Project Developer

JOSEPH P. SEEWALD

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Long Valley, NJ 07853

www.linkedin.com/in/josephpseewald

Home: 908-***-**** *********@*****.***

Cell: 908-***-****

SUMMARY

Experienced information technology professional familiar with the entire

application life cycle, from creation and design through to decommissioning

and archiving. Strong knowledge of design and maintenance of transactional

and trading systems in relational databases to support business. Solid

business experience in the retirement and financial services industry.

Honest, hard working communicator recognized for developing creative and

pragmatic solutions. Looking for position to leverage design, technology

and business experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Office, Word, Excel, Access

Languages: SQL, PowerBuilder, Cognos ReportNet, some Java

Database: UDB, DB2, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

METLIFE - Finance, Pensions, Separate Accounts Industry, Somerset, NJ

2012 - 2013

Corporate Benefits Funding

Solomon Billing Project

Project Lead - Information System Consultant

. Spearheaded project to re platform MSSQL Server billing system

application code and database server before software support expired.

Lead coordinator of project tasks for external vendor and internal

partners.

Corporate Benefits Funding, Somerset, NJ 2011 - 2012

Annuity Customer Experience Project

Agile Team Developer - Information System Consultant

. Partnered with agile team and vendor to establish fundamental fields

and relationships to support pensions closeout and structured

settlement business converting onto system.

. Key member of Agile team that designed and customized vendor software

code and tested product for pension closeouts and structured

settlement business.

. Collaborated with business and co-development team to document and

create reports on Oracle 11 and business rules on ACE vendor platform

including wiki knowledge base and report specifications for 85

reports.

Corporate Benefits Funding, Somerset, NJ 2010

Separate Accounts - Vendor Search Project

Senior Developer - Information System Consultant

. Partnered with team of business analysts and business people to find a

suitable vendor and make recommendation to steering committee for

final decision. Coordinated information on multiple vendors,

questionnaires and capability demonstrations.

. Developed scoring matrix to rank functionality to methodically go from

30 candidates down to one recommendation.

Corporate Benefits Funding, Somerset, NJ 2010

Financial Management System (FMS) and Financial Workstation (FWS) Redesign

Project

Subject Matter Expert and Database Designer - Information System Consultant

. Partnered with business groups to assess feasibility and gap analysis

for converting MetLife Separate Accounts from Financial Management

System (FMS) onto Financial Workstation (FWS) trading platform. FWS

platform traded fixed income, hybrid equity, separate accounts and

mutual funds.

. Designed database for potentially merged systems.

JOSEPH P. SEEWALD

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Home: 908-***-**** *********@*****.***

Cell: 908-***-****

Corporate Benefits Funding, Somerset, NJ 2009

Capital Markets \ Murex Capital Markets Reporting Database

Lead Developer - Information System Consultant

. Created a series of reports and triggers using Cognos ReportNet to

create and deliver critical information that supported Global Capital

Markets Murex data output.

. Interfaced with Informatica Team and database team and designed

flexibility into system as it matured. Design allowed new transactions

to be added to system with only data entry and no new code

deployments, while supporting critical balance calculations.

. Created documents and presentations to hand off project and design to

production management team for continued support and ongoing updates.

MetLife Retirement Group, MetLife, Bridgewater, NJ 2005 - 2008

Financial Workstation Project

FWS Client based trading Database and accounting Redesign

Lead Developer - Information System Consultant

. Designed tables and processes, which allowed aggregated trades to

internal and external fund managers in addition to National Securities

Clearing Corporation (NSCC).

. Created detailed reporting and reconciliation for all internal and

external trades, which allowed creation of stand-alone reconciliation

application.

. Designed and coded user driven accounting code for sub ledger that

related to trade and non-trade accounting.

MetLife Retirement Group, MetLife, Bridgewater, NJ 2003 - 2005

Financial Workstation Project

Database designer \ Programmer - Information System Consultant

FWS Platform Change from APS\OS2\Cobol to PowerBuilder\Windows

. Designed functionality to support external and internal funds onto

platform within existing table design.

. Key member of a team that created three stand-alone applications and

served as lead developer for two of them. Applications included

functionality for trading, reporting, table maintenance.

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE

MetLife Retirement Plans, MetLife NYC, East Hanover NJ

Financial Workstation Project

Liaison \ Business Analyst

. Identified requirements identification from business and translations

to programmers who created stand-alone trading and reporting

applications for defined contribution plans.

. Incorporated administration platform functionality into original FWS

database design, expanding the functionality.

Pensions Savings and Retirement Plan Services, MetLife, NYC

MetLife Saving Plan Team

Team Leader - Senior Pension Benefits Administrator

. Managed small administrative team 1-4 people to capture input and

report trades for MetLife's own defined contribution plans. ( 401K,

IRA and Non-Qualified)

. Interfaced directly with defined contribution recordkeeping team,

Accounting and Investment units, Benefits Planning and Development and

Auditing.

. Created administrative platform for pension trading and reporting for

MetLife Savings and Investment Plan. System captured trades each day

for trading through annual reporting.

. Platform produced consolidated reports for auditing and internal

reporting. Numbers were used directly as input to Statement of Changes

in Net Assets.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, New York University, NYC

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