Project Development

JOHN J. LOUGHLIN

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT

Senior IT specialist possessing 20+ years of progressive experience leading the design and

development of business technology solutions. Outstanding record of accomplishment in

engineering process improvements and streamlining systems, applications, and architectures.

Strong project and program management experience, and proven ability to develop and manage

team members at all levels, ensuring that corporate application development goals are

consistently met. Skill and experience include….

* Systems Development * Program and Project Management * Business Analysis

* Systems Architecture * Database Design * Needs Analysis/Research

* SDLC Software Development Life Cycle * Data Management * Technology Solutions

* Process Mapping * Team Leadership * Systems Analysis * Sarbanes-Oxley

CAREER HISTORY AND HIGHLIGHTS

Senior Consultant, Trisyngroup, Alpharetta, Georgia, 12/2007 – 11/2008. Global IT consulting

firm, providing client companies with financial software and technical support. Serves over

70,000 clients in 125 countries. Client base primarily consists of the world’s largest banks,

community banks, and credit unions.

• Directed pre-conversion and conversion activities for the transition from LaSalle Bank’s

credit data to Bank of America systems. Was able to identify ambiguities between the

two systems, driving successful conversion process.

• Managed achievement of major milestones, including reissuing card base and updating

card offset in the card database for customer base of 1.5 million.

• Used Rapid Application Development methodologies to gather requirements, document

specifications, and design the conversion system.

• Ensured ability to isomorphically map data and metadata to the target system.

• Coordinated project with external partners to successfully schedule transitions and deploy

changes according to testing timelines.

Senior Programmer Analyst / Technical Lead, ABN AMRO, Chicago, IL, 1998 – 2006.

Formerly one of the 50 leading banking institutions in the world with offices in North America,

as well as Asia, India and Brazil.

• Managed Electronic Self Services Department for LaSalle (wholly owned subsidiary of

ABN AMRO) in support of business-critical ATM and debit card processing.

• Lowered batch window time by 33%, and improved security of card issuance procedures

by implementing the conversion system.

• Successfully launched new gift card processing standards and procedures.

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ABN AMRO continued….

• Reduced development time for system change deployment through a new application

support system.

• Enhanced validation for system changes by formalizing and improving testing

capabilities.

• Reengineered the overdraft and protection system for the DDA subsystem.

Senior Technical Consultant, Newell Usher Company, Chicago, IL 1990 – 1998. Technical

consulting firm.

• Led major consulting engagement for Ameritech (Midwest phone company) to convert

their billing system. Coordinated large-scale initiative to transition systems for millions

of customers partitioned across multiple lines of business, regions and products.

• Project was so successful that the single-module design was also used in the order entry

error correction process.

• Ensured adoption of new versions of the free format order language in the new system by

creating training materials, and by running classes and information sessions.

• Streamlined development processes and eliminated multiple excess steps by creating a

single-module design.

• Reduced excess effort in transforming products and services through the new

requirements language.

• Program design won 1996 Ameritech PINNACLE Award.

EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, IL.

Selected Technical Skills include: XPEDITER, TSO, POWER/VSE, Fileaid, VM/SP,

VIASOFT, DIALOG MANAGER, NDM/CDR, SYNCSORT, DYL 260, SPUFI,

CHANGEMAN, DYNAM-D, QMF,COBOL, COBOL II, FORTRAN, SQL, DB2, SPUFI, SQL/

DS, Assembler, MQ, CICS, IMS, OS/JCL, InfoPoint, z/OS 1.7

Ongoing education to remain current on operating systems, data networks, computer

architectures, file systems, databases, applications, development methodologies, and languages.

Taught Database Administration courses for DB2.

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