Over thirty years of IT Project management delivering technology solutions for the financial industry. Knowledge of financial regulations, legal and compliance frameworks, SEC, FED, FINRA, FedRamp, FISMA, HIPPA, Dodd Frank and more. Areas of expertise include cyber security, quantitative methods, front, middle, back end analysis and design, budgets, and resource allocations for global platforms. 911, East coast power outage and Sandy tech recoveries.

Environments: DAS, DNS, .net, IaaS, NAS, IPv6-IPv4, IIS, Linux, Load Balancers, PaaS, SaaS, SAN, SYSBII, TCP/IP, Table Base, Unix, VPN, WAS, Web sphere, Web services, Windows, z/OS.

• Languages: ACL, C , COBOL, CICS, DB2, HTML, Java, JavaScript, J2EE, SAP, SQL, Sybase, XML.
• Tools: Changeman, Checkpoint, Clarity, Clear Quest, DataStage, Endeavor, ETL, Excel, IBM InfoSphere, MAP, Microsoft, Power Point, Project Plan, ReqPro, SAM, SharePoint, Synergy, Tivoli, Visio, Word, WB.
• Vendors: Amazon, ATT, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, FSS, Hercules, Hogan, HP, IBM, Micro Focus, MSA, Novel, Oracle, Systematics, Verizon.
• SDLC: Agile, CMMI, FSDM, Iterative, RUP, Six Sigma, UML, Waterfall.

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IT Technical Project Manager

• Applications: Consumer Directed Healthcare distributed.
• Projects: Express/Medco clients merge project, budget transferred. Capacity requirements for Data manipulation.

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IT Technical Project Manager, Consultant

• Applications: All Morgan Stanley Firm wide IT platforms and Smith Barney conversions from CitiGroup.
• Projects: All of IT Mainframe/distributed/networks and more. External Vendor tools, environments, utilities, products evaluation and recommendations. System Solution, Implementation, Risk Security Complience and Incident Review board meetings. Built, wrote and approved standards into Firm wide Dev Central Portal. Mainframe simulation for a distributed platform data manipulation.
• Tools: SP firm wide technical portal, IBM DataSphere ETL, Tivoli, Asset Manager, Synergy, Changeman, SYSBII
• Highlights: Several Smith Barney applications lift and shift from Citi to Morgan Stanley. 50 Smith Barney external client connections. SB Performance and capacity environment considerations, ensuring MS compatibility. SB Batch, On-line, MQ, Connect direct, VPN's, Table Base setups and builds on and to MS standards. Moves for data, source MDM/RDM and more. Time and tests for all aspects of day one turnover. SB RTM Real Time Margin move to MS, IIS, WAS, CICS, CA SiteMinder, Port allocations, Firewalls, ACL, encryption, DNS, LDAP. Load Balancing, Security systems, Encryption process

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IT Project Manager, Consultant

• Applications: Financial feeds.
• Projects: Thompson Reuters External client feeds and alerts.

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IT Assistant to Executive Director, Consultant

• Applications: Dash board project to monitor distributed platforms data manipulation.
• Projects: Financial rating IT projects.

IT Technical Project Manager Assistant to Managing Director, Consultant

• Applications: Global financial statement systems, regulatory, and compliance reporting for all product teams.
• Projects: Data center move. Data manipulation Consolidation Household number size increase.
• Resources and Budget: On/off site staff of 10. 3 million.
• Tools: 3 tier plan presentations. SDLC docs, Info Sphere ETL, WebSphere, Portal, URL for project documentation. Budgets. PRS time reporting, Microsoft Office suite, Dialogue PDF, NDM, FTP, CICS, SQL, COBOL, and JAVA.
• Highlights: Significant Cost reduction due to reductions in run time, and output.

