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Greater Boston And Rhode Island Area

Technology consulting spanning projects across a wide technical spectrum including the web, mobile, infrastructure, network, and middleware. Experienced program/project manager, technical lead, solutions architect, and working group/ executive group meeting facilitator. Consulting engagements: Current Engagements Upgrading IBM NetCool across the enterprise and implementing operational monitoring, alerting, and reporting in SPLUNK. Prior engagements completed include, managing the network integration connecting a recent acquisition with the host financial services network. Responsibilities entail implementing a web portal leveraging F5 Networks APM Portal solution, establishing a point to point WAN linking data centers, and implementing a B2B IPSec tunnel to facilitate managed print use cases. Prior engagement entailed providing technical project management for the outsourcing of the auto origination loan platform at a super-regional east coast bank. Responsibilities entail network engineering, solution architecture, and data migration technology development and facilitation.Past engagements in reverse chronological order: 1. Implementing a "proof of value" for a technology solution that will provide application "full stack monitoring and failed customer interactions analytics" using the AppDynamics monitoring platform, for a super-regional east coast bank. 2. Working for a major east coast super regional bank to migrate their e-Channel and it's associated internal and external eco-system, to a state of the art disaster recovery facility. Responsibilities include coordinating the activities of network engineers, UNIX, AIX, and Windows build teams, Middleware and Application engineering and support, Enterprise Monitoring, Oracle and SQL database administrators, software quality assurance, network and information security. Managed executive communications relating to status, issues requiring senior leadership direction, and cutover readiness.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Working with a major east coast regional bank as an enterprise architect to define the technology roadmap required to attain a tighter integrated experience for their customers and partners. Engagement entails vendor and product research, vendor/solution recommendations and implementation project management. Engagement requires expertise in API Gateway, Identity Access Management, Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process Management, and Web/Mobile Analytics vendor solutions.

Cranston, Rhode Island

Responsible for talent acquisition, building the e-Commerce technology organization, and managing the solutions delivery, development, testing, and support of Citizensbank.com and Citizens On-line Banking mobile and web technologies. In two years, grew the organization from twelve to one hundred and twenty professionals. Effectively led and managed a cross organizational stability task force which, over a four month period, significantly improved service availability of our web and mobile platforms. Well versed in technologies including RSA Adaptive Authentication, AT&T Content Delivery Network (CDN), Autonomy Live Site Content Management, and IBM Websphere and Worklight, Mobile technology experience in Native, Hybrid, HTML5, CSS3, and Mobile Web development strategies.Oversaw the successful implementation of a number of high impact enterprise initiatives including Web Account Opening, Mobile Deposit Capture, Content Delvery Network (CDN), On-line Bill Pay, Pay a Person via PopMoney, web, mobile infrastructure upgrades, and web, mobile Content Management.

New York, New York

Responsible for facilitating BYOD governance, delivering mobile offerings, standards, and forward looking strategic direction of New York Life's mobile initiatives.

Westwood, Ma

Responsible for channel integration strategy, web development, enterprise search, content management site integration, marketing automation, web analytics /statistics, and internet strategy for the retirement plan services division of New York Life. Recently managed the development and deployment of two rich internet, transaction based participant and sponsor web sites which services the needs of our customer base. Collaboration technology evangelist. Web performance enhancement and high availability specialist. Multiple implementations leveraging Google Search. SiteCore Content Management and AdobeConnect and collaboration technology specialist. Mobility and Social Media strategy formulation and implementation. Establishment of off-shore partnership with a major Indian provider to provide web development support and staff augmentation.JIVE based social networking strategy.

A global money management firm with 70 years of investment experience, $106B in assets under management, over 700 institutional clients, and over 13 million shareholders; Planned, organized, and developed strategic business objectives/projects in line with goals and needs. Developed strategic relationships with clients and vendors to ensure requirements and expectations are satisfied with quality products and services. Certified Facilitation Specialist for enterprise strategic initiatives managing organizational collaboration and structured decision making.Responsible for managing a $15 million IT budget to support the strategic direction, development, maintenance, support, and enhancement of all Putnam's customer facing (external: including retail, institutional, and defined contributions) and internal web assets, Relationship and Campaign Management systems, Collaboration systems that support Sales, Marketing, Corporate Compliance and the Transfer Agent.Responsible for vendor evaluation and selection relating to integrating key strategic technologies into and in support of our web channel including: Content Management , Enterprise Chat, Document Management, Social Media, Web Collaboration, Search, Relationship Management, Single Sign On, Web Statistics/Analytics, Rich Internet (Flash, Flex, AJAX).

