Steven Manni has extensive experience as a Program Manager and Project Manager for large-scale projects involving business process management, integration platforms, and architecture development. He specializes in turning around troubled projects and delivering solutions on time and on budget. Some of the organizations he has worked with include international financial services firms, brokerage firms, insurance companies, governments, and travel companies.
The core concepts of a Release Based development lifecycle for NES projects.
The lifecycle starts with the Product Roadmap, showing what Capabilities are provided in what order, in what Epic, to deliver the needed business value, on the needed dates, for the needed cost, with the needed Features.
The Features and Stories that implement these Capabilities are traceable to the Product Roadmap to show Physical Percent Complete from starting at the Story flowing to a Capability to deliver a needed Capability.
Charlotte-based, director-level strategic planner, senior project manager, and software engineer with 21 years of steadily increasing responsibility in software application development and team leadership.
Integrated Program Performance ManagementGlen Alleman
Integrated Program Performance Management elements are organization planning schedule applied to increase the probability of program success on traditional and agile programs.
• With 11 years’ experience as effective project Leader more than 5 years’ experience on handling AO and SI projects successfully as Project managing while leading all phase’s delivery with diverse technologies and almost 7 years closely working with Oracle technology level while driving with functional knowledge on Finance- risk and compliance, Resources & Utilities , CMT and Retail. Rigorous working knowledge and trained on PMP, ITIL process & Strategy Management process from IIM-B.
Integrated Master Plan / Integrated Master Schedule (IMP/IMS)Glen Alleman
The Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule describe the increasing maturity of project deliverables using Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, Key Performance Parameters, and Technical Performance Measures.
Resume of an accomplished IT / Network leader with global experience in Program Management , Project management , Customer relations - across diverse industries
Hur värderar du content marketing? Säkra att allt innehåll som genereras kopplas till tydliga mål
• Hur formulerar du tydliga mål för respektive kanal?
• Verktyg för att utvärdera spridning och trafik kopplat till content
• Så utvärderar du måluppfyllelse och får underlag till utveckling av din
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Presented by Philip James of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020 on 4 July 2013 in Vienna, Austria.
Disclaimer: WHO is not responsible for the content of presentations made by external speakers at its meetings and conferences. This presentation is published here with the speaker's consent, only for information purpose.
Presented by Pamela Rendi-Wagner, Director General for Public Health, Austrian Ministry of Health, at the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020 on 4 July 2013, in Vienna, Austria.
Disclaimer: WHO is not responsible for the content of presentations made by external speakers at its meetings and conferences. This presentation is published here with the speaker's consent, only for information purpose.
The core concepts of a Release Based development lifecycle for NES projects.
The lifecycle starts with the Product Roadmap, showing what Capabilities are provided in what order, in what Epic, to deliver the needed business value, on the needed dates, for the needed cost, with the needed Features.
The Features and Stories that implement these Capabilities are traceable to the Product Roadmap to show Physical Percent Complete from starting at the Story flowing to a Capability to deliver a needed Capability.
Charlotte-based, director-level strategic planner, senior project manager, and software engineer with 21 years of steadily increasing responsibility in software application development and team leadership.
Integrated Program Performance ManagementGlen Alleman
Integrated Program Performance Management elements are organization planning schedule applied to increase the probability of program success on traditional and agile programs.
• With 11 years’ experience as effective project Leader more than 5 years’ experience on handling AO and SI projects successfully as Project managing while leading all phase’s delivery with diverse technologies and almost 7 years closely working with Oracle technology level while driving with functional knowledge on Finance- risk and compliance, Resources & Utilities , CMT and Retail. Rigorous working knowledge and trained on PMP, ITIL process & Strategy Management process from IIM-B.
Integrated Master Plan / Integrated Master Schedule (IMP/IMS)Glen Alleman
The Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule describe the increasing maturity of project deliverables using Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, Key Performance Parameters, and Technical Performance Measures.
