Project Manager Management

ILDAR GABITOV 336-***-****

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Greensboro, NC 27410 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ildar-gabitov/3a/612/113

SUMMARY

An accomplished Risk Management Leader with over 15 years of comprehensive experience at a Fortune 500 company. Highly knowledgeable in designing and implementing Risk Management, Business Rules Engines/Platforms for Credit/Collections Operations. Effective leader and understanding, innovative individual with the excellent sense of teamwork, who gets proven results by instilling commitment, trust, fairness, and loyalty. Experience in:

• Risk Management • Applications Development

• Staff Management & Development • Project Management

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AMERICAN EXPRESS, Greensboro, NC and New York, NY 1993-2012

Senior Manager, 2006-2012

As senior member of Business Rules team, served as mentor and coach for 6 direct reports and other cross functional team members. As a leader developed team members for entry-level positions and succession to other areas. Assisted clients in achieving their objectives, while maintaining operational visibility and supporting existing functionality of business rules.

• Successfully led the transition of job function to a new team of ten people. Established overall plan and milestones. Coached and mentored new managers while teaching whole team and acting as a SME. Ensured smooth transition by supporting business needs directly at first and in advisory capacity to new team members afterwards.

• Championed incorporation of existing team into Business Rules team by providing extensive coaching and knowledge transfer. Migrated new team onto established coding and documentation standards.

• Spearheaded business rules development and provided meaningful insights for US Consumer and Small Business credit inventory management re-write project. Estimated annual savings of $3,000,000.

Project Manager, 2000-2006

As a project manager, supported Risk Management, Six Sigma, and Credit Operations by advising on Business Rule capabilities, limitations, and compliance and legal implications of changes using prior experience as Risk Manager. As Subject Matter Expert provided advice on Business Rules, Operating Environment and Change Management process to clients. Developed, executed and provided post implementation support of projects involving changes to Business Rules.

• Led team support for Intranet-based Change Management System upgrade development, testing, implementation and post-implementation troubleshooting.

• Established Coding and Documentation standards for Business Rules team.

• Supported new risk management projects for lending and collection strategies for Consumer and Small Business segments. Total estimated annual savings of $5,000,000.

• Completed Account Receivables process for Corporate US and Canadian Small Business and Consumer segments. Estimated annual savings of $1,500,000.

• Developed Lotus Notes-based Change management System.

Risk Manager, 1997-2000

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As innovative professional, managed large-scale risk management projects and developed risk models for credit related projects. Managed and coached members of virtual project teams to ensure accurate and timely delivery of the projects. Served as Mentor to new team members.

• Coached new Risk Managers on Business Rules Software functionality, capabilities and limitations. Enabled new team members to independently execute projects in their area of responsibility.

• Developed Visual Basic Scripting tool for executing short-term automation scripts. Taught other team members how to use this tool. Enabled fast-track implementation or small to medium-scale risk projects. Annual savings of $500,000.

• Analyzed performance and led development of Risk Assessment and Action Environment for Government charge card portfolio. Estimated annual credit loss prevention of $2 MM. Received Chairman’s Award for successful implementation.

Project Leader and Software Developer, 1993-1997

Developed software applications using C, C++, FoxPro to support risk management strategies. Lead team of developers by providing coaching, expertise and professional development.

• Developed multiple C and C++ applications to execute automated processes in support of various risk strategies. These applications saved company 3 million dollars annually.

• Led the transition of team into a multi-tier environment to better serve needs of internal clients. As a result Project leader positions were created to oversee and lead application development for specific support areas (i.e. Credit Operations, Customer Service, etc.). Was promoted into one of these positions.

• Envisioned and championed implementation of coding and documentation standards. Facilitated weekly review meetings for developers and business analysts. Standardization enabled team to lower application defects, improve maintainability and speed up new developers

EDUCATION / TRAINING

Master of Business Administration, Global Management

University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

Master of Science, Radio Design and Technology

Kazan Technical University, Kazan, Russia

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics

Moscow State University, Physics-mathematics College, Moscow, Russia

Professional Development courses or certifications

• Six Sigma – Green Belt • Situational Leadership for Leaders

• MAP (version of Method I)

• Visual Basic

• C, C++ • MS Project

• Visio

• SQL

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT INFORMATION

Fluent in Russian

1991-93 – Kazan, Russia – co-owned and managed sales and repair business of office electronic equipment. As a president performed following functions:

• Employee hiring and retention.

• Relationship with financial institutions, bookkeeping, tax preparation.

• Vendor relationship, purchasing equipment and parts.

• Client relationship – sales, servicing and repairs.

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