Technology Portfolio Strategy · Springfield, MA

Technology investment, governed like it's your own capital.

Andre DeNardo leads technology portfolio strategy for a large financial services enterprise, building the governance and analytics that turn spend into strategy. Two decades in, across roles that took him from hands-on infrastructure engineering to executive-level strategy, the throughline hasn't changed: make the numbers defensible and the decisions faster.

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Enterprise-Scale OversightStrategic direction for a portfolio spanning product, operations, distribution & R&D

Airtight Financial DisciplineA reputation for holding budgets to plan, even under pressure

Two Decades, One ThroughlineFrom the data center to the strategy table, without losing technical fluency

Multi-Disciplinary FoundationEngineering, business & data science, applied together

Capabilities

Where I create value

Four capabilities that compound on each other: governance that's only as good as the data behind it, and data that only matters if it changes a decision.

Portfolio & Financial Governance

Strategic oversight of enterprise technology investment: planning, budgeting, and the kind of financial discipline that keeps every dollar accounted for, no matter how sprawling the portfolio gets.

Decision-Grade Analytics

Power BI, DAX, SQL, and Python systems that convert raw portfolio data into decision-ready insight: the kind that becomes a standing part of how leadership steers the business.

Enterprise Modernization

A track record of moving organizations onto better platforms: self-service reporting, AI-assisted sentiment analysis, modern incident communications, all without disrupting the business they serve.

Applied AI & Emerging Tech

Independent ventures building the next generation of portfolio tooling: a conversational AI agent for enterprise PPM systems, and automation-first systems applied to live market data.

Track Record

Built from the ground up

One organization, steadily expanding scope, from engineering the infrastructure underneath to setting the strategy on top.

Enterprise-Wide Strategy

IT Portfolio Management Director

Apr 2025 to Present

Sets strategic direction for technology investment across the enterprise, leading a team of consultants through the financial governance behind every decision.

Financial Precision

IT Portfolio Consultant

Jan 2021 to Mar 2025

Brought discipline and precision to a sprawling infrastructure portfolio, while building the Power BI and MicroStrategy reporting that became leadership's source of truth.

Org-Wide Modernization

Technology Consultant

Jun 2016 to Dec 2020

Modernized reporting and incident communications org-wide, drawing on Power BI, Azure ML sentiment analysis, ServiceNow self-service, and StatusPage.io, while running interim management for a large, fast-moving frontline team.

Round-the-Clock Ops

Systems Operation Director

Apr 2013 to May 2016

Directed round-the-clock production operations across a wide range of middleware and database platforms, and built the KPIs that kept them accountable.

Foundations

Storage System Engineer

Jan 2008 to Apr 2013

Started in the data center working enterprise storage, backup, and disaster recovery, the ground-level fluency that still shapes how he reads a technology portfolio today.

Ventures

Independent work

Proof the same rigor scales beyond the day job.

Clarity AI Agent

A conversational AI assistant for interacting with Broadcom Clarity PPM through natural language, built for Portfolio Leads and Project Managers. Proof-of-concept combines a React front end with a mock agentic loop across six integrated tools, backed by an architecture blueprint spanning Claude API tool-calling, a REST/XOG hybrid middleware adapter for Clarity SaaS, and multi-channel delivery (web chat, Slack/Teams, embedded widget).

Claude API Clarity PPM React Enterprise AI

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Autonomous Trading Platform

A Python-based trading platform integrated with Alpaca's paper trading API. Current focus is a day-trading module built around a VWAP mean-reversion strategy: signal logic, position risk management, and automated end-of-day flattening, with research into live market data sourcing and brokerage API integration.

Python Alpaca API Quant Strategy Automation

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Project descriptions above are drafts, so send over any edits, additional ventures, or links and I'll update the page.

Approach

How the work gets done

"Every dollar of technology spend should trace back to a decision someone can defend."

Rigor without bureaucracy

Governance that speeds decisions up, not down.

Data with a point of view

A dashboard is a means, not the deliverable.

Translate, don't just report

Technical complexity in, executive clarity out.

MBA· M.S., Applied Data Science· B.S., Computer Engineering· ITIL Certified· English & Italian

Let's make the data come alive.

Have a portfolio that's outgrown its governance?

Let's talk about what's possible when technology investment, analytics, and delivery are actually working together.

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