Project Manager Insurance

CV of Mr. Wai Tak Sit

Personal Details

Name Sit Wai Tak

Contact Phone: +852-********

Email: *****@********.*** / ********@*****.***

Education 1998~1999 - Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Master of Business Administration (Accountancy

specialization - accredited by the Institute of

Chartered Accountants of NZ)

1979~1982 - University of Essex, England

Bachelor (Hons) in Computer Science

Language Fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Capability Project Management Test Management & QA

Business Analysis Database Design

Expected Negotiable

Salary

Availability Immediate

Key Assignments

Managing the delivery of a test factory solution to a global bank

in Hong Kong thru a wealth management pilot project.

Planning and coordinating testing activities amongst technical

teams, vendors and PMO including formulating conversion

strategies for the bank-wide Loans Management Systems for BEA

Ltd.

Quality assurance and test management of outsource vendor (NIIT

of Singapore) the delivery of a collateral system for DBS Bank

(HK).

Managing the merged core general insurance system and managing

outsource vendor (Reasoning, Inc of US) for the delivery of a

core on-line system converting from Ingress to Oracle platform

for Eagle Star Insurance Ltd.

The development of a new general insurance system (P&C,

Engineering, Marine and Personal) for Guardian Royal Exchange for

5 Asia countries.

Developing a flight and crew roster scheduling applications for

Cathay Pacific Airways Limited.

Leading, developing, coaching and implementing a bulk product

distribution system for BP (NZ).

Initiating, developing and implementing a new library

acquisitions system using 4GL and DBMS for National Library of

New Zealand.

Developing and implementing a new IT strategy using 4GL & DBMS

for Woolworths' general ledger system.

Summary of Skills

Combined skills in IT, Accountancy, MBA.

Over 20 year experience in the information technology industry of

which 12 years in banking, finance & insurance.

6 years in General Insurance (P&C, Marine, Engineering, Personal)

as project manager and senior analyst

Over 7 years in Banking:

2 years as Test Manager in Project Management Office.

4 years in Loans team, as infrastructure project leader &

coordinator (Test Environment Owner) supporting different testing

environments for core banking loans system and coordinating

amongst various bank-wide systems, vendors and PMO.

4 years in Airlines

2 years in Oil industry

Experienced, confident, trusted professional working attitude,

reliable, able to deliver projects successfully on time within

budget.

Proficient in PC software such as Word, Excel and Power Point, MS

Project.

Familiar with and hands-on experience with multi-hardware

platforms & OS, DataBases and languages including IBM mainframe,

AS400, Unix, windows, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, Adabas,

Cobol, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, Unix scripts, Natural, Visual Basic,

Java, C, Python,Drupal 7, PHP

Good people skills and vendor management.

Communicating effectively with different people at different

levels

Fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Work Experience

Company Computer Recruitment Consultants Limited

Secondment to Bank of China (HK) Limited

Position Contract Systems Analyst 1st March 2014 - 31 July

2014

Position Type Contract

Business Banking

Projects Banking - Limit Control System Phase 3(LCS)

Responsibiliti Develop Host batch specifications of the revamp

es project.

Assist in designing the overall Batch processing

replacing VSAM by DB2.

Assist in the testing support of various test stages

Coordinate the development work between 3rd party

vendor in Shen Zhen and Hong Kong.

Technical IBM Mainframe, DB2, COBOL,Lotus Notes.

Involvements

Company Tata Consultancy Services

Secondment to Toshiba Solutions Corporation for Bank

of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Hong Kong.

Position IT Analyst 14th Nov 2012 - 18th Aug 2013

Position Type Permanent

Business IT Consultancy Services

Projects Banking - International Financial Reporting System

(IFRS)

Responsibiliti Review requirement specifications.

es Develop IBM Mainframe Program Specifications, Programs

and Test Plans.

Develop Application program using Cobol DB2.

Assist in system integration test.

Technical IBM Mainframe, DB2, COBOL,Lotus Notes.

