SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented, hands-on professional with a successful record of s in the Management Consulting, Information Technology, Project Management/Product Owner, Business Analysis & Data Management/Metadata fields. Major strengths include strong leadership, project management & supervisory skills, task & resource planning
• Business Process improvement, excellent communication skills ( both verbal and written ), ability to work well as both a team player or as an individual contributor, attention to detail & a clear vision to accomplish the Corporation goals. Relentlessly pursue design simplicity, functional excellence & flawless quality with a successful track record in making conscientious & responsible decisions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Woodland Hills

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage all Client-facing (Customer/Agent) Application integrations to the Guidewire ClaimCenter Vendor product (First Notice of Loss, Customer Service, Claimant Self Service - all part of the Farmers.com portal). All products, except one, were part of a customized Salesforce implementation done specifically for Confidential .
• Critical Day-1 integrations; manage both the Legacy & Guidewire tasks from inception through Stabilization using SDLC & Agile methodologies. Managed all related staff, Business Analysts, Development, Quality Assurance & provided Senior-level Management reporting on a Weekly basis. All Projects met the PROD implementation date of Aug-2018.

Confidential Boston, MA

Managing Director - Business/IT Liaison, Product Owner & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage the AIS-wide Client Information Delivery program (10+ Applications in the Hedge, Private Equity & Real Estate spaces), from inception through implementation using SDLC (Waterfall) and Agile methodologies. Applications were a blend of back-end (Legacy), Web/Cloud and Mobile Application environments.
• Identify areas for Cost Savings/Cost Avoidance; determine Cost-Benefit Analysis and present findings to Senior Management/ Stakeholders for review/approval and prioritization
• Divisional SharePoint & Collaborate Site Administrator (internal and Client/external)
• Manage all aspects of Projects -
• Liaise with Business Stakeholders & IT teams (Enterprise and Divisional)
• Identify and assist Business Analysts with Business Process Workflows (current & future), Requirements creation (User Stories), and Quality Assurance (Q/A) Test scripts
• Identify costs & required resources; manage all Project resources (onshore/offshore & Vendor relationships)
• Create/manage Project Plans; manage Budget/Actuals
• Create/maintain Project Status Reporting Dashboards/Presentation materials for distribution/review to Senior Mgmt/Stakeholders
• Spearhead Annual Disaster Recovery Business Planning/Testing, work with IT & Vendor(s) and then provide resultant materials to Corporate Continuity/Risk & Compliance departments to ensure Federal requirements are met
• Participate in Client RFP’s, providing details (process flows, technologies utilized, statistics, etc.) related all to AIS Client-facing applications.
• Create Product Release Notes, create Materials and conduct Internal/External ; create User Documentation
• Lead ERP evaluations - e.g., Yardi, Microsoft, SunGard & Oracle

Confidential Boston, MA

IT Development Manager (Project Manager)/Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all Project Management duties from inception to PROD deployment. Develop/maintain Project/Task Plans, Resource Planning (10 onshore & offshore resources) and Project/Product Status reporting. Lead in ETF Gap Analysis reviews, to ensure dat new SPDR® products were best-of-breed and first-to-market.
• Responsible for all Project Management duties from inception to PROD deployment. Same Project Management duties as noted above. 365 days/year, 24/7 Global Access required. Supervised 10 SSIS and SSRS Development Staff; also ensure dat the application contained all security/validation rules to ensure full global ISITC regulations & compliance. lead Architect on the creation of an Enterprise-wide Metadata Repository in support of the IMS initiative. Serve as the IBM InfoSphere SME; liaison to both IBM & internal IT architecture & infrastructure departments. Create/manage the Metadata Team, specialists responsible for the daily operations, data quality & collaboration with the data constituents. Responsible for the Data Governance & Stewardship for all Metadata categories (Business, Technical, Operational, Process and Semantic). Liaised with the ETL Development team to ensure dat all technical Metadata was up-to-date in order for them to perform and/or fix ETL Processes/Jobs.

Confidentia,l Boston, MA

IT Development Manager Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Related to the re-write of various applications using newer technologies and/or Vendor applications reducing the monthly cost of $100k to just $1k per month. Corporate Trust “core” Applications - Corp Trust Account System, Billing Application, Wires & underlying Security infrastructure for all Corporate Trust Applications. Created various interfaces for the Corp Trust Applications and external Products (e.g., SunGard, DTC, etc.).
• Conversion Projects/Efforts - Lead PM/Architect/Developer for State Street purchases (when SSC purchased Corporate Trust Departments from other Financial Institutions), as well as for the de-conversion (when State Street’s Corporate Trust Department was sold to Confidential ).

Confidential,Boston, MA

Senior IT Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assist Clients in the research, review and selection of best-of-breed software and technology, Strategic Planning, Cost Savings & Risk Analysis, System Evaluation/ Redesign and/or Migration Strategies.
• Assist Clients in analyzing their Processes and Data using various tools and methodologies (e.g., Market Research, Product Profitability, Complexity Reduction, Cost Benefit Analysis, Geo-demographic Market-Share Analysis, etc.) relative to the Client Project (e.g., Customer Retention, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital/New Startup - which included Staples and eBay).
• Serve as the National Chairman of the Confidential FOCUS User’s Group (FUSE) MVS/OS-390 SIG as well as the Confidential Site Coordinator.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Methodologies: SDLC, Scrum/Agile ( utilizing Jira and/or Rally ), Scaled Agile, SAFe and Waterfall

IBM InfoSphere/ETL:   - MetaArchitect, MetaBrokers ( OLAP, OLTP, ODBC ), DataStage ( Designer, Manager & Director levels ), MetaStage and QualityStage

Operating Systems: - M/S SQL Server, UNIX ( Sun Solaris ), IBM z/OS & z/VM, WebFocus, EDA ( Mainframe & Midrange ), Windows NT and AS/400

DBMS: - Oracle, Sybase, M/S Access, FOCUS (Hierarchical & Relational), IBM IMS, IBM DB2, CA-IDMS, CA-Datacom

Data & Process Modeling: - Erwin, Power-Designer, DBArtisan, Common DSA, UML and AWD (DST product)