Project Management

SUMMARY

Information Technology professional with extensive background in leading

and delivering large scale Programs in complex dynamic environment.

Establishes strong partnerships and leverages key processes to drive

program delivery.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Strategic/Tactical Planning Program Management Vendor Management

Budget Management Problem Solving Processes and Disciplines

Engineering Leadership System Integration Technical/Business Relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CHARLES SCHWAB CORPORATION, San Francisco, California

1997 - 2009

Vice President, Asset Management Technology (9/2003 - 8/2009)

Led global organization and influenced cross-functional teams on the

development and implementation of complex market-critical software

solutions. Technical partner for Investment Management Business who

oversees over 40% of company's assets and includes in mutual funds,

clearing, fixed income, managed accounts, alternative investments,

insurance and annuities. Accountable for $20M budget to maintain and build

over 52 internal application software solutions across mainframe, JAVA and

C# platforms.

. Advocated and executed Program to eliminate redundancy in critical

Mutual Fund Trading environment, resulting in 20% reduction of annual

maintenance cost and roughly 40% faster speed-to-market for new

business features.

. Reduced potential corporate liability by driving and managing a $10M

multi-year Program to meet Regulatory Remediation and Reform

requirements. Over 28 systems were enhanced or developed and included

technically innovative solutions like a .NET application utilizing

Microsoft SharePoint Server.

. Executed portfolio of over 20 concurrent projects. Leveraged Unified

Process and instituted other project management disciplines to ensure

successful delivery against business and technology strategies.

. Improved stability of production systems by influencing business to

continuously invest in longer term solutions. Outlined technical

strategy for all major systems including Mutual Funds, Fixed Income

and Managed Accounts and incorporated strategy into every business

enhancement.

. Introduced Value Engineering principle where the value of a system's

output is optimized by crafting a mix of performance (function) and

costs. Instituted clear procedures for following Value Engineering at

the beginning of each new development. Results were clearly defined

scope, business requirements and technology cost.

. Grew department more than two-fold to meet business needs while still

reaching goals for lower cost. Expanded resource base by being one of

the first VPs to use Offshore resources.

Managing Director, Mutual Funds Technology (12/1998 - 9/2003)

Leadership of an application development team responsible for over 39

complex Mutual Fund systems which included trading, fund placement,

maintenance of fund data, distribution handling, shareholder accounting,

third-party billing and reporting functions. Conscientiously led the

development and implementation of a new Mutual Fund Trading System, one of

the largest and mission critical systems at Schwab. Ensured system handled

complex regulatory requirements, multiple businesses users, and scalability

for continued growth.

. Energetically led, managed and directed an over $2 Million dollar

development Program to build new Mutual Fund Order Entry Service

processing approximately $5 Billion dollars of customer trades per

day.

. Achieved 99.9% production availability of Mutual Fund Trading by

securing budget to implement new Critical Engineering Team and

associated processes.

. Developed process and templates to manage annual Mutual Fund

Technology Budgets of up to $ 9 Million. Forecasted future spending

based on resource allocation against project. Re-adjusted resource to

project allocations based on periodic yearly reforecast. Tracked and

compared actual spending versus forecast. Balanced project

commitments to meet overall Mutual Fund Technology budget targets.

Senior Manager, Mutual Funds Technology (3/1997 - 12/1998)

Managed development and deployment of all new features across the Mutual

Fund Trading programs.

. Attentively managed all Mutual Fund Trading development to ensure

integrity and integration of all enhancements.

. Improved organizational effectiveness by advocating and implementing

an internal website to standardize development processes, procedures

and documentation.

LOCKHEED MARTIN, Sunnyvale, California

1988 -1997

Technical Lead, Enterprise Material Systems (3/1994 - 3/1997)

Led development of new Oracle client/server system for 25 Material

Receiving Docks and Storerooms.

. Met guidelines of the Software Engineering Institute/Capability

Maturity Model (SEI/CMM) for software quality, by defining Change

Control and Peer Reviews

. Analyzed detailed requirement and build application functional models

in ORACLE CASE 5.1, DESIGNER/2000 and SQL Scripts

Technical Lead, Environmental Warehousing Systems (12/1991 - 3/1997)

Supervised software engineers and worked directly and closely with

customers to identify and analyze requirement to support state and local

government restrictions and requirement in the use of Hazardous Materials.

. Designed and developed a warehousing material tracking system using

dASE IV, EXCEL FOR WINDOW 3.0, VISUAL BASIC FOR APPLICATIONS (EXCEL

MACROS) and PSION organizer/bar-code.

. Drove the deployment of Function Point Analysis across organization

for common metrics and project predictability.

Developer, Financial and Procurement Systems (2/1988 - 12/1991)

EDUCATION

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

1983 - 1988

Bachelor of Arts: Information Systems

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