ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE & RDBMS DEVELOPMENT | SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

• Diligent Project Manager offering a proven record of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects.  ME and Six Sigma, Computer programming and business finance experience.

• Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive continuous process improvement, competitive advantages  and bottom line gains.

• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate very effectively with clients, executives and  team members.

• Experience  in SDF ( AT&T) , Agile and Waterfall IT Project Management Methodologies. Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary target, while building high quality teams

Skills Summary

       Project Management   -  Custom Software Development  |  Database Design (RDBMS)  |  Systems Engineering  |  Enterprise wide Implementations  |  System Migrations/Integrations  |  Automated testing

       Value-Added Leadership  -  Cross-Functional Supervision Team Building & Mentoring Client Relations & Presentations Business & IT Planning

       IT Project Lifecycle  -   Requirements Analysis ROI Analysis Costing & Budgeting Project Scheduling Testing/QA/Rollout/Support

 

Career Progression

2004-Present   Project Manager / Sales   Weichert Real Estate Westfield, NJ / Scranton, PA

1999-2004      MTS  Member Technical Staff   Computer Science Corporation (AT&T)   Somerset, NJ

1992-1999      Project Manager   AT&T Consumer Services   Piscataway, NJ

1991-1992     Testing Team Leader   (contractor)   AT&T Consumer Services    Piscataway, NJ

1989-1990    Network Tech Associate (contractor)  EBASCO ( Nuclear power engineering)   NY, NY

1988-1989     Analyst/Developer/Tester    AT&T BELL Laboratories    Murray Hill, NJ

 

 

       Recruited by one of the nation’s leading IT consulting firms to provide project management over large-scale, top-priority and complex technology initiatives. Managed budgets of  $7M with cross-functional teams of developers, programmers, analysts and network specialists.

       Created and Led high functioning teams across broad technical and business disciplines. Focused teams on objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget.

       Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving  environments. Received awards for creative solutions to difficult problems

     Responsible for all aspects of a nationwide online system using Oracle/Pro-C/C/AWK/SQR/ Powerbuilder, & Cold Fusion  Involved: clients requesting batch & real-time jobs, client interface, analysis, development, testing, & adhocs..

       Handled all phases of project lifecycle: client solicitation, project scope definition, proposal development, budget negotiation, team and vendor selection, analytical design and implementation, and presentation to clients.

       Managed multiple projects simultaneously, presented results to clients of various management levels, ranging from informal discussion to formal presentation.  Demonstrated expertise in interpreting technical information to a non-technical audience.

     Rose quickly from Technical Associate to Project Manager, responsible for all aspects of project from analysis through testing and ongoing maintenance of very large 100 GIG+ national online system using ORACLE/ PRO-C/ C/ AWK/ APPWORX & ORACLE FORMS in a UNIX environment using QFD, (Quality Software Deployment), techniques.  Seamlessly navigated entire system through Y2K changes and software upgrades with very limited resources on time & under budget. Received awards for finding creative solutions to problems.

       Successfully executed transparent software upgrades on time & under budget

       Supervised direct reports, managing their productivity and career development.  Provided mentoring.

       Designed, authored, & implemented complete system in C/UNIX/INFORMIX that matched internal job openings with potential internal candidates worldwide. The system generated all needed correspondence, and tracked employees. 

     Led a technical team in the worldwide support and demonstration of real business applications of ISDN Networking on a 5ESS (electronic switching system).  Involved orchestrating extensive worldwide travel, training of local marketing staff, and highest-level presentations under a very tight schedule.

1988-1989       AT&T NETWORK SYSTEMS    Morristown, NJ

• Led a technical team in the worldwide support and demonstration of real business applications of ISDN Networking on a 5ESS (electronic switching system).  Involved orchestrating extensive worldwide travel, training of local marketing staff, and highest-level presentations under a very tight schedule.

1984-1988       COMPUTER INFORMATION SERVICES (     Pittsburgh, PA

• Headed technical team that was the first point of contact for resolving all hardware and software problems within the entire University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon supercomputing center.  Active participant in a cooperative effort with AT&T to design “the campus of the future” incorporating a fully fiber-optic network
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( GPA 3.3 )  Harvard University '06  (attended) ( Cambridge MA )

Masters Certificate Project Management George Washington University '99

ME ( GPA: 3.5 )  Stevens Institute of Technology '96  ( Hoboken NJ )

BS in CS ( GPA: 3.0 ) University of Pittsburgh '89 ( Pittsburgh PA )

Genius IQ  145

 

Methodology Experience 

AT&T Software Process Framework (SPF)

AT&T Software Quality Assurance (SQA)

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBK)

 

Hardware / OS / Languages / Software   Experience 

Hardware:         Client/Server, SUN/Sparc, NCR, VAX/VMS, IBM, Intel Pentium , Core i3, i5 & i7

OS:                              UNIX, Linux, Ultrix, AIX, SUN / SOLARIS , DOS, Windows Server , Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, XP, Windows 7 Vista, 7, 8 , 10 & MVS

Languages:      ORACLE, C++, Pro-C, SQL, SQR, Bourne/C/Korn Shell, AWK, SED, Perl, Fortran, HTML, XML, Visual C++, Informix, and JCL

Software:          Powerbuilder, Developer 2000, Appworx, Lotus Notes,  Cold Fusion, MS-word, MS-excel, MS-                            project, MS-FrontPage, MS-Access, MS-PowerPoint

 

Team Leader

SDF - Software Development Framework authoring team

Handpicked by Regional Vice President to lead the Testing team to develop and author software testing standards methodology manual for software development for AT&T.

Flight Director  ( NASA simulations exercise )

Represented AT&T at the US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville AL   Headed a team of 22 managers from different corporations in simulating shuttle missions. 

Team President

MERT Medical Emergency Response Team  Led a team of employees specially trained in first-aid and CPR.  Group was on-call within corporate complex, response time averaged less than 4 minutes. 

Committee / Volunteer / Etc

Headed successful grass roots effort forming a class action suit to fight a real estate tax case from the local government level to State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Steven Finter vs Wayne County Board of Assessment  No. 1204 C.D. 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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