Involvements

Company SunGard Systems Limited ( Asia Pacific) - Global

Services

Position Project Manager of a test project (Test Manager) -

01st July 2011 to 20/11/2011

Position Type Permanent

Business IT Global Consultancy Services

Projects Banking - Securities Retail Custody Services

Responsibiliti Manage the testing project outcomes to deliver the

es test factory solution to the client in order to engage

in a long term engagement thru this pilot project.

Lead a multi-cultural on-site professional test team

locally and off-site test team in Shanghai.

Work with the Client's test manager on the client side

Responsible for project scheduling and resource

planning for the test team.

Responsible for project planning, Resources and Cost

planning

Prepare Test Strategy.

Responsible for the preparation of Detailed Test Plain

for various test phases.

Review business requirement solution proposals

Review test plans & test cases against requirement

solutions

Review documents on test automation using Quick Test

Pro and data worksheets.

Track test cases execution and defect fixing

turnaround time.

Conduct regular defect meeting and defect resolution

determination

Track project status and milestone delivery against

Schedules

Provide Regular progress reporting to client

management team

Technical IBM iSeries (AS400), DB2, HP Quick Test Pro & Quality

Involvements Center.

Company Bank of East Asia Limited

Position Contract Systems Specialist - 01st Feb 2007 to 31st

Jan 2011

Business Banking

Projects Consumer Loans and New Core Loans System

Responsibiliti Test Environment Owner, IT infrastructure team leader

es and test coordinator for the new core banking loans

system.

Working with internal stakeholders (ITD, PMO&BA,

Operations, System Engineering, Interfacing Systems,

Users) to ensure testing environments for different

test phases (SIT, UAT, Regression Test, Rehearsal

test) are ready according to testing schedule.

Mobilize various working parties to setup the testing

environments and testing support.

Supervise testing environments setup for SIT, UAT,

Rehearsal Test for both Open Platform and Mainframe

platform.

Participate in non-functional tests such as network

connectivity, performance test, load test, operations

test.

Use HP Quality Centre for defect management and

reporting.

Defect fixing and issue clarifications between users

and vendors.

Post implementation review and support.

Provide key strategies for system conversion between

various existing loans systems and the new bank-wide

core loans system

Perform data mapping between the legacy Loans system

and the new Loans System for Migration project

Support legacy consumer loans systems.

Develop new applications including programming for the

Bank's subsidiary following the bank standards and

SDLC methodology including feasibility, user

requirements, impact analysis, User Accept Test and

live implementation.

IT coordinator for small scale user department merging

projects

Technical IBM Mainframe, CICS, Cobol, DB2, Unix, Oracle,

Involvements Windows, MS SQL Server.

Company DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited

Position Contract Test Manager (PMO )- 13th June 2005 to 31st

December 2006

Business Banking

Projects Collateral Project

Responsibiliti Responsible for cost planning and budgeting.

es Participate in outsource vendor selection

Participate in problem and requirement collection

Participate in requirement analysis and system

prototyping (more than 10 user departments involved)

Participate in logical data model and Physical data

model design and review

Analyse business requirements and communicate with

users and vendor to formulate testing needs and

quality expectancy

Responsible for formulating test strategy, and

preparing various test phase detailed test plans (SIT,

UAT) and other test documents

Responsible for outsource vendor management and the

quality assurance of vendor deliverables

Liaise with business and development teams on test

activities

Responsible for different stages of testing including

functional and non-functional test, System integration

test, performance test, test preparation, test plan

development and test execution.

Test Case preparation, data provisioning & planning

for system test and system integration test.

Defect lodging, screening, prioritizing. Coordinating

between vendor and user on defect fixing and service

level (turnaround time)

Monitor, control and report testing progress to ensure

the project is on track within cost & time, and

acceptable quality.

Monitor risk and issue register to ensure that both

risks and issues are communicated to and being tackled

by project stakeholders including Project members and

Steering Committee.

Provide regular test metrics reports & test summary

for project steering committee.

