Ned Whelan

Experience

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  Augusta Advisors

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Intern

  Designed and executed historical test of new hedge fund risk exposure model using excel. Presented results to manager and model was adopted.

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  Greenwich Alternative Investments

  Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  Intern

  Worked with technology manager implementing new website applications for client portal: Data.Greenwichai.com. Responsible for design and development of client registration module for new website: HedgeFund.com.

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  Accenture

  Oct 2015 - Oct 2020

  Managed client relationships and coordinated account teams to implement technology solutions across 3 major platforms, with 7 workstreams and 14 third-party integrations.- Led team of 6 to execute cross-functional collaboration in consolidation and modernization effort for 13 websites with over 20M monthly users, as well as launch a mobile application with over 1.1M downloads per year; realized $60.5M in revenue and convinced clients to invest an additional $10M in improvements- Leveraged insights from clients to design a COVID-19 Remote Mobile Test Lab strategy focused on secure and simple virtual testing experience enabling client testing to start on time and bringing in $250K in revenue- Transitioned methodology from Waterfall to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) increasing project output by 30%, deploying 87 features in the first year and reducing defects introduced to production by 50% per development hour- Reported weekly to client executives on progress toward 2-year Project Plan accounting for critical milestones, third-party integration points, payment schedules, and resource forecasting Show less Orchestrated technology releases, leading client interactions, coordinating teams, communicating release status to management, and enhancing delivery lifecycle systems boosting performance.- Coordinated implementation of 138 projects in 2 major releases achieving 3 critical client objectives, resolving 42 production defects, and generating $25.2M in revenue- Improved test environment stability by constructing an automated deployment process for test instances that streamlined code audits and tripled daily deployments accelerating time to resolve code defects- Established 4-person environment management team, training team members and setting growth milestones resulting in operation of 3 additional infrastructures with 30 test instances and 5 concurrent versions of products per infrastructure- Introduced Agile software development to technical architecture teams, creating a framework to formalize project tracking and standing up 4 Agile Teams Show less

  • Client Service Delivery Manager

    Nov 2019 - Oct 2020

  • Release Management Consultant

    Dec 2017 - Nov 2019

  • Functional Architecture Analyst

    Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
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  IBM

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  Product Management Extreme Blue Intern

  Spearheaded delivery of two full-stack software products to provide monitoring and performance insights for a business unit running approximately 12B scripts a year across more than 6K servers.- Supervised team of 3 engineers in agile methodology to select technologies, develop features, demonstrate products, and provide formal presentations to senior leadership- Conducted design thinking sessions to understand stakeholder journeys, identify key problems, and ideate around solutions resulting in product feature definitions and roadmap- Created financial model to inform data center investment decision, comparing costs of various on-premises and cloud offerings Show less

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  IBM

  Aug 2022 - now

  - Launched Amazon RDS for Db2 bringing together the most reliable and flexible database with the worlds largest managed database service- Managed watsonx.data alpha program gathering early feedback to shape product direction

  • Senior Product Manager

    Dec 2023 - now

  • Product Manager

    Aug 2022 - Dec 2023