Manager Management

Richard D. Morton

*** **** ******, ***** ****** New Jersey

email: *********@*****.***

(Cell) 201-***-****

Summary

Forward-thinking and resourceful senior executive with 45+ years of experience driving excellence in technical operations within financial organizations by engineering sophisticated, needs-focused technology solutions. Leads large, skilled teams to effectively complete comprehensive projects in highly matrixed and regulated financial environments. Success in aligning information systems and technology strategies with business needs through high-profile project management initiatives, technology process improvements, and maximization of resources. Proactive team leader and pace-setter able to identify key individual talents and drive long-term organizational success.

Specialties:

• Excellent client relationship management skills • Contemporary business technologist

•Highly effective communicator •Effective team building & managerial skills

•Strategic & tactical business development •Extensive P&L responsibility

•Crisis management expertise •World class service delivery

•Multi-million dollar contract negotiator •Projects delivered on time & within budget

•International Experience •Strategic analysis and application of technology

Experience

ConnectOne Bank - Englewood Cliffs New Jersey July 2015 to January 2016

Information Technology/Information Security Officer/Quality Assurance Manager

Managed Security group

Managed Infrastructure group

Managed Network group

Managed Service Desk

Managed Disaster Recovery group

Key Responsibilities:

Managed IT staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions. Benchmark, analyze, report on and make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure, Cyber Security and IT systems.

Managed security solutions which include the Anti-virus, Routers, Firewall, Email and Website content filtering systems. Oversee daily administration and operational functions of the network environment (network security, domain administration, server and client updates, routers and switches, daily backups, Wi-Fi connectivity, and maintenance).

Managed internal and external resources (Providers, Contractors, etc.).

Managed the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software and peripherals.

Managed financial aspects of the IT department, including purchasing, creating budgets and budget review.

Developed business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives.

Developed and implemented IT policies and procedures, including those for architecture, security, disaster recovery, standards, purchasing and service provision.

Worked with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations

Lead IT department planning, including fostering innovation, planning projects and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources.

Established and maintained regular written and in-person communications with the organization’s executives, department heads and end users regarding pertinent IT activities.

Kept current with technology updates to ensure technology opportunities are taken advantage of, whether the opportunities relate to speed, improved processing, cost efficiencies, etc.

Key Accomplishment(s):

Purchase and installation of Cybersecurity software, Purchase and configuration of service desk, and development of a Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Program.

Development of a Security Awareness Program.

Silver Search, Inc. – Fort Lee New Jersey February 2014 to July 2015

Control-M Architect/Engineer Consultant Client: NYK Line

Maintained security access to Control-M/EM environment.

Additions/Removals of Control-M Agents and the properties associated to them.

Illustrated subject matter expertise in the workload automation space with a complete knowledge of the enterprise scheduler environment.

Lead and performed enterprise scheduler/report distribution system upgrades.

Delivered business automation improvements and maximized the utilization of Enterprise Scheduling and Mainframe Automation Software.

Facilitated and lead cross-functional teams through projects to design, implement and support the adoption of new scheduling processes.

Provided expertise to users and leadership on complex batch processes.

Provided application teams with support on problem determination and resolution of scheduling issues.

Created reports and presentation materials related to scheduling.

Created ViewPoints to isolate jobs and applications within the active job environment.

Performed version upgrades for Control-M Servers/Agents

Applied Fix Packs to Control-M Servers/Agents

Key Accomplishment(s)

Total Upgrade of the Production and Non production Control-M environments to the latest version for the AIX, Solaris, Linux platforms.

P/S Partner Solutions LTD. – Livingston New Jersey September 2013 to December 2013

Control-M Architect/Engineer Consultant Client: CIT

Utilizing Control-M version 7.2 performed both distributed and mainframe architectural design for job scheduling.

Developed documentation for Infrastructure group on the functionality of Control-M Desktop and Enterprise Manager as well as mainframe Control-M.

Developed and performed training of IT Infrastructure/Operations group on Control-M and Mainframe environment.

Performed updates to Infopacm/ViewDirect database for report distribution.

Key Accomplishment(s)

Trained the entire IT division on the functionality of Control-M.

Ortley Beach Restoration – Ortley Beach New Jersey October 2012 to August 2013

Volunteer

JP Morgan Chase-- WHIPPANY, NEW JERSEY June 2008 to October 2012

Joined company in 2008 upon J.P. Morgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns

VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL ENTERPRISE SCHEDULING / PRODUCTION SUPPORT –

Responsible for the management and execution of a world class global scheduling environment.

Automated many manual type processes in an effort to eliminate recursive failures, abends leading to overall cost reduction.

Architect of Control-O automation rules

Architect of scheduling database which consists of 125,00 job definitions.

Managed a global staff of twenty-four schedulers

Work closely with decision makers in other functional areas to identify, recommend, develop, implement and support cost-effective and secure technology solutions for all aspects of the organization.

Provide mentoring and technical leadership to all of IT staff.

Effectively “raising the bar” through training, development, and otherwise continually improving the skills and effectiveness of the scheduling group.

Ensures that architectural standards, processes and procedures are understood and administered by the Global Scheduling Department.

Strong and effective relationship with Software vendors.

Responsible for designing the overall strategy for the long term company wide mainframe/systems.

