Professional Profile

Hands-on technical Project Manager of mainframe and distributed applications for over 30 years with strengths in managing projects, problem solving, requirements definition, functional and technical analysis, application design and program development.

SDLC

Technical Design

DB2

Project Management

Cobol

IDMS

Budget Development

CICS

Oracle

Client and Vendor Relationships

Distributed Systems

.Net

Problem Management

MQSeries

Java

Microsoft Tools

Websphere

SQL

Professional Experience

Independent Consultant 2013 – 2013 Development Manager Citibank

Headed program development for quarterly release. This was a new system that was to replace 5 other redundant systems to allow users to get entitlements for all products they have signed up for.

Part of the enhancements was hooking the system to OFAC which checked for suspicious customers. Worked on automation of customers from other systems to present system.

Managed developers from Ireland, offshore, offshore/onshore. Had early morning meetings with Ireland and India and evening meetings with onshore to get statuses for project plans.

Interfaced with business analysts, DBA’s, architects and compliance

Datasoft 2009 – 2012

Application Manager

Managed application development for a startup fixed income security company and instituted project management tools for development and to bring new companies into the system faster.

The system was written in smalltalk with an Oracle database as a repository for the data.

The application handles government, mortgaged backed, futures, options, and derivative securities and takes contracts from data entry to settlement to R&D

The system is hooked up to DTCC, GSCC, and Bloomberg through MQ Series using Swift messaging.

Managed interface with Bloomberg’s TOMS system, Stock Record and 15C3-3 reporting, TBA allocation for mortgage backed securities, automatic generation of email confirm when trade is entered and sales credit capture.

Bank of New York Mellon 1999 – 2009

Project Manager

Managed day to day problem management and events 24/7 for back office and front end trading.

Reduced batch cycle by 6 hours by redefining the nightly batch schedule.

Managed the integration of Bank of New York Stock Transfer into Mellon’s Stock Transfer database. This included adding to the database 2000 companies and 20 million shareholders over a ten month period.

oReceived financial recognition reward for merging the Bank of New York and Mellon shareholders as one company in a short period of time.

Participated in rules committee for SDLC certification in level 2 and level 3.

Bank Of New York Mellon (continued)

Managed Disaster/Recovery for Mainframe and Distributed Systems.

Supervised offshore/onshore programmers.

Led team of 42 to problem solve and improve every system in Stock Transfer.

Reviewed and signed off on all applications going into production.

Application responsibilities included:

* Stock Transfer

* Check (DDA) Reconciliation

* Revenue Billing

* Corporate Actions (Mergers,

Stock Splits and Liquidations)

* WEB Applications (Shareowner

& customer based)

* Work Order

* Proxy (Domestic and Foreign)

* Tax

* ADR’s

* Dividends

* Converting new companies

* DTCC (Trade Clearance)

* Escheatment

* Disaster Recovery

Citicorp – Investment Banking Division 1983 – 1999

Programmer/Analyst

Developed Citicorp’s Fixed Income Security System from 1983-1986.

In 1989 a group of 5 was formed to reanalyze, rewrite and downsize the trading system due to redundancy and multiple failures, It was successful launched in 1991.

oAchievements

Lines of code reduced to 2 million from 3 million lines.

Batch cycle reduced to 4 hours from 10 hours.

Budget reduced to $3 million from $5 million.

My contributions were as follows:

* Systems design

* Real time links to outside

trade entry.

* Real Time Receive/Deliver of

trades

* Database design

* Multi Currency

* Confirmations

* Project life cycle

* Safekeeping

* Fed Reporting

* Costing out projects

* Broker/Dealer

* Price Feeds (JJ Kenney, IDSI,

AMRO, Bloomberg, Merrill)

* Y2K

* General Ledger

* Real Time links to various clearing

houses (DTC, PTC, FED, CEDEL, CDS,

MBSCC)

* Online entry of contracts

Buy/Sell, Financial) and

reference data (Security,

Account, Portfolio)

* Stock Record, Cost Of Carry,

P&L, Collateral Management,

Contract Positions, Match Book

& Reference Data reporting

Brooks Fashion 1979 – 1983

Project Manager

Managed application development activities in the following areas:

Point of Sales System (linked to over 800 stores)

Merchandise reporting

Financial reporting

Russ Toggs 1976 – 1979

Programmer Analyst

Education Brooklyn College

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