Westbury NY, ***** Stephen B. Daidone Home: 516-***-**** tk819p@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 516-***-****

SENIOR IT PROJECT MANAGER / BUSINESS ANALYST

Innovative and solution oriented manager directing all initiatives and activities relating to project manager, IT manager, business analysis, relationship management, communications/infrastructure implementation, compliance, application development and architecture. Accomplished in cost analysis, planning, strategic analysis, middleware deployment, quality assurance testing, application development and deployment of key quality projects. Experienced professional with progressive experience as an IT manager with strong client relational and organizational skills. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Exceptional record of leadership and achievement in both line and advisory positions with demonstrated experience and proficiency as:

• Enterprise wide, across division, Multi Platform Implementation.

• Experienced in conducting Strategic Assessments and full Project Life Cycle.

• Systems Development/Design of Corporate Data and Architectural Structures.

• Implemented Network Infrastructure and Client/Server Support Services.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Strategic Assessments/Planning • Systems Development/Redesign • Large-Scale Project Management

• Multiple/Integrated Platforms • Technical Staff Supervision • Enterprise Architecture

• Business Analysis Support Acumen • Leadership/Interpersonal Skills • Team Building

• Industry Wide Relations • Best Practices / Methodologies • Enterprise Resource Planning

• Disaster Recovery • Technical Infrastructure • Business Process Automation

• Due Diligence • Quality Assurance/Control • Enterprise Implementation

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

SBD Management Group Inc. NY. NY. December/2005–Present

A consulting Company

Cablevision System Corporation Inc.

Senior Project Management (Consultant) April/2008–October/2008

A Senior Project Manager assigned to the Network Management team of the Firm, given the responsibility to manage the application development and support services for the Optimum Voice (OV) division of the Firm. This includes client interfacing, business requirements gathering/review development, implementation planning, overall project tracking/reporting, cost control management, IT governance and validation for the groups PLC policies, procedures and Quality Assurance and integration services. The applications are written using BEA(Oracle) Weblogic development platform, executing under a Vitria middleware or J2EE/.Net environment using numerous Oracle databases in a Sun Solaris/Windows operating environment. Accomplishments are;

• Managed the development and implementation of improved functionality of the groups Master Street Address Guide (MSAG) provisioning system to support the OV customer base for voice services, problem resolution and direct emergency routing and medical services.

• Assisted the Operations Service Technology group in a Oracle database Cluster migration project. Performed the preparation, notification and planning with the firm’s operations management, restart/reload procedures and core application testing.

• Enhanced the processing of the Geographic location processing in identifying state, city, county and town location boarders in assigning OV phone numbers within the bounders of NPA and NXX assigned ranges as recognized by the US local and long distance phone carriers.

• Managed the Operations Service Technology group in organizing and deployment of a replacement Remedy HA environment to support the Firms Network Management division including all issues related the LightPath business support services division.

JPMorgan Chase Inc. (Asset Management).

Senior Project Management (Consultant) October/2007–March/2008

As a Senior Project Manager, currently assigned to the Investment Management Americas Technology team under the Asset Management Group of the Firm. responsible for the development and implementation of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application offered by Pyxis Mobile Inc. The product consists of a Blackberry front-end application, which interfaces to a Sybase/Sql server database back-end. This project involves the management of the group’s methodology, implementation planning, overall project tracking/reporting, issues/risk management, client interfacing, business requirements gathering and validation of the Firms Customer information database. My responsibilities and accomplishments are;

• Engage the Asset management clients to develop business requirements, Blackberry screen functionality and the overall processing flow of the application.

• Managed the program processes, project planning, resources, project tracking and reporting, timelines and insure corporate document management standards are followed and implemented.

• Enforcement of QA standards, IT governance, PMO methodology, access security and implementation readiness.

• Assisted the infrastructure and communication groups in creating the Windows/VMware instance and the installation of DNS entries and aliases for Development, UAT, Production and DR environments.

