Emmanuel Szabados

Information Technology:Project/ProgramManagement, Software Development andStrategy

471 Vanderbilt Av #2D, Brooklyn, NY11238

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Summary

A leader and problem solver with a proven track record of delivering secure, mission-critical enterprise projects, tailored project management methodologies, quality assurance and development solutions.

Over nineteen years of professional experience in the software industry including strong leadership and team player, technology decision and orientation, Agile and conventional team and project management, budget managementand cost control, Offshore implementation and management,business and technology architecture alignments, client/server and backend applications development management, quality assurance implementation and management.

  • Focus on time line delivery, project cost reduction and best software practice methodology using Risk Management, Quality Control processes, Automation, Cross-functional teams and any appropriate project management methodologies: Agile (SCRUM, XP), Iterative, Waterfall.
  • Strong experience in Offshore implementation and management.
  • Proficient in release and project planning, operation, team and meeting management, customer and upper management relations.
  • Proficient and proactive in full responsibility for estimation and software project life cycle.
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  • Proficient in IT knowledge and implementation of Program Management Office, Agile framework, Projects Quality Control and Software Development Life Cycle.
  • Proficient in program and project quality management including definition of policies, procedures, framework and hands-on software test analysis primarily on UNIX and WINDOWS platforms.
  • Team composition management and mentor development and QA team members to meet project goals.
  • Research, introduction and implementation of new solutions including outsource, offshore development process.
  • Active in participation in software engineering practices and strengthening overall technology culture.

Professional Experience

DOUBLECLICK

SCRUM MASTER (FT) | December 2006 – Present | NY, NY

Certified SCRUM Master, coaching Agile onshore and offshore teams using SCRUM and XP frameworks.

FacilitateAgile and SCRUMprocess implementation. Reduce projects costs by introducing automation, offshore and cross team management. Successfully delivered new requirements in an iterative process and reduced production maintenance bugs. Successfully formed and managed teams to High-Performing stage. Advocate improved engineering practices.Solve organizational impediments such as team localization, additional product owners or improving offshore communication.

Fulfill all SCRUM Master roles: plan and host SCRUM Sprint meetings;help Product Owner withProduct vision, backlogs quality management and release planning; owns metrics and costs per story points; shield Team from external interruptions; own impediments list.KeepSCRUM artifacts visible and support SCRUM MasterGroup communication

interactionand initiatives.

  • “Dart For Publisher”. Coach six teams for the DFP product, including two offshore teams. Reduced project cost with introduction of automation, continuous builds and cross team management. Successfully facilitates Team self organization and bring teams to High-Performing stage. Raiseproduct business values (team velocity). Localize and manage offshore teams.
  • “Backend System”. Coach three teams related to backend report processing system. Introduce the concepts of Team, Sprint goal and Business values. Successfully influence team to use SCRUM monitoring artifacts such as burn-downs, velocities. Help teams to better estimate requirements and control, manage their Sprints. Support Directors, Managers and Engineering managers to empower the teams.

Standard & Poors / NEOS LLC

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER (Contractor) | June 2006 – December 2006 | NY, NY

Managed multiple B2C and B2B projects as a contractor at Standard & Poors.

  • S&P.com Redesign (Completed). Delivered the Beta version of the B2C S&P.com laid groundwork for redesign and transition to a new S&P development team. Maintained communication at all levels to assure success in system integration, testing and deployment process. Managed a team of four developers. Technology used: Vignette Portal, Fatwire content management, Verity Search engine.
  • Rating Action Data Augmentation (Ongoing). Coordinated the centralization of S&P Ratings, Outlooks and Credit Watch applications and their data, for the Fixed Income Researchers group. Delivered project management artifacts. Managed a team of one data information architect, two business analysts and one data modeler. Technology being used: ETL Informatica, Oracle and conversion of MSAccess and Excel..
  • Data linking proof of concept (Ongoing). Managed a proof of concept project that will be the foundation for allowing the federation of data that supports the capability of cross-system data linking. Participated in the Design of a CMS-enterprise reference data architecture, the Design of a data linking model. Interacted with S&PDataCenter and Data Taxonomy management. Technology involved: Oracle, Java, Informatica, dfPower Studio (Dataflux)

AMERICAN LAWYER MEDIA

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT and QA; PMO ADMINISTRATOR;ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT(FT) | April 2004 – June 2006 | NY, NY

Reporting directly to VP of Information Technology, main responsibility is the planning and strategic direction of ALM’s technology domain with respect to hosted and developed applications, including IT cost analysis and reduction and the hardware and software implementation. This position requires aligning Business vision and Technical System evolution, participating to budget revision, implementation of quality control processes, managing resources, projects with some hands-on development, quality control and maintenance of current and new products, in the following roles:

