Project Manager Management

RAPHAËL THINEY

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Seasoned hands-on CTO/Architect/Project Manager/Developer with full life-cycle project experience in production .NET deployments. A leader with excellent communication and team building skills.

EXPERIENCE

AKSIA, LLC - Manhattan , New York - Aug 1, 2008-present

Head of Information Technology

Head of IT Management and Application development. Oversight of all technology projects from Application Development to Network Administration.

Responsible for defining and implementing the department strategy and developing corresponding technology solutions and process changes. Increased efficiency and effectiveness of firm by identifying processes and technology enhancements and leveraging firm-wise, departmental, industry, and open source technologies. Substantiate buy vs. build recommendations to the CEO through cost-benefit analysis. Formulated and lead multiple tactical projects as part of overall strategy implementation. Managed the development and progress-monitoring of individual initiatives. Defined and executed our DR/BC specification. Implemented and integrated a broad range of third party software included Adobe LiveCycle DRM, BlueSpring BPM, Bloomberg, Edgar Online, Dow Jones Factiva and Lucene.

Reporting to COO; shaping the IT departments strategy & objectives.

Led firm-wide technology selection to maximize value, including build vs. buy decisions.

Identifying strategic architectural changes that can benefit the firm. Presented findings to senior management, demonstrated ROI and led cross-silo project groups on multiple initiatives.

Augmented firms business and financial analysis through the evaluation, selection, and customization of commercial research technology tools.

Amplify information technology value by measurably improving performance of the company and enhancing overall research capabilities.

Work directly with senior business managers from across the organization to solve critical business problems and plan strategic road-map for technology platforms and applications.

Created staffing strategy and recruited 5 top-tier developers and 4 data analysts for new offices in Greece.

Reduced managed services provider costs by 60% by contract renegotiation.

Technical Hands-On Achievements:

Architect/Design/Implementation of feature-rich corporate platform which integrated with 3rd-party workflow management system and could replace existing 3rd party solution (Backstop). This saved the company over $2M in development costs. Built using EXTJS/.NET 4.0/Ajax client-tier, EntityFramework/Subsonic middle-tier, SQL 2005/8 backend. Platform was capable of capturing all types of Hedge Fund data including but limited to: CRM, ADV, PPM, 13F, Fund Screener, Portfolio Accounting

Architect/Design/Implementation of Extranet solution for client consumption of data, reports and financial tools; this achievement gave clients access to dynamic data rather than simple PDF reports. Using similar technologies .NET/EXTJS/Ajax/EntityFramework/Subsonic/SQL.

Responsible for design and implementation of corporate internet site. www.aksia.com.

Developed Office-Addins for Excel, Word and Outlook to integrate with intranet platform bringing content to and from desktop application to facilitate user integration and increase platform usage.

Architected numerous windows services to manage data migrations and consolidate data across multiple platforms to facilitate reporting using SSRS and Crystal Reports.

Developed portfolio management tools to allow clients to create various portfolio strategies and weight allocation.

Integrated with Dow Jones Factiva for media content coverage giving clients direct access to Aksias’ financial opinions.

Implemented Lucene, an open source indexing software to achieve google-like speeds when searching across hundreds of thousands of documents and database records.

Implemented Adobe LiveCycle DRM for document encryption to protected our intellectual property.

Implemented VS Team Server 2010 (Agile/Scrum) to manage application development with 7 developers globally.

Implemented VS Team Build server to continuously build checked-in code to ensure quality and reduce bugs.

CERBERUS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC - Manhattan,New York - 2005-Dec 31 2007

Project Manager/Senior Developer/Analyst

Managed all aspects for implementation of various company-wide applications across multiple business units in a matrix environment.

Created high-visibility Internet and Intranet Applications which integrates with internal applications supporting Market Research, Human Resource, Building Facilities and Document Management System.

Implemented CRM solution (Salesforce) for Private Equity department to consolidate reporting and provide upper management with dashboard style interface to current deals and email campaign results.

Developed internal HRIS system capable of supporting intricate entity structure unique to organization. Capable of tracking employees and their transitions Portfolio companies. .NET/Subsonic

Evaluate Investor Relations processes, instrumental in selection of vendor application to support mandated client quarterly and monthly statements, along with Partnership allocation, OFAC Tracking, Contribution and Distribution schedules, Subscription Documents, Side Letters, Wire Instructions, and General Correspondence

Assisted in high visibility, large scale implementation of a global OpenText document management system (500+ users). Challenges include legacy data migration.

Managed departmental scanning implementation. Project budget of $750,000. 10 Consultants

Manage day to day activities of direct reports and mentor reports in concepts of KM, IT and business process.