• Engaged the Blackberry support services group in the configuration of the access paths permitting the PyxisMobile application (mInstitutional) to process thru corporate BES servers.

• Collaborated with the DBA groups to design and develop the Sql database and installation of the access privileges to the CRM Sybase database.

• Manage the database development team in creating a series of Stored Procedures which supports the Blackberry application.

VectorMax Corporation.

Senior Project Manager, PMO, Business Analyst March/2007-Sept/2007

Assigned the responsibility to develop a Project Management Office (PMO) for the Firm’s four primary lines of business in software development and IP communication. This task includes the development of the Firms project life cycle for the development, infrastructure, Quality Assurance (QA) and support services teams which cover the development environments written in C++/.Net, and Linux. My areas of responsibilities and accomplishments are;

• Built the processing procedures, strategy, tollgates and approval process for project implementation and verification necessary to comply with the requirements as requested by clients and management.

• Managed with the installation and configuration of Microsoft Project Server with supporting templates, procedures and SharePoint document Management including Project Portfolio, MS Exchange and Active Directory Services.

• Developed the production migration procedure for back-up and restoration of production deployment and for determination of problem resolution including QA standards and change control procedures.

• Develop numerous Project Life cycles and standardized planning templates in SDLC, RUP and Agile methodology formats to correctly represent the four development groups.

• Developed a number of standardize methodologies of project planning and guidelines for resource management used in project analysis. Provided the procedures guidelines for proper testing of software development by using unit, regression, QA and finally UAT validation process.

JPMorganChase Inc.

Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst (Consultant) January/2007–March/2007

Assigned to assist management in the decommissioning of a VMS based accounting system that supports the JPMorgan Asset Management group of the firm. Processing a database over a terabyte in size, the application consist of 28+ sub applications which feeds hundreds of other applications throughout the company. Responsibilities included;

• The decommissioning of a custom accounts reporting process which supports the generation of custom account data to a new ETL Informatica generated database using Oracle as database engine.

• The rewrite of the Short term Pricing matrix and private placement pricing application which supports the JPMC funds trading desk on a daily bases.

• Rewrite of a Fixed Income settlement application that supports trade confirmations, trade letter messaging and custody client accounts using DTC/ISITC, Swift and EGate messaging.

• Managed the client relocation including a data center migration into a new corporate managed building of a portfolio based subsidiary of firm from the Chicago area into the JPMC Boston facility.

Merrill Lynch Inc.

Senior Project Manager, Senior System Architect (Consultant) September/2006–November/2006

In the role of Senior System Architect, assigned to perform a system assessment/feasibility study with the Firm’s Fixed Income Government Securities, Mortgage-Backed, Asset Backed Clearing, Settlement and Custody Back-office trading application. My responsibilities included;

• Written requirements for a technical understanding of the current application which includes functionality of 20+ operating sub-systems, use and design of over 80 Mainframe VSAM files, 30+ Managed processing Queues (MQ), 20+ inbound sources of transaction requests and 29+ outbound transaction downstream application feeds.

• To provide management a high-level detail proposal that would maintain years of investment in the current system and demonstrate how a distributed architecture using a combination of Windows, UNIX and Linux can enhance the application.

• Provide a path to introduce a distributed architecture that would allow flexibility and speed of development in the application and provide a method of processing securities on a global level.

Morgan Stanley Inc.

Senior Project Management, PMO, Business Analyst (Consultant) March/2006–August/2006

As a member of the Program Office assigned to the Corporate IT– compliance and audit divisions to manage the methodology, implementation planning, overall project tracking/reporting, client interfacing and business requirements gathering, IT governance and validation for the firms Anti-Money Laundering group for Retail and Investment Management sectors of the Firm. With 30+ initiatives, responsibilities and accomplishments are;

• Engage the corporate law internal clients, develop business criteria surveillance program processes and manage the planning, resources, project tracking, project cost and timelines.

