Professional Summary
Most executives can run a program. Fewer can build the software. Lance Calamita does both — and has the receipts to prove it. Twenty-five years of delivering at JPMorgan Chase, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young has produced a leader defined by one consistent output: results. Fifteen million dollars in cost savings. A global payments platform built in under six months. Teams coached from chaotic to high-performing. And then there's the other half of the story: 7 live AI tools, 40+ production automations, and a builder's mentality that doesn't clock out when the workday ends. Lance represents a new archetype — the executive who isn't waiting for technology to change their industry, because they're already changing it themselves.
Work Experience
JPMorgan Chase
Apr 2007 – Present
Vice President · Portfolio / Program / Project Management · Agility Lead
Charlotte, NC
- Delivered $15M in annual savings — led the full lifecycle of a legacy decommissioning initiative, from building the business case to steering adoption of modern platforms across a $3.7T institution.
- Slashed Story Churn by 20% YoY — not through mandates, but through coaching, process discipline, and building the kind of team culture where predictable delivery becomes the norm.
- Launched an international payments platform in 6–8 months — a timeline most would call aggressive, achieved through sharp stakeholder alignment, proactive risk management, and relentless execution.
- 18 years of sustained VP-level delivery at JPMorgan Chase — building the institutional knowledge, executive presence, and cross-functional leadership that only scale-tested experience creates.
- Agility Lead with real results: PI Planning, Scrum coaching, and continuous improvement frameworks that teams adopt and keep long after the program ends.
Deloitte Consulting
Oct 2000 – Apr 2007
Manager
Chicago, IL
- $2.5M in incremental revenue — generated for ICI Paints through a CRM integration that improved commercial data visibility and accelerated the sales pipeline from day one.
- Managed 4–6 concurrent Fortune 500 client engagements at peak — delivering scope, quality, and client satisfaction under conditions that demand both strategic and operational excellence.
- Directed end-to-end CRM implementations for global clients — from discovery through deployment — building the delivery instincts that still define how he operates today.
Ernst & Young
Aug 1998 – Oct 2000
Senior Consultant
Cleveland, OH
- Designed disaster recovery frameworks for financial services firms — protecting mission-critical operations under regulatory pressure and genuine business risk.
- Strengthened enterprise CRM systems for major clients, improving data integrity, service reliability, and cross-platform performance.
Nights & Weekends — The Builder Side
Built 7 AI Tools
- Built 7 live, user-facing AI tools — entirely self-taught, entirely solo, entirely in spare time. Not prototypes. Deployed products.
- The full portfolio: Shadow Hound (AI resume optimization), Social Spark (multi-platform content engine), Blog Post Generator, Tailored Social Post Creator, Kid-Friendly Story Book, Voice ToDo (PWA with offline mode), and a real-time Business P&L Dashboard.
- Architecture: user input → Make.com webhook → AI model (GPT-4o / Claude) → Airtable → email delivery. No servers. No backend team. Just logic and execution.
- Two-call AI chaining (outline first, content second): a technique developed through iteration that produces measurably higher-quality long-form output than single-prompt approaches.
Prompt Engineering
- Production prompt engineering: system prompts deployed in live applications, tuned for GPT-4o and Claude, optimized for quality, consistency, and hallucination resistance.
- Full integration stack: AI APIs + Make.com automation + Airtable data layer + WordPress frontend — built and maintained solo, across 7 live tools.
Make.com Automation
- 40+ active scenarios running in production — multi-branch pipelines, webhook triggers, iterator/aggregator logic, and real-time error handling.
- Sole architect and operator of the automation layer powering 7 AI tools — built without a team, without infrastructure overhead, without compromise on reliability.
Education
Ohio University
1994 – 1998
- Majored in Finance and Management Information Systems
- Graduated Cum Laude (with honors)