Objectives and Work History

Contents

- Objectives
- Summary of the Advantages Offered
- Work History
- Examples of Work
- Education
- Additional Languages
- Work Status

Objectives

I am looking for an advanced relational database application development position that may be combined with operations management or any other business management task area handling and development responsibilities, and with project management and business analysis, and management reporting or other type of report development tasks.

Preferred position provides professional growth opportunities in technical, project management and business management related areas.

Summary of the Advantages Offered

• I have over 15 years of hands-on relational database application and report development experience. Out of this, over 8 years of experience is related to working with financial services industry companies.
• I am especially proficient at turning data and manual work intensive, complex multi-step business processes into a database application that generates results on demand, requires fewer steps to operate and different people can use without extensive know-how. Such applications increase both quality, productivity, timeliness and employee satisfaction.
• I have experience from all the different relational database application development and relevant software engineering areas from project management and business analysis, application architecture development, programming and objects development, to usability engineering and user interface and reports design and development. This combination is rare and sets my candidacy apart.
• Further, I can both evaluate technical and business projects from different angles and handle, coordinate and manage different tasks.
• Add to this experience with small, medium size and long-term projects (a year or longer).
• Add to this service oriented disposition, analytical skills, attention to detail, persistence and familiarity with different business management areas.

What do you get as a result? You get improved business processes and database solutions that have good quality and usability, can handle complex workflows intelligently, increase user productivity, and adhere to the development budget and schedule.

As an expert-level MS Access developer I am very good at workflow and business process analysis, documentation and relevant solution development. I excel as MS Access developer, but I am familiar with other technologies as well.

As project manager and business analyst I build effective bridges between the users needs and the development capabilities. I approach project management from the goals and milestone structure perspective, identify the scope, cost-effective development steps, resource needs and other relevant variables, and reach the objectives by combining goal-oriented business creativity with self-expressive artistic creativity on as needed bases.

As management reporting specialist I can develop further existing reports and reporting functionality, or, as needed, a new and better version of reports from ground up, including reports content and design, operational key performance indicators, formulas, relevant database driven functionality, and visually informative and attractive PowerPoint slides.

In a nutshell, I do very good quality work, and have a combination of complementary skills and experiences that relatively few other people have. Can I put this to work for you?

Work History

11/2011-09/2019  Database application and management reporting developer for Client Invoicing Department at, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., partnership based, privately-held global financial services firm.

• Worked as project manager, business analyst, developer/programmer and in all other roles that are needed in relational database application development processes. Developed 15 operations management and operational support database applications, including the following:
• Invoice Management Status Board that is used daily throughout the department in Boston, Krakow (Poland) and Pune (India). This operations management application processes ungenerated invoice data drawn from SQL Server based IT Advantage application that is outsourced to Fiserv.
• Direct Debit database application that is used in Krakow (Poland) and Pune (India). Application processes ungenerated invoice data for client debiting purposes.
• Account Setup Status Board that is used in Boston and Pune (India) for operations management.
• Employees and Contact Persons Application that is integrated with other database applications, so that relevant data is available throughout the department.
• Inquiry Log application that is used daily throughout the department in Boston, Krakow and Pune.
• Management reporting support applications, including MS Access database that that uses SQL Server generated CSV file as input and generates custom formatted, multi tabbed Excel workbook as output.
• Global Custody Report generating database applications for two systems (ITA and FIRM).
• Developed new versions of departmental management reports from ground up, including report content and design, operational key performance indicators, formulas, relevant database driven functionality and visually informative and attractive PowerPoint slides.
• Handled ad hoc and custom report development requests and technical support providing.

01/2009-10/2011   Analyst / Developer / Project Manager, self-funded project.

