Project Manager Management

Steven Bessler, PMP

**** ******* ***** **** 414-***-****

Franklin, WI 53132

E-mail: ablsga@r.postjobfree.com Cell 414-***-****

SKILLS SUMMARY:

. Extensive management and leadership skills focused on meeting

strategic and project objectives.

. Award-winning performance results on quality product development

project initiatives and provision of customer services.

. Performance reviews with high ratings for skills in facilitating

change, setting and focusing on goals, analyzing / solving problems,

written and oral communication, developing / training staff, and

personal attributes of being loyal, dependable, and ethical.

. Deliver solutions that are founded on an intimate knowledge of

business challenges, utilizing an extensive background in securities /

financial domain and technical mainframe development.

. Superior ability to lead technical and business team to ensure the

stable operation of the business, as well as target performance and

productivity outcomes through new project initiatives; promote

professional development and accountability in a supportive

environment.

. Adept at development of comprehensive project plans to meet business

objectives.

. Demonstrated capacity to manage vendor relationships by meeting all

service level agreements and applying company methodologies and

practices.

. Exceptional project and product management professional.

EXPERIENCE:

Over 20 years of experience with managing projects and resources to meet

organizational strategic goals. Current focus is on providing project

management and leadership on key strategic initiatives. Particular

strengths are in team building, leadership and problem solving. Have

excellent communication, documentation, and organizational skills that are

effective in successful business process and team management.

Thomson Reuters Beta Systems, Project Manager, January 2009 to August 2010

After successful completion of Bangalore project in liaison role, promoted

into Project Management Office (PMO) as Project Manager. Was assigned to

lead key strategic projects, as well as support key infrastructure

initiatives. Responsibilities included:

. Project management and providing all life-cycle project deliverables

(e.g., project charter, project plan, status updates, reporting, risk

mitigation, issue resolution, etc.).

. Managed the scheduling of project team resources within matrix

environment; resources were not dedicated to projects, thus diligently

worked with development resource managers to productively schedule

resource time.

. Examples of project assignments:

o Led projects in support of the number one strategic priority

within the firm - data conversions (e.g., Wells Fargo/Wachovia

Securities merger, conversion of Ameriprise Securities onto Beta

System, FDC Correspondent conversions, etc.)

o Development project manager for technical resources focused on

large infrastructure projects

. Successfully achieved strategic objectives and met all critical

timeline expectations on these key initiatives.

. Trained other groups on use of project tools to enable more effective

resource management (e.g., managing to minimize "downtime", use of

enterprise portfolio reports for resources to self-manage their

schedules, linkage to time reporting, etc.).

. Developed new status reports to augment required resource management.

Steven Bessler, PMP

8217 Cascade Court Home 414-***-****

Franklin, WI 53132

E-mail: ablsga@r.postjobfree.com Cell 414-***-****

Thomson Reuters Beta Systems, Bangalore Security Master Liaison, August

2008 to January 2009

Promoted to newly-established position as liaison to Bangalore. Primary

objective was to establish the framework for successful transition of

development responsibilities for the Security Master dobe from the

Brookfield, Wisconsin operations to Bangalore, India. Responsibilities

included:

. Fulfilling role of Project Manager/Owner for the Bangalore Security

Master Ownership Project through:

o Creation and management of Project Charter, Training Plan, Risk

Mitigation Plan, Communication Plan, Project Plan, etc.

o Acting as strong advocate of the project throughout all areas

that are affected

o Working closely with Executive and Project Sponsors for

effective decision-making

. Alignment of key stakeholders throughout the organization (executives

and senior Bangalore staff were fully aware of program and received

buy-in) and assuring team preparedness (e.g., resources were

identified, appropriate support documentation was in place, etc.).

. Successful completion of this transition in January of 2009, with all

capabilities for development transferred to the Bangalore team.

Thomson Reuters, Team Lead / Project Lead, June 1998 to August 2008

Responsible for new product development, ongoing maintenance and support of

securities processing software. Duties included supervising / leading and

assigning project and operational workloads for a multidisciplinary team

(for up to fourteen technical developer and business analyst resources)

focused on driving the business and technical direction of various aspects

of the company. Responsibilities included:

. Assignment planning and resource allocation / management to meet

project goals.

