Career Overview
Experienced project manager with excellent communication and client management skills.
Knowledgeable in delivering web-based applications with technical involvement at all stages of the development cycle.
Deep, technical understanding of the software development life-cycle. Experienced in using strong, technical methodologies, such as Rational Unified Process.
Strong analytical skills, capable of capturing complex technical concepts and communicating to both clients and technical staff.
Internet Career Overview 1995-Present
1998 - present: Project Manager, Project lead,
Technical Lead, Senior Software Consultant - Symcor Technology Solutions/Corelan Communications Inc./Optus e-Business
Solutions.
Project Manager
client: Royal Bank of Canada
Risk Analysis and Approval Application
Oversaw development of a Risk Analysis and Approval System -- an application which assists in assessing the risk associated with providing loans to large and medium sized bank clients.
Project Manager
client: Transamerica Life Canada
Provided analysis and design services for a variety of e-commerce applications, including:
-- Content Management Solutions
-- Web-based, broker application forms
-- Broker training application
Web-enabled Life Insurance Application
Formalized project elements: established project standards; developed project milestones and phases; resourced and staffed project; developed costing model. Managed client expectations. Developed and formalized client requirements.
Broker training application
Formalized and defined high level project tasks. Identified project phasing; developed costing and assigned resource to broker focussed, financial training application.
Project lead
client: Manulife Financial
Financial Services Portal discovery.
Collected and formalized portal requirements for a
large financial services organization. Coordinated and conducted 8
client interviews with groups of 4-12 people. Developed and wrote personalization strategy
document for broker and client use of
Internet properties. Conducted research into following solutions: content management (Interwoven
TeamSite, Vignette StoryServer, Allaire Spectra), and Information Retrieval (Verity, Autonomy).
Business Analyst
client: National Bank Financial
Web-enabling
research reports.
Collected and formalized customer requirements for development of an Internet-based research publishing system.
Technical Lead
client: Consumer Direct Inc.
B2C Net.Commerce installation.
Created hardware and software configurations, developed project plan. Provided pre-sales technical leadership.
Technical Research Analyst
client: National Bank Financial
Financial Broker Site Strategy Research.
Assisted in defining business requirements and drivers.
Provided product analysis for the following solution sets, content management, information retrieval,
user tracking and site statistics.
Project and Technical Lead
client: Trimark Mutual Funds
System Administration Utilities.
Designed and developed web based
system administration utilities. Developed design documents, implemented
design and tested implementation of system administrative tools designed
to monitor a large server farm for a large financial company.
Technical Analyst
client: Worldinsure.com
Managed a team of 4 testing and integration staff in development and construction of a large Internet-based insurance ASP. Managed testing and deployment efforts, using Unix-based technologies, Java 1.2, BEA Weblogic and make.
Project lead
client: HRDC Toronto-York Region
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Managed development and deployment of large job site.
Collected and formalized client requirements. Authored functional
specifications; created sequence and data diagrams; managed client expectations;
oversaw interface design efforts; designed development artifacts
(sequence, process, class, object diagrams). Lead servlet development team Developed
job seeker components. Deployed search technologies (Verity).
Oversaw testing (regression, load, user-acceptance testing)
Project Lead
client: First Marathon Bank Financial
Correspondent Network's Y2K Testing and Compliance. Lead a team of two Y2K
testers to validate broker network website.
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