Jerry Orris

Summary

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Experienced Software Development Manager/Director who has led on-time

delivery of many new products to the marketplace. Strong background in

directing development, design, and support of highly successful software

products.

Successfully built and directed a highly motivated software development

organization known for its high quality and on-time delivery of software.

Successfully led the building of 6 new products, bringing them to market

combining product vision with practical implementations.

Employed development methodologies and coding standards achieving high code

reusability.

Recipient of Compuware's Directors Award for leadership in building Data-

XPERT product.

Awarded Key Contributor for project management at XA Systems.

Hardware

Windows, IBM Mainframe; familiar with Sun, AIX, HPUX

Software

Java, IBM RAD, Websphere Application Server, MS Visual C++, Tools.h++, XVT

portable GUI class library, Purify, Smartheap, Oracle, Sybase, Informix,

DB2 Common Server, XDB, Quality Center, PVCS Version Control, PVCS

Configuration Builder, ODBC drivers, MS Visual Basic, MS Visual SourceSafe,

MKS, TCP/IP, Netbios, CPIC (LU 6.2), VSAM, ISAM, PDS, DB2, IMS DB/DC, CICS,

TSO/ISPF, PL/1, COBOL, Advantage:Gen, Rational Rose.

Experience

JPMorgan Chase / American Century Investments 2000 - Current

Kansas City, Missouri

Senior IT Manager. Currently responsible for several key applications for

the Retirement Plan Services Division within JPMorgan Chase. Applications

include the division's main Internet website RetireOnline.Com, the

Interactive Voice Response system, and the Call Center's Intranet

application. Responsibilities include large Investment projects, small

enhancement work, and support - leading 12 employees, 12 contractors,

~$4M/year.

2007 - 2009

Responsible for Common Services group consisting of Project Manager, QA

Lead, Business Systems Analyst, and 8 Technical Leads. Primary focus was

to develop common services using a new Java Spring based architecture.

Project based work is in support of web applications and IVR (Interactive

Voice Response).

2002 - 2007

Responsible for Investment projects within the Retirement Plan Services

Division. Owned several projects simultaneously using matrix approach to

project development. Also had Management responsibilities for team of 10

developers. Project work crossed large number of applications including

Java based web development, mainframe based batch applications, and

Advantage:Gen CICS applications. Additional duties included portfolio

budgeting, financial control responsibilities, and resource management.

Project functionality included: 401k Participant Website, Call Center

Representatives Intranet based tool, OMNIPlus 401k recordkeeping product,

financial controls, brokerage interfaces. Typically responsible for ~$3M /

year project work.

In 2003, American Century sold the Retirement Plan Services division to

JPMorgan Chase.

2000 - 2002

At American Century 3rd Party Division, led a team of 10 developing Java

based web applications. These financial applications were used by external

Financial Advisors selling ACI Mutual Funds.

Medical Communications Software 1997 - 2000

Shawnee, Kansas

Director of Engineering. Responsible for product development, quality

assurance, support, publications, and product direction. Directing the

activities of 10 developers, 5 quality assurance analysts, 18 support

personnel and 3 managers. Products include a new Windows Clinical

application as well as 2 DOS applications. Windows product went from 30 to

240 clients in six months.

Compuware Corporation 1991 - 1997

Los Gatos, California

Development Manager. Led a team of 8 developers responsible for the

management console of the EcoSCOPE product. This Win95/WinNT based product

is a network management tool. Functionality includes a Super Monitor that

watches all traffic on a network and feeds a Single View component that is

the management console. The management console is used to display the

topology of the network along with traffic volume and response times by

application. Product automatically discovers and reports on over 1500

known applications including all major databases and Internet traffic.

Led a team of 12 developing a new C++ product, Related-XPERT. This product

reuses much of the Data-XPERT for Databases code. Common code is

maintained and reused. Product has been released on Win95 and WinNT

platforms. Much of the same technology that was used to build Data-XPERT

was used to create this product. Functionality includes the ability to

Load referentially related data from DB2 on a mainframe into Oracle/DB2

Common Server/Sybase/Informix tables. Load methods supported include SQL

Insert and the load utilities from the different databases. Table creation

was also supported.

Led a team of 13 developing the first C++ product in our division, Data-

XPERT for Databases. This product was originally developed on OS/2.

Product was ported to SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Win95, and WinNT.

Technologies used included C++, tools.h++, XVT portable GUI class library,

Purify, Smartheap, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2 Common Server, PVCS

Version Control, PVCS Configuration Builder, and ODBC drivers. Product is

a distributed 3-tier application employing a client and server.

Communications protocols used included TCP/IP, Netbios, and CPIC (LU 6.2)

using asynchronous communications. Functionality included the ability to

edit/browse/query tables from Oracle/DB2 Common Server/Sybase/Informix

Databases in a spreadsheet format. Product was developed using a custom

"spiral" methodology approach, employing the use of the Rational Rose

product and Booch diagrams.

Led a team of 7 developers in building the first client server utility

software for company, File-AID/PC for DB2. This product runs in OS/2 and

DOS. Product was written in C.

XA Systems Corporation 1983 - 1991

Los Gatos, California

1989 - 1991

Development Director. Promoted to Director of Development with

responsibility for product development, support, publications, and product

direction. Directed the activities of 35 developers and support personnel

and 5 development managers. Company's third product developed during this

leadership, DB2-XPERT.

1984 - 1989

Development Manager. Promoted to lead a team of 7 developers charged with

building company's second product, IMS-XPERT/ISPF. Product is a set of

programmer's utilities working with IMS DB data. Also responsible for

building sister products IMS-XPERT/DC and IMS-XPERT/CICS. Duties included

product architecture, design, development, testing, beta activities, and

publications. Additional responsibilities included hiring and building

cohesive development organization.

1983 - 1984

Software Developer. Developer on startup's initial product, DATA-XPERT.

Product is a set of programmer's utilities working with IBM mainframe data.

Was the first product of its kind to use COBOL layouts throughout the

product as templates for data. Product runs under TSO/ISPF and accesses

VSAM/ISAM/PDS data. Product was written in PL/1 and Assembler, following

Arthur Anderson's Method/1 methodology (customized version).

FMC Corporation 1981 - 1983

1982 - 1983

Chicago, Illinois

Systems Analyst. Directed staff of 5 programmer/analysts developing Order

Processing and Inventory Control applications.

1981 - 1982

Programmer/Analyst. Developed Order Processing, Inventory Control, and

Accounts Receivable applications using IMS DB, IMS DC, and TSO/ISPF on IBM

mainframes. Used Arthur Anderson's Method/1 methodology.

Fisher Controls Corporation 1979 - 1981

Marshalltown, Iowa

Programmer/Analyst. Developed Purchasing, Inventory Control, and Accounts

Receivable applications using IMS DB, CICS, and TSO/ISPF on IBM mainframes.

Education

1975 to 1979

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Minors - Math, Business

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