitions, estimates, sprint goal, budgets, daily Scrum meetings, review/demo meetings, retrospective meetings, meeting facilitation, executive presentations and reports, issue resolution, and translation/liaison between business and IT.

Art has increased productivity by 50% and effectiveness by 30% with user-friendly reports, dashboards, and predictive analytics.

About Art Torres

Art Torres offers a unique portfolio of qualifications in the finance industry as a technology executive with exceptional leadership strengths, strategic savvy, business acumen, and technology depth. He is a champion of IT quality.
For more than twenty years, he has proven his ability to build high-performance teams capable of driving rapid completion of strategic projects with zero critical defects.
In addition to expertise across diverse areas of IT, Mr. Torres brings to the table a deep passion for mentoring teams to new levels of performance as well as an unrivaled ability to build collaboration and engagement across diverse stakeholders. This blend of executive talents enables him to deliver quality, on-time, and on-budget results repeatedly.
In both his role as Director of Information Technology with Great American Insurance Group and prior engagement as Vice President of Application Development with Bank of America, Mr. Torres demonstrated his trademark blend of interpersonal leadership, technical management, and quality focus. He led initiatives for his assigned divisions in both corporations that matured the IT organization, founded robust QA functions and infrastructure, and transformed IT performance through continuous process improvement.
He is known as “The Finisher” because he completes the most challenging technology projects with zero critical defects and superior customer service while increasing the bottom line, customer experience, and employee satisfaction.

Education

MBA, Pepperdine University.
BS Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Universidad de Guadalajara.