Resume of VP of Application Development

Title
VP of Application Development

Primary Skills
Over 20 years of industry experience: 8 yrs as a VP of Consulting Services, 5 yrs as Director of Product Development

Location
US-CA-San Juan Capistrano

Posted
Apr-18-07

Professional
Summary Over 20 years of industry related experience, including 8 years as a Vice President of
Professional Consulting Services, 5 years as Director of Product Development, and 5 years
as an Independent Consultant:

* Proven success in providing professional services to various industries using custom, embedded
systems and business application solutions
* Strong reputation in driving successful implementation projects while achieving operational
excellence, driving innovation and improving customer satisfaction with various client and
business partners.
* Extensive experience in software implementation management, management of process
improvement and managing large software and hardware projects with cross-functional teams.
* In-depth knowledge and experience in information technology product development, client
relationship management, project management, business analysis, system implementation, and
offshore development models.
* Broad technical and strategic background, skilled at working with corporate leaders and able to
bridge the gap between business requirements and technology.
* Highly proficient in creating/delivering on process improvement initiatives, creating balance
scorecards, product roadmaps and ROI/NPV presentations.
* Innovative contributor, able to bring proactive solutions to difficult or high-pressure situations.

Education
Summary Bachelors of Science Degree in Information Systems
Attachmate: Enterprise Application Developer Training,
PMI Training: Project Management
Six Sigma Greenbelt Practice/Studies
Project Development using Case Tools Training
CISCO Routing Programming & Internetworking
Microsoft training: Visual Basic, MS Project, MS Integration Servers, MS Biztalk.
Java Training, Oracle training: Advanced SQL with Oracle 8i
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD)
Professional
Experience
7/04 - ACC Capital Holdings Corporation - Loan Servicing Division (Ameriquest)
Director, Product Development - Application Development Operations

I managed an annual product development budget of $32 million and supervised a 40-employee
department onshore ad 80 people offshore. My responsibilities included the oversight for analysis,
design, vendor selection, product development, R&D, testing and implementation of development
Mortgage industry applications for next-generation systems. I am responsible for production and
maintenance programming for loan servicing business systems for onshore/offshore resources.

Key projects & Achievements
* Reorganized the department, implementing training and quality benchmarks that delivered
technical and service excellence, produced an 80% improvement in product delivery, and
rebuilt confidence in the IT department.
* Created product development roadmap and key performance indicator (KPI's) for both on/offshore
teams that increased team performance and accountability.
* Provided assessment and development of corporate oversea outsourcing policy, balance
scorecard implementation, change management improvements and coordination with consulting
vendors. Reducing offshore expenses by 45%.
* Delivered $2 million in cost saving through aggressive negotiation of contracts and pricing on a
budgeted $4 million for hardware/software purchase and consulting services.
* Save more than $1.2 million in network services by improving the nightly ETL/SQL process.
* Completed, in just 8 months - 8 months ahead of schedule - a complex $1.5 million CMS project
to replace Documentum with an OpenSource intranet solution. Reducing IT spend by $1.2
million savings per year.
* Define and implemented policies and procedures for SDLC process that reduced development
re-work efforts by 30% for offshore development.
* Defused and resolved long-sanding conflicts and department problem; elevated morale and
decreased high employee turn rates, achieving the best retention ever for that group.

Technologies: Documentum, .NET framework, Visual Studio, OpenSource CMS, Java, J2EE,
WebSphere, JBoss, Peregrine, Clarity, Dreamweaver MX, Rational Tools, Visual Basic, Adobe
PDF Server, XPP, SQL Server, Oracle, Lotus Notes, Windows Server 2003, Mercury QuickTest
Pro, TestDirector, LoadRunner, MS Project 2003, Business Objects.

7/03 - 06/04 Johnson Controls, Inc., Cypress, CA - Security Division
SR. PROJECT MANAGER /ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS SERVICES

Lead a team of Software Engineers and Security Professionals that were responsible for providing
industry leading consulting services. Directly responsible for ensuring service delivery meets
contracted specifications, scope, and budget. Hands-on responsibility for planning, scheduling,
organizing, directing and control of costs of project managers, engineers and subcontractors
of assigned projects using Six Sigma methodologies. Managed delivery teams of 16 Consultants on
multiple medium to large-scale projects in security system integration, embedded system product,
product installations, and major enhancement initiatives to existing customers systems.

Key projects & Achievements
* Involved in the pre-sales/contract process and develop and presented customer business
solutions and make technical presentations. Partner with Operation Managers and Account
Managers in the hand-off of deals and took ownership of managing the project delivery
process.
* Created "Best Practice" RFP presentation standards which enable engineers and our customer to
communicate more effectively. Thereby reducing hours of re-work and meetings.

