Phil Stevens

Responsibilities include identifying and cultivating major growth initiatives, overseeing the company's worldwide technology strategy and expanding a world class organization to deliver exceptional value to all clients. Additional responsibilities include strengthening relationships with existing clients, providing leadership to the development and sales teams, and providing thought leadership in the development of new products.

EFP was the fourth largest originator of private student loans. As a member of the leadership team, I created the technology strategy to support aggressive business goals and rapid growth. As the CIO I was responsible for development of the website that was our primary channel to our customers. During my tenure, we launched a a loan origination platform and began the design of a loan servicing platform. EFP filed Chapter 7 Bankruptcy in Dec 2008.

My responsibility progressively increased from architecture, middleware software development, and application support to ultimately include all corporate technology operations. The Macy's infrastructure supported $28 billion in sales, 200,000 users, and over 1,000 locations including more than a dozen sites overseas.

Computer Science and Systems Programming