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NewsCorp IncGlobal Technology Enterprise Project and Program Manager
Apr. 2023Princeton, NJ and New York, NY · HybridMedia/publishing conglomerate: The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Harper Collins, New York Post, Investor’s Business Daily, REA Group and others. Driving “SWAT” team type projects for cost reduction and process streamlining across business units, proposing and managing several initiatives: *Enabling ongoing multimillion dollar savings on software license costs by driving implementation of centralized software asset management (SAM) across ~24,000 company owned PCs and Apple devices. *Managing technology for 6 news organizations covering the 2024 Democratic and Republican presidential political conventions; *Implementing conversion for Dow Jones EMEA HR Agents to AWS Connect; *Created intercompany SLAs (Service Level Agreements), resolving several audit points; *Managed all technology changes required to spin-off Australia corporate services to a standalone legal entity.
ConduentSenior Manager, IT Program & Project Management
May. 2017 - Dec. 2022Florham Park, NJDrove several transformational initiatives ($6 Billion Xerox spinoff founded in 2017), consolidated redundant systems, streamlined operations, enhanced revenue and reduced costs: Expedited spinoff of 4 corporate divestitures as related to time entry, billing, capital expenditure controls, data lake driven analytics and reporting. Consolidated (each into 1): 26 Time-Entry and Billing systems; 23 Customer Data Master repositories; 5 Salesforce instances (enforcing SFDC updates to the single global Customer Data Master). Managed development teams for line-of-business enhancements required due to these consolidations for: time entry, related billing and reporting; capital expenditure related monthly budgeting, tracking and reconciliation for hardware purchases and capitalize-able labor hours. Completed phase I of a multi-year effort to consolidate 52 datacenters (towards an end goal hybrid architecture of 3 major data centers and the cloud). This included thousands of client dedicated servers utilized for e-commerce as well as high volume back-end processing - migrated with no impact to ongoing business, simultaneously managing tech debt remediation - and all connectivity including related disaster recovery sites. Managed additional HR related IT initiatives, specifically, automation of onboarding and training processes for all new and terminated employees and centralized (and partly AI driven) interview and training processes for continuous and annual mass onboarding call center employees for corporate health insurance open enrollment periods. Vendor management during several restructurings included playing a key role in redesign of the capital expenditure approval and procurement processes, redesigned vendor onboarding, and replacing non-performing vendors for critical systems - with minimal operational impacts.
Think Big, a Teradata CompanyPrincipal Manager (Temp Contract)
Aug. 2016 - Nov. 2016Greater New York City AreaManaged two major Big Data (Hadoop, AWS etc.) initiatives utilizing multiple technologies to closure.
Johnson & JohnsonSenior Project Manager (Temp Contract)
Mar. 2016 - Jul. 2016New Brunswick, New JerseyFive month engagement automating C-Suite status reporting for $156,000,000 worth of Financial Planning and Analytics projects.
InfosysPrincipal - Business Consulting
Apr. 2013 - Feb. 2016Program Manager for bringing entire IT infrastructure back in house from Oracle Managed Cloud Services for the major US nutritional supplement and vitamin manufacturer. Program Manager for strategy and planning phases of a managed service transition for a major life insurer. Project Director driving the infrastructure build-out and set-up of operations for Clarient, a financial-industry owned data and document portal (Clarient Entity Hub) housing legal entity information for member banks. It uses DTCC’s massive compliance data sources to simplify adherence to KYC (Know Your Customer), AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) regulations. Created the corporate Quality Assurance and Testing Strategy for Managed Long Term Services and Support (MLTSS) program (changes to 35+ mission critical systems) for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. Project Management Office (PMO) Lead/Head for $46,000,000 program (staff of 230+) to build the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) Health Benefits Exchange for The District of Columbia (NOT the FEDERAL EXCHANGE). This was the first and only state exchange up and running on day 1 (10/1/13 midnight) with full functionality and redundancies built in to never go down - See Wall Street Journal 11/20/13 Page A6: “Capitol Hill: One Place Where Launch Of Obamacare Is Going Smoothly”.
Thomson ReutersTechnical Project Manager (Temp Contract)
Jun. 2012 - Oct. 2012Hoboken, NJResponsible for helping coordinate the build-out of 4 production and DR datacenters and movement into them, transition a large number of clients to upgrade their Thomson Reuters software and consolidating DR planning for several mission critical applications – all within the firm’s Corporate tax Division.
MedcoSenior Project Manager (Temp Contract)
Sep. 2011 - Mar. 2012Franklin Lakes, NJ(Express Scripts has now taken over Medco.) Managed five projects representing $36 million total spend as part of a complete firm-wide technology platform replacement. These projects covered business rule mining from all legacy systems, creation and maintenance of all firm-wide technology environments, managing all new and legacy software QA testing and the creation of a centralized compliance rules engine controlling all transaction validation and data access.
