Alexander Dowd

Email: abovx5@r.postjobfree.com

Address: * ****** ****

City: Hillsborough

State: NJ

Zip: 08844

Country: USA

Phone: 201-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 60

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ALEXANDER C. DOWD 908-***-****

5 Hughey Lane, Hillsborough, New Jersey 08844 Email: abovx5@r.postjobfree.com

BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL PROFESSIONAL

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - STRATEGIC PLANNING - FINANCIAL/STATISTICAL ANALYSIS - REENGINEERING

Substantial background in implementing a plethora of financial, billing, and marketing analysis techniques. Extensive expertise in Financial Analysis, forecasting, long-range planning, budgeting, projects management, marketing and statistical analysis, strategic planning, quantitative techniques, Federal and State Income Tax preparation, and computer based systems. Excellent interface with all levels coupled with strong analytical, presentation, writing and technical ability.

Skills

MS OFFICE SUITE

Selected Responsibilities and Achievements

* Evaluate clients existing portfolios and recommend alternate solutions that would best fit their suitability and performance objectives. Create and implement a myriad of financial plans. Give individual and group presentations on insurance and investment products.

* Financial Analyst and technical liaison for the following groups of Johnson & Johnson: Tax, Treasury, Internal Audit, Finance, and Consumer. Evaluated existing functionality of legacy systems and implemented alternative solutions for financial reporting.

* Managed the financial reporting, analyzed, redesigned and implemented reporting and statistical- tracking requirement solutions and incorporated business rules.

* Implemented a Market Planning System for Schering-Plough that retained corporate business activity and integrated market strategy for decisions regarding new products and services.

* Supervised a staff of 27 managers, DBA's, programmers, and clericals in all phases of their financial data processing operations at AT&T.

* Analyzed the 5 Year Budget Plan of corporate and subsidiary companies for AT&T and formally reported to upper management. Managers were kept aware of unforeseen revenues and expenses.

* Saved PSE&G $80,000 annually by redesigning, and implementing new billing procedures relating to the unbundling of electric and gas gross sales and revenues.

* Led a Project including 2 programmers and 1 analyst to define user requirements. Wrote specs, and tested the on-line error correction function for AT&T's Financial Management System. Was instrumental in reducing system costs.

* Conducted user training for AT&T Financial Management System. Held on-site and offsite training sessions and increased user awareness 40%.

* Directed the work processes of managers from several groups and developed a way to compare FOCUS and COBOL files that were moved to an Endeavor batch environment with those running in an MVS TSO batch environment. Was successful in having several dormant legacy files deleted, which reduced overall storage costs.

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Selected Responsibilities and Achievements ... Continued

* Coordinated with managers from several departments to create various types of financial reports relating to investor information of Merrill Lynch. This increased efficiency among the groups.

* Wrote a FOCUS user's manual and developed and conducted user training that increased the billing system's use by 30%.

* Coordinated the department's staffing, budget preparation, and analytic responses to deviation, thereby defusing management concerns relating to monthly revenues and expenses.

* Developed a project management system for AT&T and coordinated the development of programs in the general ledger arena. Gave monthly presentations to all group managers.

* Taught Quantitative Design Techniques at the Graduate school of Fairleigh Dickinson University.

* Modified spreadsheet tracking programs, using EXCEL and conducted training classes for end users. Was successful in reducing costs and increasing management awareness.

* Office Manager for H&R Block teaching Federal and State income tax law and assisting in preparing individuals and small businesses income taxes.

Professional History

FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE 2007 to Present

Mutual of Omaha, Penn Mutual, Mass Mutual

FINANCIAL/BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTOR, List of Assignments 1989 to 2007

Johnson & Johnson

Bell Atlantic

PSE&G

Kidder, Peabody

Information Builders, Inc.

Schering - Plough

Telcordia (Bellcore)

Hoechst-Roussel

Merrill Lynch

MCI

Lehman Brothers

Suburban Propane

AT&T

Financial Network Investment Corp.

AT&T 1980 to 1989

District Manager

Education New York University, M.B.A. in Quantitative Analysis

Queens College, B.A. Mathematics and Economics/Computer Science

Licenses NJ Life, Health, and Variable Insurance; FINRA Series 6 and 63

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