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Seattle, Washington, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Oversee operational and administrative functions of Ahladni Foundation, a 501c3 non profit organization that supports education and research in the areas of holistic well-being of individuals, communities and the eco system.

Bloomfield, Connecticut, Us

Hartford, Ct, Us

• Managing the technology needs of the Wholesale Banking and Credit Underwriting business teams including daily operations, system maintenance, enhancements and new product implementations • Leading two business groups charged with identifying, prioritizing and scheduling system enhancements and small projects• Supporting over 25 Cash Management, Commercial Lending and Underwriting applications including incident remediation, vendor management, vendor security, risk and compliance assessment, contract management, change management and disaster recovery• Designed and architected new solutions consisting of internal development and vended software• Worked closely with the Head of Wholesale Banking to understand the technology needs of his business teams and define a roadmap to meet both his tactical needs and strategic vision• Supported United Bank’s Chief Risk Officer and her team in implementing regulatory projects and enhancements, maintaining secure and risk adverse systems and performing vendor security, compliance and risk reviews

Branchville, Nj, Us

• Executed leadership for the development operations team, coordinating server builds, application administration, release management, incident management, and continuity of the Commercial and Personal lines systems. • Lead an upgrade of 60+ test and production servers, SQL and DB2 upgrades, mainframe upgrades, along with analysis and resolution of security vulnerability audits. • Assessed and evaluated vendor products, including contract management and negotiation. • Took part in the solution architecture of larger projects• Managed a cost center and participated in budget forecasting. • Served as a part of the application delivery leadership team and maintain responsibility for motivating application delivery employees through education of the company’s methodology and vision. • Collaborated with team members to define changes in strategy and overall SDLC process improvements. • Realigned the release process to support the QA organization’s processes and timelines. • Defined and streamlined the application help desk support process by introducing BMC Remedy. • Developed and implemented end-user impact metrics using IBM Tealeaf to improve end-user impact reporting and analysis for the commercial and personal lines underwriting applications.

Branchville, Nj, Us

• Played an integral role in the first stages of the conversion of the commercial lines VB6 application to VB.Net. • Partnered with the enterprise architect to build the first set of standards for the .Net conversion. • Successfully oversaw a team of onsite and offshore developers to deliver large commercial lines projects.• Designed and architected a number of internally developed solutions delivered by my teams. • Provide detailed support for the development, test, and production environments, including scheduled release rotation, incident management, application administration, and server setup. • Setup and supported vendor software, participated in continuity tests, and trained additional staff members.

Branchville, Nj, Us

• Independently analyzed complex system issues and application errors, training team members on solutions and troubleshooting methodology. Developed architecture diagrams, process flows, and test plans. • Coordinated production incidents and infrastructure changes, performed regular application administration and change deployments, and setup and supported vendor software. • Collaborated with the enterprise architect to cultivate standards for the first .Net 1.1 projects for commercial lines, participated in scheduled disaster recovery and continuity tests. • Led a team of four staff members in delivering a project that added new billing options, including extensive changes to the commercial lines application.

Branchville, Nj, Us

• Served in a variety of roles, participating in team projects in lead and architect roles, along with designing, developing, and implementing complex, long-term projects that furthered organizational goals. • Provided key support for the development, test, and production environments in accordance with the Commercial Lines application SLA. • Setup and deployed vendor software, participated in scheduled disaster recovery and continuity tests, and led the AUSUM integration project which included multiple integration points to maintain two systems. • Coordinated new development, test, and production Win 2003 servers for the commercial lines application, collaborating with team members to troubleshoot and resolve multiple issues with the development tools.

Branchville, Nj, Us

• Designed, developed and implemented enhancements and new support for the Commercial Lines underwriting system. • Provided test and production environment support during system outages, participated in Disaster Recovery tests • Performed regular application administration and change deployments • Designed a matching strategy to identify and combine all Commercial Lines policies and quotes in customer accounts using multiple sources of information (mainframe feeds, data in several SQL databases, name pattern matching, etc.). Designed and built customer account database to hold the relationship and optimized the matching queries so that they can be run in a shorter implementation window.

Branchville, Nj, Us

• Performed error research and correction, delivered small application enhancements • Took ownership of the custom built Referral Tracking System and added functionality to automate the submission and deployment of managed code and static files through all Development, Test and Production runtime environments. Created a utility to support the administrative functions around the management of deployment locations, file types, etc. Established a deployment process that is still used over 10 years later.

• Developed enhancements for the ESPN Affiliate Zone website using Java/JSP, Photoshop and Flash technologies

• Designed and developed, tested and documented an Online Raffling System using J2EE technology with Oracle DB. Configured and provided administration for the application server. • Designed and developed an ASP.NET Reporting System with SQL Server DB which utilizes .Net web services. Configured and provided administration for the IIS Web Server and the SQL Server database.

• Designed and developed a new School of Engineering Web Site using Java, JSP, Java Servlets, HTML, JavaScript, SQL. Provided information architecture and web server administration. • Designed and developed a system for Online Registration of students for the courses offered by School of Engineering which was implemented in the Fall 2002 course registration. The system was developed using Oracle, JSP, Java Beans and Java Servlet technologies and included an algorithm for distribution of students and automated mailing system. The dean and the faculty of School of Engineering claimed that it was useful and well designed. • Designed and developed the Electronic Assessment System for CS and CpE programs of School of Engineering which performed the Fall 2003 accreditation visit using the Internet and its capabilities. Developed was a new technique for presentation of relevant materials for accreditation under ABET and CSAB Criteria for Engineering and Computer Science programs.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

• Independently designed several websites using Flash, Action Script DHTML and JavaScript. The products received excellent feedback from high level management. • Provided Flash MX professional practical training to the E-Business Team members. The training covered the use of Flash MX for developing complex n-tier web applications as well as its design capabilities.

• Designed and developed multiple corporate Web Sites using HTML, Flash, JavaScript, Java, ASP technologies and multimedia support. Required was direct involvement in decisions and actions with major effect on the company. Some of the customers were big international companies like: Lontings&Partners (a correspondent firm of KLegal Solicitors, UK), Diamond Centers International, Digi Clean (French company providing industrial cleaning services), etc.

• Designed and developed several corporate Web Sites using mainly HTML and Flash technologies. Worked directly with the customers on requirements, writing product specification and soliciting feedback. Some of the customers included: Diners Club, International Gemological Institute.

Graduate Certificate, Project Management

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Information And Communication Technologies

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics

High School, Mathemathics