• Developed a programmable creative thinking skills management system, CreativityModel Method that addresses goal oriented business creativity and self-expressive artistic creativity usage, so that both types of creative thinking skills can be combined as necessary. Further, intelligently behaving application functionality can be created with less resources than artificial intelligence engineering and expert systems require. For documenting the Method used an approach that is similar to documenting subject matters and information flow (workflow) in IT business analysis cases for complex applications. For project specific rules used US patent application filing guidelines.

08/2008-12/2008  MS Access/Excel Developer / Business Analyst, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. partnership based, privately-held global financial services firm. Worked as a contractor through Sapphire Technologies.

• Interviewed users, based on user needs analysis put together application functionality specifications, verified planned project scope, development steps, timetable and functionality with user group representatives.
• Developed Data Processing Application for Brown Brothers Harriman Billing Department. The Application imports data from Excel and CSV files, processes data for billing purposes, identifies the exceptions, separates the exceptions from the rest of the data for different type of data processing, and allows the users to export the billing-related data into another database (that was built in the mid 1990s using Smalltalk).
• Developed Issue Tracking Application for Brown Brothers Harriman Billing Department. The Application helps to manage sub-custodian banks payment discrepancy solving issues.
• Developed Trade Repairs Data Processing Application for Brown Brothers Harriman Billing Department. The Application keeps track of all the trade repairs billing data and generates on demand relevant Excel workbooks, using automation. Users of Excel 2000 have the ability to put hundreds of thousands, or if needed, millions of records of data into Excel workbooks, regardless of Excel's worksheet limitations.

04/2008-07/2008  MS Access/Excel Developer / Business Analyst / Project Manager, Covidien, (formerly Tyco Healthcare), large healthcare device and supply company. Worked as a contractor through Kelly Engineering Services.

• Interviewed users, identified project scope, development steps and timetable, put together application functionality specifications, verified planned functionality with the application user representatives.
• Developed Duplicate Auditing Database Application for Covidien Human Resources Department. The application imports data from Excel and another database, helps to compare the data sets, to identify duplicate and matching entries, and to decide which rows of data should be deleted. Results can be put into Excel.
• Developed Benefits Auditing Database Application for Covidien Human Resources Department. The Application imports different type of data from Excel workbooks, helps to compare the data and to identify fields that contain discrepancies. Results can be put into Excel.

08/2007-03/2008  Founder / Analyst / Developer, Project Developer, Inc., custom database application development company.

• Developed company website, branding, logo, symbol, design, site architecture, a proprietary search engine and wrote website content.
• Developed SalesGetter CRM sales planning and management CRM application prototype that can be customized for individual companies needs.

09/2004-07/2007  IT Project Manager, InfoTrends, Inc., leading international market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industries.

• Interviewed users, identified project scope, resource needs, development steps and timetable, put together application functionality specifications and prototypes, verified with user representatives.
• Researched sales CRM options, interviewed company's sales personnel and consultants / market analysts, analyzed organizational information flow from CRM development perspective, did cost/benefit analysis.
• Handled application programming tasks, automation (data transfers between Access, Excel, Word, SQL Server, CSV), application architecture, navigation structure, user interface design, quality control, wrote User Guides. Used VBA, DAO, ADO, T-SQL, Data Transformation Services, Crystal Reports, SharePoint.
• Developed solutions and worked with complex Excel based forecasting tools that contain large numbers of linked Excel workbooks and worksheets. The tools are used for forecasting different aspects of digital imaging and document solutions industries. Used pivot tables, variety of Excel formulas, reporting, VBA.
• Developed Events Management Application that decreased application usage-related labor needs and increased user convenience and accuracy. Application users can plan and manage any number of different events year after year with minimized need for data entry.
• Developed Research Application that cleanses inputted lists of data and uses list marketing principles.
• Occasionally provided miscellaneous network administration and help desk support.

02/2002-08/2004  MS Access/Excel Developer / Business Analyst / Project Manager, independent contractor. Primary customer was Fleet Bank (now part of Bank of America) Branch Training Departments.

