David Collins

Founder of Frontier Consulting Group. Program manager, systems lead, and software builder: for banks that could not miss a date, and now for businesses and towns that cannot either.

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David Collins, founder of Frontier Consulting Group — Broken Bow, Oklahoma

5+Bank acquisitions managed on the employee-technology side, each converted on time on Day 1

5,000+IT assets and employees moved through large-scale technical acquisitions

1In-person facility move: 150+ users, zero unplanned downtime

13Years in regulated financial-services technology

Career

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2023 to present

Founder

Frontier Consulting Group, Frontier Property Management, and Hocha.town · Broken Bow, Oklahoma

Consulting, custom software, and operations help for small businesses and public offices.
Built and operates Hocha.town, a tourism platform with AI trip planning, live local utilities, and native app delivery.
Cabin management and owner co-hosting in the same market Frontier advises on.

2020 to present

Assistant Vice President, M&A Integration Program Manager

A top-5 U.S. commercial bank

Managed the employee-technology side of five-plus acquisition integrations, each converted on time on Day 1, including one of roughly 8,000 employees.
Built a four-person integration helpdesk, with its runbooks, intake, and ordering, that became a permanent part of the acquirer’s playbook.
Coordinated five to ten workstreams per integration wave against dates that could not move.

2020 to present

Founder, Frontier Photography

Southeast Oklahoma

Commercial, real estate, event, and local brand photography.

2018 to 2020

Senior Product Manager, Global Security & Investigations; Senior IT Support Analyst

A major North American bank

Identity and access provisioning across Active Directory, Centrify, and UNIX in a Dodd-Frank-regulated environment.
Introduced Jira to the team, with a 25% increase in project completion.

2013 to 2018

Systems Team Lead

A national bank’s regional operation · Portland, Maine

Led a five-person team supporting 150 to 200 users; Scrum Master across two product teams.
Owned procurement, tracking, and reconciliation of the team’s IT assets.
Moved a facility of more than 150 users with zero unplanned downtime.