GIL ALVAREZ
Pine Beach, New Jersey 08741
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Spanish Teacher – Keansburg, N. J. 9/13 to 6/14
Spanish I & Spanish II
Long Term Substitute – Freehold, N. J., & Perth Amboy N. J. 12/12 to 6/13
Spanish Teacher – Long term teaching assignments
Glendenning Mortgage Corporation – Toms River, N. J. 2009 - 2012
Loan Officer – Market, Support and Close residential mortgages for clients
Lakewood School District – Lakewood, N. J. 2004-2010
Teacher / World Language Coordinator / Athletics Coach
Responsible for teaching 7th & 8th grade Spanish level I, II & III course of study.
Coordinator duties include mentoring new teachers and administering the departmental budget.
Developed new curriculum for 8th & 7th grade Spanish classes.
Verizon Communications - Arlington, VA. 1996-2003
Software Engineer IV
Managed multiple development and test environments for Financial Application.
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Managed change management processes for Financial Application.
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Led and coordinated effort to reduce the number of nightly production problems in
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Financial Application by 65%.
Supervised resolution of nightly production referrals for Financial Application.
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Point of Contact between Financial Application and Corporate Office of Credit Policy,
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regarding monthly updates for production processes.
Successfully trained new hires to become productive and independent in 30 days.
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Principal in effort to reduce Financial Application’s nightly production runtime by 40%.
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Walker Interactive Systems/Professional Services - Boston, MA. 1992-1996
Software Implementation Consultant, Professional Services /Pre-Sales Consultant
Successfully installed multi-million dollar financial software at clients’ sites in the U. S.,
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Canada & Latin America.
Developed & conducted seminars for corporate clients on technical and application
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topics.
Successful pre-sales presentations to corporate client decision-makers.
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Education Background
Teacher – High School Social Studies and Bilingual Program Coordinator (NY)
Middle School & High School Spanish Teacher (NJ)
Education - M. A. Educational Leadership - Kean University, Union, NJ
B. A. Spanish Lit - Queen’s College, New York, NY
Certificates – High School Spanish Teacher, State of New York
High School Spanish Teacher, State of New Jersey
Principal Certificate, K-12, State of New Jersey
Information Technology Background
Software Consultant with broad background in project management, corporate training & pre-
sales presentations with Fortune 500 companies.
Developed and taught training seminars to corporate clients.
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Successful pre-sales presentations to client corporate executives.
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Successful implementation of mainframe applications, systems management, & client
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services.
Strong problem solving, excellent communication skills and client management skills.
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Technical skills: IBM's MVS/JCL, COBOL, COBOLII, DB2, VSAM, CICS, PEGASYS,
FILEAID, MS Office, MS Project, Visio, STROBE, QMF, REXX, CA-7, CA-11,
Bell Atlantic/Verizon Financial Applications, Computer Associates' Financial Software,
Walker Interactive Systems’ Financial Software.