Michael Deemer Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Coached and lead a global team of 14 software engineers supporting and developing applications built on diverse technology stacks that included Angular, Java/J2EE, .NET, Oracle, DB2, RESTful web services, MQ, and workflow/BPMN with a combined user base >1,500 Manage applications with the highest possible criticality rating including systems responsible for corporate actions processing, corporate actions announcement capture and validation, OFAC compliance, SWIFT message processing and class actions processingAwarded 2017 “Best of Class and Distinguished Engineer” for implementing a highly-complex and innovative corporate actions event risk scoring system and associated workflow that was directly responsible for a 75% reduction in losses from human error.Within a month of taking over application management for the company’s OFAC scanning application, remediated, retested, and closed long-outstanding critical cross-site scripting, SQL Injection, and Cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities.Implemented performance improvements in OFAC compliance system that reduced transaction scan time by 60%. These performance improvements eliminated end-of-day backlogs that consistently put FED settlement deadlines at risk.Wrote Functional Specifications, designed, and was the lead developer for a workflow system that processes the end-to-end conversions and de-conversions of assets for new and lost custody business. System processes 5M+ transactions per year. System uses C# .NET, Oracle, Java, and various middleware products to access legacy mainframe DB2 and VSAM data from core Custody systems.Wrote Functional Specifications, designed and was the lead developer of an Enterprise Document Management system built on the J2EE WebSphere platform with Oracle database backend. The system was quickly adopted by 10 lines of business and replaced the corporate standard vendor product.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Promoted to lead a team of 4 application developers responsible for building small productivity applicationsUnderstood the incredible potential for technology to transform how operations work was done to reduce risk and increase productivity. Made it my mission to learn as much as I could through self-study and formal training in programming. Combined technology skills with business knowledge and started building applications using Visual Basic, ASP and Oracle that led to significant cost and risk reductions. Got significant results quickly and as a result, was given a budget to form a team of programmers to build more applications. Within a short time, my team developed and deployed applications that resulted in >$1M in annual savings.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Promoted to lead a team of 6 business specialists responsible for a variety of projects such as reconcilements, business representation on technology projects (providing business requirements, performing user acceptance testing, etc.), internal and external audit coordination and responseCreated Excel VBA and Access database solutions to work around core system deficiencies

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Managed a portfolio of custody accounts ensuring correct posting and timely settlement of client securities trades, foreign exchange transactions, income payments, etc.Primary point of contact for Investment Managers for all inquiriesLearned the business of securities servicing and started understanding the pain points and deficiencies with our systems

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance, Magna Cum Laude

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting And Finance, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Sigma Nu Fraternity