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Director, Project Manager, Program Manager Resume
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| Desired Industry: Banking/Mortgage |
SpiderID: 22514 |
| Desired Job Location: New York City, New York |
Date Posted: 9/9/2008 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: Immediately |
| Desired Wage: 150000 |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Management (Manager, Director) |
Willing to Travel: Yes, 25-50% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors |
Willing to Relocate: No |
Objective:
Position that would enable me to leverage my experience in management, banking, finance, solution design, development, implementation.
Experience:
SUMMARY
Over fifteen years managing and architecting projects of international scope for high-visibility corporations, managing the building of business- and mission-critical systems, including hardware, software and database design, disaster recovery, contingency planning and systems implementation. Extensive experience in leading teams that develop and support complex financial systems managing all types of financial instruments and portfolios.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MARSH & McLENNAN 2006 – 2008
Vice President, Program Manager
Reported directly to CIO Americas; managed several large global projects for this $3 billion insurance brokerage firm.
• Program manager for US implementation of Marsh’s Oracle-based accounting backbone. All efforts completed on time and with over $200,000 budget to spare.
• Managed successful turnaround of failing Siebel system within 3 weeks, significantly improving system, and more importantly client response time. System response times went from hours to seconds.
• Program manager for global conversion of 100,000 Lotus Notes applications to Outlook/Exchange environment.
COMINGS TO THE RESCUE 2005 – 2006
Principal
Created and led software and support consultancy that serviced clients in the brokerage and event management industries.
• Project manager and lead developer for event planning, confirmation, billing, feedback and MIS system for major global event planner. Efforts enabled client to take on more business, improve customer care and gain control of their billing.
• Project manager and lead developer for asset management, client tracking, communication and portfolio reporting database that facilitated fiduciary and brokerage accounts for NJ-based brokerage. System enabled them to see their communication history and current positions when making a call.
SOCIETE GENERALE (SG) 2000 – 2005
Vice President, Head of Project Support Group
Reported directly to CIO Americas; managed several global projects for this $66 billion international bank.
• Program manager for implementation of the United States’ first SIV; PACE. Designed Web-based solution for effort leveraging Principia analytic system. Delivered full functional solution 3 months ahead of schedule and over $200,000 under budget. Managed both internal development and vendor efforts so as to ensure timely and bug-free delivery.
• Managed design, development and implementation of multi-threaded mark-to-market analytical system for Constellation, a deferred commission asset vehicle. System allowed competitive pricing of these esoteric assets.
• Developed and implemented contingency/business continuity plans for supported businesses.
• Top rated manager reporting to CIO Americas.
BROWN AND WOOD 2000
Head of Application Support Group
Reported directly to global CIO; managed all applications and application support for this global securitization-oriented law firm.
• Managed creation and staff-up of 10 person application support department.
• Created and implelemented firm-specific SDLC procedures.
• Managed needs analysis, design and implementation of new desktop application suite for firm, enabling them to work more effectively. (LawPort /LegalFax /OutLook /DeltaView /InterAction/ Imanage /Office /Windows2000)
• Specified multi-office data contingency plan, recommended and managed systems supporting inter-city data backup plan that helped preserve B&W data when twin towers destroyed in 9/11.
JP MORGAN 1996 – 2000
VP, Head of Fiduciary Application Development
Reported to managing director in charge of global fiduciary business; managed application development and support for this
$52 billion global fiduciary bank.
• Managed major redevelopment of client trust and holding company management systems for offshore trust business enabling the business to more closely track and report on client holdings, and process new business more efficiently.
JP MORGAN…(Continued)
• Managed design, development and implementation of mortgage billing system, automating fiduciary real estate business from a paper-based system.
• Managed design, development and implementation of trust fee tracking system, identifying over $700 million in collectable revenue.
• Managed design, development and implementation of partnership distributions payment system for major client KKR, redeeming firm with client after prior efforts had failed. Enabled simultaneous settlements of millions of dollars in payments for client.
• Managed upgrade of Nassau Bahamas offices’ 35 desks to NT, including LAN upgrade, server upgrades, ACCPAC implementation, and Lotus Notes server installation, significantly improving performance and ability to service clients at this location.
CREDIT SUISSE 1994 – 1996
Manager of Precious Metals and Fixed Income Development
Managed application development and support for precious metals and fixed income businesses for this $14 billion global financial services firm.
• Managed design, development and implementation of client-server systems leveraging existing mainframe databases and systems enabling the trading and tracking of both book and physical precious metals. Efforts allowed firm to trade more aggressively and service clients more effectively.
• Independently discovered errors in precious metals pricing systems and managed revision of systems enabling firm to trade more aggressively and earn better returns on their trading.
• Managed design, development and implementation of precious metals netting system enabled firm to reduce payment risk and fees.
UBS 1993 – 1994
Project Manager for Replacement of Mainframe Banking
Managed application development and support for precious metals and fixed income businesses for this $20 billion global financial services firm.
• Managed design, coding and implementation for replacement of mainframe foreign exchange, money market and precious metals front & back office systems managing private client, fiduciary and proprietary accounts with OMR's 'Trading Assistant', including SWIFT confirmation, payment, and telex interfaces. System went live on time and on budget – project completed within 1 year.
THE GENESIS GROUP 1990 – 1993
Vice President in charge of New Development
Managed all new application development for this global financial software firm.
• Managed design and implementation of new software development platform including hardware, case tools, databases and languages.
• Managed design, development, testing and client implementation of Perfect Match; a foreign exchange, money market and broker confirmation matching package interfacing to Montran and ST400 – this software package runs in most international banks to this day.
• Participated as part of successful sales team at SIBOS ’92.
• Managed month-long onsite installation effort in London offices of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken.
Education:
Graduate work, State University of New York at Stony Brook
B.S., University of New York at Oswego
CONTINUING EDUCATION
2005 NASD: Series 7, 66, and 31Licenses
2005 New Jersey State Insurance Producer’s Training
2005 Morgan Stanley Securities Training
2004 International Accounting Standards
2003 TIBCO programming
2002 VBITS training
2001 Presentation Skills
1998 Offshore Private Banking
1998 Business Process Management
1997 NT and Internet Development
1997 JP Morgan Officer’s Training
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