Experienced, knowledgeable and forward-thinking Senior Technologist with an exceptional record of providing the leadership and vision to help companies realize unprecedented levels of efficiency, security and customer satisfaction. Results-focused innovator possessing a valuable background developing and optimizing web-driven applications, networks, middleware and database systems to enhance operations in investment banking, insurance and other industries. Excellent verbal and written communicator with a demonstrated commitment to constant learning as well as the use of emerging technology to serve and support rapid business growth.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE EFINNET Troy, Michigan May 2000 Present Chief Technology Officer Founding member and primary technical strategist for a start-up financial services company developing a web-based portal to facilitate transaction-level finance for capital-intensive industries. Recruit and direct technical staff, evaluate and compare relational and object-oriented database solutions and lead design and coding of entire system. * Leverage extensive system design and application programming experience in finance, insurance and banking industries to create and select optimal technologies to transform business model into a robust platform capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of transactions and calculations daily. PAYROLL-1 Royal Oak, Michigan May 2002 January 2003 Consultant Requested by the CIO of this nationwide provider of outsourced payroll processing and tax filing services to small and mid-sized businesses to analyze the overall security of the companys proprietary software package to prepare for release of the online version. Teamed with two support personnel to devise and recommend solutions, document system maintenance and redundancy procedures and implement improvements. * Designed and implemented an Internet firewall armed with a reverse-proxy to ensure the security of Payroll-1s application servers and the highly sensitive information stored in its databases. * Corrected many areas of weakness left by the consultant hired to configure the companys Cisco firewall router by investigating the network to identify problems with the consultants packet filtering rules and ARP tables. * Positioned IIS servers behind a specially designed DMZ with custom built proxy servers to screen out invalid URLs and incorporated logfile analysis to monitor and report on system performance and increased usage. * Achieved excellent independent audit ratings for security of the new system and rewrote the audit report to maximize value to management. COMERICA BANK CORP. Detroit, Michigan October 1993 April 2000 Vice President and Manager, Networking Technologies Service Company September 1998 April 2000 Led the Advanced Technologies and Planning (ATP) group in researching and implementing cost-effective solutions to complex business problems in its consulting and support role to various IT departments within one of the nations top 20 largest banking companies. * Conceived and prototyped the companys first intranet-based Enterprise Customer Information System (E-CIS) as a less expensive, more user-friendly, browser-driven alternative to a problematic Lotus Notes solution. * Delivered E-CIS system in just 12 weeks, compared to year-long Notes development, and created major savings by using existing software and configuring system to minimize demand on hardware and networks. * Enabled efficient, secure desktop access to customer information across all departments by designing E-CIS around a browser-based interface to the mainframe, in which Comerica was heavily invested. * Instilled IT focus on web programming as a viable platform for application development; piloted Comericas XML and directory services strategy to transform legacy applications and code into Internet-enabled programs. * Steered development of Comericas online presence as an integral member of Comericas Internet Planning and Strategy task force charged with identifying and tapping new revenue streams on the Internet. * Conceptualized DB2 Datastream Optimizer for efficient DB2 distribution across low-bandwidth networks. Vice President and Client Application Specialist, Comerica Private Banking October 1993 September 1998 Challenged to develop and support a robust, reliable portfolio management system for the Private Banking Group to replace existing report/modeling system with early web browser and server technology. Created stored procedures to drive portfolio realignment algorithms and reported to the Director of Investment Management. * Employed in-depth knowledge of finance and regulatory compliance to develop and implement FORAY system in 1993, which provided error-free management of 4,000 accounts totaling $1 billion during tenure. Vice President and Client Application Specialist, Comerica Private Banking (Continued) * Wrote a CGI program called webit to meet the needs of Private Bankings investment managers and clients by filling gaps in Server Side Includes (SSI) to allow enhanced database integration. * Designed programs to incorporate dynamic rules for diverse fund and equity portfolios to ensure allocations adhered to Trust description and policy established by a steering committee. * Created Plans-in-Place (PIP) software to audit and verify the review of trusts by investment managers, administrators and upper management and oversee adherence to future plans. ANATEC Bingham Farms, Michigan 1993 Senior Consultant Wrote software to automatically analyze and monitor investment portfolios and suggest corrections to maintain compliance with corporate policy and federal regulations for clients such as Comerica Bank, Compaq Computers, Eli Lilly Foundation and Dana Corp. LOWRY COMPUTER SYSTEMS Brighton, Michigan 1992 1992 Software Engineer Brought on to build and enhance a 32-bit OS/2 environment to enable growth of the companys DOS-based in-house data collection software and supporting 4GL system. * Revitalized system performance in the space of seven months by developing and implementing an early version of isectd transaction processor that dramatically increased available memory, CPU and functionality. * Installed a TCP/IP socket library over NetBIOS to allow DOS applications to communicate over the network and harnessed the REXX scripting capabilities of OS/2 from within DOS. TERADATA CORP. Troy, Michigan 1989 Systems Engineer, Kmart Headquarters Contracted to provide much needed support to Kmart corporate headquarters to make optimal use of an expensive new computer system. * Awarded Best Presentation for a parallel processing talk delivered at a conference of support engineers. WORLD COMPUTER CORPORATION Auburn Hills, Michigan 1984 1989; 1989 1992 Software Engineer Contributed to the development of the transaction processing (TP) server to address the limitations of the relational database by creating a simplified, easily duplicated process for requesting data from the server in order to preserve memory to enable the database to perform its primary role of data management. * Wrote the authorization switch for Deluxe Data Systems ATM/POS network. EARLY CAREER HISTORY Network Data Systems Flushing, Michigan 1984 Agency Computers Troy, Michigan 1983 1984 Programmer Gained early experience coding programs in C MS-DOS, BASIC and Z80 for use in estimating real estate cost-of-replacement and simultaneously rating multiple auto and home insurance providers. TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE BASE Hardware: Apple II, Radio Shack Models III and IV (TRSDOS), IBM Compatibles, Data General AOS and AOS/VS, Sun Microsystems, Sequent, Stratus, Amiga (AmigaDOS), Teradata. Languages: Z80 Assembler, 8086 Assembler, Eclipse Assembler, BASIC, C, C++, FORTRAN, RATFOR, Rexx, Smalltalk, Java, PHP, Python, XML, XSL, DTD, SQL. Databases: DBVista, Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, DB2, Gemstone. Operating Systems: TRSDOS, DOS, Windows, AOS, AOS/VS, Solaris, Dynix, VOS, Linux, Teradata OS. Finance Industry Applications: Reuters Triarch SSL (market data interface), Multex (research), Baseline (research), FirstCall, Quotron (Market Data).