  • Development Management (Ongoing). Interfaced with the different business groups to advise on business added values by introduction of new technology solutions; status, report and prioritization of programs and projects with budget revue; maintain good and frequent communication between Business and IT; Led and managed the development team in the day to day custom or package applications development, integration, support maintenance. Led the development direction and vision.
  • Technical Project Management (Per Project). Led and hands-on gathering and formalizing requirements for projects of varying scopes. Oversaw completion of projects, including: 1.) evaluation and proposal of a technology approach for application and hardware needs to meet business and strategic technology goals; 2.) successful implementation and testing of chosen technology and hardware; 3.) network and application design where applicable; 4.) assessing internal/external staffing and skills required to build/maintain applications.
  • Strategic Planning, Infrastructure and Approach (Ongoing). When not engaged in project-specific work, responsible for overall ALM IT strategic planning with respect to hardware and applications, and preferred technologies, toward the goal of consolidating and formalizing infrastructure. Delivered SOA target architecture design.
  • Process Development. PMO Administrator (Ongoing). Defined and implemented a Program Management Office.Developed consistent methodologies and enforced best practices in application development. Mentored ALM developers, and worked cross-departmentally with IT applications and network groups.
  • QA Management (Ongoing). Defined and set a Quality Assurance policy, process and team. Manage QA projects, resources and business interaction. Analysis and presentation of QA process within a SDLC framework to Executives, Business and IT groups. Defined and implementation of tailored QA practice and framework within ALM. Hired and managed two QA Analysts. Implemented QA solutions and bug tracking system. Defined offshore QA process with two companies to extend QA team as needed. Hands-on testing and creation of test plans, test cases, custom scripts for unit functional?, regression, integration, capacity, performance and UAT testing.

Proficient in UNIX and Microsoft. Experienced manager of application development for external and internal clients. Set up and managed a hands-on Quality Assurance group, processes and tasks. Hands-on development and project management experience. Have introduced offshore development and QA process with two Indian companies to leverage resources and budget.

ALLIANCE CAPITAL

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER, TEAM LEAD; SR WEB/BACKEND DEVELOPER (FT) | March 2001 – April 2004 | NY, NY

Main roles:

  • Hands-on team, leading the development and maintenance of Intranet/Internet B2B/B2C projects for the institutional web application. Managed re-branding development of the application pursuant to the merger of Alliance Capital and Sandford Bernstein.
  • Led the implementation of Microsoft .NET, Iterative project management - UML and eXtrem programming as new development environment for this application. Technology migration from Window NT, Story Server Vignette (TCL), Asp, VB, MSSQL7 to W2K platform .NET C# and Aspx, MSSQL2000, XML.
  • As Quality Assurance, I was responsible for interface and interaction between the Development and QA teams with definition of test requirements, and testing coordination. Strong emphasis on using unit and harness testing in addition of development integration testing. Usage of Test Director.
  • Participated in new Object Oriented architecture design using .NET C#.
  • Maintained technical specifications and software documentation.
  • Introduced technologies such as Inktomi Search Engine with Request For Purchase (RFP).

MARCHFIRST

TEAM andPROJECT LEAD; SR WEB/BACK END DEVELOPER (FT) | May 1996 – March 2001 | NY, NY

In these five years I had different roles such as Technical and Team Lead, Sr. Developer, participated to the creation of a Quality Assurance group and day to day interfacing application development and QA testing. During this time, while focusing on best practices implementation and quality deliveries, I managed and developed solution using tiered Web E-Commerce, B2B, B2C type of deployments with different technology such as Java J2EE, Perl, TCL, C.

I implemented and used specific solution such as content management tool Vignette, Informix Esql-C, Universal Database, Netscape PublishingXpert.

I also faced external and internal business client from the demonstration, presentation, implementation of company proprietary products to requirement gathering and managing change requests with Business Analyst.

Major client engagements:

  • Alliance Capital (financial institutional web application).Served as Team Lead of architecture, development, deployment and maintenance of Internet application using Vignette Story Server. Developed application that delivered secured financial reports to the institutional client, including report validation workflow by portfolio managers. Database schema design used ERWin on MSSQL. Back-end data transfer in Microsoft via XML.
  • Columbia House. Responsible for the development environment, application infrastructure of the E-Commerce Columbia House project. Participated in the architecture design and development of the video and CD website in Java (Servlet/Jsp; IBM WebSphere/EJB; Visual Age).
  • Double Day Dell. Managed and developed full content management tools, including content creation, validation workflow, and content type management for internet application on UNIX Solaris system in C.
  • TheStreet.com.Managed and developed the Web billing application for client’s Internet on UNIX Solaris servers. Installation and development used Netscape LivePayment, Perl and C.
  • Standard & Poor’s. Participated as senior developer of the Web delivery ofS&P High Secure Articles for Internet in UNIX Solaris, using Netscape PublishingXpert, Perl, Ora-Perl, and Oracle.
  • Dow Jones. Automated the data transfer process and formatting for daily information and news feeds in C/UNIX. (EDI, B2B/B2C).
  • Various. Participated in architecture design and led development and maintenance of client/server, Internet/Intranet/Extranet, E-Commerce and back-end/mission-critical/secure applications for other high-profile companies, including: Lexis-Nexis, Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Cooper & Lybrand, BMS Bristol-Myers Squibb, DLJ Direct, The-Street, Counsel Connect, Boron LePore & Assc., Student Advantage, and more.

