Manager Management
Resume:
ELLEN PENNY PAPPIS
Norwood MA ***62
***********@*****.***
QUALIFICATIONS
• Versatile information technology/testing executive with outstanding delivery track record.
• Proven partnership skills with senior business management on enterprise wide projects from conception to implementation. Successful management of systems development, testing and integration projects.
• Very experienced in hardware and software vendor selection, project and staff management and contract negotiations.
• Particularly strong experience in a broad range of financial services operations both domestic and international. Areas of system and business expertise include but not exclusive to: Fund Accounting, Compliance, Performance, Alternative Investments, and Financial Reporting. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Olmstead Associates, Boston, MA 12/2016 - 5/2017
Consultant, Program Manager, bcIMC - Victoria British Columbia
• Project planning and management to execute conversion of legacy accounting platform to new system
• Subject matter included: Project plan, Creation of program charter, risk register, issue log, scope definition and management, oversight of project deliverables, contract, environment BNY Mellon, Boston, MA 1/2016 - 7/2016
Consultant, Applications Manager
• Onboarding planning for new clients to Middle Office platform for Investment Accounting
• Subject matter included: QA Testing, Scheduling, 24-hour clock, System connectivity, environment
Brown Brothers Harriman, Boston, MA 7/2006 - 7/2015 Vice President, Fund Services, Quality Assurance
• Creation and Management of groups responsible for functional, regression, performance and integration testing located in MA, CO, India and Poland
• Subject matter included: Fund Accounting, ETF (Exchange Traded Funds), Middle Office
(Portfolio Accounting/Recordkeeping and reporting), SMF (Security Master File)
• Defined and coordinated processes, policies, release content, release schedules etc. Aligned staff with testing phases.
• Created standardization of test case capture and management, test processes and automation, management reporting templates and coordination cross organizationally
• Management of implementation of new Mutual Fund portfolio accounting system (Eagle STAR) and associated upgrades. Coordinate with all system organizations firm-wide to insure seamless integration. Manage all facets of project including user requirements, development (internal and vendor), defect prioritization, testing, benchmarking, environment coordination etc.
• Legacy support of client reporting system interfaces, for both web based access and internal financial reporting application.
• Management of development supporting FpML implementation at the bank, specific to security master and trade processing to the accounting system
• Manage Pricing interfaces, both exporters and imports automating most asset types. Brown Brothers Harriman, Boston MA 7/2005 - 7/2006 Independent Consultant
• Responsible for analysis, documentation, project management and recommendation of strategy to support on-going implementation of new portfolio accounting system (Eagle STAR) including on-going releases, regression test, and client data feed requirements and existing infrastructure and functionality replication as applicable.
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Westwood, MA 8/2004 - 7/2005 Real Estate Broker
Deutsche Bank, New York, NY 11/2003 - 4/2004
Asset Management Division – Senior Vice President Data Strategy
• Responsible for analysis, documentation, and recommendation of strategy to restructure system and data infrastructure needed to support Asset Management as a result of mergers and acquisitions.
Putnam Investments, Boston MA 1995 - 10/2003
Senior Vice President, Director Applications 1997 - 2003 Vice President, Applications Manager 1995 - 1997
• Consolidation and conversion of 3 portfolio accounting systems to one within 3 years resulting in consistent processing and workflow for retail, institutional and international book of business
• Development and implementation of new web based in-house custody system, which realized 1M of decreased annual operations cost
• Modifications within 1 year to all systems to handle a range of derivatives accounting and reporting enabling investments to trade in these markets
• Definition, coordination and implementation of all systems and data integration for supporting Putnam’s joint ventures in Italy and Japan
• Implementation of a tax smart optimizer for trading enabling tax neutral investment decisions
• Implementation of a mortgage back trading system package interfacing STP to back office
• Selection, ongoing management, development and ongoing implementation coordination of newly integrated security reference and portfolio accounting system package: Eagle STAR and Eagle PACE
• Error free EMU and Y2K conversions for investment systems
• Deployed technologies included: Oracle, Sybase, C, Net Dynamics, PowerBuilder, Entera, Iplanet, VSAM, DB2, VaxCobol, TIBCO
• Deployed software and systems included: CPORT, Eagle PACE and STAR, FAME, Barra RISK, Reuters Kondor, LET MBSE, as well as proprietary developed systems to accommodate performance and analytics, trade distribution, custody, corporate action processing, etc. State Street Bank and Trust Company, Boston MA 1988 - 1995 Vice President 1992 - 1995
Assistant Vice President 1990 - 1992
Senior Systems Consultant 1988 - 1990
• Definition, development and implementation of a client server based application, the investment Manager Workstation providing access to positions, transactions and cash – deployed to 7 external client organizations. This replaced manual fax based communications.
• Definition, development and implementation of proprietary Mutual Fund client transaction transmissions of trades, corporate actions, positions, cash, capstock prior to SWIFT/ISITC. Product was deployed to 15 external client organizations. This eliminated manual processes resulting in efficiencies and improved accuracy
• Definition, development and implementation of a repo collateral tracking system for internal use eliminating manual processes resulting in enhanced reporting to the FED
• Definition, development and implementation of automated reconciliation of cash and positions eliminating manual processes resulting in improved accuracy and timely issue resolution
• Custom report and extract functionality for 35 external client organizations
• Mutual Fund client enhancements to core proprietary accounting and custody systems
• Deployed technologies including: Sybase, C, COBOL, Proprietary messaging, PL/1.
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