• Enhanced infrastructure and communication management, hardware analysis, project reporting to business and senior management including data analysis, Use cases, UML, UAT validation.

• Assisted in production implementation and monitoring in a Windows/Web/.Net, UNIX and Linux environment utilizing WebSphere/J2EE development environment, SAS application server processing and DB2 database management.

JPMorganChase Inc.

Senior Project Management, Business Analyst, PMO (Consultant) December/2005 – March/2006

As a Senior Project Manager, managing a staff of four Senior Business analysts, recruited to review, implement, manage and support the line of business (LOB) and corporate sector merger initiatives including business as usual (BAU) projects for all finance related activity that effect the Firm’s books and records. With 150+ initiatives, responsibilities are to engage the LOB and corporate sector internal clients across all financial processing components including reference data, data capture, General Ledger, clearance and settlement reconciliation, MIS and corporate reporting as the Firm migrates all financial record activity to SAP as part of their automation of business processes. Areas of accomplishments include;

• Analysis, planning and implementing the integrity of key reporting functions as operational control, cash clearance and settlement reconciliation, financial, management and regulatory reporting.

• Maintain an implementation schedule including integration and UAT testing that executes against LOBs optimal priorities while recognizing and balancing workstream, SME and staff limitations.

• Assisted the program office in the process of status gathering, collating, reporting and distribution of weekly progress reports, including accessing issues and next step initiatives.

Merrill Lynch Inc. , NY/NJ (Vice President). June/1983–October/2005

Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst, Relationship Management, PMO; (Feb/2002 –Oct/2005)

Member of a team of Senior Technical Managers responsible for corporate IT initiatives in support of the Firm’s Fixed Income and Equity processing of Clearing, Settlement and Custody activity including Government Securities, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Asset Backed, CMO, Options, Futures and back-office support services. This involves management of IT service professionals in a matrix environment, planning and coordination with the Firms technology support personnel. Serve as the liaison between business and technology personnel to insure business charters, IT governance, regulatory and compliance objectives are achieved. Functioned as a source for technical advice including managing the process solution and approved reviews through implementation. Manage the UAT process between business and technology partners to insure the project scope is achieved. Additional accomplishments include;

• Managed the installation/migration of Merrill’s infrastructure and communications services with the firms fixed income clearing and settlement function with JPMorgan Chase Bank, estimated at $125 Billion dollars per day which included file transfer, MQ middleware administration teams and interactive transactions processing.

• Collaborated with clients and IT personnel, in building a business process automation enhancement to outsource 2200+ business reports to ADP Inc. for use with their PostEdge reporting applications saving the firm $1 million.

• Led the Data center migration of the firm’s Fixed Income Clearing, Settlement and Custody distributed applications into a full scale disaster recovery environment with SRDF data replication using EMC ‘SAN’ storage units, end-to-end quality testing and control including Oracle /SQL Server database management.

• Negotiated numerous strategic contracts with vendors for services which involved following corporate standards, policies and procedures including Corporate Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) specifications.

• Formulated, with Application Development/Support Services, the build-out, installation and quality assurance testing of new development and 3rd party applications into the firm’s primary and disaster processing sites.

• Managed a matrix of engineering, development, systems personnel in the build-out, testing and migration of the Firms DTCC legacy connectivity to a new DTCC SMART circuit auto-fail-over infrastructure for the Firms. This includes MQ messaging, FTP and NDM transfers, application suites like Trade Suite, Web access of GSCC/MBSCC(FICC) and NSCC, Credit Derivatives, MDH services and EPN processing including a Global Implementation with London, Dublin and Pac Rim saving the Firm $500,000.

• Directed the successful transition of the Firms legacy Options Clearing Corp processing with OCC’s new FIXML format processing into Real-time MQ messaging with security listed/Update information feeds.