Technologies: MS Enterprise Server, Nextiva SmartSight SPCF protocol,, J2EE, Oracle 9i, MS SLQ Server,
MS Projects, DNS/DHCP/TCP IP , CISO and various others.

11/02 - 7/03 Independent Computer Consultant
MICOSOFT VB/SQL DEVELOPER/ BUSINESS SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT
Key projects & Achievements
* Designed websites using SQL Server, ASP and VB.NET for various customers.

Technologies: (VB 5 and C++) , SQL 2000, DTS/, IIS, MSEQ, ASP / ASP.NET, BizTalk 2000, Macromedia
Fireworks MX 2004 Macromedia Corel Draw HTML MS Visual.

9/01- 11/02 The Integrity Group, Houston, TX - Consulting Services; Outsourcing
VICE PRESIDENT OF PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING SERVICES

With 4 direct and approximately 19 staff my role consisted of day-to-day managing the development,
implementation, and maintenance of business applications systems and overseeing developers,
network staff, graphic artist and technical writers. Hands-on responsibility for driving and guiding
overall project direction; directly involved with client satisfaction; strategies of current and future
needs, developing business, pushing new business & project management.

Key projects & Achievements
* Successfully lead multiple integration projects teams from design phase through implementation
for clients, including Compaq, HP, Lexicon, Parker Drilling (offshore development) and British
Petroleum. Launch a multi-million web content management solution for Parker Drilling based on
XML/ASP technologies.
* Built the consulting practices.
* Successfully manage off-shore development teams in Brazil to develop an on-line documentation
repository for Compaq/HP using Microsoft/HP technologies (Oracle 8i) project.
* Save more than $3.2 million in lawsuit for invalid use of software licenses.
* Provide an IT Audit exposed internal fraud thereby saving the company $400k per year.

Technologies: (VB1 to 6, .Net and .Net 2003, SQL SVR 2000) Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 ASP /
ASP.NET Macromedia Flash MX 2004 LINUX (UNIX) Visual C# (basic knowledge) Macromedia FireWorks
MX 2004 Macromedia Captivate Corel Draw Web development HTML MS Visual Source Safe.

6/01 - 9/01 Independent Computer Consultant
MICOSOFT / BUSINESS SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT
Key projects & Achievements
* Designed websites using MS Access, SQL, ASP and VB.NET for various customers.

Technologies: (VB 5 and C++) , SQL, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 ASP / ASP.NET Macromedia
Flash MX 2004 Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 Macromedia Corel Draw HTML MS Visual.

7/94 - 6/01 Datalect, Riverside, CA - Consulting (Startup Company)
VICE PRESIDENT, PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING SERVICES
Lead a team of Developers and Implementation Consultants that were responsible for providing
industry leading consulting support and services. I was directly responsible for client
relationship management at senior and executive levels. Directing delivery teams of 25
Consultants on multiple, concurrent, large-scale projects. Responsibilities included remotely
managing, hiring, developing, and supporting a highly technical and diverse team.

Key projects & Achievements
* Successfully built business partnerships with IBM, TRW, EDS, ATTACHMATE and others that
increase the companies' revenue from $500k to $3.5 million per year by developing and delivering
professional services offering.
* Provided post-sale technical and business consulting, to ensure proper implementation and
maintenance of new and existing Attachmate installations. This included consulting at all
levels including process assessments, training, implementation, and best practices support.
* Managed the day to day interactions with client management and business partners.
* Established project management processes and client engagement guidelines. Improved internal
business processes, increase support and service to business partners, and rapidly expanded
capabilities and services to external customers.
* Implement 75 projects for multiple clients, including Time Warner, AAA, Avnet Financials,
American Express, the State of Louisiana, San Bernardino (CA) County, Chicago Medical Center,
MD Anderson Cancer Research Center, TRW, Pioneer Electronics.....

Technologies: Visual Basic (1 to 6) MS Visual Studio, Macromedia DreamWeaver MX 2004 ASP / VB.NET
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 LINUX (UNIX) DOS Visual C++ (basic knowledge) Macromedia Captivate
VBScript Crystal Reports Experience on JavaScript Corel Draw Web development HTML MS Visual Source
Safe DLL development SQL MS Agent User/custom control development MS Project MS SQL Server MS
Office COM/DCOM development MS Access MS Front Page Unified Modeling Language (UML) Oracle
(basic knowledge) MS Visio, HL7, HIPPA.

6/90 - 9/94 Independent Computer Consultant
SOFTWARE DEVLOPER / SR. BUSINESS CONSULTANT

7/85 - 6/90 API (Sonitrol) Culver City, CA - Electronic Security Company
DIRECTOR OF MIS

7/80 - 6/85 Cater Hawley Hale. Orange, CA
COMPUTER OPERATIONS ANALYST



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