Management Development

Summary

Talented and accomplished executive with proven expertise in directing

software development and engineering teams for global organizations. Adept

at planning and leading product delivery in fast paced, challenging

environments where time to market is always a factor. Dynamic management

and leadership style with excellent communication and collaboration skills,

strong technical acumen, enthusiasm and integrity.

Highlights

> Recognized for understanding business problems, applying appropriate

technology solutions and communicating them in senior management and

business terminology

> Passion for solutions, data management and business intelligence that

provides timely, high quality data that can be used to make informed

decisions that grow the business

> Innovate through the application of new technologies and best practices

to reduce total cost of ownership

> Technical, management and people skills that deliver collaborative

solutions concurrently in cross functional organizations using agile and

waterfall methodologies

> Drive technology, architecture, design and implementation of robust and

scalable solutions leveraging vendor products and multiple technology

stacks against defined budgets and schedules

> Improve quality and time to market through standardization and

automation, integrated into the development process

> Problem solving, crisis and production support issue management and

resolution

Experience

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, Merrimack, NH and Boston, MA 1992-2010

Vice President Software Engineering and Development, Fidelity Management &

Research Company (2002-2010)

Delivered technology solutions for Investment Operations, providing Master

Data Management for the enterprise. Oversaw global development team in US

and India, leveraging multiple technologies (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server,

DB2/400, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows, WebSphere, Informatica, Business

Objects, java, C, shell scripting, Perl and Autosys).

. Saved $2.5m annually by successfully expanding and leading application

development and shared services capabilities in India.

. Delivered highly available, time critical business functionality to

support global decision makers. Solutions comprised of data

acquisition, augmentation, operational data storage, distribution,

warehousing and reporting with information barriers to protect

confidential data.

. Led development teams in multi-year $50m+ program reengineering firm's

investment reference data management system. System integrates the

Asset Control vendor product to manage 1.8 million issuers and

securities, 20+ vendors and 900+ attributes, distributed via a

relational database.

. Improved time to market for major data integration and distribution

initiatives. Introduction of agile and supporting best practices

achieved monthly releases of incremental business functionality.

. Introduced automation, standards, best practices, policies and

procedures integrated into the development process. Reduced post

install incidents by 75% and cut the actual time of installation by

75%.

. Resolved vendor issues impacting development schedules. Directed

resolution of production support issues before the business could be

impacted

. Fostered innovation and the application of new technologies such as a

pioneering implementation of Oracle information barrier technology.

. Ensured vendors provided appropriate levels of service pre and post

production. Achieved through pre-purchase proof of concepts against

acceptance criteria, contract negotiations and ongoing tracking and

resolution of open issues. Realized $75k cost avoidance in vendor

statement of work for staff training.

. Identified cost reduction opportunities such as eliminating

replacement 50% of obsolete non production servers through leveraging

other assets and VMware solutions.

. Addressed audit findings by architecting and delivering a metadata

driven system to secure, administer and monitor data across the

complex. Solution included web UI, operational data store and

reporting.

. Centralized data distribution (ETL and real-time) and reporting

service development and support teams. Reduced time to market for

business deliverables through implementation of multiple Informatica

repositories. Eliminated errors and improved quality by introducing

install automation for the promotion of code from source code control.

. Mentored high potential individuals from other areas of the company in

a formal enterprise wide program.

Vice President Architecture, Fidelity Management Trust Company (1997 -

2002)

Delivered Business Intelligence solutions for Trustee Services, supporting

over 500 clients with assets exceeding $260b. Founded, recruited and

mentored architecture and development teams for application and data

architecture. Solutions extensively leveraged Oracle and Informatica

technologies.

. Established strategy, direction, technology path and tools for the

development organization. Organization was the first within Fidelity

to recognize the potential and implement the Informatica tool set.

. Architected, delivered and supported operational data store and star

schema data warehouse solution for internally developed business

applications.

. Original hires are still with the organization and have advanced to

Vice President, Director and Architect positions.

Director, Fidelity Systems Company (1992 - 1997)

Various roles from technical advisor to management (Director) for

development efforts. The development and leadership roles were in Windows

and Unix environments on various client server solutions, leveraging

primarily Sybase, C and C++ (using Microsoft Visual Studio & MFC)

technologies.

. Pioneered generic feed specification techniques which are still in

use.

. Designed and developed a software solution to support the emerging

Charitable Gift business opportunity that has since enabled over 59k

donors to recommend in excess of $10b in grants.

Prior Experience

Lotus Software, Cambridge, MA 1991-1992

Instinet Corporation, Bedford, MA 1990-1991

Codex Corporation, Canton, MA 1989-1990

Reuters, Farmingdale, NY and London, UK 1986-1989

Individual Contributor, Senior Software Engineer, and Team Leader positions

using Microsoft Windows SDK and C.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Honors, Kingston University

(Kingston Polytechnic), London, UK

. ICL Software award for "The student who best exhibited competence in the

design and implementation of software throughout the course"

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