Resume of an accomplished IT / Network leader with global experience in Program Management , Project management , Customer relations - across diverse industries
Hur värderar du content marketing? Säkra att allt innehåll som genereras kopplas till tydliga mål
• Hur formulerar du tydliga mål för respektive kanal?
• Verktyg för att utvärdera spridning och trafik kopplat till content
• Så utvärderar du måluppfyllelse och får underlag till utveckling av din
strategi
Presented by Philip James of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020 on 4 July 2013 in Vienna, Austria.
Disclaimer: WHO is not responsible for the content of presentations made by external speakers at its meetings and conferences. This presentation is published here with the speaker's consent, only for information purpose.
Presented by Pamela Rendi-Wagner, Director General for Public Health, Austrian Ministry of Health, at the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020 on 4 July 2013, in Vienna, Austria.
Disclaimer: WHO is not responsible for the content of presentations made by external speakers at its meetings and conferences. This presentation is published here with the speaker's consent, only for information purpose.
Presentation by WHO/Europe Regional Director Zszsanna Jakab at the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020, in Vienna, Austria, on 4 July 2013
Presented by Prof. Adrian Bauman, Director, Prevention Research Centre, Sydney University, Australia at the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020 on 5 July 2013 in Vienna, Austria.
Disclaimer: WHO is not responsible for the content of presentations made by external speakers at its meetings and conferences. This presentation is published here with the speaker's consent, only for information purpose.
Presented by João Breda of WHO Regional Office for Europe at the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020, 4 July 2013, in Vienna, Austria
Digital Management dag 1 - 2014 Berghs School of Communication
Om köpcykeln, innehållsmarknadsföring och kanalstrategier:
Customer Experience Journey
Rätt budskap och innehåll
Content marketing
Context is queen
De digitala kanalerna
Jonas Lyckstedts del.
Nya konsumentbeteenden ställer nya krav på varumärkens kommunikation. Fler och fler företag förstår värdet av att skapa lojala relationer med sina kunder med hjälp av Content Marketing. En kommunikationsform som bygger på journalistikens grundpelare, innehållet ska vara relevant, intressant och sant.
Välkommen till ett frukostseminarium där Jonas Lyckstedt och Sofia Lundberg, Planners på Spoon och kursansvarig för Dagkursen "Content Marketing", ger smakprov på hur Content Marketing kan stärka ditt varumärke.
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Program / Project Manager with a successful record of managing full project life-cycle initiatives. Expertise includes a combination of both Application Development and Infrastructure experience. I’ve acted as both developer and then App Dev PM while with the State of Missouri. I rate my SDLC experience as an 8/10 as I personally did VB development and acted as the PM for entire application delivery from development through SQL and into production. An exceptionally strong Program / Project Manager with the following qualifications:
• PM experience covers product planning, scheduling, testing, change management, implementations and ROI analysis
• Successfully managed projects for domestic and international corporations including BP, State of MO-DOR, Salton/Toastmaster
• Recognized for surpassing corporate and customer expectations for quality and focus by configuring, implementing, training, mergers and acquisitions
• Experienced in handling projects in rapidly changing functional, procedural and engineering environments including international offshore (Brazil, Columbia, UK, Trinidad, Argentina, Mexico) testing/development teams
• Provides disciplined, assertive, tactful leadership to resolve challenges in an efficient, cost-effective manner
• Skilled in developing and maintaining strong customer relations and fostering cohesive, consensus-building project team interactions
• Recognized for being a highly-motivated, self-directed, enthusiastic project manager with a positive, creative attitude for balancing schedules, costs and priorities
• Recognized as an “idea leader” with flexibility to handle assignments with analytical test equipment and to develop quality assurance best practices/processes
• Excels in developing and maintaining project plans without being dependent on technical resources for input.
• Successfully transitioned to a portfolio of 65 projects International with a blend of waterfall and agile teams with ~$75 million budget. Overseeing multiple vertical project managers, business analyst, functional analyst, and working with the communications team. All in a ~2 month onboarding to the account.
