Thomas M Stenson
Riverside, CA 92503
Cell: 951-***-**** Home: 951-***-****
Email: ************@*****.***
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
• Professional with over 15 years experience working in Information Technologies, Finance, Insurance and Banking.
• Highly skilled in business requirements definition, systems analysis, design, testing and implementation.
• Successful project manager and corporate leader.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
January 2008 - Present Bank of America Irvine, CA
Technology Project Manager
• Managed several high profile projects involving Accounting General Ledger (Oracle), Data Warehouse, Insurance Claims, Vendor Integration, New Product and Hardware infrastructure.
• Provided business analysis and support to Accounting, Claims and Data Management teams.
• Successful project deployments using the ECMS waterfall process including project to transition multiple Accounting source systems to a centralized General Ledger system, Claims Data Warehouse project, external vendor interface automation, new product implementation and multiple hardware projects for new/upgraded infrastructure.
• Responsible for managing all aspects of project deliverables including schedule and budget for projects ranging from 250K to one million dollars.
• Generated management reports to senior leadership.
• Directly or indirectly managed between 5 and 25 associates.
April 2007 - December 2007 Freedom Communications Santa Ana, CA
Project Manager
• Managed several high profile projects involving sales force automation tools (SalesForce.com and Sales Logix).
• Provided business analysis and support to several teams including Freedom Interactive, Commercial Print, Magazines and Sales/Marketing.
• Successful deployment of database marketing product (MaaX) to the OC Register.
• Managed efforts to create a unified Citrix server farm as well as expanding an existing Crystal reports portal.
• Participated in the establishment of a centralized project management office to create best practices and uniform project submission guidelines.
• Responsible for extensive vendor relationship management including product evaluation, licensing and billing routines.
October 1999 – April 2007 Ameriquest Mortgage Orange, CA
Senior Project Manager
• Responsible for leading all Loan Product / Pricing related system activities within the company. Provided guidance and recommendations as the primary liaison to the CEO and President in setting business requirements for company systems. Represented the executive team in weekly Change Control meetings. Participated in high level decision making related to IT solutions and enhancements including establishing project objectives and prioritization.
• Supported all departments across the entire enterprise, acting as the lead contact for the company involving any inquiries, decisions or issues pertaining to Loan Products / Pricing. This included extensive interaction with Loan Origination, Operations, Secondary Markets, Accounting, Servicing, Marketing, IT and Legal / Compliance departments, where subject matter expertise was provided to internal customers as well as external business entities.
• Directed activities surrounding Product offerings to consumers, including analysis of sales data and other related information used to generate system improvements. Oversight of Federal and State regulatory compliance activities associated with company lending practices.
• Designed and implemented web based tools for the Marketing group’s consumer facing websites as well as developing interactive web tools for internal system users.
• Supervised a corporate staff in the documentation of business requirements, analysis efforts, test plans and model generation. Oversaw a technical staff in the design, development and implementation of system enhancements.
Project Manager
• Lead team of analysts in the generation of system initiatives through business requirements definition and detailed systems analysis. Direction of a cross functional group of both business and IT specialists to achieve project delivery.
Lead Business Systems Analyst
• Provided detailed analysis, design and testing of requested system enhancements. Coordinated activities among all impacted system groups including software, hardware and outside vendor teams.
Business Systems Analyst
• Created in depth technical specifications and business process documentation for proposed system changes.
Programmer / Analyst
• Generated object oriented system code, provided detailed analysis and testing of business systems functionality.
EDUCATION:
Bachelors Degree in Psychology, minor Business Administration / Finance
California State University – Long Beach.
Professional Licenses and Designations:
NASD Series 7
NASD Series 66
Health / Life Insurance Sales License
PMP Certification (in progress)
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
ECMS, Clarity, PCM Web, MS Project, Nexus, Viper, Quality Center, Six Sigma, Remedy, Peregrine, Microsoft Office Suite, Niku, ClearQuest, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java, SQL, XML, Business Objects, SalesForce, Sales Logix, Citrix, NextGen, SAP, MOFT, Adobe, Documentum, Rev X, Risk Link, Business Intelligence, Empower!, Fitech.
Excellent References Available upon Request