System Manager

Marianna Reikher

**** *. ****** **** ● Fox Point, Wisconsin 53217

414-***-**** (Home) ● 414-***-****(Cell)

abnuq6@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Business Analyst (MBA) accomplished at developing applications for mutual funds, insurance and

finance industries. Areas of expertise include creating a variety of performance reports,

comprehensive testing and supporting financial programs to automate and optimize critical business

processes. Unique combination of diverse experience in business analysis and software engineering.

Proven track record of delivering projects effectively and efficiently. Excellent knowledge of SQL

Query, Excel, MS Access, and Crystal Reports.

Experience and Key Accomplishments

US BANK FUND SERVICES, INC., Milwaukee, WI 2004-2009

Product Manager/Business Analyst

Responsible for managing Fundstation (Confluence) and its reports.

Managed the application Fundstation that automates a wide range of fund administration

including regulatory, compliance, marketing and financial reporting, and maintained all

processes (inbound, outbound, nightly pricing). Established essential secure ftp file delivery to

customer servers.

Created customized performance reports and queries (before and after taxes, synthetic, gross of

fee) according to customers specifications.

Automated the extraction of prices from Bloomberg database and upload into the Fundstation

increasing accuracy and efficiency.

Educated internal and external customers (fund administrators, relationship managers, and fund

representatives) to increase understanding of all aspects of mutual fund performance

calculations.

Developed a comprehensive set of the testing plans (unit, functional, system, regression) to

insure identification and resolution of potential system upgrade problems.

STRONG INVESTMENTS, INC., Milwaukee, WI 2002 -2004

Business Analyst/ Programmer

Responsible for IT support of Fund Accounting Department.

Automated creation of Statements of Investments for marketing department replacing tedious

manual process. Significantly increased accuracy and efficiency; reduced statement preparation

time for each fund from two hours to twenty minutes.

Developed requirements for automating reports to display top holdings, sectors, issuers and

industries for equity, fixed income, municipal and money market funds. Identified rules of

combining holdings for each type of fund and criteria to select correct security class types, and

insure accuracy of data.

Identified requirements for pulling short-term instruments, cash, common stocks, convertible

securities, futures and options from the mainframe system. Created corresponding journal

entries in Sybase database, improving accuracy of reports used by portfolio managers.

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Trained members of Fund Accounting department weekly in Microsoft Excel and Access

applications, eliminating manual processes and improving reporting accuracy and efficiency.

KEANE, INC., Milwaukee, WI 2000 - 2002

Catalyst International, Inc. Business Analyst/Programmer 2001 - 2002

Analyzed customer processes and challenges. Collected requirements, created design,

developed, and tested modifications of existing Warehouse Management System parts according

to functional specification report. Corrected various warehouse software defects.

Northwestern Mutual Programmer/Support Specialist 2000 -2001

Provided strategic direction to correct functioning of commission system during day/night

processing, including 24/7 applications assistance.

Corrected and tested commission system defects; maintained and tested system.

Designed, programmed, and tested enhancements to agent bonus payout and bookkeeping

system. Proposed improvements to Release Management System, resulting in decrease of post-

release problems and greater integrity of system changes. Provided Testing Team with complete

set of scenarios for system processes.

Increased customer satisfaction and accuracy of processing by identifying most frequent

process failures.

eFUNDS, INC., Milwaukee, WI 1998 - 2000

Programmer

Analyzed, designed, programmed and tested improvements to applications for ATM machine

installation. Designed, programmed and maintained tool to maintain list of employees, skills,

licenses, and current projects. Created various reports.

CATALYST INTERNATIONAL, INC., Milwaukee, WI 1994 - 1998

Programmer

Analyzed, designed, programmed, and tested new parts of warehouse software package using

various database platforms. Modified existing system parts according to functional specification

report. Created estimates for prospective modifications. Provided customer support.

Education

Master of Business Administration, Keller Graduate School of Business, Milwaukee, WI

Bachelor of Science Degree, Computer Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Certification and Special Training

FundStation (Unity) Certification Program, Confluence, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

Web Design Certification Program, Waukesha Area Technical College, Waukesha, WI

Application Design and Development using C++, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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