OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging project management role in Information Technology which will allow me to utilize my strong analytical and technical leadership skills. Ideally, the role will provide me with opportunities to demonstrate skill and judgment in technical decision-making and to drive the delivery of multiple projects in a team-oriented environment.

SUMMARY

• Dedicated and driven IT professional with an intense focus on delivering results
• 10 years of overall Information Technology experience in the areas of project and people management, customer service and relationship management, business analysis and development in large corporate environments
• Extensive experience managing multiple projects simultaneously through all project stages: from business analysis and negotiation of deliverables to development, quality assurance and production migrations
• Knowledge and experience with various project management methodologies
• Proven design, analytical and resource management skills
• Possess both technical and business savvy to liaise effectively between technologists and business users
• Solid track record delivering projects on time and within budget
• Extensive technical recruiting experience (conducted over 100 interviews) including both lateral hires and new hires which involved on-campus recruiting
• Strong communication and presentation skills including regular interactions with senior management
• Proven team building, conflict resolution and performance management skills
• Experience interfacing with external vendors
• Excellence in a corporate citizenship

EXPERTISE

J2EE: Servlets, JSP, JMS, JNDI, JDBC, JavaBeans, XSLT, Java XML
WEB: HTML, JavaScript
IDEs: Jbuilder, Forte, Visual Age, Visual Café, JDK, MS Visual J++, Eclipse
Application Servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat
Databases: Sybase, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access
Operating Systems: Linux, Unix Solaris, Windows
CRM: Siebel eBusiness Applications
Other: UML, Visio, MS Project, MS Power Point, Visual Source Safe, CVS, design patterns, Struts, Tiles, UNIX shell scripting, Orchestria, Fast
Familiarities: Visual Basic, ASP, Cognos, Dreamweaver, RMI, EJB

EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Vice President

7/05 – 8/09

Confidential,Project Manager

6/08 – 8/09

Managed a global team of 12 people responsible for supporting the Regulatory Employee Profile Solutions (REPS) application, a global system used to manage employee regulatory data. The system provides business process automation of various employee compliance events such as registrations, outside brokerage accounts, personal account trade pre-approval, private investments, outside interest approvals and for-profit directorships.
Responsible for negotiation and communication between technical teams and Compliance business users globally. Prepared project budgets and forecasts then made recommendations on how to avoid unnecessary expenses by reorganizing a technical team and introducing changes in the development process. Presented tactical vs. strategic proposals to business users to get buy-in for long-term projects and also to justify small enhancements to reduce/eliminate manual effort.
Created technical proposals related to the regulatory requirements for the new GS Bank including the implementation of a Required Absence policy as well as identification and system changes for GS Bank employees.
Submitted a proposal which influenced the re-engineering effort for Outside Accounts (a major surveillance point in monitoring employee account activity outside the firm) by introducing additional quality controls and reconciliation points. Was chosen to lead this initiative and worked closely with counterparts at outside brokerage firms including: Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, UBS, JP Morgan Chase and others to define and implement new data standards.
Planned and coordinated production promotion changes for the email surveillance system upgrades. Worked closely with the Compliance business users to define new requirements. Managed multiple email surveillance projects involving varied scope and complexity. Incorporated the firm’s standards and best practices into the application development, build and deployment processes.

• Member of the WIT (Women in Technology) Recruiting Committee
• Member of the Compliance Technology Testing Committee
• Received a “Mentor” nomination from senior management

Confidential,Project Manager

7/05 – 6/08

Managed the day-to-day activities for 8 developers and was responsible for client service requests, tax withholding and reporting processing and raising critical issues to senior management when necessary. Produced status reports and worked closely with the business users to define a technology strategy to increase automation of manual tasks which involved extensive business analysis and negotiating deliverables in phases.
Coordinated the year-end Tax Compliance Season and was the central point of contact for all tasks associated with tax form production and mailing to clients as well as filing with IRS, some U.S. states and the Inland Revenue (UK). Was able to demonstrate skill and judgment in balancing multiple priorities which helped to ensure that all deliverables, milestones and regulatory deadlines were met.
Gathered and analyzed business requirements, designed, developed and deployed Phase 1 of the Income Reallocation Processing (IRP) system. Managed the IRP system enhancements (phases 2 & 3) that were developed by the offshore Bangalore team. The system calculates income reallocations by product and allows users to view transactions reallocated, approve securities and work with audit reports. The system was built initially to be used in combination with the Wall St. Concepts transaction processing service, by switching to database processing and performing reallocations internally, which resulted in a firm’s annual savings.
Was part of Sedona project management and was responsible for technical direction and detailed planning for the project. Sedona was the strategic tax platform that centralized all client tax calculations and provided a robust system to easily deal with tax law changes while scaling to handle increases in transaction volumes received via real time messaging. Was able to assimilate broad-ranging end-user expectations into actionable business requirements and provide creative technical solutions while managing deadlines effectively.