SiWEL ConsultingProfessional Services Practice Manager
Oct. 2010 - Jun. 2011New York CitySiWEL is a 400+ employee professional services organization concentrating on datacenter build-outs and upgrades, with extremely strong expertise in VMware, NetApp and Microsoft technologies. Designed, implemented and managed the Project Management Office, resulting in significant improvements by streamlining business processes, optimizing resources, improving customer compliance and cash flow.
Kruse Control Software & Kruse Consulting Services LLCProfessional Consultant / Private Business Owner
Jun. 2008 - Oct. 2010• May 2010 - Oct 2010: Master Certificate in Project Management from Villanova University • Apr 2009 - Sep 2009: Shark Byte Systems – Senior Project Manager; Implemented Agile Development, Streamlined Development & QA Processes, designed web-based system integrating video & transaction data.
• Jun 2008 - Oct 2010: Kruse Control Software (IT Consulting): System Sales, Training, Network Installations, Repairs. Also started online sales through multiple channels; independent website, Amazon, Yahoo Auctions and eBay; first year sales reached $350,000
UBS Investment BankDirector
Aug. 2007 - May. 2008DIRECTOR: REGULATORY REPORTING IT TEAM: • Reduced ongoing global transaction reporting error rate 99.5% at the largest volume firm on the planet (average 75,000,000 daily transactions, from 5.1% to 0.0025%), coordinating 17 teams to make hundreds of changes across 28 trading systems; corrected historical transaction reporting errors back to January 2007.
• Increased reporting capacity 125% by re-architecture to live feeds, designed in-line rule validation engine.
• Direct $750,000 bottom savings, sunsetting 7 systems, enabling sophisticated alternative execution venue analysis as well as better surveillance and budgeting - by delivering Execution Cost Analytics system which consolidated and enriched all firm-wide equity transaction data. Later, a version was rolled out to clients. DIRECTOR: GLOBAL POSITION KEEPING ENGINE: • Implemented state of the art centralized low-latency real-time position management system to replace and consolidate redundant position-handling logic and storage previously spread across trading systems; rolled out worldwide early; currently handling all active derivative (approximately 6,000,000) positions.
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB)See Credit Suisse Entry Above
Nov. 1996 - Aug. 2007See details under Credit Suisse. Entry here is only to find work associates from Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), which became Credit Suisse.
DLJAVP, Development Manager
Nov. 1996 - Aug. 2007(Credit Suisse First Boston took over DLJ in 2001) Responsible for development and enhancement of Order Management and Position Management systems. Managed technical relationships and set up electronic connectivity with Institutional Clients (via FIX). Developed Order Management software that automated massive order flow handling during the trading of hot IPO’s. Used throughout the DOT-COM boom (for 221 IPO’s during 1999 alone). This automation was credited with increasing DLJ’s trading profits by 25% in 1999.
Credit SuisseAVP, Development Manager
Nov. 1996 - Aug. 2007(Credit Suisse took over DLJ in 2001) Development Manager for the firm's flagship Equity Trading System. Project Manager for all equity trading systems in Latin America. This includes external systems utilizing FIX to enable DMA (Direct Market Access) to the BMV (Mexican Stock Exchange). DR (Disaster Recovery) Manager responsible for all US equity trading systems for Credit Suisse. Manager responsible for smooth implementation of all infrastructure changes affecting equity trading. Manager for all Server Processes related to all equity trading for the US for CS.
Union Camp CorporationCorporate Project Manager, Corporate Asset Manager, Manufacturing Plant Manager, Plant Controller
Jul. 1987 - Nov. 1996Union Camp is a large (Fortune 500) paper and flexible packaging manufacturing firm. During my tenure there, I held numerous roles at various levels including Corporate Project Manager, Corporate Asset Manager, Manufacturing Plant Manager, Plant Controller and Assistant Plant Controller
Chase Packaging CorporationSee Union Camp Corporation Above
Jul. 1987 - Nov. 1996Chase Packaging Corporation was taken over by Union Camp Corporation. This is only a placeholder to help find my work associates from Chase Packaging Corporation.
Chase Bag CompanySee Union Camp Corporation Above
Jul. 1987 - Nov. 1996Chase Bag Company was renamed Chase Packaging Corporation. This is only a placeholder to help find my work associates from Chase Bag Company.
The First Boston CorporationOperations Manager
Mar. 1983 - Jun. 1987Reconciled all corporate equity positions, corrected Trading Room / Trading Floor mismatches (Breaks). Earned SEC Series 3, 7, 63 registration. Starting September 1986, managed 4-person team handling all Equity and Mortgage Backed Security Position reconciliation.
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