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ARDIS (a joint venture of IBM
and Motorola specializing in wireless data transmission)
August 1991 to November 1993
Project manager
Responsible for determining economic, technical, and
organizational feasibility of wireless access to production
systems data in a diversity of hardware, software, and
telecommunications environments. Managed all stages of systems
design, development, and implementation for customers such as
UNISYS and Bell Atlantic Business Systems.
Chemical New York Corporation
Assistant Vice President
Information and
Technology Management Division
March 1985 to December 1988
Responsible for: providing financial systems support for the
controller of the Information and Technology Management Division;
and providing on-site office systems support to all senior
executives, their staffs, and executive support groups (training,
programming, hardware and operations support, etc.).
Additional accomplishments:
- Optimized performance of financial systems and increased
productivity of staff, resulting in a budget reduction of
$400,000 and the elimination of seven full time positions.
- Eliminated a redundant financial reporting system, resulting
in an annualized savings of over $500,000.
- Saved over $400,000 by careful analysis of equipment
purchase requests.
- Successfully sold technology to top executives through
enhancement of service, technical support and improved
reliability of office automation systems.
- Introduced applications systems prototyping, resulting in
reduced development costs.
- Expanded service from 25 end users to over 650 end users,
representing 78 bank departments worldwide.
- Provided an alternative to outside time sharing resulting in
savings of over $100,000 per year.
- Provided over 2,000 hours per month in productivity gains
for the user community with centralized databases and ad hoc
reporting capabilities to replace paper reports from diverse
production systems.
- Reviewed new technologies such as artificial intelligence as
applied to banking and relational database technologies
(database machines and other architectures).
- Provided ongoing support for 15 bank databases available on
the Information Center mainframe.
- Received an outstanding evaluation for my performance and
was promoted to Assistant Vice President.
AT&T
January 1979 to November 1983
Project Manager/Systems Analyst
Responsible for: applications software development, selection
of software packages and computer hardware, and installation of
hardware and software. Held both line and staff positions in
various subsidiaries within the company.
Additional accomplishments
- Managed the successful implementation of the following
systems using internal staff, contract personnel and vendors:
- Personnel for AT&T International
- Prototype Telephone Billing System for the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia,
- General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Budget and Payroll for a
subsidiary Ireland,
- Manufacturing Management Information System including:
inventory control, MRP, production scheduling, bill of
materials etc. for a subsidiary in Ireland,
- Employee Compensation and Relocation Benefits,
- Pricing and billing for AT&T International .
- Saved over $800,000 by implementing an income tax program
for AT&T expatriate employees compensation.
- Received a certificate of special appreciation for the
systems development and planning work done in Ireland.
- Managed the implementation of a data communications network
for the central United States including; computer hardware (DEC
11/70s to serve as electronic switches for the network), all
peripheral devices, uninterrupted power supplies and
communications access equipment, etc. Supervised four engineers
who coordinated the efforts of over 20 construction crews in the
field
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