Bob Freisheim Email & Phone Number

Morristown, Nj, Us

New York, New York, Us

Accountable for Application Development, Production Support and Business Analysis for payments and funds transfer applications. Applications were deployed globally in over 40 countries and enabled funds movement of $1 – 3 Trillion USD per day via ACH and SEPA. • Led Application Development, Production Support and Business Analysis teams in Global Transaction Services division. This was a turnaround situation where I was successful in improving team cohesiveness, productivity of in-house application development, and vendor management• Leader of a strategic initiative to transform legacy payments platform (vendor software/mainframe) to a go-forward Global platform (in-house, J2EE/Oracle)• Accountability for Global Production Support for Payments applications. Lead teams in 5 countries. Achieved 50% reduction in overall Support spend through automation, and by improving application monitoring and stability• Managed a global team of bi-lingual Business Analysts. Managed the Business Requirements and Functional Design phases of country-specific payments software implementations• Financial management of $4 MM P&L

King Of Prussia, Pa, Us

End-to-end leadership of a technology organization that achieved product evolution of the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) supporting 30,000 Real Estate professionals. Led all aspects of SDLC including Business Analysis, QA, PMO and Dev/Ops (Cloud-based IT Infrastructure utilizing Amazon/AWS). CIO/CTO equivalent role.• Dramatically increased product delivery throughput by streamlining SDLC process, shifting focus to collaborative requirements discovery and analysis• Drove the success of numerous ongoing process improvements to align business and technology objectives. Among these were Agile Development methodologies, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and QA automation• Introduced and deployed Google Analytics to gain insight into product usage, usability and accessibility • Spearheaded application architecture improvements including conversion of entire enterprise codebase from VB to C# and introduction of formal application performance metrics and testing

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

Leader of the Emerging Products Engineering group, comprised of Senior Architects and onshore/offshore developers. Architected and developed next-generation applications and system components. Managed development and operations for enterprise data warehouse and supporting Business Intelligence (BI) interfaces. Reviewed architecture of legacy applications and implemented improvements. Created standards for enterprise application development, security and performance monitoring. Researched and spearheaded the use of new technologies and methodologies.Key Accomplishments:• Developed a new Web Services infrastructure to provide banking transactions (OLTP) via mobile phones• Implemented SOA interfaces to web portal applications using Web Services/SOAP• Auditioned and refined Agile Development methodologies. Adapted SDLC process to leverage agile development.• Awarded two US Patents as co-inventor (application numbers 20080208759 and 20080208746)

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

Built and managed a team of developers and managers and offshore resources. Managed all aspects of development for mission-critical enterprise-wide web applications, including customer portal (20,000+ users) and corporate web site. Acted as a focal point for issue resolution between IT and customers. Prioritized, scheduled and managed project progress. Key Accomplishments• Leader of the team that created STAR Station, a customer portal application comprising a transaction/security infrastructure and more than 30 sub-applications. This was a 2-year, $20MM project.• The portal provided a consistent user interface and customer experience for all operational interactions with First Data legacy applications. These applications included heterogeneous interfaces and data stores, including Oracle , DB2, HP Nonstop (Tandem), SQL Server, mySQL and IBM VSAM• Pioneered use of open-source software for mission-critical applications at First Data (Apache, Tomcat, OpenLDAP, MySQL)

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

Brookfield, Wisc., Us