NA Testing Services Resume

Desired Industry: Information Technology	SpiderID: 21309
Desired Job Location: Morristown, New Jersey	Date Posted: 6/16/2008
Type of Position: Full-Time Temporary	Availability Date:
Desired Wage:
	U.S. Work Authorization:
Job Level: Experienced with over 2 years experience	Willing to Travel:
Highest Degree Attained:	Willing to Relocate:

Objective:
SUMMARY
Sr. IT Executive with 28 years experience in banking, investment & brokerage. 18 years building trading systems followed by 10 years of “big-4 consulting”. Experince includes Equity, FI, derivities, securities lending, program trading and banking operations in front/back/middle office systems. Risk and regulatory management experience including Basel II and SOX. Over the last 5 years focus has been testing from a risk management perspective.

EDUCATION
State University of New York at Stony Brook, BS Computer Science May 1983
New York Institute of Finance 1989-1992
Fundamentals of the Securities Industry, Money Markets, The Bond Market, Equity Options, Series 7Training
GE Information Services 1993-1994
C++ Programming, Object-Oriented Design & Analysis

Professional Licenses: Series 7, Series 63

Experience:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Collabera, Inc. (formerly Global Consultants, Inc.) Morristown, NJ 11/07 - Present
Director, Global Solutions, Financial Services Division
Practice Leader, NA Testing Services

Hired as the Practice Leader for NA Testing Services, bringing capitial markets experience and a risk management perspective to testing and quality assurance offering.

Initiatives
• Introduced and building a structured test methodology (SureTest)
• Created and leading the solution blueprint to guide the construction of Collabera’s Financial Services Solutions
• Defined NA Testing Solution Offering:

o Test Management Services
Responsibilty for end-to-end testing:
 Functional
 Regression
 Acceptance testing
 Load & Performance
 Test Automation
o Test Execution Services
Role-based professional test resources
o Test Assessment Services
 Health Check (best practices)
 Momentum Testing Workshop

o Test Training Service
 ISTQB Certification
 Structured Test Methodology
 Test Automation

• Created initiative for ISTQB certification of testing resources

LogicaCMG, NA. New York, NY 05/06 – 10/07
Director, Managed Testing
Financial Services Division

Managed Testing Practice Leader: Create, build and run the North American Managed Testing practice responsible for:

• Establishing the Managed Testing Practice
• Sales
• Delivery / Staff Management
• Marketing / IP Creation
• Training
• Internal Product Quality Assurance

Accomplishments:

• Developed Vendor Partner Relationships
• Developed Resource Partner Relationships
• Authored “Professional Testing” white paper
• Testing assessment for LCMG product (BESS) product saving $1M per year
• Developed the Information Asset Manager (IAM) Legacy to SOA Migration Solution
• Developed Test Environment Hosting Services

ABN Amro Bank, N.V. Jersey City, NJ 10/04 – 04/06
Director, Global Vendor Management / Project Delivery
Wholesale Client Services IT

Project Delivery: Manage 50 outsource vendor relationships, including a € 1.5 billion outsourced IT services contract with a Primary Outsource vendor, including:

• All phases of project management review
• All phases of vendor management
• On/Off-Shore Sourcing
• Tax Status / Strategies
• Delivery Acceptance
• Business Acceptance Testing (BAT)
• Quality Assurance

Highlights:
Centralized UAT (BAT) Program: Created and implemented a centralized User Acceptance Testing program to address audit points and software quality management, including:

• Wrote Testing Standards Whitepaper / Policy
• Created BAT Program “blueprint”
• Successfully Closed FRB / Internal Audit citations
• Test Vendor Partner Evaluation
• Initiated CMM Certification Process / Goals
• Demonstrated quality improvement / cost savings

Best Shore Program: Initiated a more aggressive off-shore program to achieve additional cost savings, including:

• Off-Shore Contractual Target Adherence & True-up
• Improved requirements via BAT Program
• Release-based Delivery batches
• Volume discount “rate-card”

Education:
Accenture, Inc. New York, NY 04/04 – 10/04
Sr. Manager, Risk & Regulatory Management Group

• Helped set-up the Risk & Regulatory Management practice, focusing on sales pipeline, tool building, collateral catalogue, vendor alliances, and team building. Client assignments at Morgan Stanley and Wachovia Securities. Instructor at Basel II training seminar.