• Apply communication strategies to engage International-level stakeholders in order to understand product objectives, customer service processes, development teams, and define strategies for opposing developing techniques to timely and with budget constraints. Supports SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) as the “Release Train Engineer.
• Manage the flow of value through the program and value stream Kanban’s to increase outlook into new work and into the work flow. Establishing connections among the Portfolio, Journey mapping, value stream, and programs levels.
Results-driven business development leader with a unique facility of designing and implementing the business objectives that are aligned with the organizational goals. I possess the determination to deliver the performance with utmost sense of diligence.
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Steven Manni Projects Feb2013
1. Steven M. Manni
Projects
♦ Program Manager, International Financial Services Firm
An International Financial Services Firm hired IBM to pilot Business Process Management (BPM) for
their global agent onboarding processes. The pilot went exceptionally well, and then the project fell
into a troubled state due to a lack of skills/experience to move from pilot to production. Steven was
responsible for recovering the project and re-establishing the client’s confidence in BPM and IBM.
Steven assembled a high performance team and they rapidly designed a recovery plan based on
developing a common global process that incorporated only the mandatory regional variances. This
single process application was designed to simplify deployment and maintenance, and to accelerate
the global rollout. The team successfully deployed Release 1 of the solution as planned and
established a monthly release cadence to rapidly deliver incremental business value. Feedback from
business users was very positive, and the client’s management team was very enthusiastic about
continuing their BPM transformation.
♦ Program Manager, Leading Brokerage Firm
Program Manager for the design and implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to integrate the
banking and brokerage lines of business as part of an overall merger program. Responsible for leading a
forty-five-person team of IBM, client, on-shore and off-shore contractor resources to design, develop, test,
deploy and support the solution against a very aggressive merger time-line. The ESB was based on IBM
XI50 DataPower appliances, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WXT) and IBM WebSphere
MessageQueue. When Steven joined the team in December 2009, the project was faltering and the client
was extremely concerned that it was about to fail and derail the merger. Without the luxury of a time out,
Steven developed a triage approach to get the team productive while he remediated the underlying issues.
Within weeks the client began to see forward progress and their trust in the team began to rapidly increase.
By the end of January the program was on solid footing as the team continued to refine the approach and
processes to meet the needs of the business.
At the peak of the program, Steven had six Project Managers managing eight projects under his leadership.
He also had a program staff that included a test lead and test team, a command center team that managed
the major migration events, a finance manager and a project coordinator. In addition, Steven was
responsible for managing the overall $15M program budget including development of a financial tracking
model and production of detailed monthly financial statements, development and presentation of the
detailed weekly Program Status Report, and for leading the bimonthly Executive Steering Committee
meetings. As this was all new infrastructure and associated processes, the team took the pro-active step of
commissioning an independent assessment. This team reviewed the infrastructure, a subset of the
operational processes (i.e., change, capacity), the testing approach (function and performance) and the
development/deployment approach. Following the assessment the team implemented a subset of the
critical recommendations prior to the conversion events. We participated in six conversion events where
we began to flow traffic through the ESB starting in January 2011. These events literally went flawlessly
(zero defects). Overall the program was extremely successful; we delivered on all of our commitments with
a high degree of quality, on-time, on-budget and with very high client satisfaction. Steven jointly presented
the program at IBM's 2011 Impact conference with his executive counter-part from the client who was
awarded IBM's ACE Award for the success of this program at Impact 2011.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Insurance Corporation
Responsible for leading a team of IBM and client resources to employ Pattern Based Engineering (PBE)
techniques to reduce the effort to migrate webMethods applications to WebSphere Message Broker
(WMB). The team developed the Exemplars employing best practices and the client’s standards,
developed the PBE Tooling to automate many of the manual tasks typically required for a migration,
developed a Migration Cookbook defining the step-by-step process required to migrate an application using
the PBE Tooling, and migrated two existing webMethods applications to WMB to test and refine the PBE
tooling. The project was successful as our PBE Tooling reduced the effort to manually migrate an
application by approximately 50%.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Financial Services Firm
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Led a team of IBM and client resources to develop the architecture and process models for a BPM layer
that front-ends the client’s existing legacy CICS Corporate Actions application and incorporates many
manual steps and other islands of automation. We developed a detailed application architecture using the
WebSphere BPM Suite and Content Manager products. In addition, we developed the end-to-end Process
Models (business models and execution models) and a detailed Project Plan for the Implementation Phase.
