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Summit, NJ, US

Poughkeepsie, NY, US

Senior Project Manager and IAM specialist for Identity Governance software upgrade/rewrite with improved functionality. Also senior project manager for a portfolio of other Utility IT, OT and Engineering software upgrades and improvement projects for Plant Accounting, HR, Engineering, and IT.

New Haven, CT, US

• Led multiple areas within centralized IT. Repeatedly assigned to lead areas in crisis or requiring radical and fundamental transformation of culture, technology, and methodology.Identity and Access Management
• Tapped to rescue a failing IAM program 2 years into a 3-year plan (2016-2017). Conducted a rapid assessment to:o Re-align the program objectives to re-engage stakeholderso Re-staff - used RFP to replace 11 independent.
• Subsequently proposed and delivered a 3-year roadmap (2017-2020) to transform IAM at Yale from lights-on technical support to a risk-aware university function driving cybersecurity risk reduction university-wide..
• Consolidated and realigned 4 existing groups with 40-50 developers, BAs, PMs, Linux and Windows systems administrators, DBAs and testers into a unified DevOps engineering area maintaining operations while addressing.
• Selected and specially incentivized to lead a strategic initiative to unify technology services in support of administration, research, teaching and clinical data management. Systems and Data Integration
• Built consensus on data governance principles and practices

Stamford, CT, US

• Business Relationship Manager (Consultant) - Partnered with global business teams, IT leaders and Accenture-outsourced technical teams to design, develop and maintain CRM and marketing applications for system-wide.
• Led the development of new CRM and marketing applications
• Supervised production support for CRM systems. Guided Starwood in improving support processes for all systems.
• Led projects and problem diagnosis to increase guest stays, and revenue per guest stay via targeted marketing.

Westport, Connecticut, US

• Technology Manager during several years of >40% annual growth in assets under management, profits, and number of employees. Selected for internal project management best practices steering committees and PMO advisory.
• Development Manager for proprietary trade-generation and analysis applications for a $60B portfolio.
• Guided and trained team members in practical application of SDLC disciplines to radically improve software quality.
• Led prioritization and implementation of enhancements enabling faster, more accurate, more cost-effective trade generation, freeing up scarce high-value resources, and adding tens of millions of dollars to annual.
• Spearheaded transformation of trade simulation halving run-time and delivering a ten-fold increase in test capacity. Awarded internal recognition as the year’s most impactful tech effort in account trade management.
• Improved simulation reliability reducing manual support requirements from 3 FTE to single part-time operator.

Stamford, CT, US

• Senior Technical Advisor and team leader within the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) group.
• Conceived, built and supported a cross-platform Enterprise Message Bus connecting hundreds of internal applications, dozens of vendor partners and millions of customers processing hundreds of millions of messages per.
• Led internal staff, vendor and outsourcer blended teams to streamline operations and enable new revenue streams: o Converted and expanded private-label credit offerings enabling millions of dollars in high margin sales.

New York, US

• Technical Architect involved in Enterprise Architecture Planning as well as providing architectural expertise to various tactical initiatives to address critical core business issues.
• Lead a cross-functional evaluation of a rules-based claims adjudicator to improve claims processing accuracy and efficiency and combat claims fraud.
• Participated on various design review, core systems redesign and 3rd party product evaluation teams as part of sweeping systems and controls reforms instituted following C-suite management change

New York, NY, US

• VP in charge a group of 20 including business analysts, programmers and application DBAs who conceived, built and supported global securities reference data applications which provide securities reference information.
• Managed Production Support and maintenance for end-of-day pricing, corporate actions notifications and other securities reference data including Y2K compliance, EMU conversion and CMM evolution.
• Lead local business process re-engineering, project planning, staffing, budgeting, development and internal marketing of enterprise reference data services. Application Architect, Associate responsible for hands-on.
• Designed and implemented a global securities identifier cross-reference service as the enterprise system of record for time and event-aware identifier linkages (CUSIP, SEDOL, ISIN, RIC, etc.)
• Enhanced the sevice to accept data from multiple source vendors and automatically highlight cross-vendor inconsistencies allowing earlier and cleaner access to revised market data.

New York, NY, US

• Manager in charge of Technical Architecture. Conceived, designed and managed the installation of several Client/Server PC/mainframe processing environments to support reinsurance brokerage applications. Direct.
• Technical lead for the second generation re-engineering of an excel-based reinsurance program management tool to achieve performant, flexible and reliable integration of enterprise updates with client-specific program.
• Implemented multi-platform 2 and 3-tier communication from disparate client applications to common business servers providing name and address and financial reference data.
• Conceived, designed and lead construction of code generators for both client and server applications cutting development time, complexity and errors by an order of magnitude.
• Tech lead for the design and installation of the technical architecture supporting then-revolutionary multi-dimensional account inquiry data warehouse leveraged by brokers and analysts to better understand.

Dublin 2, IE

Senior Consultant on the conceptual design for a comprehensive AM/FM (Automated Mapping / Facilities Management) system for the company's operations. Technologies included: automated mapping/facilities management, image processing, object oriented design and programming, and expert systems. Staff Consultant on the installation, conversion and production.

Mba, Information Systems

Bs, Computer Science

Insurance And Risk Management

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