Patrick O'Sullivan Email & Phone Number

Indiana, United States

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States

- Product Owner for a portfolio of financial analytical, accounting and business workflow applications, delivering technology solutions using agile and waterfall methodologies, and managing the client relationship between Technology and several lines of business (Global Public Finance Rating Groups, Corporate Finance Rating Group and Moody’s Finance Organization), with revenues > $800M annually.- Project Managed and delivered 20+ projects that reduced company risk and improved efficiency… Show more - Product Owner for a portfolio of financial analytical, accounting and business workflow applications, delivering technology solutions using agile and waterfall methodologies, and managing the client relationship between Technology and several lines of business (Global Public Finance Rating Groups, Corporate Finance Rating Group and Moody’s Finance Organization), with revenues > $800M annually.- Project Managed and delivered 20+ projects that reduced company risk and improved efficiency such as: o Multiple Financial applications that gather audited financial data, calculate ratios and allows analysts (and Moody’s clients) to generate reports and perform peer group analysis.o Surveillance application that semi-automates the annual review of ratings on 16,000+ Issuers.o Centralized Management Reporting solution for ratings, analyst’s productivity, client outreach, etc.o Cash Repatriation approval and workflow tool for the Treasury, Tax and Accounting teams.o Model and Scorecard tools that generate “automated” ratings.- Collaborated with the data management team and the outsourcing vendor in India to develop a workflow tool that improved the efficiency and tracking of financial documents, integrated it with the ratings surveillance application.- Led and supported many technical stabilization initiatives and infrastructure upgrades:o Multiple SQL, Sybase, Informatica, JBoss & Tableau upgrades for my portfolio of applications.o Stabilized the financial application for Corporate Issuers – upgraded h/w, added monitoring and simplified architecture, which greatly reduced the number of unplanned outages.o Oracle PeopleSoft migration from UNIX to Linux resulting in improved performance and stability.- Managed multi-level customer relationships from senior management to end users by providing a single point of contact to the ratings business for all IT requests (information, project & enhancement), concerns, and issues. Show less

- Senior member of Moody’s Product Management team responsible for the management of several successful US Public Finance data and analytical products.- Delivered financial analytical data products that provided Moody’s Investors Service clients the same data, tools, and models used by Moody’s analysts, providing an unprecedented level of transparency and generating revenues in excess of $10M.- Managed the relationship with an outsourcing vendor in India - responsible for sourcing and… Show more - Senior member of Moody’s Product Management team responsible for the management of several successful US Public Finance data and analytical products.- Delivered financial analytical data products that provided Moody’s Investors Service clients the same data, tools, and models used by Moody’s analysts, providing an unprecedented level of transparency and generating revenues in excess of $10M.- Managed the relationship with an outsourcing vendor in India - responsible for sourcing and processing the bulk of the financial data used within these products. - Provided support to internal & external clients on data content availability and timeliness, product permissioning, functionality and usability. Show less

- Key member of a Product Management team charged to successfully bring the Reuters Instant Messaging product to market in 2002, achieving an on-time target of 175,000 registered users.- Managed the rollout of Reuters Messaging to internal staff and subsidiaries (approx. 20,000 global users).- Created the eCommerce Business Processes for the Reuters Messaging product utilizing a web-based ordering and payments system, working with several global departments: Contracts, Legal, Business… Show more - Key member of a Product Management team charged to successfully bring the Reuters Instant Messaging product to market in 2002, achieving an on-time target of 175,000 registered users.- Managed the rollout of Reuters Messaging to internal staff and subsidiaries (approx. 20,000 global users).- Created the eCommerce Business Processes for the Reuters Messaging product utilizing a web-based ordering and payments system, working with several global departments: Contracts, Legal, Business Administration, eCommerce Capability Group & Customer Support.- Partnered with Business Development and key global customers to define and build a compliance solution to support clients’ regulatory requirements for Instant Messaging.- Defined International Support and Help Desk Escalation procedures for Reuters Instant Messaging, working closely with Product Launch Teams, Customer Support, Client Site Services, Operations and Development. Show less

- Global Product Manager of the Reuters High-Tier Data Delivery product (Reuters Datafeed), and Regional Product Manager for all Reuters Mid-Tier and Low-Tier Data Delivery products in the America’s.- Launched the Reuters Datafeed v1.0 in 2001, the first Reuter product to use the Radianz Extranet as the delivery network. This innovation provided significant increases in network capacity. - Introduced a Traffic-Managed service to help clients with low-tier products and those in remote… Show more - Global Product Manager of the Reuters High-Tier Data Delivery product (Reuters Datafeed), and Regional Product Manager for all Reuters Mid-Tier and Low-Tier Data Delivery products in the America’s.- Launched the Reuters Datafeed v1.0 in 2001, the first Reuter product to use the Radianz Extranet as the delivery network. This innovation provided significant increases in network capacity. - Introduced a Traffic-Managed service to help clients with low-tier products and those in remote locations manage product communication costs without any apparent service degradation.- Fostered long-term relationships with key accounts by working with Reuters Account Teams and 1000+ clients to ensure that client networks were equipped and ready for the increase in data capacity as a result of US Decimalization in 2001.- Deputized and fulfilled responsibilities for the VP of Marketing during incumbent’s absence. Show less

Greater New York City Area

- Set up the Permissioning Support Group in Reuters America to provide a central group to support and manage all product Permissioning Systems and restricted client contributed data in the America’s.- Represented Reuters America on several Global Projects, playing a major role in the definition of new procedures for the management of restricted contributed data.- Produced the Client Administration Y2K Continuity Plan and coordinated the Support Plan for the New Year and Leap Year… Show more - Set up the Permissioning Support Group in Reuters America to provide a central group to support and manage all product Permissioning Systems and restricted client contributed data in the America’s.- Represented Reuters America on several Global Projects, playing a major role in the definition of new procedures for the management of restricted contributed data.- Produced the Client Administration Y2K Continuity Plan and coordinated the Support Plan for the New Year and Leap Year periods.- Created and implemented Administrative Procedures for a new Low-Tier Data Delivery product, ensuring compliance with data provider agreements for Restricted Data, Exchange Data and Specialist Data.- Managed a team of nine who provided business administration and product permissioning and data delivery support to Sales, the Customer Response Center, Marketing, and clients. Show less

London, United Kingdom

- Managed the Administration Systems Support Group responsible for providing product support to Reuters global staff on product administration, contributed data administration and permissioning systems.- Managed eight staff - experts in the reporting and resolution of data and system related problems.- Managed the transfer and centralization of several administration and support functions from the regional European offices to the Administration Systems Support Group in London.-… Show more - Managed the Administration Systems Support Group responsible for providing product support to Reuters global staff on product administration, contributed data administration and permissioning systems.- Managed eight staff - experts in the reporting and resolution of data and system related problems.- Managed the transfer and centralization of several administration and support functions from the regional European offices to the Administration Systems Support Group in London.- Major projects included the JP Jenkins “Newstrack” project, the Restricted Data Set Inhibits project, the Cantor Fitzgerald Broker Restricted Data Set project and the implementation of an application to enable clients to contribute data to Reuters. Show less