Nicholas Bessmer Technical Project Manager, Technical Lead

Nicholas R. Bessmer 58 Holmes Street Needham, MA, 029492 781-405-8574  nrbessmer@gmail.com Technical Project Manager Decisive, action-oriented and results-focused professional with over 20 year’s of software engineering and financial services experience and outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring, and resource balancing skills. Adept information technologist with demonstrated capacity to quickly integrate information from multiple stakeholders, resulting in effective and timely solutions. Work with technical teams to create estimates, identify task interdependencies, resource assignments, project milestones, project risks and delivery dates. Create and manage project delivery plans using MS Project and best practices for the project and software development life cycles. Selected Achievements  Ensured the rapid development of an analyst input system to meet an urgent regulatory requirement.  Managed information security project that reduced costs and risk exposure for 30 different departments at a major financial institution.  Innovated data integration framework and workflows that reduced costs and risk exposure by replacing 10,000 spreadsheets with a scoreboard.  Built database dictionary that resulted in more efficient integration of customer/bank data into data warehouses.  Established technical infrastructure for major pharmacy chain that improved customer service and saved over $7M.  Wrote software that reduced trading errors at an investment advisory. Technology Competencies Languages: Java (including J2EE platform and JMS); JavaScript; SQL; PHP; C; C++; UNIX Shell scripts Database: Oracle; Sybase; DBArtisan & database modeling tools; DST International Data Warehouse; Documentum AppServer and Platforms: WebSphere RAD 7; NetBeans; Eclipse; Joomla; JNDI; LDAP; Staffware ETL: IBM DataStage; Pentaho PDI Platforms/Tools: Windows; UNIX; LINUX; AutoSys Networking: TCP/IP; physical architecture including firewalls and load balancing; SiteMinder GUI: Java SWING; Web Portals including JSP’s and JavaScript Reporting; Actuate; Flex; Cognos Reports Professional Experience Senior Project Manager (contract) - Citizens Bank, Cranston, RI April 2009 – July 2009  Integrated more than thirty internal banking systems with an information security system collaborating with project stakeholders and business line managers for requirements gathering, issues analysis, and planning.  Applied technical expertise in ETL, LDAP, performance testing, job scheduling through Autosys, and distributed and mainframe systems.  Incorporated Tibco Staffware and MS Active Directory Technical Lead / Project Manager – State Street Bank, Boston, MA February 2004 – December 2008  Directed teams and developed DataStage ETL code; merged and cleansed multiple market data and internal feeds into mutual fund ‘s data warehouse for the purpose of holding reports and asset management.  Developed data transformation processes; automated load processes; maintained and updated acquisition and loading.  For performance attribution, streamlined operations tasks that directly resulted in eliminating approximately 10,000 daily spreadsheets and integrated them with Cognos Reports. Nicholas R. Bessmer Page 2  Successfully enabled interoperability between many heterogeneous components including Flex reports, WebSphere, Cognos Reports, open source ETL, Oracle, and Sybase.  Improved method of provisioning copyrighted, subscription data to downstream State Street clients using DataStage.  Created metadata dictionary of business objects that standardized all data warehouse customer implementations. Independent Contractor, Needham, MA December 2003 – February 2004  Reduced time to market for an on-line social networking start-up by analyzing and recommending different components of the technical architecture. Project Manager - Back Bay Technologies, Needham, MA February 2001 – November 2003  Recommended successful strategy to CVS Pharmacy’s senior management to implement Voice over IP and Voice Portals solution towards reducing telephone costs from pharmacies to call centers.  Reviewed proposals, technical specs, and coordinated vendor meetings.  Worked with HIPAA experts to ensure workflow was compliant.  Implemented large-scale web portal migration for Putnam Investment’s mission critical, customer-facing 401K web site. Project Manager / Developer - Wellington Management LLP, Boston, MA February 1999 – February 2001  Developed trading system blotter using The FIX protocol, C++, and Java.  Developed server application in C++ using Documentum’s API to tag, version, and warehouse documents and modified metadata accordingly.  Managed team and wrote Java code for a GUI that included grid and graphing controls and extensive work with Oracle data repository, Oracle stored procedures, and packages.  Lead team that developed performance attribution system graphing and reporting on benchmark and actual returns to determine active return. Director of R&D / Developer - Boston Stock Exchange, Boston, MA February 1997 – February 1999  Built data disaster recovery systems and further automated trading by constructing a system to eliminate paper forms (Broker Booth Routing).  Implemented multithreaded messaging and Java SWING front-end as well as C++ database back-end server for interoperability with mainframe. Manager/Developer - NewsEdge, Burlington, MA June 1994 – February 1997  Enhanced customer support and consulting services for real-time market data provider to Fortune 500 companies.  Boosted sales by improving service level and developed custom applications for clients using C and an asynchronous API. Senior Technical Support Engineer - Pilot Software / Thorne EMI, Cambridge, MA 1994 March 1993 – June Provided technical support for a business intelligence system that, using peer to peer networking, collected heterogeneous data and then generated interactive reports for management. Software Developer, Thomson Financial Services, Boston, MA March 1991 – October 1992 Developed cash flow projector and forward contract modules in C for the front to back office system PORTIA. Nicholas R. Bessmer Software Developer / Consultant - Index Technologies, Cambridge, MA Page 3 June 1988 – March 1991 Customized CASE tool (Computer Aided Software Engineering) for clients such as Boeing. Customization used C API and frequently involved creation of new design objects (altering the GUI) and object properties. Examples are real time data model diagrams and state transition diagrams. Development was on Windows and UNIX. Software Developer - Physiologic Diagnostic Service, Cambridge, MA 1988 March 1986 – June Wrote analog to digital signal processing and statistical analysis software systems in C under UNIX for MIT spin off developing diagnostic health monitoring equipment for infants. Software Developer - Peach Tree Accounting Software, Boston, MA 1986 September 1985 – March Opportunity to work with startup and Apple Computer on accounting software for first Apple Macintosh. Developed object oriented Pascal code for tax accounting modules – extensive GUI work. Software Developer - COMSAT, Concord, MA January 1984 – August 1985 Developed GUI and modeling software in C and Pascal on early PC for toxic waste emergency evacuation. Member of a team that delivered a Satellite Weather Imaging System for The US Government. Education MBA - Northeastern University (1995) BA in Classics - Brandeis University (1982)