Director/ Life Application Development Resume Charlotte, NC - Hire IT People

EXPERTISE AREA:

SKILLS:

Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, & waterfall Development processes
ITIL v3 Support Model
PMP / PMBOK project management
Microsoft products (Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Project, Visio, Share point, TFS)
Enterprise Data Warehouse
SQL / C# / .net / Oracle / Multi-tier Web services / Business Objects / ETL
Jira / Bugzilla / Visual Source Safe / Team Foundation Server / VSTS / Cherwell / Sliva
IBM AIX & HP UNIX mainframes / MS Server / LAN & WAN
IBM Unibasic / Unidata / PICK / Universe
Shadow System / Phase 3 System / Trading Platforms / Data providers / Swift / FIX / ACH
Stocks, Options, Fixed Income, Indexes, ETF’s, Futures - Front/Middle/Back Offices (Operations)
Life Insurance, Annuities, AD&D, and Health Claims/Support Center/Underwriting/Operations
Life70, EXL LifePro, CAPS, RPS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Director/ Life Application Development

Responsibilities:

Implement Lean, ITIL, and Agile (Scrum & Kanban) processes across product and support teams. Implemented new quoting process, agile processes, integrated testing, and changed Term product creation process saving approximately 750k on the initial project.
Managed multiple off-shore/global staff augmentation and managed service vendors.
Lead multiple million dollar projects and their implementations.
Responsible for financial, staffing, development, quality, and customer satisfaction. Worked with senior leadership team and multiple IT departments.

Confidential, Waverly, IA

Sr Software Development /Operations IT Manager

Responsibilities:

Implemented Lean, ITIL, and Agile (Scrum & Kanban) processes across multiple Waverly departments.
Transition business and development from waterfall to agile processes, including scaled agile (SAFe).
Executed and led business resiliency for IT Led the software development and implementation of data encryption across multiple platforms.
Negotiated, implemented and managed multiple off-shore/global staff augmentation groups and service vendors.

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Development & Operations/Transition Manager

Responsibilities:

Architect, designed, and managed a multi-million-dollar global rationalization of North American stocks, options, and fixed income clearing platforms, trading platforms, trade flows, and processes plus staffing.
Managed the closing and move of multiple office locations to Chicago and New York.
Transitioned US equities development and business processes from waterfall to Agile/Scrum.
Led Project Management processes including proposals, project financial analysis, business impacts, business financials, project plans, trade flow diagrams, business continuity plan, conversion plans, problem resolution plans, and post mortem.
Represented projects with 'C' level management and lead cross functional business managers meetings Delivered the projects on time and under budget.
Projects reduced staffing by 60% and over 8 million dollars per year in just product licenses.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

VP, Software Development

Responsibilities:

Implemented ITIL processes within the support organization
Executed Agile processes and continuous delivery within the development organization
Managed a multi-million-dollar transition for US stocks and options clearing system
Embraced and create a unified culture for a successful acquisition
Worked with the finance, legal and compliance departments

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

VP, Information Technology

Responsibilities:

Built a functioning department of over 20 IT staff in multiple US locations
Supported business growth from less than 100 to over 15,000 retail, firm, and market maker customers.
Implemented SDLC, change management, QA, help desk and tools, support processes, and a multi-office fault tolerant infrastructure (servers, networks, phones, etc.)
Reviewed software designs, project and implementation schedules.
Built 3 trading platforms (retail, market making, firm), order management systems, clearing system, web site, web trading, and client reporting platform within the IT department.