♦ Program Manager, Government of Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) hired IBM to design and implement a Government Service Bus
to become the central platform of integration for the provision of government electronic services and
to provide common value-add Shared Services which would be used by all connected entities and
government agencies. For a variety of reasons, this project became troubled. Steven was responsible
for recovering the project and re-establishing the client’s confidence in IBM. Steven implemented a
set of project controls, rebuilt and mentored the team, and aggressively drove the collective team
(IBM, contractors and the client) towards the goal of delivering the first production release of
infrastructure and supporting applications within 90 days. Working in an emerging country presented
many challenges including the culture, availability of skills, and lack of baseline infrastructure (making
a phone call was often a challenge). The team delivered against the commitments on time with a
high-degree of quality and re-established the client’s confidence in IBM’s ability to deliver the
remainder of the program. In addition, Steven was responsible for assisting with the planning,
staffing and preparation of the team to successfully execute the remainder of the program, and he
developed “A Field Guide to the Kingdom” to orient new team members assigned to projects in KSA
as this was a very challenging work environment.
Six months later, the Saudi Arabia Director General and the IBM Executives asked Steven to return
to the KSA to assist the collective team, both IBM and the client, in the final stretch of the project.
His role was to guide/lead the client team through the delivery acceptance process within the
allocated timeframe. Steven also provided assistance in driving the IBM team to complete their
obligations and in designing an approach for the client to support the solution post implementation.
The effort was very successful as the team reached the goal of Delivery Acceptance within the
allotted time.
♦ Project Manager, Global Travel Company
Led a team of IBM and client resources in the development of a new strategic business and
technology architecture for a global travel company. We assessed the client’s current business and
technology landscape and developed a new architecture to transform the current landscape to meet
the key business and technical objectives, as well as to overcome known challenges. The project
included three major work-streams: 1). Business Architecture, where we modeled the as-is and to-be
business processes, 2). Technical Architecture, both Application Architecture and Operational
Architecture, where we analyzed the as-is and developed the to-be architectures, and 3). Center of
Excellence Planning, where we defined the framework for the organizational and procedural changes
required to begin moving forward with SOA.
♦ Project Manager, IBM Business Consulting Services
Led a team of on-shore and off-shore resources through the design, implementation and global
deployment of the Professional Marketplace. This was a world-wide internal web-based solution, the
objective of which is to optimize the assignment of resources on engagements or proposal efforts by
making all viable staffing options visible to resource requestors, providing relevant buying decision
information to enable faster, more profitable staffing decisions, and introducing rules of engagement
that result in an efficient marketplace of buyers and sellers across organizational boundaries. IBM
estimates that this solution has saved them $500 million in its first year of use (BusinessWeek Online
November 21, 2005). The system was developed using Endeca’s Profind technology, Java and Struts
on WebSphere with DB/2. The team utilized Rapid Application Development techniques to deliver
incremental functionality every two to three months. As each release was launched, we conducted
Usability Testing and incorporated the feedback into the subsequent release. The solution, which was
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developed for one line-of-business (LOB), has been so well accepted that it is now being deployed to
all IBM LOBs.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Insurance Corporation
Responsible for assisting the Group Insurance Division of a major insurance company with the design
and implementation for their Plan Sponsor Portal. The business objective was to provide a single,
easy to use interface for their Plan Sponsors to access all of the required information (e.g., forms,
reports, contracts). During this engagement we assisted our client with defining and prioritizing their
functional and nonfunctional requirements, we applied our User-Centered Design (UCD) methodology
to develop and usability test a wireframe prototype depicting the navigational scheme and page
layouts, we developed the high-level architecture at both the application and operational levels, we
implemented the portal front-end code (e.g., portlets, authoring templates), and we supported the
client through the System Test and Pilot Test phases. The solution was based on IBM’s WebSphere
Portal Server technology.
