Development Information Technology

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Conifer, Co 80433 Email: ***.*******@************.***

Executive Information Technology Manager

Hands on executive technology professional with a very strong technical

background in the financial services industry. Expertise in all aspects of

IT including strategic planning, budgeting, development, infrastructure,

and disaster recovery.

Summary

Proven hands on IT Executive bringing more than 12 years of IT

Management and strategic solutions to businesses. Track record of

excellence in delivering IT projects and programs through a

collaborative effort between IT and other relevant business units both

local and international.

Demonstrated excellence in:

> Synthesizing disparate technologies, customer needs, business

objectives, competitive trends, budgetary and resource

constraints into an effective IT mission implemented through

organizational structure, strategy and ongoing technology plans.

> Ensuring that information technology strategy is aligned with

corporate business plans and objectives both in the present and

ongoing.

> Implementing a variety of software development lifecycle

methodologies ranging from RUP to Agile based methodologies.

> Applying disciplined project management, application development

and operational management processes.

Selected Accomplishments

> Directed the establishment of offshore development capabilities in

Bangkok, Thailand

> Off shored all Lipper data feed development resulting in a cost

savings of $600K per year

> Migrated Lipper production systems from an outdated HP V-Class server

to Intel/Linux based technologies resulting in a savings of $300K in

annual support fees

> Directed the migration from a vendor based business continuity and

disaster recovery strategy to an internal solution resulting in a

savings of $180K per year

> Managed the development of the next generation of Lipper calculation

engines utilizing a proprietary data caching and compression strategy

resulting in an average decreased run time of 600%.

> As a charter member of Lipper's Software Engineering Process Group,

helped define and implement a new RUP based software development

lifecycle process resulting on average a 40% decrease in time from

project inception to transition and deployment

> Forged a new IT department including development and operations staff,

data center and disaster recovery strategy, and the design and

deployment of the technical infrastructure to support a new business

venture, Thomson Reuters Indices

> Successfully managed the development and initial product release for

Thomson Reuters Indices on time and $300K under budget

Professional Experience:

Magdelyn Technologies

December 2009-Present

Technical Advisor

. IT consulting specializing in mergers and acquisitions

. Emphasis on providing in depth technical analysis and evaluation as

part of the acquisition process

. PMO consulting with an emphasis on customizing RUP based SDLC

methodologies

. IT recruiting and placement services

Thomson Reuters, Denver, CO

July 2008-November 2009

Global Head of Technology Thomson Reuters Indices (TRI)

Thomson Reuters Indices is a division of Thomson Reuters formed mid 2008.

I was appointed as the Head of Technology to orchestrate the complete build

out of the Information Technology department from the ground up.

Responsibilities and accomplishments include:

. Overall technology strategy for TRI

. Ensure that IT strategy aligns with business goals and objectives

. Budget and resource management

. Responsible for all IT related tasks including development, IT

operations and support

. Establishment and implementation of overall data center strategy

. Established and implemented disaster recovery processes ranging from

catastrophic hardware failure to complete loss of production data

center

. Instituted formal change management and software release procedures

. Defined and implemented formal software development and support

processes

. Performed mission/structure/people analysis and expanded the IT

department by 20 heads in the first year

. Designed new processes for employee evaluation, recognition, and

retention

Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company, Denver, CO

1998-2008

Technical Director of Corporate Products and Services

. Responsible for the development and maintenance of all of Lipper's

products and services including all internally used applications, data

feed products and calculation engines.

. Managed a development staff of 30 employees and contractors globally

. Successfully managed the development and deployment of the next

generation calculation engines providing on demand mutual fund

calculations and analytics including all forms of fund performance as

well as complex statistical analysis, ranking and aggregation.

. Managed staff DBA's and held final database architectural decision

making authority

. Responsible for integrating technology resulting from acquisitions

into overall technical strategies

. Established new business continuity and disaster recovery strategies

and procedures

. Directed the successful migration of production, pre-production, and

testing hardware

. Prior to off shoring, managed the development of Lipper data feed

products

. Helped establish a new RUP based software development process

Accelerated Data Systems, Englewood, CO

1996-1998

Programmer / Analyst

. Participated in developing Client/Server financial applications using

PowerBuilder 4/5 deployed in multiple call centers accessing a Sybase

database resulting in $50 million in annual revenue.

Education

BA- Political Science - Colorado State University

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