Manager Project

Edward Chung

** ********** ***** ( Clifton, NJ **013

201-***-**** ( ********@*****.***

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Project Management ( Client/Server and Mainframe Application Development

Highly qualified IT development manager with 15 years experience delivering

small and large-scale projects in the financial industry. Project leader

who looks for cost-effective opportunities to deliver projects on time with

strong project management communication skills. Hands-on application

development experience with web-based applications. Characterized as a

talented leader with strong analytical and problem-solving skills to

provide solutions to challenging situations. Areas of expertise encompass

the following:

. Software Engineering

. Systems Integration

. Software Development Life Cycle

. Software Testing & Troubleshooting

. Project Management

. Budget & Resource Planning

. Vendor Partnerships

. Web Site Design & Development

. Project Teamwork & Communications

. Technical & End User Documentation

. Product & Design Research

. Technology Needs Assessment & Solutions

. Problem Analysis & Resolution

. Requirements Gathering & Analysis

. Quality & Productivity Improvement

. Team Leadership / Motivation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UBS FINANCIAL SERVICES INC, Weehawken, NJ Dec 2000-

Present

Premier global financial services firm offering wealth management services

to clients

Market Data and Platform Integration Manager

Aug 2007-Present

Currently manage two development teams (Market Data and Platform

Services) in the Wealth Management business; leading the development,

implementation, support, and operations of market data applications and

systems; overseeing the integration of all applications on the platform

used by Financial Advisors.

. Led three developers to develop and support market data

applications and infrastructure.

. Led two web developers to support the application development

process crucial to integrating applications on the branch-facing

platform.

. Developed multiple vendor relationships, including Bloomberg,

Thomson Reuters, and Wall Street on Demand.

. Managed a large-scale project to replace the market data

application for over 8,000 Financial Advisors.

. Initiated a redesign of the market data site on the client-facing

platform.

. Initiated a project to re-engineer, improve, and update the market

data quotes system that feeds quotes to trading applications.

. Prioritized and managed projects ranging from weeks, months, to

over a year for dozens of stakeholders.

. Planned and executed implementations by completing deliverables

that included requirements gathering, design, development,

testing, communications procedures, training, and support.

. Promoted cross-organization collaboration to leverage in-house

products and expertise to improve systems.

. Collaborated on the design and implementation of market data

systems with architects, software engineers, and network

engineers.

. Managed expectations of project stakeholders by holding weekly

status meetings with formal agendas and meeting minutes with clear

follow-ups and actions accountable to service partners.

. Presented to senior management project estimates, including

capital and operating costs for approval, status of projects, and

achievement of milestones.

. Reduced capital expenses and operating costs by as much as 75%

with efficiencies and alternative products.

. Improved data quality and stability of the infrastructure with

proactive monitoring and updating test plans and scripts

continuously.

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. Migrated multiple applications to new data centers.

. Supported distributed and mainframe market data applications that

are web-based and run on Windows.

. Handled multiple RFPs, SOWs, and contracts and worked with

Sourcing to negotiate contracts.

. Negotiated costs and SLAs with vendors.

. Leveraged offshore and on-shore consultants to complement internal

resources for timely execution of project deliverables without

exceeding project budgets.

. Evaluated, tested, and implemented virtualization of front-end

applications and back-end systems.

. Reviewed applications annually to mitigate risk and follow SOX

compliance.

Platform Services Manager

Aug 2005-Aug 2007

. Managed a team of 5 developers as the IT owner of the Wealth

Management branch-facing platform.

. Led development of platform services and APIs for over 150

applications.

. Delegated small, medium, and large-scale projects effectively to

deliver projects on time.

. Built relationships with third-party vendors (Sun, IBM, Fujitsu,

VeriSign, Hyperspace, NetManage).

. Set usability guidelines for application teams to adhere to.

. Oversaw integration of all new applications to the platform.

. Enforced platform standards and guidelines for all application

groups to follow.

Market Data Lead Developer

Dec 2000- Aug 2005

. Developed and integrated a web-based client/server market data

application to replace a Windows application.

. Centralized market data in over 350 branches and reduced market

data infrastructure spend by 90%.

. Supported over 5 market data applications on the branch-facing and

client-facing platforms for the Wealth Management US business.

. Coordinated rollouts to over 13,000 branch desktops and major

releases in a phased rollout schedule.

. Built partnerships with market data vendors (Reuters, Dow Jones

MarketWatch, Wall Street on Demand, Bloomberg, IDC) to integrate

vendor apps for seamless client experience.

. Diplomatically negotiated and resolved issues involving vendors,

internal, and external clients.

BANKERS TRUST/DEUTSCHE BANK, Jersey City, NJ Dec 1995-Dec

2000

Global bank serving the financial needs of corporations, firms,

institutions, and private and business clients

Global Custody Operations Specialist

Improved the manual securities reconciliation process by overseeing the

transition of the operations to an automated reconciliation system.

. Managed the project lifecycle from requirements gathering to

testing and implementation.

. Reconciled trade settlements, income, and corporate actions with

agent banks globally.

TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY

HARDWARE: Unix ( VMWare ( Citrix ( Celerra ( NetApp ( Network (Circuits,

Routers/Switches, WAN accelerators, Firewalls) ( Thomson Reuters

Infrastructure (Reuters Plus, Thomson One, RDF, RMDS)

SOFTWARE: MS Office (Project, Visio, Powerpoint, Excel, Access) (

Browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) ( PVCS (

Thomson Reuters Applications (Reuters Plus, Thomson One,

3000Xtra, Baseline)

PLATFORMS: UNIX (Sun, AIX) ( VMWare ( Citrix ( Windows

LANGUAGES: HTML ( DHTML ( XML ( CSS ( Javascript ( Java ( Shell Scripting

( SQL

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Biology, Minor: English Literature

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

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