♦ Project Manager, National Executive Sedan Service
Orchestrated a cross-functional team to assist a national executive limousine service to “squeeze
20% more rides out of its cars. That adds up to $10 million annually to the company’s $94 million in
sales.” (BusinessWeek Online November 24, 2003). Prior to the implementation of this solution, there
was no computerized system to find the most appropriate driver for any given reservation. The
dispatchers were tasked with balancing the supply and demand for each geographic area using rules
of thumb, their knowledge of the geographic area and the available drivers. While they were expert at
their jobs, even the best were not able to visualize the complex network of variables required to
improve utilization without sacrificing customer satisfaction. The IBM team, including the Boston
Center for e-business Innovation and IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Lab, developed state of the art
mathematical algorithms combined with advanced GPS technology to deliver near-optimal dispatch
schedules.
The system provides real-time utilization data and capitalizes on GPS technology for location tracking
of sedans based on mapping software from ESRI and custom applications developed by IBM. The
heart of the system is the optimization engine, which takes various data, including business rules,
reservation and driver information, travel times, and even FAA information feeds, and produces a
near optimal schedule. IBM designed and implemented the solution, provided integration with the
client’s reservation and dispatch systems, and provided ongoing maintenance and support. In addition
to BusinessWeek, this project was covered in ComputerWorld, FastCompany, InformationWeek and
the IBM Annual Report.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Custodial Bank
Responsible for assisting with the development and launch of a new organization to provide a suite of
tools and infrastructure designed to more effectively connect investment managers to their custodial
and accounting service provider partners. The suite and supporting infrastructure was designed to
dramatically improve the efficiency of the investment manager’s back office operations and facilitate
better decision-making through improved business intelligence. IBM was engaged to assist the client
with the design and development of the technology systems to support this new organization.
Our role included business consulting, requirements definition, application design and development,
infrastructure planning, application testing, and deployment planning. The underlying technology
included WebSphere Application Server, MQ-Series, DB/2 UDB, Mercator, and DataChannel.
♦ Project Manager, Internet Startup
Responsible for leading a team to develop an electronic marketplace for the Architectural,
Engineering and Construction Industry (A/E/C). The site was designed to facilitate business-to-
business commerce between companies (i.e., architects, contractors, and manufacturers) that
operate within the A/E/C industry. The team was responsible for requirements definition, application
and infrastructure design, application development, testing and deployment.
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♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Custodial Bank
Responsible for designing and implementing a corporate intranet portal for a major custodial bank.
The team developed the content plan and overall taxonomy, designed the page layouts, implemented
a variety of “out of the box” portlets and worked with the vendor, Plumtree, to develop some custom
portlets to meet the clients specific requirements. The Portal was launched on-time, on-budget and
provided a high level of value to the client’s employees.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Custodial Bank
Responsible for developing an e-business Architecture Framework for a major custodial bank. The
architecture provides a framework for developing all future e-business applications including a User
Interface/Experience Style Guide, an Application Architecture Practice Guide and a Data Architecture
Practice Guide. In addition, the team developed a Reference Implementation Guide, which provides
a detailed architecture for a selected application based on the new framework.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Commercial Bank
Responsible for implementing a web-based Cash Management system for a large commercial bank.
This system allows the bank’s clients to manage their cash position via the Internet including the
ability to transact multi-million dollar transfers. During this engagement we designed the JAVA
interfaces from the mid-tier business layer to the back-office systems; designed and implemented the
infrastructure including the DMZ, firewalls, web servers, application servers and database servers;
reviewed the overall system security including recommending and implementing Unix-based security
products and conducting Ethical Hacking to verify the system security. The IBM team was also
responsible for training and mentoring the bank’s technical resources in JAVA/OO design and
development techniques and methods. The project was completed on schedule, within budget and
with very high client satisfaction. The bank claimed the notable honor of the first institution to allow
their clients to execute Fed Wire transfers via the Internet.