BearingPoint, Inc. (formerly KPMG Consulting, Inc.) New York, NY 10/99 – 03/04
Sr. Manager, Financial Services Division
Basel Solution Practice Leader

Accomplishments: Co-founded and led the Basel Solution Group, providing professional services to banks and other financial companies to achieve the benefits of better risk management per the New Basel Capital Accord.

• Developed a business plan for a new practice
• Co-Founded and built a new business (practice)
• Designed and built a technology infrastructure
• Managing 40 technical and functional consultants
• Managed the sales and marketing campaign for initial clientele
• Presented at several industry conferences

Client accomplishments:
Bank of New York, Engagement Manager for the Basel II/Credit Risk data mart project integrating with their current PS EPM data warehouse and addressing Basel compliance for their commercial and retail credit risk businesses. Worked with BNY Securities’ Pershing division (execution/clearing businesses). Accomplishments included:

• Requirements Analysis
• Current state assessment
• Future state / Gap analysis
• Implementation Plan and budget
• Develop and conduct workshops
• Develop data architecture enhancements
• Led 25 consultant implementation team

SouthTrust Bank, Engagement Manager for the Risk Management data warehouse expansion:

• Current state assessment
• Future state / Gap analysis
• Retail and Commercial businesses
• Credit, market, and operational risk
• Worked with Teradata; enhanced their data model
• Led 5 consultant, 1 subcontractor team

GE Capital, Inc., Lead architect for Basel II assessment project:

• Credit & Operational Risk for 10 global LOBs
• Dev. risk-exposure framework for Basel II compliance
• Current/Future state, Gap analysis
• Emphasis on PD, LGD, and EAD
• Integrated with Sarbanes-Oxlay implementation
• Led 10 consultant, 5 subcontractor team

Washington Mutual Bank, Engagement Manager for a Basel II assessment project:

• Partnered with McKenzie & Co. for current state assessment of 4 LOBs and future state options
• Collateral mgmt. analysis
• Credit, market, and Operational risk
• Economic capital calculation
• Implementation roadmap & budget
• Sarbanes-Oxlay assess review and implement plan
• Led 10 consultant team

Harris Bank & Trust (subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal), Engagement Manager for the Basel II program:

• Addressed Retail & Commercial Banking
• Credit and Operational Risk
• Employed a prototype-based rapid dev. method
• Estab. / led PMO, managing 100+ developers, consultants
• Dev. enterprise-wide implementation plan, coordinating with BMO IT groups
• Defined/extended a new data architecture
• Developed commercial & retail risk rating programs
• Built risk rating util. on existing PS EPM platform
• Rolled out to 1,200 global users
• Developed training program
• Established a data integrity / cleanup program
• Helped coordinate their data center relocation
• Reviewed Sarbanes-Oxley assessment; developed implementation plan
• Managed 25 consultant implementation team

Deutsche Bank, AG.: Engagement Manager for Corporate Trust & Agency Services (CTAS) Obligations Processing Systems Replacement.

• Established PMO, implementation plan, budget
• Vendor and service bureau management
• Defined/extended a new data architecture
• Managed 1 consultant

Deutsche Bank, AG.: Engagement manager for the dbPortfolio Technical Performance Review.

• Evaluated client’s web-based custody mgmt. system
• Recommended performance improvements
• Oversaw an implementation that resulted in targeted performance improvements
• Managed 4 consultants

Newman & Associates, Inc.: Engagement manager for the Tender Option Bonds & Tax Exempt Continuance project:

• Requirements analysis via UML/RUP methodology
• External vendor coordination/integration
• Database design
• Implementation planning
• Managed 4 consultant
Goldman, Sachs & Co.: Engagement manager and client’s project coordinator for the PARA Reengineering project:

• Workshops
• Functional Specifications
• PMO Set-up and Implementation Plan
• Managed 2 consultant

Credit Suisse First Boston: Development manager for FAS133 project (US-GAAP):

• Managed team of 8
• Requirements Analysis
• Functional & Technical Specs.
• n-Tier design using COM+, MTS, SQL-Server, VB
• UAT
• Documentation
• Operations training
• Managed 6 consultants

ING Barrings: Trading desk procedures and policies review, process-flow documentation.

