David M Isham

Product Owner|Project Manager|Senior IT Business Systems Analyst skilled in leading team and solo projects to successful completion, emphasis on time and cost savings. Expert in Root Cause Analysis for quick, effective problem solving. Leader in Innovation, Functional Process designs, Business Case Authoring and Stakeholder negotiations for realizing client project vision.

Experience

US Managing Principal

Avajae Solutions

Providing Clients with Project Managment and Business Analysis support, Process improvement strategies and Innovation support

SEO Audits|Technical SEO Services and Strategic coaching for increased site traffic and conversion rates

Content Development and Coaching

Investors - Website flipping consultant

SaaS Application Development

December 2017 - Present

Data Solutions Leader

Paladin Solutions Group

Providing Clients with current state assessment, solution proposals and team building for realization of objectives

Client advisor for strategic investments in planning, workflow improvements and technology

Contributing as team member, authoring Request for Proposals leading to new business

Responsible for corporate website enhancements, maintenance and operation

August 2017 - February 2019

Sr. Application Owner|Analyst|Manager

First Data Corporation

Responsibility and oversight for several internally designed web applications designed to track large scale project implementations. Output leveraged by CEO and Management Committee to lend decisioning on performance metrics, capacity planning, process improvement opportunity and realized|forecasted revenue. [Platform - Windows 2012 Server, Oracle, .NET, C#, JavaScript]

Concept realization – Business cases transformed to requirements, design, mock-ups, build and deployment

Actively guide and manage Application Development Team through multiple project initiatives maintaining a consistent development cycle to meet client expectations

Designed Cross platform data integration with CRM Salesforce.com and BI Data Warehouse providing broader visibility into sales win|loss, and revenue (forecasted & realized)

Proposed and implemented new strategy to synchronize efforts with external alliances, accelerating by months the time to otherwise establish B2B application|data sharing

Re-engineered delivery tracking engine, providing previously unobtainable visibility into potential failure points, accuracy for in-flight revenue projection and team|client scorecards

Instituted order tracking module to capture billable events and load capacity planning for call center campaigns, generating > $1MM annually in combined operational savings and revenue

Provisioned all socialization and training on design and scope of functional changes keeping our user community apprised and equipped to leverage delivered feature sets

Data security PCI|Dodd Frank compliance lead and sign off, warranting a level of protection required for industry sector

Lead for Business Continuity Planning, ensuring effective application recovery within established timeframes

January 2010 - August 2017

Business Systems Analyst|Developer|Architect

AllianceBernstein Investment Research and Management

Full Oversight for Corporate Applications: Account Performance|Assets Under Management|Client Reporting|Fees

Team Lead and sign-off for all SDLC phases related to MIS Business Systems projects

Re-engineered ‘Composite Account Performance’ application to reduce processing time from 26 hours to less than 3 hours, eliminating abend|restart steps caused by daily database refresh

‘Thinking out of the box’ design to quickly identify account performance recalculations generated from fixed income pricing changes. Reduced daily processing from 2½ hours, to under 4 minutes allowing MIS unit to consistently meet SLA completion requirements.

Developed application that sums multiple client accounts into a ‘virtual’ single account, simplifying overall performance tracking and reporting for business users and private clientele. Effort generated a permanent 20% cost reduction with accounting vendor and tremendous ‘soft dollar’ savings in increased user productivity

Authored Architecture|Design, Technical documentation, UML diagrams (Visio) for above systems subject to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and cataloged for internal knowledge base|training

Analysis and modeling of Quarterly Fees forecasting application, allowing senior management to project expected Assets Under Management, fee-based revenues and flag fund churning violations

Tracked and evaluated project progress via Microsoft Project Professional, reporting regularly to stakeholders and management

Trained and supervised offshore development team in fulfilling all project-based requirements

November 1998 - November 2008

Desktop Specialist

Information Builders

Solutions Provider for multi-tier applications with data access requirements

Requirements Elicitation and Analysis for potential and existing clientele

Authored|distributed reports for targeted sales and marketing campaigns using FOCUS 4GL

Consistently exceeded expectations|quota(sales)

May 1997 - September 1998

Account Executive|Marketing Representative

Proginet Corporation (TIBCO Software)

Addressed specific enterprise-wide business objectives with diverse product suite

Interfaced with Microsoft Enterprise Customer Unit on strategic account planning

Collaborated with Microsoft BackOffice Marketing teams on product positioning

Authored technical product overviews used for primary marketing collateral and RFPs

Conceived|Implemented 3-year plan for cross platform sales to acquired customer base

September 1995 - May 1997

Skills

Core Competentcies
  • Project Management
  • IT Operations & Development
  • Business Intelligence
  • Business Systems Analysis
  • Ideation & Innovation
  • Migrations & Conversions
  • SEO Audits & Technical SEO
  • Solutions Design
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Process Flows & Use Cases
  • Data Governance
  • Strategic Planning
  • Process Re-engineering
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Technical Writing
  • Client Relations
  • SDLC Agile Jira
Corporate Software & Applications
Web

Education

Paul Scotchford

SQLMaster Class for Data Analysis
2018

Jamie Fry

Tableau 10 for Business Intelligence
2018

Colt Steele

Web Developer Bootcamp
2017

IT Career Boot Camp

Business Analyst Boot Camp
2010

SUNY Stony Brook

Project Management|Business Analyst Plus Certification
2009

Chubb Institute

Computer Programming Diploma
1996 - 1998

University of Arizona

Bachelor of Science Candidate Electrical Engineering
1981 - 1984

Interests

"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit." - Denis Waitley

Whichever endeavor I'm committed to, I achieve personal gratification from problem solving. As relevant to the workplace, it comes down to evolving existing|creating new workflows that support an axiom of cheaper|better|faster|intuitive, making tasks and efforts more sensible and true to their stated objective.

Outside of work I enjoy my family, application design, music composition, music reproduction, golf & tennis.

Awards