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IT Technical Project Manager Pharmaceutical financial systems, Consultant

• Applications: New Regulations, Billing and charging systems.
• Projects: 3 infrastructure distributed developments, maintenance and Coordinate technical work at 3 sites. Yearly reporting/classification of production abends, down time, customer effect, corrections and preventions. Developed yearly budgets, forecasts for resources and funding approvals.
• Tools: PERT, SDLC, UML, Remedy, PTS, Microsoft. PID, RFI, RFQ, RFP. JAVA, CICS, SQL, COBOL, Teradata
• Highlights: Improved procedures off-shore. Video/audio on-line meetings, time management, resource workload distribution, time reporting, budget monitoring, staff status reporting to upper management, billing and estimates.

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Senior IT Manager, Systems Development Management

• Applications: Fidelity.com, Advisorchannel.com, .net, securities lending, fixed income, corporate actions, Swift, Fed wires, collateral management, derivative reconciliation, electronic trade confirms, settlement, production alerts systems for voice activated, BlackBerry, and email notifications. Distributed platforms.
• Projects: 5 New/Enhancement/Compliance, regulation, maintenance and production support.
• Tools: UML SDLC FSDM Req. Pro, Clear Quest, Microsoft Office suite, MAUI, CICS, COBOL, SQL JAVA
• Highlights: Evaluations, suggestions, solutions, presentations, video/audio on-line meetings, for technical projects. External client contact to attract new vendors, new advisors, new plan administrators, external company and broker-dealer plans. Excel yearly project budgets and forecasts for resources and funding approvals, gathering of external interfacing systems, UAT, QA, Data Architecture, and Performance. Monitoring and identifying milestones among different resources. UAT, QA test cases, Installation schedules, call plans for technicians and users, back-out plans, go no go times, and balancing alerts on QA and production moves. Recommended installations and software deployment for new equipment such as work station special printers. Coded modules researched and reviewed GUI definitions, Load balancing. WebSphere DataStage, Reuters and Bloomberg downloads and data extracts to Excel macros spreadsheets for users and auditors for FED, SEC, and FINRA. Upper management status reporting. Metrics gathering, presentations.

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• Applications: Electronic trades, stocks and dividends. Fixed income, regulatory compliance enhancements
• Projects: Production Support, Help Desk, enhancements, and maintenance. Listened, empathized, analyzed, and responded to Corporate Action demands. Gathered data from external systems. Recommendations to obtain information, internal and external Chase . Trades, securities lending, broker-dealer, fixed income solutions.
• Tools: Microsoft Office suite, CICS, COBOL, SQL Mainframe, Internet.
• Highlights: Reduced run times, response times and Database access over all reduction in cost.

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• Applications: Pending, settled trades, collateral management, derivatives, securities lending, fixed income.
• Projects: DB2 database warehouse for Global Stock Record department. Front-end Web-based technology, middle-ware mainframe. Design of web pages, GUI, drill down connections to external existing detail systems, Batch builds for data warehouse feeds from other systems. Migration of pending trades to settled corrections. Retention and archiving of warehouse data based on previous yearly dates.
• Tools: IBM, SDLC, RUP, Microsoft Office suite, Web, COBOL II, DB2, SQL, IMS, CICS, MQ.
• Highlights: Reduction of overhead.

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IT Technical Project Manager, Consultant

• Applications: 3 tracks of plan. In scope/out of scope allocations. Global allocations all aspects of project management, feedback to senior management and development staff. Interviews, project, resource time management, Client meetings for business requirements, specifications and status, Team meetings for technical tasks. Up front systems analysis, Code review, Technical problem resolution, full life cycle, producing, maintaining, reviewing, validating and executing test scripts, schedules, and plans, developing and enforcing Quality Assurance test methods and procedures, generating defect reports, metric reports, QA Entering/updating to defect tracking.
• Projects: The project initiative was to convert and merge Budget onto the Avis systems under the Cendant umbrella.
• Tools: COBOLII, DB2, stored procedures, IMS, Microsoft Office suite, Panvalet, and Endeavor.
• Highlights: On time, Under Budget.