Responsible for managing a $8.5 million budget to support the development, maintenance and enhancement of Putnam's Retail world wide web sites including the Financial Advisor (Intermediary), Individual Investor (Mass Affluent), and Public web applications. Responsible for negotiation and management of Service Level Agreements (SLA's) with site integration partners. Also responsible for development and management of internal high availability strategy including site to site failover, load balancing, production monitoring and issue escalation and resolution, and management of on-shore and off-shore 24X7 web site support. Leadership Council Member - one of a twelve member team of individuals designated as future leaders of Putnam's Systems Division. Responsible for tactical and strategic recommendations to improve the organization in areas of human resource management, strategic technology selection, enterprise adoption of divisional best practices, and enhancing employee training and development.

Responsible for managing a $3 million budget to support the development, maintenance and enhancement of Putnam's external shareholder and broker web sites. Managed a group responsible for multiple complex project definition, specification, development, implementation and support through effective and pro-active management and leadership skills. Established Putnam's web systems development methodology, standardized project reporting, and resource allocation planning. Participated as an active member in a number of Systems Division task forces setting division standards for performance management, training and development, project management, and facilitative leadership.Managed integration of technologies including Content Management, relationship management utilizing Siebel RMS, J2EE based applications built in the Sun1 platform, Oracle (distributed) and DB2 (mainframe) databases, IBM MQ services and SOAP interface middleware, and Verity/Google based search.Responsible for developing and communicating goals/ initiatives and expectations for the Systems Division in order to achieve business results.

Defining and directing overall project management in support of Putnam's Advisor, Individual Investor, Public and Defined Contributions web sites. Managed several projects concurrently. Projects managed included the following: Content Management vendor (Interwoven, FutureTense) selection and implementation, creation of the ibenefitCenter Participant Portal marketed to Putnam's Defined Contribution's customers, Client Reporting utilizing Business Objects and Endecca web reporting technology, RC4 based encryption, single sign on integration to facilitate site to site partnerships with outside providers.Implementing applications consisting of systems integration, "off the shelf" packages, and/or code customization components.Established a systems development methodology, standardized project reporting, and resource allocation planning resulting in faster deployments, improved product quality, and optimal team productivity.Leadership Award Winner - awarded to the employee within the Systems Division who embodies the ideals of teamwork, strategic thinking, leadership by influencing others, world class support and service to the customer. Individual receiving this award possess the highest degree of business and technical acumen, foster an environment that promotes building talent, and provide excellence in written and verbal communications.

Assigned and delivered what was deemed to be an emerging technology worth exploring at Putnam, Electronic Commerce. Defined the scope and offerings for Putnam's first world wide web site. Engaged and managed third parties and outside consultants from Platinum Technologies (now owned by Sun Microsystems) to build and deploy Putnam's Advisor and Shareholder web sites. Technologies employed included NT based COLD storage statements on-line, Java based NetDynamics application servers on the UNIX operating system, Oracle based mid tier databases, MQ middleware layer, CICS environment surrounding DB2 based legacy data on shareholders and brokers all load balanced behind F5 Networks technology and Gauntlet firewalls. Key Contributor Award Winner - awarded to the employee within the systems division who embodies the ideals of quality enhancement, initiation of innovative ideas, team commitment, productivity enhancement , cost effectiveness and consistently exceeds expectations.

Led project and client teams through systems definition, analysis, design and implementation phases. Managed project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, client satisfaction, change management and project reviews. Projects managed included the following: Leading five to ten person project teams through a rapid, iterative project life cycle development. Managing project resources across multiple locations.Project budgets from $200K to $500K.Managed the development and ongoing enhancement of the corporate Executive Information System (EIS) deployed to over 4000 internal managers and operating heads.Managed an enterprise wide initiative that focused on improving Fidelity's money movement (EFT, Check, Bank-Wire, Bill Payment) policies, procedures and business processes.TECHNOLOGIES Oracle, DB2, CICS, F5 Networks, IBM Message Queue, UNIX, Windows, SOAP, SAML, EMC Storage, FiServ COLD Storage, Sun1, PERL, Mercury Interactive (HP) Quality Center, Siebel Systems and SalesForce.com RMS, SAP, PeopleSoft, Interwoven Content Management, Unica NetTracker, DST Vision, DST FanWeb, DST Fan PlanSponsor, Glassfish Enterprise Server, Adobe GetConnect, Verity and Google Search, Vignette Collaboration

Mba, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Graduate Assistant - Accounting

Bachelor Of Science, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science