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Managing an Application Development team consisting of 10-16 developers and 1 BSA supporting 60 applications in key banking and internal support areas. Providing leadership, resource planning, mentoring, and training for a diverse group of developers (Java, .NET, Oracle EBS, and Salesforce). Establishing solid customer relationships with product owners across various functional areas of the business: Finance, Bank Card, Lending, Deposits, etc.• Working with business partners to identify and deliver software development solutions, enhancements, integrations, and upgrades.• Providing strong support for distributed banking solutions, mentoring and directing key resources for analysis and development, establishing goals and timelines with project teams.• Recruiting, performance management, compensation management, resource planning and forecasting, staff development and training. • Eliminating single points of knowledge, providing cross training of all applications and skills across multiple team members.• Partnering with employees to create goals, development plans, and participation in business initiatives. • Creating budgets and ensuring adherence to budgetary and financial processes and deadlines.• Contributes to and shares responsibility for developing and accomplishing departmental strategic objectives and initiatives.• Ensuring federal compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), providing timely documentation for team applications.• Creating succession leadership path, mentoring future leaders to assume next level of management.• Managing vendor relationships and reaccreditation of system access to satisfy compliance regulations.

Responsible for transforming business information into data models (conceptual, logical, and physical) and managing the enterprise warehouse data model - this is the master data repository for the Bancorp, describing entities and relationships of various business applications and systems. • Modeled, developed, enhanced and maintained the data warehouse, data marts, staging areas, and operational data store models.• Programmed a DR-Trickle with SQL and Korn Shell scripting to provide a disaster recover business solution moving over 5000 files throughout a day to our DR location.• Led the Disaster Recovery project for the Enterprise Data Warehouse successfully completed 6 DR tests.• Created the Account Analysis data mart to sync with our data analytics engine to provide key input to senior leadership in order to better understand our customers and their account choices.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Completed 18 projects for IBM Global Services. Wore a variety of hats and learned many soft skills as a consultant to help me succeed in business and not just in IT. Established solid customer relationships across various functional areas of the company. Consistently exceeded IBM’s standards for personal utilization and customer performance ratings.• Led teams of developers and data specialists of varying sizes while providing technical leadership, solution designs, and programs to solve business needs.• Reduced high volume contract management front end system by decreasing a component of the nightly processing routines from 100 minutes to less than one minute.• Decreased costs across the database department by 35%, by migrating from AIX hardware to Linux while customizing the database upgrades to effectively skip a version of their database software.• Automated electrical protective relays and substations allowing a utility company to proactively determine relay failures before they occurred, and automatically sent substation data to the centralized data warehouse. This effort included an intellectual capital patent for IBM to secure future Energy & Utility contracts.• Architected and built a disaster recovery solution for over 100 DB2 instances across more than 60 UNIX servers.• Performed four successful disaster recovery tests and created a disaster recovery training presentation.• Scripted shell programs to gather DB2 database metrics on 400 UNIX servers to report up to IBM and Customer management teams saving 40 hours each month.• Created a data generation script to simulate excessive system use for detailed benchmarking analysis.• Led the IBM Asset Management database project for Y2K. Tracked all hardware and software on every IBM computer world-wide to determine compliance readiness. Converted and enhanced the utility to scale in order to handle an effort of this magnitude and distributed the system to three geographic regions.