Real estate investment and holding company.

Business Savvy IT Manager - with more than 20 years' experience overseeing IT operations directing customer support, and ensuring the on-time delivery of business solutions. Related skills in strategic planning, application support / development, project management, and cost containment. Successful record using new products and technologies to solve complex business problems and improve service delivery.Business Expert – In-depth experience in e-business (e-commerce, procurement), manufacturing (discrete, process), distribution (wholesaler, retailer), financial (banking, corporate), engineering (project, service, maintenance), and the utility (port, energy) industries.Visionary Leader - with Strong Management Skills. Broad experience in technology assessment and deployment, budgeting, contract negotiation; recruiting and retention; business planning and implementation, project management, and cost accounting. Able to effectively communicate with managers at all levels and successfully incorporate information technology into business processes and systems.

 Assisted in the management of a QA staff of 35. Assisted in the hiring of the QA staff personnel.• Developed an information baseline.• Obtained management direction and commitment.• Identified the current and new business requirements and relate these requirements to the user areas. Provided an organized method for gathering and documenting the information necessary to produce a Requirements Document.  Provided a basis to estimate, plan, and schedule Parallel Application Development (PAD) Sessions. Directed the testing of an online trading system, which was rolled out on time. Directed and assisted in the design and construction of QA Testing environment.  Assisted in the selection of regression and performance testing tools. Managed the testing of their online financial web site. Wrote System Development Life Cycle document (SDLC). Wrote System Rollout Plan. Wrote Testing requirements.• Developed an information baseline.• Obtained management direction and commitment.• Identified the current and new business requirements and relate these requirements to the user areas. Provided an organized method for gathering and documenting the information necessary to produce a Requirements Document.  Provided a basis to estimate, plan, and schedule Parallel Application Development (PAD) Sessions. Managed the development of an E-Commerce site, which was rolled out on time.

• Developed cross plate-form (OS/2, NT 3.5 and Unix) applications using Cobol and C++.• Consulted with AIG management to provide customized software solutions. • Established vertical market direction for the application being developed. • Managed and assisted programming staff in vertical market software development. • Conducted the evaluation and recommendation of network performance tools.• Converted IBM PC/DOS C, Assembler and COBOL systems to run on AT&T UNIX System V.• Developed and managed the implementation of standards, controls, and guidelines for employing network performance testing.• Established a process for creating production test scripts from new and existing test cases.• Created several regression tests (using Mercury WinRunner and SQA TeamTest) to support different network business events.• Developed Visual Basic utilities to supplement the network performance test tool.

Responsible for providing high level consulting and development services to help identify, prototype, evaluate, and implement strategic systems quickly and successfully. These systems included image requirements, document flow and capacity study for a New York City cancer center.