Prepare user training materials and conduct user

training

Responsible for coordinating UAT (user acceptance

test) preparation and execution

Technical Intranet based browser system using J2EE, IBM

Involvements websphere on Wintel platform and SQL server 2000.

Company iAsia On-line Systems Limited

Position Contract Systems Analyst - 18th Nov 2004 to 17th May

2005

Business Software Vendor major in financial trading platform

Projects Food & Beverage Point of sale system

Futures Trading System

Securities Trading System

Insurance Broker System

Responsibiliti Responsible for documenting existing application

es systems

Responsible for Internal support and internal control

Documenting the process flow of the futures front end

systems.

Prepare presentation materials for project tenders and

pre-sale presentation.

Conduct customer on-site support on the insurance

broker system.

Hands-on programming work on Futures Front End trading

System and Insurance Broker System.

Hands-on technical review of the database design and

program modification of the Insurance Broker System.

Assist in stress test of the securities system

Technical Visual Basic, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Java, C, C++,

Involvements Windows, Unix

Company Eagle Star Insurance Ltd, HK.

Position Project Manager - 8th Dec 1999 to 25th Sept 2001

Business General Insurance

Project General Insurance System

To implement a merged system for Eagle Star Insurance

and Zurich Insurance. The project capacity was US$1.5M

for 12 months.

Responsibiliti Co-manage the project with the project manager of

es Zurich including Project Planning, Project scheduling,

resource planning costing & budget control, Quality

Assurance.

Manage the project technical environment(hardware and

network equipment purchasing) and arrange training to

IT staff.

Ensure the project comply with corporate IT governance

guidelines.

Monitor, Report and review project implementation

progress.

Perform gap analysis between the new & old systems.

Participate in the analysis and design of the merged

general insurance system including online and batch

processing.

Monitor project risks; escalate issues and design

mitigation plans

Responsible for managing outsource vendor's

deliverables from the USA, which included the UAT of

the different functional modules such as policy

administration, claims, channel management and

re-insurance.

Prepared user testing procedures, test plan templates

and sign-off documents of deliverables from the USA.

Prepare major communication documents to project

partners.

Write programming specifications and data mapping for

programmers.

Develop applications using Oracle Forms, Reports and

PL/SQL

Responsible for the daily operations, trouble shooting

of the legacy system Insurance90 on AS400.

Technical Unix, Oracle 8i, Forms, Report and PL/SQL, AS400 Cobol

Involvements

Company BP (NZ) Ltd

Position Contract Consultant - Nov 95 to Jan 97

Business Petroleum Provider

Projects OVC - BPM Interface ( IBM Mainframe environment)

Construction of a Sales Database ( Unix Oracle

environment)

International System Project Conversion (IBM Natural

Adabas to Unix Oracle)

Responsibiliti Write interface programs for the OVC uploading process

es

Write JCL for the uploading the OVC transmission file

from Unix to IBM

Automate the existing trip reconciliation processes of

the Bulk Product Movement system to a fully automated

process

Perform sales database performance tuning on Oracle

sales system.

Write JCL & Unix Scripts to automate daily data

extraction from IBM mainframe to Oracle.

Perform DBA functions on building and maintaining the

Oracle conversion database

Build SQLPlus scripts and PL/SQL programs to perform

data conversion to the ISP's Database.

Technical Oracle 7i, PL/SQL and SQL Plus, Unix, IBM Natural

Involvements Adabas

Company Guardian Royal Exchange (Asia), HK

Position Senior Analyst / MIS Project Leader - Apr 92 to Aug 95

Business General Insurance System

Projects General Insurance System

It was a large IT project with capacity over HK$100M

in 5 years involving 5 Asian countries.

Responsibiliti Participate in project initialization and submission -

es defining project scope, project schedule and

projecting project cost for management approval.

Define system platform and perform hardware and

software selection exercise

Perform logical system design and data modeling using

LBMS (SSAMD) methodology.

Participate in the analysis and design of the core

insurance system including product lines (P&C, Marine,

Engineering, Group, Medical), policy administration

(quotation, underwriting), claims, re-insurance.

