Summary: 
Highly skilled hands-on IT Project Manager with extensive experience in
development and support of complex financial applications in Microsoft-centric
environment.

Professional Experience:
03/09 to present - Isoft, New York 
 Project Manager
Responsible for requirements definition, business analysis, design,
implementation, testing and deployment; managing all project tasks including
schedules, budgets, and resources; mentoring staff with a hands-on approach; and
preparing project status reports and presentations for implementation of the
custom built Trading System for Plante & Moran Financial Advisors. Managing
development team consisting of 18 offshore and in-house IT professionals.

07/97 to 03/09 - Lehman Brothers, Investment Management Division, New York
    Production Support Manager 
Managed production support team consisting of six programmer analysts in New
York and five in India. The team provided hands-on day-to-day 2nd tier support
for over 60 business applications. 
- Managed all production-related communication, including new release
communications, 
- Managed the problem reporting, root-cause analysis, and resolution process for
day-to-day support issues,
- Managed the overall list of bugs and enhancements, prioritizing the issues,
and recommending resolutions,
- Managed the deployment of new releases including user acceptance testing and
documentation,
 - Provided recommendations and developed strategies for business and technical
improvements, 
- Supported Post Trade processing systems, resolved technical issues with
Broadridge Clearing systems (ACAT processing, PostEdge) and FINRA (OATS),
- Managed technical interactions and problem resolutions with Market Data
Vendors including: Bloomberg, Baseline, ILX, Thomson Reuters and Russell
    Technical Leader
Responsible for full life cycle project development, implementation and
maintenance of multiple financial systems in Microsoft-centric environment.
Sample Projects:
    Hypothetical Growth of a Dollar system is a web based marketing application
that provides a benchmark comparison of historic performance for specified Lehman
Brothers  ' investment styles. 
    Real Time Reporting System (RIPS) is a real-time portfolio analytics
application that presents real-time portfolio data based on Bloomberg, Thomson
Reuters, ILX market data and real-time portfolio position.
    Investment Advisory Billing System is a web based application that produces
quarterly or monthly client invoices for individual account and families. Billing
fees are calculated based on client set up billing and prorating schedules. 
    Integration of Market Data Vendors: automated data transfers between
Bloomberg, Baseline, ILX, Thomson Reuters, and Russell systems and in-house
trading and portfolio management systems.
    PRISM is a web based trade order management system that includes portfolio
analytics, asset allocation analysis versus a model, restriction monitoring, tax
efficient trading, trade approval, block trading, and trade reconciliation. PRISM
is integrated with Merrin trading system.
    Client Presentation Reporting (CPR) System generates highly customized
PowerPoint charts and graphs for Equity portfolios.
    Asset Maintenance System (AMS) is a security information management
application for PMR department integrated with ADP database.
    Portfolio Management Administration Maintenance (PMRMaint) System provides
account reporting management for all the company clients. 

 03/90 to 07/97 - Various Consulting Assignments, NY/NJ
 Sample Clients: Prudential Insurance, Madison Square Garden, Georgeson
 Project Manager / Sr. Programmer Analyst / Consultant
 Responsible for full life cycle project management, development, implementation
and maintenance of various Microsoft-centric Client/Server applications.

Software / Programming Languages / Tools: 
ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, ASP, JavaScript, XML, HTML, DHTML, AJAX, Visual Basic 6.0,
MS SQL Server 2008/2005/6.5, Sybase 11/10, MS Access 7.0, Informix 6.01, VBA,
VBScript, Win API, 3rd party controls, Crystal Reports 11/10, Visual Studio
2008/2005/6.0, Microsoft Office, MTS, IIS, Microsoft Project, etc.

Education / Training:
2004 - 2009 Internal Lehman Brothers Training for IT Management:
IT Project Management, IT Problem Solving and Decision Making, IT Development
Standards and Best Practices, Fixed Income Products, Equities, Mutual Funds
2005   “ 2009 Learning Tree International Management and IT Training, NY, NY
C# Programming, ASP.Net 2.0: Architecture, User Interface and Data Binding 1,
Diagnostics, Resources and Internationalization and Data Binding 2, Performance,
Custom Control Enhancements and Asynchrony, State Management, Security and Web
Parts, SQL Server 2005: ADO Enhancements, SQL Server Management Object   “ SMO,
and Query Plan Management, In-Process Data Access, CLR Based User Defined Types
and Aggregates and Native Web Services, XML Datatype, Xquery, and Common Language
Runtime Based Functionality
2006- 2008 Pace University, NY, NY 
Courses in Business Writing, Business Communication, and Public Speaking 
1996 Microsoft Certified Professional in Visual Basic and SQL Server, New York 

1982 - 1988 BS/MS in Computer Science, Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg

References: Available upon request