Affiliations:
Technology Solutions Company, Inc. New York, NY 6/98 – 9/99
Senior Principal, Risk Management & Trading Desk Practice

• Rabobank International: Trading Desk PMO:
• Devon Derivatives Trading System Upgrade/Omark Replacement:
• Interfaces to G/L, RiskWatch, MARC, Credit Limit Exposure Reporting, Regulatory Reporting
• Treasury Operations business process reengineering
• Deal file Data cleanup
• Automated Market Rates (MARC) feed for DDS
• Y2K Certification for 7 trading systems
• Managed 11consultants

Paine Webber, Inc. New York, NY 1/97 – 6/98
Divisional Vice President, Equity Trading Systems

Program Trading: Created the ElecTrade+ program trading system & utilities used by the Program Trading desk, Soft Dollar/Electronic Trading clients, and Trade Processing Operations:

• Manage relationship w/3 user groups
• Added Post Trade Analytics, Corp. Actions Adj., Interval VWAP, Away Trades, NYSE Rule 80A trading curbs, Portfolio Rebalance features
• Created Equity Trading Systems Help Desk & Hotline
• Tripled client base; quadrupled revenue
• Provided disaster recovery/fail-over capability
• Provided month-end revenue reporting
• Represented PW at FIX Committee meetings
• Managed team of 12

Bear Stearns & Co. New York, NY 3/94 – 1/97
Vice President, Securities Lending Systems

Securities Lending:

• Managed 40 client relationships
• Automated client short sale approvals
• Developed msg broker architecture
• Locate & Hold utilities w/nightly feeds
• Interfaced to State Street’s AutoBorrows system
• Securities & client master databases
• LOANET Cooperative process interface
• Managed team of 9

Lehman Brothers New York, NY 11/89 - 3/94
Project Leader - Sr. Prog/Analyst, Securities Lending Systems

• Securities Lending: Developed SLICS a stock loan trading system
• Fixed Income Sales & Trading: Project leader for Customer Tracking system, Portfolio Administration Tools, and DISNE, a virtual database server spanning multiple platforms
• Quantitative Strategies: Built production environment for Futures Sales & Trading strategy group, T-Bond futures modeling (contract richness, hedge ratios, embedded options, and option adjusted spreads), Bond Basis Reporting system (predicting switches, identifying arbitrage)

Kidder Peabody & Co. New York, NY 9/88 - 11/89
Database Administrator/Project Manager

Investment Support Systems Bloomfield, NJ 4/88 - 9/88
Consultant

Designed/prototyped/implemented a real time data feed for FX options trading (Futrack)

Goldman, Sachs& Co. New York, NY 1/85 - 4/88
Project Manager, End User Computing Services

Trading & Arbitrage: Options Strategy Simulator for Equity Options, Bond Calculator, models for the Finance desk, Integrated Work Station for equities & fixed income traders, Research reporting system

Automated Concepts, Inc. New York, NY 7/83 - 1/85
Consultant, Technical Consulting Division

SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 3/80 - 7/83
Jr. Programmer, Computing Center

Skills:
TECHNICAL SKILLS
HARDWARE:
IBM P690 (AIX), IBM 3090 (VM/CMS, MVS/TSO, CICS); DEC VAX 11/750, 8650 (Ultrix, VMS); SUN Ultras, Sparc 1000 (Solaris); IBM PC & compatibles (MS-Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, NetWare); Metaphor (Britton Lee Data Server), Stratus (VOS)

SOFTWARE
Languages: Visual Basic, C, C++, XML, PASCAL, FORTRAN, COBOL, i86 Assembler, REXX, JCL
Utilities: ERWin, awk, Perl, C/Bourne shells, Purify, Quantify, AutoSys, Control-M
Object Oriented Tools: ObjectCenter, OMT, ParadimePlus, RationalRose, ObjectiveGrid, Nexpert
GUI: MS-FrontPage, MS-IIS, WebSphere, OI, OIT, UIM/X, Jams, PowerBuilder, X/Motif
Databases: SQLServer, Sybase, Oracle, SQL/DS, DB2, Metaphor, Informix, MS-Access
Trading Systems: Futrak, Devon Derivatives System v3.34, PW ElecTrade+, Loanet, LB SLICS, CTPS
ERP: PeopleSoft 8.8 (PeopleTools, EPM)
Project Mgmt: MS-Project, BearingPoint PMO-Online, Vertabase
Testing Tools: Mercury WinRunner, LoadRunner, LogicaCMG TestFrame Engine

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: John M. Dettori, Jr.
Street: -	Phone: 973-841-2212
City: Morristown	Fax: -
State: New Jersey
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