Nicholas R. Bessmer
58 Holmes Street Needham, MA 029492 781-405-8574 nrbessmer@gmail.com
Summary
Adept information technologist, technical project manager, team leader, and liaison with demonstrated capacity to quickly integrate information from various stakeholders, thereby ensuring delivery of time effective solutions.
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 bank. 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 seven million dollars. Improved customer satisfaction by managing the infrastructure upgrade of a major 401K web portal. Wrote software that reduced trading errors at an investment advisory.
Professional Experience
Senior Project Manager (contract) - Citizens Bank, Cranston RI (April - July, 2009) Integrated over thirty internal 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.
Technical Lead – State Street Bank, Boston, MA (2004 – 2008)
Managed teams and developed DataStage ETL code merging and cleansing data Developed data transformation processes, automated load processes and
from multiple market data and internal feeds into mutual fund ‘s data warehouse. maintained and updated acquisition and loading. Streamlined operations tasks which directly resulted in eliminating close to 10,000 daily spreadsheets and integrated them with Cognos Reports. Successfully enabled interoperability between many heterogeneous components including Flex reports, WebSphere, Cognos Reports, and open source ETL. Improved method of provisioning copyrighted, subscription data to downstream State Street clients using DataStage.
Created data dictionary of business objects that became standard for all State Street data warehouse customer implementations.
Independent Contractor, Needham, MA (2003) Reduced time to market for Internet start up by analyzing and recommending different components of the technical architecture.
Consultant - Back Bay Technologies, Needham, MA (2001 – 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 and technical specs and coordinated vendor meetings. Implemented large-scale web portal migration for Putnam Investment’s mission critical, customer facing 401K web site.
Technical Lead - Wellington Management LLP, Boston, MA (1999 - 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 controls and graphing controls as well as extensive work with Oracle data repository
Director of New Development - Boston Stock Exchange (1997 - 1999)
Built systems for disaster recovery and the elimination of paper forms. Implemented multithreaded messaging and Java SWING front end as well as
C++ database backend server for interoperability with mainframe. Consultant/Developer - NewsEdge, Burlington, MA (1994 - 1997) Enhanced customer support and consulting services for real time market data provider to Fortune 500 companies. Boosted sales by improving service level and developing custom applications for clients using C and an asynchronous API.
Technology
Languages: Java; JavaScript; PHP; C; C++; UNIX shell scripts; FIX protocol
Database: Oracle; Sybase; DBArtisan and database modeling tools; DSTI data warehouse; Documentum App Servers: WebSphere RAD 7; Eclipse; Cognos ETL: IBM DataStage; Pentaho PDI Platforms/Tools: Windows; UNIX; AutoSys; SiteMinder; EMC
Education
MBA - Northeastern University (1995) BA in Classics - Brandeis University (1982)
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