Project Manager Vice President

MICHAEL KAPLAN, Ph.D.

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Software Project Management Systems Architecture

World-class programmer and talented project manager with considerable

experience in financial services industry. Designed, built, deployed, and

supported mission-critical applications for internal users and external

customers. Respected by peers and senior management. A motivational

leader, mentored fellow developers and support staff. Dedicated, detail-

oriented professional with excellent communication skills. In-depth

technical expertise and broad industry knowledge have enabled timely

delivery of efficient and reliable solutions under budget, effectively

meeting business requirements. Willing to relocate for the right

opportunity. Willing and able to learn and master new technologies,

platforms, languages, databases, tools, libraries, and frameworks.

Areas of Expertise

Information Technology ? Software Engineering ? Project Management ?

Software Architecture

SDLC ? Requirements Analysis ? Software Design ? Software Development ?

Testing ? Debugging Software Implementation/Deployment ? Software

Maintenance ? Object-Oriented Programming

UNIX ? Linux ? Windows ? C++ ? Java ? C ? C# ? Smalltalk

Databases ? Database Design ? Oracle ? SQL Server ? Sybase ? SQL ? Transact-

SQL ? PL/SQL

Code Refactoring ? Performance Tuning ? Query Optimization ?

ClearCase/ClearQuest ? AutoSys

professional experience

State Street Corporation, Boston, MA

Systems Architect - Vice President, (October 2010 to January 2014)

After Deutsche Asset Management (DB) outsourced their U.S. middle- and back-

office business to State Street (SSC), continued to serve as IT Product

Manager (ITPM) for PIMS portfolio accounting application, pending

completion of migration to State Street enterprise platform. Additional

accomplishments included the following:

. Project manager for migration of AutoSys job scheduling platform from

shared servers in UK to dedicated, US-based servers. Updated script to

trigger Tivoli notification of job alerts.

. Identified in-scope tables and designed control variables to aid

verification of archived legacy accounting data.

. Continued to prepare, submit, and test DB Inter-Network Connectivity

Requests (INCRs), for SSC access to servers and websites via Deutsche

Bank VPN.

. Project manager for decommissioning of PIMS servers and databases.

. Facilitated transfer of software licenses from DB to SSC (AutoSys,

Mercator, and Orbix).

. For State Street's German fund accounting team, purged historical data

via built-in data cleanup utilities in SimCorp Dimension; also

investigated and resolved system throughput issues in NAV calculations

and various data extractions within SimCorp Dimension.

Deutsche Asset Management, Boston, MA

IT Product Manager - Vice President, (April 2002 to October 2010)

. As IT Product Manager (ITPM) for PIMS, complied with Bank application

information security standards and policies: (a) participated in

internal/external audits (SOx compliance, SSAE 16, SEC, and FED reviews),

remediating gaps as needed; (b) coordinated annual DR tests, including

recovery plans, failover/failback scripts, business user testing, and

remediation of issues; (c) implemented

production lockdown strategies on UNIX and Windows servers, administering

production access privileges for IT staff; (d) monitored security

environments on production servers, remediating security gaps or applying

compensating controls; (e) implemented change management process,

including formal review and approval via Remedy and other tools; and

(f) implemented code comparison procedures (UNIX, Wintel, database

schema, and DDL).

. As database architect, defined tables, indexes, and stored procedures.

. Continued to develop code for data feeds and other system components.

. Refactored code to eliminate obsolete or unused code, improving system

understanding, supportability, and extensibility,

. Project manager for various infrastructure upgrades: (a) data center

migration from Scudder sites to DB locations in New Jersey, maintaining

DR functionality via EMC SRDF; (b) replacement

of 11 obsolete HP UNIX servers with three new Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER servers;

and (c) virtualization of 17 Wintel servers, via VMware, after retiring

more than 20 outdated servers, maintaining load-balancing and DR

capabilities.

. Maintained multiple, parallel AutoSys job streams, permitting system

integration testing, UAT, benchmarking, and troubleshooting of production

issues.

. Served as backup escalation for production support issues.

. Monitored system performance, addressing delays in transaction

throughput, report generation, and batch processing.