Ensured proper management of changes to the technology under management to efficiency satisfy the needs of the business with regards to applications, solutions and support

Managed the implementation of technology in business improvement projects, advising on the operability aspects, feasibility, availability, cost and time estimations and possibility of implementation of the systems.

Consistently building enduring partnerships and teamwork across multiple lines of business as well as establishing/maintaining vendor relationships.

Consistently monitoring the external environment in order to understand changes in technology and the marketplace as it relates to large systems and mainframe technology.

Key Accomplishment(s)

Creation of the “Busy Signal” process.

Utilizing DB2 technology, the “Busy Signal” process prevented transmitted files from being over-written before they could be process by batch. This prevented both monetary loss and reputational damage.

BEAR STEARNS/WHIPPANY, NEW JERSEY January '97 to June 2008

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING/IMPLEMENTATION/PRODUCTION SUPPORT

Implementation of all new and existing application into the production environment

Manage the scheduling database of 70,000 job definitions.

Provide training for the entire Information Systems division on the functionality of Control-M and Change Management.

Additional responsibilities included Weekend Duty Manager which ensured that IT processes are on target

Technical and managerial guidance for a staff of twenty-one, quality assurance analyst and administrators

Verification of all scheduling changes to insure no negative impact to production processing

Reviewed interface specification documents and validated the architecture against requirements; understand and links business architecture with the technical architecture for the enterprise

Worked with other disciplines to satisfy business requirements and provide technical constraints

Worked closely with Application DBA group to avoid performance bottlenecks and that application queries worked at an optimal level.

Provided innovative solutions to push the boundaries of technical constraints.

Collaborated with project managers, technical directors, and business users to provision estimates and develop/review overall implementation solution plan.

Gate keeper of all production environments.

PC PROS Inc.- MOUNTAINSIDE, NEW JERSEY December 95 Jan '97

DIRECTOR of MIS

Managed and coached the entire Information Systems Division

Planning of projects and deliverables, and ensuring adherence to customer specifications.

Management of the Customer Service, Field Services, Consulting, Purchasing and Logistics Divisions.

Consultation and guidance to clients on issues regarding security, disaster recovery, and quality assurance planning.

Managed technology projects execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope

Developed and updated project plans for information technology projects including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing

Monitored and tracked project milestones and deliverables

FIRST FIDELITY BANCORPORATION-- NORTH BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY

DATA SECURITY MANAGER

June '93 to December ‘95

Responsibilities included managing the risk of the bank's data on a ES9000 platform.

Architect of the RACF security database.

Evaluation all new software to determine the risk to the corporation.

Resided as a member of the Corporate Contingency Planning Group

Designed the Corporation's Contingency Goals for both data processing and back office operations.

Provided all internal and external audit responses for the data center in regards to data security and contingency planning.

ANCHOR SAVINGS BANK / ANCHOR SYSTEMS CORPORATION-- WAYNE, NEW JERSEY March '80 to June '93

DATA SECURITY/DISASTER RECOVERY/QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER -

VICE PRESIDENT (1985 to 1993)

Management of change for the corporation that included environmental changes, hardware changes and the migration of all software into the data center.

Senior technical member of the bank's technology committee.

Evaluated all software and hardware to ensure the company's technology, security, and contingency position within the industry.

Manager of the Data Security and Disaster Recovery groups.

Architect of the company's security and contingency policies and procedures.

DATA CENTER MANAGER - VICE PRESIDENT (1983 to 1985)

Ensuring a stabled, secured, industry best-practiced environment for the development, testing and production of a corporate wide banking system.

Managed all aspects of the center (facilities, security/access, environment, etc.), responsibilities included the coordination of all phases of the disaster recovery plan; coordination of hardware/software acquisitions; management of HW/SW licenses, purchase and service agreements.

Management of the development and maintenance of related technical/operating documentation; as well as evaluating and implementing outsourcing opportunities for production systems.

SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING MANAGER - VICE PRESIDENT (1981 to 1983)

TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGER - ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT (1980 to 1981)

SEARS ROEBUCK & Co. – Secaucus NJ - Operations/Technical Support Supervisor 1969 - 1980

Operating Z/OS, UNIX, Windows and AIX, Linux, Solaris

Environments

SOFTWARE OS/MVS-XA/ESA, JESII, CICS, MVS/JCL,

UTILITIES, VSAM, TSO/ISPF/SDSF. DYL280,

Serena’s Changeman

SCHEDULING BMC’s Configuration Manager Version 8.0.0

PACKAGES BMC’s Reporting Facility Version 8.0.0

BMC’s Workload Automation Version 8.0.0

BMC’s Mainframe Control-M/O/R Version 7.2

BMC’s Enterprise Manager (GUI) Version 7.2

BMC’s Configuration Manager Version 7.2

Batch Impact Manager (BIM)

PC SOFTWARE MICROSOFT WORD, EXCEL

OUTLOOK, LOTUS NOTES and POWERPOINT

SharePoint, ServiceNow

SECURITY RACF, TOP SECRET, ACF2

SOFTWARE IBM BIGFIX, QRADAR, MAAS360, TRUSTEER

Education

SAINT PETERS COLLEGE 1995 - 1998

Bachelor Science degree Business Management

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

Control-M User Group (NECUG – former President)

Community Services

New Jersey Shore Restoration

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