Streamline SDLC by implementing Visual Studio Team System for internal application development.

CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC - Manhattan, NY - May 28, 2004 – Dec 1, 2005

Lead Application Developer

Primary Developer for emerging Global eBusiness division of Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM). Recent acquisitions focused groups’ attention to globally consolidating web-based strategies.

Established a full life-cycle development platform to maintain out-sourced legacy applications.

Formalizes application development process for future application development in Global eBusiness and support current development for existing legacy applications.

Develops secure platform for all future .NET global applications.

Trains existing staff on new techniques and best practices for development in .NET.

Work with functions across the global firm to improve and move business processes online. Manages Internet and intranet platforms and assist a variety of efforts worldwide.

CAPITALTHINKING, INC - Manhattan, NY - 6/1999 -12/2003

First employee of this pioneering application software company for the financial services industry. Key participant in the team that developed solutions to the daunting regulatory financial reporting and compliance requirements faced by the industry, solutions adopted by clients such as GE Capital, Bank Of America, Royal Bank of Canada, Nomura, Cohen Finanial, PNC, and EuroHypo.

As Principal Architect: 2001-2003

Develops architecture to increase server availability by creating queue mechanisms to broker calls to multiple servers processing documents.

Deals with broad range of international commercial mortgage banks to create statements of works and responses to requests for proposals.

Creates desktop application add-ins to simplify process of conforming existing documents to product.

As Senior Developer: 1999 - 2001

Instrumental in securing $3 million in venture capital to begin the first commercial mortgage lending facility on the Internet by creating a demo web application. Charles Ferguson, creator of MS Office was our seed investor.

Conceived and Developed “SOAP” enabled application to resolve data-points in word documents, from an Oracle database, tied to a commercial mortgage marketplace web site built in Java. Application maximized user acceptance for base product, by seamlessly integrating with current MS Office products.

Conceived and Developed document conversion web service to automate the process of converting documents to other formats. Service would also syndicate XLS content and merge documents into one single file.

Performed exhaustive presentation and documentation seminars. As well as complete team knowledge transfers to clients who chose to host application.

MERRILL LYNCH - Jersey City, New Jersey - 1998 - 1999

Senior Web Application Developer

Recruited by Merrill Lynch, and joined a eight-member development team set up to create Merrill Lynch Online International, aimed at providing its overseas clients a secured access to their portfolios in the USA. Key contributions to the successful completion of the project include:

Developed a secure web site, which allowed international client access to their portfolio online. Encryption, security and delivery of accurate data were paramount.

Created a broad-based client installation medium to maximize web offering to international clients by embedding 128-bit encrypted browser technology.

Architected and executed a 3–tier proprietary international purchasing web site used by Merrill Lynch managers to purchase equipment world-wide. Site included approval tracking mechanism to increase PO execution speed.

NEWSCORP - Manhattan, New York - 1997 - 1998

Support Engineer

Joined NEWSCORP’s News Internet Services (NIS) an internal client services branch providing technology and services to automate live data feeds from news sources.

Worked closely with clients’ engineers to teach/support proprietary software to parse and deliver live data feeds from Bloomberg, AP News, and Newsday.

Personally responsible for automated news content on: majorleaguebaseball.com, newsday.com, smartmoney.com, nhl.com, and several other large scale clients who hosted there content with Newscorp.

Aside assigned duties, took the initiative to create a time-tracking web site developed with ASP. The site significantly improved tracking and budgeting time spent with clients, resulting in accurate charges and invoicing.

E-CONNECTION - Spring Valley, NY - 1996 - 1997

Web Developer

Joined this first music and movie online purchasing site, later sold to CDNOW:

One of two developers using WebODBC, one of the first databases to web markup languages to create web-site for cross browsing movies and the soundtrack contained within.

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Education

B.S., Computer Science - Hobart College, Geneva, NY - 1996

Systems Development & Management

Validation Methodology, Change Management Process, Technical Writing, Use Case Development, Usability Analysis, System Integration, Unit Testing

Software Applications & Skills

MS Office 2000/XP/2003/05/10, MS Project, MS Visio,Office Automation, Office Add-Ins, Active Directory,.NET 4.0, C#, VB.NET, SQL, Javascript, CSS, AJAX, Web Services, Windows Services, Visual Studio Team Server 2008/10/11, Visual Studio 2005/8/10/11, SQL 2000/5/8, EntityFramework, LINQ, Agile, MVC, Infragistics,Telerik, ExtJs, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, WCF,OData, REST, Lucene , and many more..

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