. Prior to outsourcing to State Street: identified required apps and

websites; and participated in email work stream, considering email

forwarding, mailing lists, and shared mailboxes.

. Worked closely with vendor of SimCorp Dimension, developing custom SQL

scripts for DWS (Deutsche Bank's German fund group); deleted older

historical data in Oracle back-end database, reducing database size to

improve system performance, decrease database storage, cut software

upgrade installation time, and defer acquisition of additional storage.

Zurich Scudder Investments, Boston, MA

Vice President, (March 2000 to April 2002)

. As Project Manager for PIMS Stabilization Task Force, worked with system

administrators, DBAs, developers, and application production support

staff to improve system reliability and availability, providing

sufficient resilience to withstand limited network outages, server

failures, and delays in inbound data feeds without impact on user base.

. Improved end-of-day processing run time by two hours, eliminating day-to-

day variation, via non-default database fill factors for frequently

updated tables and expanded weekly database maintenance tasks, purging

older historical data and rebuilding indexes to reduce fragmentation.

. Consolidated overnight processing on two servers, allowing intraday

reports to run on dedicated reporting server, avoiding contention with

transaction processing.

. Configured Sybase Monitor Server and Historical Server to provide daily

and weekly resource usage reports, focusing tuning efforts by identifying

frequently accessed tables and inefficient stored procedures.

. Reordered batch jobs to minimize contention of disk and database

resources, running various jobs in parallel to take advantage of idle

resources.

. Implemented disaster recovery capability, with primary site in Boston and

backup in Norwell, MA, via EMC SRDF.

. Coordinated upgrade of software configuration management system to

IBM/Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest.

. Optimized component performance generation process, saving a day from

month-end processing cycle.

Scudder Kemper Investments, Boston, MA

Assistant Vice President, (March 1998 to March 2000)

. Member of core accounting development team for PIMS, a portfolio

accounting system serving U.S. mutual funds, institutional accounts,

insurance assets, and high-net-worth individual accounts, with more than

10,000 active portfolios processed, several hundred thousand tax lots,

thousands of transactions daily, and over $100 billion AUM (with about

1,000 end users).

. Development focused on Sybase back-end database, UNIX accounting engine,

and data feeds (written in C and C++, under Solaris and HP-UX, with Tcl

and Perl for scripting).

. Enhanced shareware Sybase query plan analyzer, allowing developers to

easily identify inefficient SQL code and quickly test impacts of code

changes and/or new indexes; promoted use of tool by peers, encouraging

proactive consideration of system performance.

. Improved performance of Sybase stored procedures used in reporting and

online inquiry.

. As release manager, maintained 15 concurrent coding/testing streams via

SCCS, synchronizing development, test, training, and production

environments.

. Promoted to manager of core development team, including a total of six

developers.

Standard & Poor's DRI (previously DRI/McGraw-Hill, now IHS Global Insight),

Lexington, MA

Senior Associate, (May 1982 to February 1998)

. Project manager, system architect, and principal developer for various

commercial packages, including: (a) PC*Model, supporting large-scale

macroeconomic models, allowing data manipulation, changing assumptions,

solving models, and displaying results; (b) MODEL/386, extending PC*Model

to x86-32 platform; (c) EPS/PC, DRI's first analytical platform for the

PC, with workspace environment, time series manipulation, graphics,

report writing, linear regression, and seasonal adjustment.; and (d)

DRIBase/GT, a portable, multi-tier application, with graphical user

interface, production-quality graphical and tabular output, analytical

functions, and programming capabilities, and back-end relational database

for time series data.

. Conceived computer-aided re-engineering system for legacy code: (a)

designed new language, mapping ALGOL syntax into legal C++ syntax; (b)

implemented class library with required data types and semantic behavior;

and (c) developed source-to-source translator.

. Technical support for DRILINK, an integrated analytical system for multi-

user UNIX super-microcomputers, with data communications, business

graphics, arithmetic/statistical functions, spreadsheet modeling, report

writing, word processing, database management, and application

development tools.

EducatioN

Case Western Reserve University, Ph.D., Systems and Control Engineering

Case Western Reserve University, M.S., Systems and Control Engineering

Case Western Reserve University, B.S., Engineering, Computer & Systems

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