• Interviewed users, analyzed and documented the requirements and specifications, handled database development, programming, user interface design, quality control, training.
• Developed a scheduling application, training results storage and analysis application, and a training calendar creating application. Developed MS Excel reports and complex reporting functionality, scheduling tools, training calendar.

07/1996-02/2002 International business and sales (sports apparel, gift items), then sales in the US (Toyota vehicles, furniture), then research assistance, IT and Web development support, database development. Increasingly focused on database development and business analysis, used primarily MS Excel and Access.

Examples of Work

Below are examples of my work as business analyst and database application, report and report center developer. For most of the projects described here I also worked as the technical project manager.

• The Previous Work Experience section contains quite a bit of descriptive information on applications, functionality and user interfaces that I have put together as database application architecture and navigation structure developer, table structure and other objects developer and programmer, and user interface designer and usability engineer.
• Additionally, below are examples of specifications / Business Requirements Documents (BRD) that I have put together as a technical business analyst.
• For the sake of clarity I will add here, that as database application developer / programmer / business analyst / project manager I usually work using much more agile methods than the BRD-s below indicate.
• I have worked in a predictive, Waterfall manner and also in an agile manner. Having sufficiently comprehensive specifications and other forms of documentation can be very helpful for most IT projects. However, the documentation and the project management processes should be kept flexible enough, so that modifications can be made as needed.
• Further, documentation should be developed cost-effectively. There is no need to develop documentation just for the sake of having documentation. The latter is wasteful usage of resources, that I do not support.
• The first two business analysis examples represent small-to-medium size applications with relatively complex functionality.
• The third, fourth and fifth example, the custom developed blogging website front end user-facing functionality specifications, and the back end content management system specifications, and the sales CRM application prototype, took a lot of business analysis work to put together. These are all big and complex projects by any company's standards.
• The sixth example is an unusual project that also helped to develop further my business analysis and documentation skills. There are probably very few technical business analysts who have worked on a comparable project.
• Putting together documentation that both the application user group representatives can understand and the developers can use is not easy. Big projects with very large number of interrelated details get exponentially difficult to document. I am one of the people who can actually do this type of work well. So, this is one of the skill sets that I offer to my employer.
• 1) UsersRequirementsStatement_2004_01.pdf is from working with a group of people at Fleet Bank in 2004. I took about 1 month of work and meetings with both regular users and executives to put together this rather complex trainer, room and equipment scheduling application specifications.
• 2) PD_Search_Functionality_Description.pdf is a set of specifications for custom built search functionality development. The developers were overseas. Working with the developers this way is more difficult than is working with developers with whom you can interact personally. I have worked with both onshore and offshore developers and that makes my background more valuable to my employer.
• 3) 2010_CMM_V01_Blogging_Site_Development_V29.pdf describes custom developed blogging website functionality front end specifications and requirements.
• 4) 2010_CMM_V01_Blogging_Site_Dev_CMS_V54.pdf describes custom developed blogging website content management system specifications and requirements.
• 5) Putting together SalesGetter CRM sales CRM application prototype, descriptions and user interface mockups required extensive business analysis.
• 6) While several of the above examples represent big projects, in my own opinion, the biggest and most complex project that I have worked on so far is CreativityModel Method development. Starting from scratch, without any precedent to go by, I was able to put together a scalable and programmable creative thinking skills management method that addresses goal oriented business creativity and self-expressive artistic creativity usage, so that both types of creative thinking skills can be combined as necessary.
• CreativityModel Method can also be used for building intelligently behaving computer application functionality, so that the results can be created with less resources than artificial intelligence engineering and expert systems require.

Education

09/90-05/96 B.A. in economics - Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. Graduated magna cum laude with both College and General Education Honors.

Additional Languages

Estonian - fluent, full knowledge; Finnish - conversational; Russian - conversational (limited knowledge).

Work Status

US citizen since 1996 and as such can work for any employer.