Teri Bennett, PMP

Experience

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  MTech (Formely ACS)

  Sept 1975 - Dec 1984

  Programmer / Analyst

  Started with ACS (Affiliated Computer Systems) which became MTech as Bank Balancer.Promotion evolution: Bank Balancer, Lead Bank Balancer, Supervisor of Print area and Bank Balancing, JCL Specialist, Computer Operator, Programmer Analyst I, Programmer Analyst II, RBS (Remote Banking System) Batch Processing Programmer

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  Murray Saving

  Dec 1984 - Dec 1985

  Senior Programmer / Analyst

  Develop new processes, enhanced existing processing, production support and project development. Automated manual processes saving time. money and man hours when interfacing with outside vendors. Correct online issues quickly and efficiently reducing down time for the end-user allowing for better customer service.

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  Bright Bank

  Dec 1985 - Sept 1990

  Application Manager & Technical Advisor to VP

  Administrator of all software applications, technical library and documentation. Support and technical assistant to the software group. Evaluate software packages, develop new application systems and supervision of technical staff.Started as a Sr. Systems Analyst, promoted to Sr. Systems Analyst Staff Specialist in 2 years, then to Technical Advisor to Sr. VP 1 year later and finally to Applications Manager / Technical Advisor 3 months after that

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  Sterling Software Inc

  Sept 1990 - Mar 1993

  VP / Project Manager Software Development

  • Vice President and Project Manager of New Banking Software Development for Vector 9 - Fraud Validation System.• Designed, coded, tested, beta install, created tech doc, product doc, presentations, supervision of programmers, heading meetings with team and upper management.• Saved Beta Bank thousands of dollars during Beta testing from direct results of the new system.• Vector 9 System has been implemented in several major banks.

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  JCPenney Insurance

  Mar 1993 - Mar 1994

  Senior IT Consultant / Programmer / Analyst

  • Program and run application for processing business partner leads for solicitation. Qualify the leads for target marketing.• Automated the existing system to run in less time and require minimum control card data.• Converted the system from heavy programming requirements to simple end-user control card entry and execution.

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  MBNA

  Mar 1994 - Mar 1995

  Senior IT Consultant / Programmer / Analyst

  • APR System Support. Update the Credit Card APR system based on customer history and company criteria. Complete documentation, testing, departmental approvals, and implementation requirements.• Streamlined processing reducing overhead, simplified processing, and eliminating human error. Achieved by analyzing the existing system then creating control cards for the variable criteria and combining processes reducing the number of data passes. • The system processed 10+ million records. Reduced process time from 8-10 hours to 2-3 hours. Show less

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  Techsys Advanced Resources, LLC

  Mar 1995 - Nov 2010

  AVP - Programming Services - Applications Development & Processing

  • Direct report to Owner/CIO, manage programming staff and interface with International and Domestic clients.• Develop, Design and Prepare documentation for invoicing, presentations, processing, standards, tracking projects, training material and employee evaluations.• Programming services from inception to implementation and Production processing and support.• Train new employees in all areas. Create Standards for department from program coding to office functions. Conduct employee performance reviews.• Maintaining a high quality of service to the client is of the utmost importance.• Started as a project manager and earned the position of AVP in less than 2 years.• Generated over 50% of the total company revenue.• Built invaluable rapport with Clients at all levels.• Eliminated human error and simplified processing reducing processing time and cost.• Reduced overhead cost by migrating processing from Mainframe to Windows Server Platform.• Created and developed programming standards reducing employee learning curve. Show less

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  Real Estate Investors and Investment Companies

  Nov 2010 - Feb 2012

  Senior IT Consultant / Manager

  • Assisted multiple Real Estate Investors and Investment Companies with target marketing, property and marketing research and analysis. Prepared mail listings, created marketing copy, produced and send mail outs. Evaluated and managed the make-ready of properties as they became available. Then market, show and lease properties, qualifying the tenants.• Reduce the manual process and time for producing mail outs.• Reduce the time frame for Make-Ready to Lease – average turnaround is 10 days.• Obtaining invaluable knowledge of Real Estate both residential and commercial. Show less

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  Colonial Companies

  Feb 2012 - Nov 2014

  Programmer/Analyst

  • Develop new processes, enhanced existing processing, production support and project development.• Automate manual processes saving time and man hours when interfacing with outside vendors.• Correct online issues quickly and efficiently reducing down time for the end-user allowing for better customer service.• Successful expansion of the Loan number in an 8 month timeframe. This project entailed project tracking, supervision of contractors, coding, testing, QA and implementation of approx. 900 Online programs, 2890 Batch programs and 100 File Conversions. Followed by production support during the “warranty” period.• Currently involved with conversion and interfacing with Fiserv’s LoanServ system, Data Warehouse, development utilizing SSIS, SQL and C#.• Evaluate Software, Create Software Design Documents, Templates and Mock Screen Designs. Show less

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  Venture Solutions

  Nov 2014 - now

  • Design, develop and implement a Standardize and Streamline Enterprise Data process. o Improve the Process Time and Data flow by reducing or eliminating the number of file passes and the steps to execute within a given job.o Resulted in a 25% reduction of unnecessary steps in each job, 40% reduction in run times and 15% reduction of file usage.o Reduce duplication of effort by consolidating multiple versions of the same program, reduce exposure to human errors and ease maintenance by removing in-stream code.o Resulted in a 75% reduction of duplicate programs, 83% improvement towards ease of maintenance and a 70% improvement towards faster turnaround.• Fulfill Client requests for Data and Print programming changes. All steps from Task Review to Implementation.• Design, code, test and implement programs to perform Data Analysis and Selection for use in Client Change Requests, Quality Control Regression and Client Approval for Production Print Release.• Wrote Quality Control and Regression Test Procedures. Developed and run QC Regression for Client Task Changes.• Wrote Quality Control Training Manual and Running Quality Control Regression Testing Manual.• Train Quality Control Staff and Programming Staff.• Wrote specifications for New Feature to the website for accessing account documents. Allow account inquiry of all documents for a group of accounts. The list of accounts can be anything the user desires.o Both the internal and external use of this new features allows for all departments to ensure a higher level of quality, reduce man hours and reduce resources. Allows for QC functions that previously were not available or were manual and too time consuming to perform – changing hours to seconds. Show less

  • Application Systems Architect - Manager

    Aug 2016 - now

  • IT Application Development Manager

    Nov 2015 - Aug 2016

  • Senior Programmer / Analyst / Specialist

    Nov 2014 - Oct 2015