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Connecticut, United States

Lead Developer for Reporting Systems. Designing and implementing Self-service and scheduled systems utilizing Power BI, Tableau, WebFOCUS / SQL / HTML / ASP / Javascript.Remediated WebFocus reports to MS Power BI sourced by Cloud-based Snowflake tables and views.Developed Tableau applications to monitor Change Requests and Problem MetricsDeveloped and.

For Knights of Columbus, led a team of developers in the design, development and implementation of a Self-service reporting application that provided customers with the capability to define their own reports and launch execution themselves via the web. Previously, KofC reports were largely launched via ReportCaster batch scheduling software. This new tool.

Leader of Corporate Information Technology Systems team that analyzed and retrofit 200 report programs and wrote many new reports from a new data warehouse source. HIG had outsourced various operations to an outside vendor, resulting in new data feeds to the company's new Peoplesoft data warehouse (EPM). The Data Modeling tasks were performed within a.

WebFOCUS, SQL, Access consultant at Hartford Insurance Group

Provides information technology solutions for businesses of all sizes across multiple sectors.March/2009 - Current consulting engagement at Knights of Columbus, New Haven, CT.

Reporting Project Lead for a large project designed to outsource the division's accounting systems and relocate the data repository from a mainframe DB2 environment to a distributed Oracle warehouse. Over 30 application systems fed PACE warehousing application daily. Data was stored in over 200 primary data tables and views across 8 databases..

Project Lead and Developer for Investment Management systems. Utilized VB/ADOASP.Net, WebFOCUS, SQL, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, EXCEL/VBA under Oracle and DB2.Division coordinator for Sarbanes-Oxley efforts.

Member of the Investment Management Systems team that specified, developed, tested, implemented and provided training for a series of Fixed Income, Equity and Performance extracts and reports. The systems were developed in WebFOCUS / MRE 4.2.1a on Windows NT 4.0 utilizing MS Internet Explorer 5.0 for intranet access, MS Access 2000, FOCUS Desktop 4.2.1.

was a member of the Claims Automation Web Development team that specified, developed, tested, implemented and provided training for a series of Health Hazard, and Environmental standard and OLAP reports. The system was developed in WebFOCUS / MRE 4.2.1a on Windows NT 4.0 utilizing MS Internet Explorer 5.0 for intranet access. In addition, an EDA component.

For the Commercial Lines Specialty Insurance division of Travelers Insurance Company, designed, developed and implemented a Financial Management Information and Reserves Development system containing revenue and loss balances extracted from several application systems. This multiple platform system was used as a tool for detailed analyses, product.

Designed, developed and supported an Underwriting management information system. Utilizing FOCUS and JCL in an MVS/TSO ISPF environment, met with customers to formulate business specifications for a reporting subsystem. Responsible for ad hoc needs of all division management personnel. This system accepted data from multiple platforms, including mainframe.

Managed a team of 13 developers to build and support mainframe and LAN-based systems. Developed for the Financial Division, the systems had high visibility across all lines of business. The team was split into a support and migration group for the legacy mainframe systems and a development group for LAN systems, which were built utilizing Powerbuilder.

For the Profit Planning and Analysis Group within the Financial Division, was responsible for the analysis, design, programming, testing, implementation, training, security and support of the on-line Corporate Budget System. Utilizing FOCUS and EXEC2 in a VM/CMS environment, met with internal customers to formulate business specifications and designed 12.

Provide expertise in financial-based systems. All aspects of project life cycle included. Heavy user contact required. Numerous systems were developed utilizing COBOL and FOCUS.

Managed branch office. Responsible for all branch marketing, budgeting and staffing activities.

Coordinate the efforts of staff consultants assigned to specific clients. Participate in various design, programming, testing and implementation tasks.