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Philadelphia, PA, US

New York, US

COGNATIV is a global provider of technology consulting and services based in the USA with offices in Spain, Serbia, India and the UK. We work as a strategic partner to build products and improve processes that enable tremendous growth and massively increased valuation. Our clients are investment firms and family offices and their portfolio companies, pure.

Windsor, GB

Invited to be one of 250 Leadership Fellows at St George's House, Windsor Castle, and my privilege to be one of the few International Fellows.St George’s House, Windsor Castle was founded by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1966 as a place where people of influence and responsibility in every area of society can come together to explore and communicate.

Eagan, Minnesota, US

Strategic Products and Services (SPS) is a global, multivendor communication and networking managed services provider with over $300M in revenue. Was recruited by Private Equity owners of SPS to be part of a new leadership team and resolve key issues and improve processes and technology. The goal was to help prepare the company for sale in 2017 which was.

Jersey City, NJ, US

Scivantage is a Global FinTech 100 technology provider of information-enabled software with expertise in online brokerage, tax and portfolio reporting and wealth management applications with over $8T in assets being processed and reported on to many of the top brokerage firms and banks in the USA.Was hired to lead new processes and solutions for a large.

Dublin 2, IE

Procurian (acquired by Accenture in 2013) is the leading specialist in comprehensive procurement outsourcing solutions targeting Fortune 500 companies. The company is high-growth with offices in 14 countries and clients around the world including Goodyear, Hertz, Kimberly-Clark, Whirlpool, Zurich Insurance, Harley Davidson and others. As CIO responsible.

New York, NY, US

• InvestorForce (acquired by MSCI) is the leader in institutional investment performance management providing an integrated solution for automated data collection across dozens of custodians and reference data sources.
• Responsible for architecture roadmap, all technology platforms, operations, escalated support, database systems and all application development, analysis and testing. Applications are complex (1.5M lines of code), on.
• Demonstrated SDLC was driven by throughput over quality with dramatically increasing defects in the platform and rapidly declining client satisfaction. Instilled quality focus across organization and reduced defects in.
• Actively managed external data providers (data feeds from over 25 custodians) to improve quality and timeliness. Implemented Thomson Reuters DataScope to replace internal security master and RIMES to consolidate.

• After Albridge Solutions was acquired by PNC I was put in charge of a new division for Enterprise Data Services with a $5.5M budget to build a data warehouse. Goals were to build a single large analytical data store.
• Gathered industry expertise (external consultants), relevant tools (reviewed various ETL and DB products and selected Informatica and Oracle) and created team to design and build the warehouse. Key goals were to.
• Created real-time mirrors of production data to feed the ETL process so current production environments were unaffected. Created a proof-of-concept on subset of data with simple tools to understand data complexity.
• For the first time brought all of Albridge data together across the 10 production environments into the Data Hub (resolved many data collision, quality and timing issues). Brought project in on-time and under-budget.

• Moved into this new role after proposing need for an isolated group to handle all custom client development needs in order to remove their impact on our strategic development roadmap. Created a new line of business for.
• Built an organization with 25 people within a few months spanning sales, business analysts, project management, all layers of development and testing to deliver over 100 client projects in 2007 with 34% gross margins.
• Types of projects included building custom data interfaces for clients, creating new scheduled and real-time reports, constructing web services calls to feed data and reports into client portals, branding etc.

• Helped build processes and organization structure for a more mature and scalable product management/development group that resulted in higher quality and quicker-to-market products for a highly demanding client base.
• Key participant in strategic 3-5 year plan for company with goal of increasing profitable revenue by 400% through extending product features for current market and creating new products to gain access to other markets.
• Created monthly Albridge steering group sessions with senior representatives of firm’s most important clients to help provide strategic direction for Albridge.
• Dramatically improved product development quality and time-to-market through hands-on management, move to iterative development model and implementing more efficient workflow/communication across company.
• Architected product roadmap that included major new modules (insurance data, tax lots, asset classification, self-service tools) and upgrades including an aesthetic update of all reports within application.

• BISYS (later acquired by Citi) was a leading provider of outsourced business process solutions and the only single-source integrator of banking, investment, and insurance solutions with 20,000 financial institutions.
• Turned around the release of critical software products which had been significantly delayed. Required rapidly learning products and market needs, getting familiar with internal organizational processes, identifying.
• Created a product deployment process with milestones and checkpoints for all new products that encompassed everything from initial business case for build vs buy through development/integration, testing.
• Re-engineered the customer support and escalation process for all departments (helpdesk, customer services, operations, implementations, conversions, development, R&D, external vendors etc). Mapped out the existing.
• One of 25 associates out of 5000 invited to join the Executive Development Growth Council for strategic planning for the overall future of the company. Visited key clients to understand their needs.

Wayne, PA, US

The company is a global leader in integrated IT solutions and processing for financial services. I worked for a software development and consulting division (Microbank) responsible for enterprise report management and report-mining solutions with 1400 client sites across 55 countries. Other products included tools for reconciliation and exception handling.

Wayne, PA, US

Joined startup company Microbank (later acquired by SunGard) in London in 1993 and worked for clients throughout Europe for a year as implementations and technology consultant. Was given the opportunity of setting up operations and services for new regional headquarters in Singapore covering all of Asia Pacific. Responsible for technical sales.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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