. Evaluation of work performance and providing mentoring, staff

development and training, as necessary, to meet project and

operational objectives.

. Resource management, including interviewing and providing hiring

decisions.

. Providing annual performance reviews, as well as disciplinary action.

February 2008 to August 2008 Special Projects: (Thomson Reuters)

. Team Lead of Bloomberg project, which focused on automating the setup

of numerous types of securities. This included leading many resource

types (e.g., internal business analysts / developers, contractors, as

well as the Security Master support team). This project was

transitioned with the expectation to come in ahead of schedule and

meet all system requirements successfully. This project eliminated

the manual effort in setting up a security (from up to 30 minutes down

to less than 1 minute) significantly increasing operational

efficiencies and eliminating manual entry errors with this new

automated process.

December 2004 to February 2008 Special Projects: (Thomson Transaction

Services)

. Project / Team Lead of Securities Pricing project, which focused on

moving Securities Pricing from a legacy file to XML, providing prices

to Security Master three hours earlier than was previously available.

This was a significant gain to the efficiency of the processing

schedule to meet service level agreements.

. Project / Team Lead of Security Number Normalization-Phase II, which

replaced hard-coded range logic with a dynamic subroutine to identify

securities. This three-year long project proactively allowed for

future processing of security types beyond existing ranges (impacted

1500 programs across all areas of the business). Was one of the first

in the company to successfully incorporate off-shore resources into

the project team.

. Project / Team Lead of Historical Pricing project, which focused on

new functionality that would provide a three-year+ period of

historical security prices. This functionality was also used by other

processing to account for Berkshire Hathaway's price over 5 digits.

This provided for the extension of historical data analysis.

Steven Bessler, PMP

8217 Cascade Court Home 414-***-****

Franklin, WI 53132

E-mail: ablsga@r.postjobfree.com Cell 414-***-****

June 1998 to December 2004 Special Projects: (Thomson Beta Systems)

. Project / Team Lead of Release One project, providing A.G. Edwards

access to Thomson Beta's Security Master fifteen months prior to

conversion. This project was critical for this important customer to

establish a stable environment (switching from their failing Security

Master system to Beta's Security Master system) in order to further

assure the success of the full conversion to Beta's systems.

Beta Systems, AVP / Sr. Programmer Analyst, 1994 to June 1998

Lead programmer analyst for commodities, supporting and enhancing

commodities applications. All enhancements and customizations were written

in COBOL and CICS. Responsible for performing entire lifecycle

implementations (i.e., planning, coding, testing and implementing).

Languages and Tools: COBOL, COBOL II, CICS, DATACOM, DB2, SQL, TSO.

Additional Work Experience:

Beta Systems, Programmer Analyst Level 2, 1993 Kemper Financial, Sr.

Prod. Control Specialist, 1989

Kemper Securities, Programmer Analyst Level 2, 1992-3 Kemper Financial,

Production Control Specialist, 1988

Kemper Securities, Programmer Analyst Level 1, 1991 Kemper Financial,

Sup. of Computer Operations, 1987

Kemper Securities, Programmer Level 1, 1990 Kemper Financial, Sr. Computer

Operator, 1986

Kemper Securities, Programmer Trainee, 1989 Kemper Financial, Computer

Operator, 1985

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION:

Lewis University (1984 - Feb. 1989)

Bachelor of Arts, Management Information Systems

GPA Achievement Certificate

Joliet Jr. College (1982 - 1984)

Associate, Computer Science

Associate, Science

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification since February 2009

Professional Seminars, Training Courses:

. Project Management ( Budgeting and Controlling Costs

. Effective Management ( Outsourcing

. Team Building ( Planning for Quality

. Organizational Development ( Improving Project and

Organizational Performance

. Presentation Skills ( Communications Planning and Information

Distribution

Professional Organization:

. Member of Project Management Institute (PMI)

References available upon request.

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