Philadelphia, PA, United States
May 2005 - Present
Duties:
· Manage, mentor, and develop a diverse team of 12, including software engineers, user interface designers, and application management engineers.
· Provide strategic direction and day-to-day management of all projects related to the SunGard Managed Services Portal.
· Facilitate the development process for three development teams, supporting over 1.7 million lines of code.
· Work with SunGard product development teams to ensure that the customer portal experience is an integral part of all new product development activities.
· Manage production support of the operational tools and customer extranet systems used by over 30,000 users.
· Maintain support for legacy systems and applications, while moving to decommission and consolidate platforms .
· Manage relationships with packaged software vendors, focusing on decreasing the cost of annual licensing and improving the level of support provided to the group.
Key Accomplishments:
· Awarded a guest invitation to the SunGard Availability Services 2007 100% Club for my work on the Managed Services Portal.
· Implemented a software development methodology that provided rapid code release velocity (bi-weekly), maintained quality objectives, and consistently kept the department under budget.
· Built a geographically dispersed software development team, spanning six cities within the US.
· Established the role of User Interface Designer within the company.
· Created the Application, Software Configuration and Release Management group within SunGard Availability Services.
· Established portal customization and branding services as value-added activities to support the business development team when establishing partnership or reseller relationships.
· Successfully managed the development team through a period of exponential growth of users and functionality of the Managed Services Portal and reduced code maintenance costs by consolidating platforms.
Key Projects:
· Managed the development and deployment of operational support systems required to feed the invoicing process for all managed services "usage-based" billing line items, resulting in revenue increase of over $250,000 a month.
· Supervised the integration of the operational support systems and client portals for two corporate acquisitions (Inflow in 2005 and VeriCenter in 2007). Managed to aggressive deadlines and ensured the customers and operations teams experienced a smooth migration to SunGard systems and processes.
· Led the development of a mobile application used to access SunGard's help desk ticketing system. Focused on data security over the wireless connection, performance of the system, and usability within the small screen data display.
· Developed the strategy for implementing in-bound computer telephony integration and outbound automated dialing solutions for the SunGard Integrated Operations Center.
· Managed the development of a "code generator" system to generate both back-end web services and front-end portal code directly from forms designed in BMC's Remedy Action Request Server. This project reduced development time of web-based forms by over 50%.
· Deployed a web interface to provide customers with real-time device performance metrics. The system featured a drag-and-drop interface for users to build custom online reports, PDF report output, and scheduled report generation.
· Managed the software development and security policy aspects of the rollout of the Managed Services Portal to the SunGard UK operating unit.