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Providence, RI, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Manage a team that supports an open systems application that selects the most tax efficient lot when a security is sold.
• Manage a team of mainframe programmers and ensure they are assigned to Agile teams as needed.
• Coded in Cobol \ DB2 for changes to a dividend monitoring system as part of a mainframe agile team.
• Project manager for several projects; tracked progress, monitored financials and helped resolve issues.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Team successfully installed changes to allow Money Market funds to price multiple times a day. This team also developed functionality to produce a shadow price at amortized cost.
• Team created a new Financial Summary Screen using the latest cloud framework (CDT3).
• Team developed a new process to calculate Weighted Averages for Money Market funds.
• Team successfully installed changes to allow EPW to price Short Term Securities.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Program Manager responsible for the oversight of the Syntel Test Factory which tested applications before they were deployed to the cloud.
• Responsible for the implementation of a managed services contract to replace a time and materials contract with a consulting partner. This involved the design and implementation of a new SharePoint site to manage and.
• As part of the Resiliency Initiative, managed the reporting of code deployments and issues to senior management. This involved the design and implementation of a new SharePoint site and reporting process.
• Part of a team responsible for the implementation of a Testing Center of Excellence.
• Resolved several audit CAT items including putting in place a department wide procedure to ensure code promotion approvals where being done using proper audit procedures.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Application Development Manager for three open system applications, two that provided data to trade processing systems and one that allowed setting up funds in batches.
• Worked with the project management officer to schedule, monitor, and allocate staff for projects following the SSUP development methodology.
• Responsible for the forecasting and resource allocation of development projects for three applications.
• Part of the initiative to move the systems to the Stack and Cloud architecture.
• Managed a team of 6 FTEs and a varying number of on-shore and off-shore consultants.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Responsible for the development to the front end of a client server trade processing application.
• Component owner of the trade processing rules engine of a client server system that was part of a major initiative that allowed State Street to offer middle office trade processing to clients.
• Part of a team that was responsible for the successful conversion of the software management system from PVCS to Clearcase.
• Studied UNIX and JAVA and accepted a transfer from managing a mainframe application to managing client server applications.
• Named Business Continuity Manager for the entire division.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Supervised a development team of seven direct reports.
• Led a development committee meeting where development projects were prioritized and progress was tracked.
• Project leader for an industry wide initiative to use a new trade message format. Responsible for the development of the modifications required to process this new message type by the industry deadline.
• Ensured that the modifications to a trade processing system needed to process the conversion to the Euro Dollar were completed on time and functioned as expected.