Manager Management
Resume:
HENRY A. KORSZUN
*** **** *** ******, **, NY ****5
email: abup2x@r.postjobfree.com
MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE
Comprehensive change and release management experience in the following areas:
tracking and versioning artifacts, continuous integration (automation of builds and deployment
functions), administering promotion paths from development through production environments;
installing patches and upgrades for operating systems and context-specific applications;
Incident and problem management (escalating and troubleshooting);
In-depth experience in conducting feasibility studies and requirements gathering;
Effective communication, promotion and marketing of new software solutions;
Authoring and promoting run book policies and procedures;
Research and development;
Budgeting and hiring for the entire SDLC;
Skillful management of several projects outsourced to India, Poland and Latin America;
Broad experience and high comfort level using AGILE and XP methodologies, especially with
respect to prototyping and proof-of-concept;
Managed several legacy-to-WEB migrations.
MANAGEMENT TOOLS
Project Management Microsoft Project, Visio, Microsoft Office Suite, Lotus Notes.
Incident & Problem Tracking, source control, revision & version control
HP Quality Center, Serena TeamTrack, Bugzilla, JIRA, SVN, CVS, ClearCase, SharePoint and
ClearQuest;
Authoring and content Interwoven TeamSite and IBM WCM.
JAVA DEVELOPER EXPERTISE
Extensive expertise in both core JAVA and in developing J2EE multi-threaded 3-tier WEB solutions
using legacy SQL databases (using JDBC and XML technologies), business objects, servlets and
JSPs, and applets. Proficient in identifying optimization issues and resolving platform
dependencies;
Security digital certificates, privileges, roles-based security, etc;
ANT and MAVEN scripting;
IDE’s Eclipse, RAD, VISUAL CAFÉ, NetBeans.
Frameworks SPRING and STRUTS.
AWT and SWING for advanced GUI development, including highly innovative touch-screen
department store interactive imaging kiosks;
OPERATING SYSTEMS, DATABASES, OTHER
OS Windows (2000 and 2003), NT and XP, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, and VAX/VMS;
UNIX shells C-Shell, Bash;
RDBMS Oracle11g, SQLServer, MySQL, DB2, ACCESS, TOAD, JDBC connectivity;
Languages Visual Basic, C and FORTRAN.
Content Authoring Adobe GoLive, Photoshop & Illustrator; DreamWeaver; and hand-coding of
HTML (as needed).
EDUCATION
MBA. New York University (1979).
Double major: Finance and Management of Information Systems.
BA. Trinity College (CT, 1975). Junior year at Vassar College.
Double major: History and Russian language.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
United Health Group Hartford, CT. August 2012-present. Configuration and release manager
responsible for tracking, documenting, building and deploying artifacts (database structures and
reference data, UNIX shell scripts, JARs, EARs, properties and profiles) in the company’s highly
complex, homegrown broker payments and commission system. The role entails close supervision
and coordination of the activities of developers, QA testers, systems analysts, vendors and
business owners in a continuous integration setup with deployments, and possible rollbacks, to all
pre-production and production environments.
The continuous integration framework uses SVN for storing basic code artifacts; Maven and AntHill
Pro are used in the builds, triggering automatic Junit tests. Batch components (scripts and JARs),
as well as Oracle reference data and structures, are deployed directly to their respective
environments; web components (EARs and WARs) are deployed to Websphere 7. All
deployments use a custom ITG workflow, following a promotion path in compliance with corporate
governance, as follows: DEVELOPMENT>QA>UAT>STAGE>PRODUCTION. Warranty releases
substitute BreakFix for STAGE.
My role entails close supervision and coordination of the activities of developers, QA and UAT
testers, systems analysts, vendors and business owners in a continuous integration setup with
deployments, and possible rollbacks, to all pre-production and production environments.
Aetna Insurance Hartford, CT. June 2011-May 2012. Senior JAVA engineer responsible for
maintaining and enhancing several company web applications. SPRING framework projects
included web service development, database development, and enhancing and developing
customer-facing websites. The projects used IBM’s Rational suite (RAD for development,
Clearcase for SCM, ClearQuest for issue tracking, and RequisitePro for monitoring adherence to
business requirements.
The Hartford Insurance Group Simsbury, CT. February 2011-June 2011. Infrastructure architect/
technical lead on a project to migrate multiple marketing JAVA applications (for the Property and
Casualty line) to state-of-the art open source (Apache/Tomcat/Linux) delivery platforms. The
applications were developed and maintained using The Hartford’s proprietary MVC framework.
Also engineered the migration from CVS to SVN.
