Summary

A seasoned IT professional seeking a challenging position t solve business problems through innovation in a dynamic forward-thinking organization that demands results and expects accountability.

Key Accomplishments

• Consistently identified opportunities and delivered solutions where the innovative application of technology solved problems that had not been solved before. Delivered significant value in multiple industries including Health Care, Equity Trading, and Financial Services.
• Delivered custom systems t support the Affordable Care Act, including support for the NY State Health Exchange and Summary of Benefits Mandate, under extremely tight deadlines. Implemented the first use of off-shore development t supplement internal development.
• Provided system capabilities unique in the health care industry, enabling on-demand product setup and unprecedented product offering flexibility for the sales team. Designed and led development of a system t automatically build product and benefits in the core claim system Trizett FACETS 4.81 , reducing time t build product from 80 man-hours t less than 5 seconds with built-in test automation.
• Introduced the discipline of Business Rules Management, taking data from disparate sources and created a rules repository of 250,000 product and benefit rules, implementing Master Data Management, now the source system for numerous enterprise applications.
• Introduced Agile development t the organization resulting in faster time t value.
• Designed and implemented an Enterprise Change Management Process and System using IBM Rational tools t over 1000 users.
• Consistently chartered by the CO t lead the most difficult and time-sensitive initiatives.

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Director, IT

IT Delivery Lead

• Responsible for design and day-to-day management of system development and integration for a critical 5 million dollar project with aggressive, mandated deadlines. Managed a project team of 50 .
• Managed the company's first use of off-shore development in India t supplement internal development.
• First-ever use of the Facets API t automatically enroll members and groups in the claims system saving thousands of man hours.
• Created the Product Information Management System PIMS
• Benefit data was not centralized and was housed in thousands of spreadsheets. Built Master Data Management around product and benefits. This is used t power applications that require product data, including customer service and sales marketing systems.

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Compliance

• Technologies : Informatica B2B, .Net, Java, Tomcat, Telerik, BPMN, OpenRules Business Rule Engine, Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Software Architect, Rational Design Manager, Jenkins, Urban Code uDeploy, Urban Code uRelease
• Methodologies: Agile, Iterative Development
• Designed and implemented DevOps concepts t bring continuous integration practices and automated deployments t the development and operations staff in a 100 cloud environment.
• Introduced the discipline and practice of Business Rules Management created a staff of rules analysts and developers t ensure rules are housed in a rules engine, not embedded in code.
• Introduced the discipline and practice of business processing modeling in order t document as-is and to-be business processes using BPMN with Websphere Business Modeler and IBM Blueworks.
• Designed and implemented the Enterprise Change Management System in Rational Team Concert t include Requests, Incidents, Defects, Problems, Deliverables and Tasks.
• Modernized the SDLC and Service Management
• Created IT Governance and Center of Excellence for the use of Salesforce by business areas
• Designed and implemented innovative solution t enable document creation from business rules in extremely tight mandated schedule.

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Principal Consultant

• Conducted business analysis on a 750M global trading system.
• Introduced use case methodology t the client requirements team with great success.
• Introduced UML, particularly use case development and data modeling. Became a key mentor t the other analysts in the group. Documentation considered a key artifact by upper management and gave them the ability t understand their system capabilities.
• Methodologies: Waterfall Development

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Proprietary trader for a hedge fund. Focused on trading NYSE stocks. Als designed and oversaw development of software t analyze traders' performance first ever of its kind using Microsoft OLAP technology.

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Proprietary Trader trading the firm's money. Learned risk/reward calculations. Had t make key decisions many times a day by analyzing stock and sector movements and economic news. Hired from over 400 applicants for the position, which started as an entry-level position and evolved int a full trader position.

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Company Founder. Designed and installed Novell Local Area Networks. Als conducted custom software development using Dbase, Rbase, Advanced Revelation Visual Basic. Sold firm t a larger company.

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USMC Corporal. Special Intelligence Communications, Encryption/Decryption of Special Compartmented Information, Top Secret / SCI Clearance.