BANK PARIBAS

SCRIPTWRITER; TECHNICAL SUPPORT(Consultant) | February 1996 – May 1996 | NY, NY

ANDERSON CONSULTING

SCRIPTWRITER; HELPDESK (Consultant) | November 1995 – January 1996 |NY, NY

OXFORD HEALTH PLAN

DESKTOP HELPDESK (Consultant) | November 1995

SUPERLINK

ON-LINE TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE (Consultant) | October 1995 | NY, NY

IPPOLIS INFORMATIQUE (FRANCE TELECOM)

PROJECT ANALYST; UNIX DEVELOPER; TRAINER; DOCUMENTATION WRITER (FT)| January 1991 – January 1995 | FRANCE

Major client engagements:

  • French Minister of National Education. Managed and developed the project for student pre-inscription to Universities on UNIX SCO using in house software, C, and shell programming, including project plan outline, functional and technical analysis.
  • Bank of Credit Agricole.Development of real time stock quotes information for internal use on UNIX using minitel infrastructure.

Other duties:

  • Analysis, development, documentation and training of Minitel application for many other major companies, e.g., Europcar Inter-rent, Accord Group, EDF-GDF, ISOPE, Banque Des Depots et Consignations.
  • Programmer and developer on a Sector/Domain Information Analytic application on UNIX SCO platform, using C and other 4GL languages. Performed application analysis, time line management, integration, QA testing, and deployment. Designed user interface per client request.
  • Installation, implementation, setup of UNIX SCO client/server servers for a startup company. Developed real estate application; recruited technical staff.
  • Developed standalone application using C, scripting language, “shells” as Web log analyzer, data backup automation, data schedule transfer, survey, bulletin boards, mailing list, helpdesk software (front- and back-end).
  • Trained customers in UNIX and proprietary Ippolis software in France, Belgium, and Brazil.

TELEMATIQUE PROMOTION SERVICE

UNIX APPLICATION DEVELOPER (FT)| January 1989 – January 1990 | FRANCE

Developed real estate “minitel” projects.Implemented development environments, servers, and network. UNIX SCO.

MAEVA S.A. (SUBSIDIARY OF CLUB MEDITERRANEE)

OCCUPANCY MANAGER (FT)| January 1987 – January 1989 | FRANCE

Supervised the over-booking management and regulation of rental apartments for 100 residences.

EXPERIENCE AND Skill SET

  • Domains of industry: ECommerce, Payment platforms, B2B/B2C, multilingual portals, billing/payment processing, currency conversions, Secure transactions, E-Learning, Education, Internet, Intranet, Web, OPEN SOURCE, Banking, Finance, Publishing, Insurance, reservation systems, tracking, alert monitoring, EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), transformation, event processing, Service oriented Architectures (SOAs), Real time, batch processes, document management, Search Engines, Data representation schemes, workflow, Inventory, cross data reference.
  • Methodology and Software development frameworks: AGILE, SCRUM, XP, PMO, QA, QC, SDLC, RUP, UML, OOAD.
  • Operating Systems: Sun OS - Solaris (6 years), UNIX SCO (6 years), Linux (4 years), Window 2003, XP, 2000 and NT (7 years).
  • Software and solutions: Vignette Portal, Mark Logic (XML DB), WebSphere (v3.5, v4, v6), IPS Fatwire, Apache, Microsoft IIS, ETL Informatica, Quality Center, Test Director 7 and 8, Application Center Test: performance testing, Bugzilla and Gemini QA tracking System, Remedy, Crystal Reports 9 and 8.5, Verity Search, Inktomi Search, SSL, Hitbox, WebTrend, MS SQLXML, Netscape iPlanet-Entreprise Server, Netscape LDAP, Vignette Story Server 6 and 5.0, Xerox Docushare, TeamHeadquarter, Netscape PublishingXpert, Netscape LivePayment (Billing process), Cybercash, Informix Dynamic Server; Informix Universal Server, Microsoft office and other office software (Visio…).
  • Databases: Database design, SQL, Store Procedures, XML Database (Ixiasoft, Mark Logic), Microsoft SQL2000, SQL7, Oracle 9 and 8i, Informix, MySQL, Erwin.
  • Technologies and languages: SOA, XML/XSL, .NET-ASPX/C#, Java: J2EE, JDK, JDBC, Servlets, Java Bean, JSP, EJB-WebSphere, Perl/Mod_Perl/CPAN, C, SQL, ESQL/C, Javascript, TCL, Expect – shells (Bash - Tcsh - Csh – Ksh) - Awk - REXX for OS2.
  • Integrated Development Environment: Visual Studio .NET (C#, Aspx), Eclipse, Visual Age/WebSphere, Ant, JUnit/csUnit, CVS, Visual SourceSafe.

Education:

  • Certified SCRUM Master 2008
  • French License equivalent to bachelor degree – University Paris X Nanterre in France, 1986.

References upon request.