Artur Pluta

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East Brunswick, NJ 08816

732-***-**** /arturpluta

A dedicated, result driven professional with relevant experience in object-oriented development,

leveraging personal skills and the latest technological advancements to manage, architect and

develop extensible, scalable web-based, service-oriented software solutions within Financial and

Investment Services. Inspires colleagues and self to exceed expectations. Demonstrates exceptional

problem solving, strategic thinking and job completion under tight time constraint.

Major career accomplishments:

• Furnished technical expertise to reach sustained rate of 450M+ messages delivered daily by the Firm’s

mission-critical information delivery system; this system included email delivery system that exceeded 600K+

emails sent daily with 99%+ success rate (vs. 95% industry standard)

• Headed various projects at a start-up company to support expanding customer base from 10K to 1.5M+

accounts, generating annual revenue rapidly approaching $1B (from under $5M)

• Successfully completed evaluation and integration process of Actimize Intelligence Server producing

expected investment of $3.4M annually

• Managed evaluation process to integrate IBM’s WebSphere and BEA’s WebLogic into standard usage of

J2EE technologies within the Firm, consequently driving initial annual savings of $2M+

Expertise offered:

Architecture, Design, & Development – Effective in applying object-oriented principles, service oriented

architecture, design patterns for modeling, collaboration and communication across several teams, projects, and

systems; specializing in server-side Java development and other various enterprise-level technologies

Project Manager, Team Lead, & Lead Developer – Demonstrated success at managing diverse teams

working on simultaneous projects throughout SDLC (practices covering agile methodologies, including Scrub, and

UML); established proficiency in building result-driven development teams, including mentoring and recruiting

Technology –

Java (1.1 – 1.6), unix, linux JEE (EJB, JMS, JDBC, XML, JTA) Oracle, Sybase, MySql

Servlet, JSP, JSF, Dojo, Ajax WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss Tomcat, JRun

Tibco EMS, MQSeries Spring, Hibernate, JQuery Eclipse, JBuilder, VisualAge

Enterprise Architect Log4j, Junit, Purify, ObjectTest ClearCase, Subversion, CVS

Native fluency in Polish. Holds dual-citizenship (U.S. & E.U.). Willing to travel. Attracted to telecommuting.

Education

M.S. – Computer Software Engineering. Stevens Institute of Technology – Hoboken, New Jersey

M.S. – Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications. AGH University of Science and Technology –

Kraków, Poland

Professional Experience

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (Pershing) – Jersey City, New Jersey 2008-2014

VP – Senior Software Architect & Project Manager

Senior hands-on team member charged with broad spectrum of responsibilities, including mission-critical system

architecture & development, and numerous cross-organizational projects managed; represented the Team on two

committees to define and formulate Firm-wide architectural standards and improve process management

• Furnished technical expertise to reach sustained rate of 450M+ messages delivered daily by the firm’s

mission-critical information delivery system; this system included email delivery system that exceeded 600K+

emails sent daily with 99%+ success rate (vs. 95% industry standard)

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• Governed the architecture, design, and implementation of numerous near-real-time, no-server-side-code-

changes monitoring and reporting frameworks used in Firm-wide application monitoring system to provide

management and development teams with on-demand monitoring and reporting

Citigroup Inc. – Warren, New Jersey 2006-2008

AVP – Senior Software Engineer & Project Leader

Senior team member to re-engineer Electronic Connectivity Order Management (ECOM) that provided single-view,

cross-system order monitoring and management within Firm’s Equities Department

• Drove entire effort to upgrade ECOM to utilize Tibco EMS

• Successfully integrated ECOM with various trading and connectivity systems across Equities Department

• Guided the design and implementation of JDBC persistence layer to integrate ECOM with Sybase

Vonage Network – Holmdel, New Jersey 2003-2006

AVP – Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead, & Project Manager

Senior team member in design, development, and deployment of Business Support Systems (BSS), a collection of

service-oriented, enterprise systems intended to gather, persist, and process user account and VOIP data; hands-on

manager of a Team responsible for a 24-7 production support of the Firm’s rapidly growing enterprise

• Headed various projects within the Account Management System and Customer Billing System to support

expanding customer base from 10K to 1.5M+ accounts, with a sustained operation rate of 250K+ daily transactions,

and generating annual revenue rapidly approaching $1B (from under $5M)

• Developed many aspects of the Order Fulfillment System to support sustained operation at 25K+ daily

transactions, ultimately fulfilling of 3.5M+ total transactions

• Provided vital support for technical issues from product deployment, integration, and production operations

Deutsche Bank USA – New York, New York 2002-2003

Consultant – Senior Software Engineer

Senior team member in design, development, and deployment of Foreign Exchange Sales Trade Capture (Torex),

which included various integration solutions

• Led the design and implementation of Torex’s transport layer based on BusinessWare1, Vitria’s middle-ware

platform to integrate many of the Firm’s mission-critical global applications

• Supplied technical expertise in integration of Torex with Firm’s trading and risk management systems to

guarantee transparency and processing continuity, efficiency, and effectiveness

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. – New York, New York 2000-2002

Consultant – Senior Software Engineer

Senior team leader in evaluation and integration of Actimize Intelligence Server (a high-volume database transaction

system to encapsulate and automate the processes of gathering information from various market making & trading

systems in order to identify and report surveillance exceptions and patterns) within the Firm’s Compliance

Surveillance System

• Successfully accomplished evaluation process of Actimize Intelligence Server within the Firm’s Compliance

Surveillance System (producing expected investment of $3.4M annually)

• Managed a proof-of-concept project in integration of Actimize within the Firm’s Fixed Income product

• Designed and developed JDBC persistence layer as well as XML-based data exchange components

J.P. Morgan & Co. – New York, New York 1999-2000

Consultant – Senior Software Engineer

Senior team member on the Common Application Development Toolset and Standards Board’s Firm-wide Java-

related efforts to establish toolsets, standards, practices, and methodologies across LOBs; included providing

technical expertise to internal IT community in integration of J2EE based systems with FIX-based trading systems

• Managed evaluation process to integrate IBM’s WebSphere and BEA’s WebLogic into standard usage of

J2EE technologies within the Firm, consequently driving initial annual savings of $2M+

• Effectively completed multiple proof-of-concept projects in integration of VisualAge and WebSphere within

the Firm’s trading systems

• Represented the Firm to Java tool vendors (IBM and Rational) as well as VisualAge and WebSphere

products at IBM’s “Annual Inner Circle Conference”

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