• Conducted performance reviews for 3 employees as part of the firm’s annual 360 degree review process
• Actively participated in recruiting by interviewing candidates for the Client Tax Technology as well as other groups within Operations Technology
• Member of WIT taskforce and helped to organize different WIT events
• Team captain representing Goldman Sachs on a March of Dimes walk

Confidential,Sr. Consultant

9/03 –7/05

Worked on several projects for the Client Tax Technology team. Gathered and analyzed business requirements and developed prototypes. Developed Servlets, Actions , JavaBeans to implement business logic for the applications. Created web layouts using the Tiles framework. Developed Sybase stored procedures according to the business requirements. Used SunOne and Eclipse as development tools and Visual Source Safe and CVS for version control. Designed, developed, tested and deployed all applications in Development, QA and Production environments. Conducted technical interviews.

Confidential,Consultant

4/03 - 8/03

Worked on the different internal projects. Assisted BDMs in business research and proposal writing.

Confidential,Consultant

7/02 - 3/03

Member of the team responsible for developing an initial project prototype and configuring the Siebel 7.0 application. My responsibilities included project management, design and development of the legacy system interfaces for the Siebel implementation project.
As the lead Java Programmer/Developer, managed a team of 3 junior developers. Analyzed business requirements and developed the prototype. Monitored the detailed tasks in developing the prototype. Performed unit testing and system testing on the configured Siebel application. Transformed and mapped business requirements to Siebel modules including the business rules, exception scenarios and process flow document. Performed Siebel Application configuration of the Database extensions, customized Business Objects, Business Components, links, joins, customized Applets, Views, Screens (presentation objects) and Reports. Designed and developed java servlets to integrate the Siebel application and BONY legacy systems. Developed a switch that accepts messages sent by Siebel HTTP Transport in XML format, parses them and performs different database operations depending on the type of XML message. Tested and deployed all applications in Development, QA and Production environments.

Confidential,Consultant

2/02 - 5/02

Responsibilities included analyzing the existing application functionality, clarifying the business needs, identifying problem areas within the application, and helped the application development team fix existing problems and develop new functionality. Worked on re-factoring main components of an application which helped the client to resolve a major synchronization issue. Developed JSPs, Java Beans and Servlets for an MVC project which was a critical part of the main application which monitored user activities. Assisted the Technical Architect in performing business and technical analysis of the application. Worked on testing web pages.

Confidential,Consultant

6/01 - 2/02

Worked on the team responsible for the integration of the Siebel Financial Application with Goldman Sachs legacy systems and Financial Enterprise Portal. Was the lead Java Programmer/Developer on the project. Designed and developed the listener (using TIB/Rendezvous 6.7) responsible for consumption and transmission of messages generated by the GS Portal for Siebel. Responsible for the design and development of a Java Messaging switch to create interoperability between Siebel, legacy systems and the GS Portal. The interface comprised six servlets that are communicating through forwarded Request and Response object (Chained). Each Request sent by Siebel uses HTTP POST. The system provided both database and API connectivity. Connectivity to the databases was provided by two connection pools located in the WebLogic Application Server. API connectivity was based on session beans (EJB’s), the interface locates the proper EJB home object and calls the methods exposed by the GS API. DOM object is used for data sharing among the components which facilitate the conversion in and out of XML. Tested and deployed all applications in Development, QA and Production environments.

Confidential,Consultant

12/00 - 4/01

Member of the team responsible for the development of the Asset & Mortgage Backed Securities site that provided users easy access to all deals on the site and offered up-to-the-minute information about payments related to their asset and mortgage-backed securities deals as well as the performance of the portfolios underlying the deals. Created PL/SQL procedures using an Oracle Database to provide entitlement functionality. Developed JSPs, Java Beans and Servlets according to the business requirements. Connection to the Oracle database was done using the WebSphere connection pool. Used JavaScript to perform client side validation. All programs were developed using Visual Age on the WebSphere 3.0.2 Application Server platform. Visual Source Safe was used for source control.

Confidential,Software Specialist

10/95 - 10/97

Saturn is a distribution company specializing in the importing and sale of natural resources to various Ukrainian firms. Responsible for the design, development and maintenance of a Microsoft Access database which was used as a contact management and reporting tool.

EDUCATION

Siebel Core Consultant Course

Requirements Mapping for Siebel - eBusiness Applications

IBM WebSphere Course

Advanced Course in Java2

Associate Degree in Computer Programming

Major: Mathematics

CERTIFICATIONS

Java 2 Certified Programmer

Siebel Certified Consultant

Siebel Certified Business Analyst

IBM Certified Specialist – IBM WebSphere Application Server