Elliott Storms

I make hard
things fun.

Implementation project manager with a software engineer's brain. I turn complex fintech launches into successful ones - and bring everyone along for the ride.

100%
On-time launches
9
Launches in 5 years
850K+
Users live
$70B+
Client assets
// client assets checkable: NCUA, FDIC, SEC filings
// where i learned it Visa·Online Resources·ACI Worldwide·Fiserv·Lumin Digital
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// what i do

I make the hard parts
feel possible.

Launch digital banking

End-to-end fintech platform implementations for credit unions and community banks. Nine launches in the last five years, every one on time, for institutions serving 17K to 194K accountholders each.

Drive AI adoption

I help teams move from AI-curious to AI-fluent - change management, prompt training, and automations that actually stick.

Bring people along

Clients make hard decisions faster when they're laughing with you, not bracing against you. Relationships outlast the project.

// case studies

Proof, not promises.

Three real projects, clients anonymized down to the outcomes. Here's what it looks like when it works.

// the rescue · tech lead
The rescue that became a reference.
Red → On-time
at-risk to delivered
// on-time launches
Nine launches, zero missed dates.
9 / 9
100% on-time record · last 5 years
// ai adoption
Teaching a team to actually use AI.
Hours/wk
admin eliminated · skeptics → daily users
Read the case studies → See the build log →
// the plot

Engineer who fell
for the people part.

I came up the technical way: taught myself SQL from "SQL 2008 for Dummies," became the product trainer for a digital banking platform, and a technical lead running developer teams for publicly traded banks. I’ve done it across the full spectrum, from Fortune 500 companies like Visa and Fiserv to fast-moving startups, where I stepped fully into the project manager seat. Along the way I realized the part of the job I loved most was the humans, so leading projects is exactly where I belong.

  • 2011
    Business Analyst
    Visa - Tier One merchant payments
  • 2012-2021
    Engineer → Technical Lead
    Online Resources → ACI → Fiserv
  • 2021-2026
    Project Manager → Sr. PM
    Lumin Digital · AI Adoption Council
// ai, in practice

I don't just use AI.
I get whole teams using it.

I was a founding member, and the only woman, on my former company's AI Adoption Council, and my former team's designated AI Champion. I built the automations, then taught the humans: prompt engineering, practical dos & don'ts, and the change management that turns "we should try AI" into "we use it every day and love it."

Founding
AI Council member
Claudette-Code
Women-in-AI community I built
Team Champion
Designated AI lead
Certified
Building with the Claude API · Anthropic 2026
AI tools
Claude · Chat, Cowork, Code ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Cursor GitHub
Automation
n8n Zapier Workflow automation Google Workspace
Practice
Prompt engineering Loop engineering AI change management Team training & enablement Agile / Scrum Waterfall & hybrid SDLC ownership Risk management Vendor management Scope & budget tracking
// the method

It all starts with your Moon.

Your Moon is the outcome worth steering by: the reason you are using AI at all. I find it first, keep the work in orbit around it, and leave every system owned, verified, and maintained. Adopt AI fast. Leave no mess. It maps cleanly onto the NIST AI RMF playbook your examiners already expect.

Find your Moon → Leave It Better →
// dispatches

Field notes from
the AI trenches.

Short, opinionated essays on adopting AI in fintech - written by someone who has actually had to clean up after it. No hype, no doom.

Pinned · July 1, 2026
Don't leave a trash ocean.
Adopting AI without cleanup and ownership isn't progress. It's just faster mess-making - and in a regulated shop, that's a finding.
Craft · July 16, 2026
Whimsy is an adoption strategy.
I built a rigorously governed astrologer for fun, and she taught me more about adoption than most rollouts I've watched. Delight is what gets the rigor used.
Read the dispatches →
// what people say

Trusted by the people
who worked beside me.

“She brings warmth, humor, and real care to every engagement. Her clients don’t just respect her, they love working with her. That combination of sharp professional skill and authentic human connection is rare.”
David Ringler
Product Management professional · worked with Elliott at Fiserv & Lumin Digital
Read full recommendation →
More recommendations →
// now playing

The soundtrack to
making hard things fun.

Every on-time launch has a playlist behind it. Here's what's spinning while I untangle fintech rollouts, build automations, and ask AI unreasonable questions - straight from my To The Moon playlist. It updates live from Spotify.

Now spinning · To The Moon
// say hello

Working on AI or delivery?
Let's compare notes.

Elliott Storms
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