Ambac Financial Group NY, NY. September 2010-February 2011. AGILE Project
manager/development lead for a corporate treasury cash-management project. Using the STRUTS
framework and SOAP-based web services, the application predicts gaps in corporate liquidity and
determines the impact on these gaps based on various “what if” scenarios. Introduced an open-
source continuous integration framework using SVN, JENKINS and ANT; web application deployments to
TOMCAT application server.
CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield Owings Mills, MD. September 2007-September 2010. Managed
the prototyping and development of a 3-tier WEB-based application (JSPs and JavaScript,
servlets, and SQLServer 2005), which automated the company’s build (using ANT) and deploy (to
WebSphere) processes. In addition to intensive development, the position required regular
interaction with vendors, contractors, internal change management and the business. In an effort to
expedite rollouts, the company adopted iterative AGILE methodologies, in strict compliance with
corporate governance. Also involved in the rollout of a corporate initiative to add portals/portlets to
the company's WEB applications. Hands-on involvement in the company’s content management
system (Interwoven).
Merrill Lynch NY, NY. January 2007-September 2007. Managed the development, maintenance
and roll-out of reference databases with a focus on the architecture, building and development of
business intelligence applications that tie into the databases, allowing the user community to search
and retrieve customized reference and pricing data to gain an accurate view of the fixed income
and equity trading landscape. This system was implemented as a classic 3-tier J2EE web-based
application; my main development role was integrating the middle (servlet) and backend
(SQLServer 2005) tiers.
Knights of Columbus New Haven, CT. 2006. Lead architect in a major initiative in the eBusiness
division’s migration from Coldfusion to J2EE. Administered promotion paths from development to
staging through to production environments, installing patches & upgrades for operating systems,
middleware, and context-specific applications; responsible for incident and problem management,
authoring and promoting run book policies and procedures.
Parent Watch, Inc. and Arrowsight.com NY, NY. 2005. Developed multi-threaded network
software integrating voice, data, and streaming video for multi-media WEB-based applications.
Procter & Gamble, Inc. Worldwide. 1999-2004. Multiple projects using my patented proprietary
software: see digitaldressing.com below. Engineered and coded several highly complex,
interactive multi-media image processing systems and AWT and later SWING GUIs for e-
commerce and kiosk consumer applications. These projects involved working with P&G’s
interactive group (the CoverGirl® and Pantene product lines) in conjunction with Grey
Advertising, on developing and implementing kiosk-based personal image makeover software
targeted at the Latin American and Asian markets; the software was deployed in approximately 30
countries throughout Asia and Latin America. Branded “Color Consultation”, it included features
which allowed customers to sample hairdos, makeup, and clothes, using their own faces (as
captured by JAVA TWAIN digital camera software) and body measurements; the software included
databases for capturing customer personal data and preferences, thus creating marketing profiles.
Responsible for all aspects of engineering and coding these systems, from the macro down to the
atomic levels. For some press coverage see ABC news article; see also CIO and where-its-@ for
further press coverage.
digitaldressing.com. New Haven, CT. 1994-1998. Patented, engineered and implemented Digital
Looking Glass. Originally written in C under SunOS, the software has been since ported to JAVA,
using a multi-threaded 3-tier model. Extensively tested under various platforms including Windows
3.X, Windows 95, Windows 98, UNIX, as a WEB applet, and as a standalone application.
Digital Solutions, SA. Warsaw, Poland. 1989-1994. Counseled local businesses and institutions
on technology best-practices and processes. Clients included banks, charter-type language
schools, mortgage brokerages, and museums.
Allied-Signal Corporation. Morristown, NJ. 1986-1988.
Corporate Treasury Analyst. Developed computer-based financial models for large, international
projects.
Abrahamsen & Company, Inc. Hoboken, NJ. 1982-1984.
Co-founder and principal of financial research and consulting firm.
Specialized in computer-based analytical, financial, and legal database development and pioneered
in its online delivery to the investment and legal communities. The company was acquired by the
Capital Cities Corporation in 1984. Clients included most of Wall Street’s leading investment banks:
EF Hutton, Lehman Brothers, Becker Paribas, Solomon Brothers, Bear Sterns Goldman Sachs,
First Boston, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Lazard Freres; a number of major law firms; and
several major Publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Institutional
Investor.
First Boston Corporation. New York, NY. 1979–1982.
Corporate Finance Associate. Provided customized financial software Modeling services for
corporations involved in raising capital, mergers and acquisitions, private placements, project
finance, international finance, and fixed-income research.
National Securities and Research, Inc. New York, NY. 1979
Assistant Portfolio Manager.
Lane Bryant, Inc. New York, NY. 1978.
Developed computerized PERT/CPM system.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Fluent in Polish; working knowledge of other Slavic languages.
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