• Managed Software upgrades to Solaris 2.8/9 operating platforms for the Clearing, Settlement and Custody applications with $100,000 dollars savings in administration and service cost.

• Responsible for the connectivity in development of a Tri-Party REPO processing system with the Bank of NY involving MQ messaging, FTP, and Telnet services with our business finance group trading group.

• Managed and quality tested with Merrill’s application and business partners the Firm wide migration from SIAC legacy connectivity to SIAC SFTI environment with a cost saving of $125,000 dollars per year.

• Performed numerous analysis and coordination of various Windows based application into a Linux/VMWare distributed environment with the successful goal to reduce overall operating and maintenance cost.

• Managed with Merrill’s Network, infrastructure support, business and application groups access to Market Data and the consolidation of NASDAQ communications processing into a service utility saving the Firm $300,000.

• Maintained excellent working relationships with external service corporations (DTCC, JPMChase, Citibank, Bank of NY, SIAC, NASDAQ, Radianz and Bloomberg) including Off-shore resource management (Tata, Covansys).

Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst (Oct/2000 –Feb/2002)

Participated in an Enterprise initiative to expand the Firm’s Fixed Income Clearing Operation and support services in support of Societe Generale. Responsibilities involved building of the strategic infrastructure/network connectivity with SG, Bank of New York and Bloomberg including QA regression testing and fail over clients. This initiative covered a wide variety of technologies and platforms using web based applications written in JAVA, VBScript, JB, EJB, Com, DCOM, C++, VB, ASP, SQL and Oracle databases including MQ middleware services. Member of a data center migration team to relocate a 500+ distributed applications datacenter to a new location due to the results affected by 9/11/2001 NYC attack.

Project Manager, IT Manager (Feb/2000 – Oct/2000)

Implemented an Enterprise Wide information technology reporting application. This n-Tier Web application with a reporting network of 1000+ technology personnel is used for early warning notification for senior management. The application is written using Microsoft e-Commerce guidelines utilizing HTML, ASP, COM, DCOM, ADO, VBScript and JavaScript. Delivery is using Microsoft IIS, SQL Server and mainframe DB2 databases under a Windows environment.

Prior to 2000 held various distributed, open applications and mainframe development and support positions in Fixed Income services with progressive levels of responsibilities in;

• Infrastructure Services • Performance Reporting System • Corporate Data

• Money Markets • Repo Desk • Mortgage-Backed/Asset Backed

• Government Securities • Municipal Bonds • Corporate Bonds

• Y2K conversion of Settlement services • ECN Market support services • e-Commerce/B2B system development

Project Delivery Media:

Platforms: Windows, Solaris, Linux/VMWare, OS/2, Novell, MVS, MVS/CICS, VM

Hardware: Intel, DELL, HP/Compatibles, IBM Mainframe, Sun, AIX, AS400, Tandem

Software: HTML, ASP, COM, VBScript, JavaScript, JAVA/J2EE, .Net, Visual Studio Suite, VB, C++, IIS, JB, EJB, DCOM, ADO, Cobol, Assembler, CICS, TSO, Fortran, Dbase, JCL, Micro focus

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, IMS, DB2/2 XDB, Access

Management Tools: MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, Adobe, Salesforce, Notes, SDLC, PLC, ILC, CLC, RUP, Test director, CMMI, UML, Use Cases, Share Point, TRAC, IntraspectKM, Clarity Management System, Novell GroupWise

Messaging/Transport/ Networking: MQ middleware, FTP, NDM, LU6.2, TCP/IP, Token-Ring, Ethernet, FIX, DHCP, DNS

Education, Training:

Queens College, Queensborough Community College, Hofstra University; Technical Program, Computer Science/e-Commerce, Database Management and Business Administration, IBM Training Services, Microsoft in-house training services, PMI-PMP certificate LI Chapter, Merrill Lynch Corporate Training Program, member of American Society for Quality

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