♦ Project Executive, Super-Regional Bank Holding Company
Prime-contractor responsibility for a $72 million dollar Systems Integration Technology Deployment
Project. The bank was driven to refresh the technology in their branches to improve customer service
by leveraging the capabilities of the new technology. Responsibilities included managing five Project
Managers with over 100 resources in total for the integration and installation of a new branch banking
technology infrastructure. The team was responsible for product procurement, site surveys, facility
upgrades (including cabling and electrical), integration/installation of the new telecommunications
network, and integration/installation of the servers, desktops and printers to support both the Platform
and Teller applications. This 3-year, $72 million engagement was completed on time, within budget
and with a customer satisfaction rating of 98%.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Drug Store Chain
Responsible for implementation and integration of an Inventory Replenishment System for a large
drug store chain. The objective of the project was to improve inventory management so that the
corporation could continue on its aggressive growth path. Led a team of IBM and sub-contractor
resources through the complete application development life cycle. The project involved the
implementation of an AS/400 hardware and software infrastructure, the installation and integration of
a third-party, client/server software package and the development of interfaces to the client's legacy
mainframe applications. The project was successfully completed the project on time, within budget
and with very high client satisfaction.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Custodial Bank
Responsible for the implementation of a Voice Response System for 401K processing at a large
financial services company. Responsible for leading a team of IBM, client and vendor resources
through the Implementation and Production Cutover phases of the project. The project involved the
implementation of a Unix-based client/server infrastructure, the installation of IBM's voice response
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software packages and the development of a 401K voice response application using IBM's DirectTalk
product.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Commercial Bank
Project Manager for the implementation of a corporate-wide Profitability Reporting System for a large
commercial bank. This system provided the corporation with profitability data down to the product
level. Responsible for coordinating the efforts of a team of client, IBM, sub-contractor and vendor
personnel through the implementation of Hogan System's Earnings Analysis System in an MVS DB/2
environment.
♦ Project Executive, Natural Gas Local Distribution Company
Responsible for a multi-million dollar Systems Integration project to design, develop and integrate a
Gas Administration and Supply System (GASS) and a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA) system for a natural gas local distribution company. Responsibilities included management
of a ten-member team for the development of GASS at the customer's facility and management of
the vendor responsible for the development of SCADA at their facility in Dallas. The GASS System
was developed using the Uniface 4GL and Oracle's relational database running on an RS/6000 with
Windows and X-Station clients. The fully redundant SCADA System ran on two VAX VMS processors
accessed by Unix clients. The systems communicated via an Ethernet network using TCP/IP.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Commercial Bank
Lead a team through the conversion of the assets and liabilities of an acquired institution for a large
commercial bank. Responsible for managing a fifteen-member team of IBM and sub-contractor
resources with the assistance of the client's application experts. The project included product
mapping, data mapping, development of data load software, system test and production migration.
In order to meet the client’s extremely aggressive schedule, I managed teams of developers working
three shifts, seven days per week. The project was completed on-schedule, with a virtually flawless
conversion weekend and extremely satisfied client.
♦ Project Manager, Fortune 500 Commercial Bank
Project Manager for an Information Systems Study and Outsourcing Evaluation for a commercial
bank. Responsible for leading a team of IBM and sub-contractor resources through the evaluation of
the client's existing IS Operations and Application Development organizations, and recommending a
series of strategic and tactical improvements.
♦ Solution Architect, Private College
Designed and implemented of the Admissions Application Processing System for a private college.
Responsibilities included system design using Joint Application Development (JAD), application
development and overall technical guidance to the team of IBM and client resources. The system was
developed using IBM's 4GL (CSP) and SQL/DS relational database in a VM environment.
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