Vice President / Director Of Information Technology Resume
Parsippany, NJ
SUMMARY:
- Information Technology professional and hands - on Project Delivery Manager with a 20+ year career and a demonstrated track record of excellence in the areas of portfolio management, solution design, and leadership of large-scale, complex projects.
- Widely recognized as an insightful leader and trusted advisor with proven success in managing and strengthening an organization’s technical infrastructure and project management strategy and directing programs from initiation and planning through monitoring, execution, and closure.
- Strong understanding of financial products and services combined with senior IT and program management responsibilities for leading asset management, insurance, and consulting firms.
- Ability to leverage advanced technology background and knowledge to provide hands-on support and oversight of IT operations, staff, and projects.
- Demonstrated broad-based strengths and s introducing and leveraging processes and advanced technical acumen/experience to deliver technical solutions that yield quicker ROI and greater business value across large, multimillion-dollar program portfolios.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating Systems: Windows 2008 servers, Windows 7, UNIX, Linux, Solaris
Languages: VB.Net, C# and WPF, Oracle PL-SQL, Asp.Net, ASP, JSP, Telerick controls, VBScript, JavaScript, C, C++, Crystal report, Business Object WEBI, MS-Access, Hand-held program languages
Methodologies: Full SDLC Lifecycle, Watrefall, Agile, Webservices
RDBMS: Oracle 10/11g, SQL-Server, DB2
Tools: Visual Studio 2010/ 2012, Visio, MS Project and Visio, Rational Rose, ERWIN, TOAD, JIRA, Delphix, D-series, Clarity, SmartSearch Imaging integration, Sharepoint, PACE, SunGard Compass
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential - Parsippany, NJ
Vice President / Director of Information Technology
Responsibilities:
- Program Manager for the Wires Authentication Workflow system. Managed the 18-month project for wires workflow automation, leading to the reduction of manual errors and improved audit control over $20M per month in transactions. (Technology utilized: ASP.net and VB.net).
- Created the strategy, roadmap strategy, and overall program for a legacy tool conversion project to convert the 40-year old RAMIS tool to a Business Intelligence platform. Created multiple estimation models, managed vendor negotiations, contract procurement, and migration activities. Integrated Business Objects WebI tool for process improvement.
- Executed a 6-month project for calculating stable value investment fund client fees. Automated the process that reduced manual errors and delays in fee bookings and implemented a SharePoint site for Collective Investment Trusts workflow and billing calculations.
- Led the planning and execution of a $1M year-long program for the hardware/software upgrade of the Defined Benefits and Defined Contributions platform comprised of 700 BO reports, 120 front-end programs, and 300 batch programs. Upgrade was deployed across onsite, offshore, and offsite models.
- Managed an 18-month, full lifecycle project for the Variable Annuity Product conversion to State Street. Responsible for project estimates, contract negotiations, project management, resource allocation/coordination (75 resources), requirements analysis, system and UAT, and implementation for the $17B investment.
Confidential
Associate Vice President of Information Technology
Responsibilities:
- Created the approach for a new pricing application for the Fixed Income Group. Utilized Microsoft WPF and WCF layer for the application that integrated with multiple data vendors.
- Managed the project, resource coordination, and requirements gathering/analysis, and participated in the system and UAT process for a $23B fund portfolio.
- Conceptualized and designed an annuity product management system for 254 various annuity types supported by the Defined Benefits Division. Led a team of 8 in the development of the system that produced 20K checks and 60K wire instructions per month that amounted to $80M annually.
- Managed a data reengineering and conversion project for the conversion of CAMRA, PAM, Geneva, and YieldBook data to Eagle PACE data warehouse.
- Developed an ASP-based Security Finder application for security-based ratings, prices, transaction and holding data for Bonds, Bank Loans, CMBS and Fixed Income products. Developed and maintained Client billing application for producing monthly/quarterly bills based on market values and cash-flow calculations.
Confidential - Edison, NJ
Vice President of Global Delivery
Responsibilities:
- Engagement manager and Senior Architect for the development of a Confidential t health-care management package (Click4Care) for Blue Cross and Confidential . Managed all aspects of the $4M project with more than 35 resources.
- Served as technical architect for the CMS development project for Allstate of Toronto.
- Senior project manager and technical architect for the SmartAdvocate project. Conceptualized and developed the product for the client (law firm) and managed all aspects of the $650K VB.NET and SQL Server project.
