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I am the Principal, President and CEO of Ace Consulting Expeditors, Inc., a Business Consulting Firm specializing in taking care of what you don't have time to, or don't want to, get DONE...Ace Consulting Services, Expediting Services (Real Estate, Consulting and more...)Website Sales and Service, Electronic Records, Bookkeeping ServicesPromotional Items/Dist, Recruiting Services, Office Automation, Social Media Tune-ups ...and everything else under the SUN...I help companies maximize their information technology investments. Most recently at ACE Consulting Expeditors, I performed IT Audits for small businesses to help them maximize their IT investments. At CitiBank, N.A., I was instrumental in setting up their North American Project Management Office, automating their processes and procedures and ensuring their internal and external audit compliance. At Merrill Lynch I used my automation expertise to reduce salary costs, improve customer service, raise system performance and increase operational efficiencies."Allowing you to do what you do BEST... While we take care of the REST..."Check out our Blog at TheBloggingAce.com for Networking Events, Blogs and more...Alex C. Elie, MBA, Director of ConsultancyTel/Fax 800-223-1670 / Mobile 917-995-2779 Nassau 516-469-3330 / Suffolk 631-504-2637TheConsultingAce@Gmail.com ~ TheConsultingAce.com Mailing Address...150 Vets Hwy, Suite 1496. Commack, NY 11725Shopping: Click to Shop and get Cash BackACE Social Media Links...Facebook: Facebook.com/TheConsultingAceLinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/AlexCElieTwitter: Twitter.com/AceConsulting

Group Manager with direct staff of up to 20 Project Managers, managing full life cycle projects enhancing and supporting the Citibank North America retail consumer IT banking systems, responsible for staffing plans and budgets Demonstrated excellent communication skills partnering with Senior IT and Business Management stakeholders to prioritize, track and report on the CBNA project portfolio, actively participating in strategic planning and implementation of major banking initiatives, developing project management disciplines, best practices, reporting standards and project metrics that address the needs and opportunities of the business and technology partners. Instrumental in the creation of the CBNA IT Project Management Office, establishing new processes, procedures and portfolio reporting methods, designing and implementing a new PMO review processes ensuring compliance with the established PMO SDLC, managing project risk, capturing and reporting on project metrics, key risk and performance indicators and developing senior management communications and presentations. Portfolio Manager for the CBNA Funds Availability Program, managing and driving critical bank initiatives consisting of over 50 inter-related, multi disciplined projects, utilizing internal CBNA lifecycle standards. Astute in proactively overcoming obstacles and managing a team of resources utilizing established Project Management techniques. Increased productivity as Rollout Coordinator for Planview Project Management Software rollout by leading division in adopting, enhancing and utilizing Citibank's newly standardized project management software tool. Astute in utilizing MS SharePoint to consolidate and centralize project artifacts, metrics and communications, making all artifacts easily accessible to all team members and business partners. Strong track record of actively determining and managing project risk profiles in order to take proper corrective action when required.

Mentored IT Project Managers, providing supervisory oversight and guidance to during all phases of the SDLC, identifying and mitigating project risk, ensuring that all established processes and procedures were followed in accordance with the established project management standards, driving quality, on time and under budget project deliveries utilizing proven effective relationship building, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.Championed and formulated an internal task force to prepare for Citibank's 2009 External Audit. Ensured proper process and artifact compliance by coordinating internal and external resources to automate SDLC verification process, remediate audit related issues and fostering audit awareness and compliance to the technology teams. Increased efficiencies and improved audit compliance by launching new CBNA IT Project Management Office Audit & Control Team that was later utilized as a model for a new CBNA IT Business Process Assurance Team, ensuring proper project capitalization, financial management and audit readiness. Enabled Citibank to close the Florida CitiGold data center by successfully implementing the CitiGold Conversion project, enhancing the Citibank systems to convert, process and maintain CitiGold accounts with sweep processing, CitiGold brand recognition and specialized CitiGold processing. Supported RMS Production Systems by managing, analyzing and resolving System Technology Requests assigned to the RMS team. Increased productivity by creating new process and procedures while managing projects requested by the user community and initiated various process improvement techniques and templates, improving management reporting and gathering and reporting of team performance metrics.

Promoted from position of AVP in January 2000Directed up to staff of 10, managing 3 groups within the Physical Securities Systems Department, including Branch Certificate Entry, PSS Database Team and PAL Limited Partnership Systems. Managed projects, directed production support requirements, managed customer relationships and created yearly planning and budgeting reports.Improved customer service and system performance while managing the PSS & PAL help desks, tracking and resolving trouble tickets by implementing process and procedural improvements enabling users to quickly access programming and systems assistance. Raised efficiencies and reduced rejects by devising, developing and maintaining automated processing of cash distribution transactions and stock record reconciliations, utilizing CICS, FTP, DB2, PowerBuilder and SybaseEnabled enterprise wide visibility of reconciliation data by converting PowerBuilder C/S to Intranet-based systems. Reduced staff intervention and increased efficiencies by automating a manual FTP process to transfer data between mainframe and UNIX servers, reducing turnaround time from 24 hours or more down to 1 hour or less. Reduced Series-7 salary costs 80% by automating the verification and processing of PAL journal entry trade data received from internal users and external clients, improving efficiency and reducing overhead.

Directed up to staff of 8, managing ProxyEdge, an electronic proxy voting system for institutional investors, in a Client Server, Mainframe and Internet environment. Managed operations and production support of software packages deployed to over 100 institutional clients, including original, maintenance and patch releases to client server and mainframe programs in both stand alone and network environments utilizing DB2, CICS, VSAM, TC/PIP, FTP, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic and C++.Increased productivity by creating, managing and training the ProxyEdge Help Desk Staff, consisting of 6 consultants responding to routine technical questions and logging customer issues, freeing up development team resources and resulting in improved problem identification, tracking and resolution of Client issues. Improved the reliability and performance of various systems including ProxyEdge, OMNITRAC and mainframe systems by collaborating with users to determine new system requirements and upgrades.

Directed Staff of up to 6 associates, managing the Application Performance Management Team for the International Shipments Processing System (ISPS), increasing database and system performance efficiencies.• Improved system performance by monitoring and reporting on ISPS performance, identifying and correcting potential areas in need of improvement and assuring 24-hour continuous operation. • Increased system performance by creating and managing a task force to review new system implementations for performance and synergies with current systems. Programmer Analyst 1991 – 1992Directed Staffed of up to 20 associates, managing the ISPS Canadian LVS Project & ISPS Small ISR Team.• Increased corporate earnings by leading the Canadian Low Value Shipment reclassification project, adhering to compliance with the new Canadian Customs reclassification, successfully implementing the project ahead of the Canadian Government short deadline and with limited resources.• Led small Information Services Request team, managing 2 Supervisors and 6 Programmers, prioritizing, designing and ensuring the successful implementation of requested systems enhancements. Programmer 1990 – 1991Directed Staff of up to 6 programmers heading up 24/7 production support and help desk staff.• Enhanced ISPS system according to user requirements by designing, coding and system testing programming modifications in DB2 & CICS for the World Wide Expedited Express Packaging System project.

Designed, coded and tested Cullinet Manufacturing System enhancements, new reports and programs including MRP, Shop Floor Control, Bill of Materials and Inventory Control modules, utilizing IDMS, ADS/Online & CULPRIT.• Championed the introduction of the Bar Code Scanning System and the PICK Inventory System, instrumental in its development, introduction, integration, training, implementation and production support.• Designed, programmed, and supported complete LAN-based W.I.P. contract tracking system using DBase III+• Provided PC related training, programming, and troubleshooting for company software and hardware products