Gerald Lerman resume

1. GERALD LERMAN
10211 Wolfe Manor Ct Unit 712, Glen Allen, VA 23060
Phone: 804-755-6807 / Email: jerrylerman@xemaps.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jerrylerman
IT TECHNICAL LEAD
Willing to relocate at my own expense
15+ years of IT experience that includes IT Tech Lead positions with both Capital One Financial,
responsible for an online banking application, and National Grid, leading teams toward achieving
successful completion of a number of middleware projects as part of a multi-year assignment in the
United Kingdom. Earned multiple performance-based awards.
Repeated success in developing and deploying innovative, breakthrough IT solutions that meet business
requirements. Skilled in managing globally dispersed groups, influencing stakeholders to achieve buy-in, and
motivating team members to exceed expectations. Provide superior service in meeting SLAs. Frequently
assigned complex initiatives with mission-critical goals, delivering numerous projects on time and on budget.
Core competencies include:





Change, Process and Resource Management
IT Risk Assessment, Management & Mitigation
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Solutions
IS & Business Requirements Alignment
Agile development





Stakeholder, Customer and Vendor Relations
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Software Cyber Security
Technical and Procedural Standards`
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL – Richmond, VA
Technical Lead for an online banking platform
2011-2013
Technical Lead for a major .NET/SQL Server-based online banking platform and associated test environments.
Recognized for constant success taking business requirements through design, development, security scans,
performance testing, deployment planning and into production. Involved in external service provider
relationships. The Platform SME and Point-of-contact.
Did impact assessments for enhancements and RTE, working closely with stakeholders. Worked in an Agile
framework with 8 globally dispersed C# developers, overseeing design, coding and testing. Performed design
and code reviews assuring adherence to coding and cyber security best practices; helped determine regression
test plans; maintained QA environments; and analyzed and signed-off on performance and security test results.
Was 24x365 L3 support and attended Incident and Root Cause analysis meetings. Worked in an Agile
development framework.
Created C# coding standards and negotiated acceptance with development vendor. Worked with security
vendors and InfoSec on security defect mitigation and presented options to stakeholders and Delivery
Governance.
Created detail production deployment steps for offshore Support. Wrote integrated minute-by-minute plans.
Helped determine post deployment activities. Arranged pre-release meetings with performers, stakeholders and
technical leads to walk through deployment steps. Worked closely with Production Support and Release
Management. Participated in network infrastructure changes with platform impact.
Since becoming the Technical Lead, no new defects were ever deployed into production and no unplanned
outages caused by deployment activities and new code.

2. GERALD LERMAN, 2
Phone: 804-755-6807 / Email: jerrylerman@xemaps.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jerrylerman
NATIONAL GRID – Waltham, MA/Hinckley, UK/Solihull, UK
Senior IT Analyst / IS Lead, Integration Competency Center (ICC)
Lead, Integration Centre of Excellence

2004-2011
Assigned to UK location to help create a Sun (now Oracle) JCAPS, AIX/Oracle DB, middleware infrastructure to
replace existing Sun e*gate interface-based integration and to create an internal services group for providing
middleware technology services. Led Java middleware development for all UK requirements. Directed teams of
up to 42 Java developers in India, 16 in the UK, and additional members in the US. Planned and administered a
$1.5 million group budget. Tracked progress on projects, oversaw change management functions, and managed
relationships between new Middleware Support and Service & Incident Management teams. Created “best
practice” documents for both Java and JCAPS and negotiated acceptance with development vendors. Wrote a
number of complex infrastructure monitoring Korn shell scripts so problems are recognized and fixed before
customers become aware.
Gave stakeholder presentations providing understanding of JCAPS based integration and benefits for them so to
inspire confidence and acceptance of JCAPS.
As Senior Analyst, created and supported middleware solutions for the U.S. ICC as well which owned
responsibility for legacy system integration using IBM Websphere MQ and PM4D. Ensured IS Governance
compliance for solutions and designs, including SOX and IS security requirements.
Created Integration Centre of Excellence that eliminated problems in production support costs and quality of
implementations. Facilitated 60% reduction in development costs and 90% decrease in RTB costs for the
integration layer, with new estimation process resulting in zero late/over-budget projects.

Established 8-AIX-server middleware infrastructure across 4 UK data centers, 3-server test/development
environment for middleware, development standards, processes and procedures, and 24x365 production
support group. ICoE servers currently handle 746+ integrations across 18 business units.

Reduced support resources from 10 to 2 following establishment of a production support group and
conversion of 24 applications to the new middleware platform; increased software reuse, quality of
software, and hardware reuse to achieve abovementioned results.

Played key role in delivering code on time for Traffic Management Act project (mandatory govt. deadline
with a potential $1M per day penalty) within 10 weeks, with National Grid signified as the only natural gas
distribution company to achieve on-time deployment as well as winning an award for the achievement.

3. GERALD LERMAN, 3
Phone: 804-755-6807 / Email: jerrylerman@xemaps.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jerrylerman
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting & Electronic Data Processing
PACE UNIVERSITY, New York, NY
Technology Skills Summary
SDLC, TLC, Java, Java CAPS (JCAPS), Oracle SOA Suite, JMS, Websphere MQ, SQL, Oracle, Tibco API, e*gate, AIX,
UNIX, Integration patterns, Windows, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Veracode, IT Security, Infosec; ESB,
Web services, SOAP, HA , WSDL, XML, Clusters, Tivoli, C++, C, IBM Mainframe, Excel, Voyager, Financial Services,
Checkfree, CashEdge, JavaScript, PHP, Design Patterns, Cyber Security, Korn shell
Awards & Recognitions
 Won the sprint team’s MVP award by the Scrum Master.
 Received “Team of the Year” award conferred during the Utility Industry Achievement Awards ceremony in
London, 2008. Honored for completion of the UK Transportation Management Act project.
 Achieved 2 PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award nominations, Best of the Year Award from Lotus
Magazine and PC Computing, and Star Award from Computer Reseller News.