Conduct business studies and problems/requirements

Analysis.

Document functional specifications and map solutions

to problems/requirements.

Build prototypes using Ingres Windows4GL & Visual

Basic

Report tools evaluation and selection.

Negotiate with country managers on MIS reporting

requirements

Define and design MIS database for corporate financial

reporting

Provide gap analysis and regular requirement updates

between MIS team and on-line team

Manage a team of 5 report analysts/programmers in

developing MIS reports using MS Access.

Technical Oracle, Visual Basic, MS Access, Crystal Report,

Involvements Ingres, Ingres Window 4GL, Unix.

Company BP (NZ) Ltd.

Position Contract Consultant - Apr 90 to Mar 91

Business Petroleum Provider

Projects Product Distribution and Stock control System

Responsibiliti Manage the system architecture for the project,

es Design applications to simplify workflow,

Establish database and application standards,

Train team members the use of Standard Files, physical

files and logical files.

Responsible for the design of logical and physical

databases,

Develop structured charts and ER-diagrams,

Perform data & conversion analysis,

Administrate databases using Predict and Adabas

utilities,

Provide Training to the development team on using 4GL

and RBMS.

Provide technical leadership in guiding and coaching

the development team,

Schedule and prioritise tasks for the team,

Establish programming templates for the development

team,

Programming the major application functions,

Perform unit, system testing(ST), System Integration

Test (SIT)

Support user acceptance testing (UAT).

Technical IBM Mainframe, Natural 2 / Adabas, Predict and IEW

Involvements

Company Databank Systems (NZ) Ltd.

Position Contract Senior Programmer - Jan 1989 to Jan 1990

Business Banking

Projects Integrated Banking Information Systems (Phase 1C)

Responsibiliti Develop Application Programs using Hogan.

es Produce programming specification

Review and walkthrough Requirement specification with

analyst team

Perform programming, unit testing, System testing and

System Integration Test (SIT)

Data provisioning for various testing phases.

Support user acceptance test (UAT)

Technical Cobol, IMS, DB2, Hogan.

Involvements

Company Woolworths NZ Ltd

Position Contract Analyst - July 1987 to Nov 1988

Business Retail Supermarket Chain

Projects General Ledger and Accounts Receivable

Responsibiliti Evaluate existing General Ledger and Accounts

es Receivable systems

Provide technical consultancy and advice on the best

use of database and 4GL

Define Database Standards and programming templates

Database Administration

Perform user requirement study and functional

analysis.

Perform programming and unit testing.

Technical IBM DOS/VSE, Natural 2/Adabas

Involvements

Company National Library of New Zealand

Position Project Leader to Contract Project Leader - Jan 1987

to Mar 1988

Business National Library

Projects Acquisitions System

Responsibiliti Perform day to day management of the project.

es Perform System evaluation and project initialization

Perform Resource planning and project scheduling

Conduct New user requirements study on sales tax and

workflow re-engineering.

Prepare functional requirement documents.

Prepare detailed design documents and other technical

documents for programmers

Write JCL and system function to simply evening batch

processing and operation control.

Responsible for database design and functional design

Establish development standards

Prepare program specifications for programmers

Manage a team of 5 programmers

Program testing and refining.

Technical Natural/Adabas, PL/1, CICS and MVS/JCL

Involvements

Company Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, HK.

Position Computer Project Officer II -

Mar 83 to Jan 87

Business Airline

Projects Flight & Crew Total System

Responsibiliti Participate in the following phases of a large project

es development

stage 1: Flight Scheduling System

stage 2: Crew Roster History Recording system

stage 3: Crew Personnel and Administration System

stage 4: Crew Roster Scheduling System

Technical IBM Mainframe, Natural/ Adabas, PL/1, MVS, CICS, JCL

Involvements

References

Mr. Samuel Lam, Director, George Samuel Associates Ltd., HK. (852) 2869-

7151

Mr. Wilson Cheng, Senior Manager, the Bank of East Asia Ltd, HK (852) 9271-

7884

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