Ryan Grantham Email & Phone Number

Raymore, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Missouri

• I was engaged to finish a network migration project in which I implemented the final 4 client network migrations in 3 months with savings of $250 K per/month of operating expenses.• Assisted in the development of methods and processes to migrate hundreds of legacy financial products from mainframe to new Financial Platform supporting multi-channel distribution.• Contributed to strategy to reveal business logic buried within undocumented legacy applications.• Collaborated with team to code a tool that extracts data mappings, business rules, and transformational logic embedded in code onto a Microsoft Excel worksheet. • Selected to lead the development of a new Financial Platform System for onboarding clients. The platform system leveraged an IBM ETL tool that would leverage reusable deployments for any client. The financial platform would reduce client onboarding time and costs. • Lead Pilot Project for onboarding of Oppenheimer funds to new Financial Platform. Lead a 15-month project plan with a scope of 10,000 resource hours through till company acquisition from Invesco.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Served as IT Lead for new business sales presentations that resulted in multiple wins of new business. I supported the estimation of the project scope, costs, risk, and timeline along with presenting the company’s IT capabilities and methodologies. Central Bank, Securian, and SE2 were a few of the company's wins of new business in which I was involved. • I accomplished the conversion of the new Central Bank business with an aggressive timeline. The new business resulted in $750k in Annual Revenue with the early realization of revenue by completing the first phase in less than a 3-month timeline. The client was very happy with my team’s delivery as their CEO noted the technical team specifically in his accolades on the success and overall delivery of the project. • Managing a team of 6 direct resources and 8 offshore resources supported 14 clients, 48 applications contributing over $20 million in Annual Revenue. Managed all aspects of the software development lifecycle and maintained the support of existing applications.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• I successfully lead the implementation of return mailing processing for one client that converted from their internal processing to our company. The automated solution eliminated the need for manual work and dedicated resources saving the customer $223,000 annually while adding further revenue streams for our company. The implementation of the automated solution eliminated a 3-month backlog at the customer for unprocessed returned mail. • Chosen to participate in a JTE(Journey to Excellence) leadership training program from executive management to further develop Management and Leadership skillsets. • Lead all project work for 4 clients and over 25 applications supporting $8 million in annual revenue. Delivering 99.5% of projects on-time and within a 10% estimate threshold for over 200 various project requests per year.

Continuing as Lead of development projects with offshore resources. Lead projects with 2 development teams and 30 members. Working with onshore client systems teams to develop further capabilities of offshore resources.Provide Project Management and Technical support for current customer platforms and platform conversions.

Technical Lead for Thai Development Team on Company Platforms for DST Output.Expanded Development Team from 5 members to 15 membersLead Project Management of Legacy Platform Conversions and New Client Implementations. Created processes and procedures to improve productivity and operation of the team.Development Teams worked on OS/390 Mainframe and Unix Aix platforms.Developing with COBOL, C, and Perl Scripting languages.

Assisted in leading projects through the Software Development Lifecycle. Lead the documentation of business requirements and technical specifications. Held meetings with the Client, DSTO Client Services, and DSTO Client Systems to determine scope of conversions and user requirements.Worked in Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, and Project to create project documentation.

Completed development projects with Client Services and DST Output customers. Followed business requirements in order to build customer data processing applications. Provide constant support for customer programs and internal applications.Consistently review processes and procedures to improve efficiency and productivity within the applications and product development life cycle.Work on Open VMS DEC ALPHA and OS/390 Mainframe platforms.Develop and Support in C++, Perl, Jscript, Pascal, and COBOL languages.

Managed student team of two programmers, a software architect, nurse, and certification analyst.Managed PDA project through all steps of the software development cycle.Conducted Sales Presentation of our product for Cerner directors and college professors.Created licensing and pricing model, team position descriptions, goals, and vision.Organized team meetings, created project and risk mitigation plans, provided status updates.Oversaw the completion of all tasks, milestones, and compliance with stated requirements.

Worked in UNIX and Windows environments building query reports from Informix database.Configured operating system and hardware for laptop deployment project.Assisted Client Support with the Helpdesk and various projects.Wrote SQL queries for Business Objects Sales reports.

Web development and maintenance for Career Services Site, in charge of web content.Headed projects in Access, Excel, and other software applications.Informed campus of upcoming employment events both on and off campus.Resolved technical problems involving computers, printer, and scanners.

M.B.A, Business Management/Information Systems & Knowledge Management

B.S, Business Administration/Computer Information Systems