Experiences at Franklin Templeton Investments

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I cannot say, as they will not be hiring in related positions for the forseeable future

a lot of new technology

1 - Genuine care and understanding ot the worker force on site
2 - semi-independence in daily operations
3 - the value put on my experience by management across the country

Managing/Coordinating the different support requirements during a temporary move across town during the Olympics.

Politics

Served as local liaison and responsible local official when data center and user support for FCC was transitioned to FTT Operations management in California. Oversaw the daily work of a co-worker and several contractors for server, processing, computer facility, and end user support. Local presence during the hiring of all contractors. Trained corporate helpdesk and account administration personnel on custom FCC software user administration and troubleshooting. Interfaced with key vendor support on environment issues and local work during the recent multi-phase move and remodeling as FCC expanded across 5 floors and FTB&T moved back from across town. Data center operations remained at nearly 100% during this tenure....

Can no longer say, as they are in the financial sector undergoing repeated downsizing.

* Actively participated in complete life cycle of franklintempleton.com - a Mutual Fund B2C website talking to Oracle database & IBM mainframe over MQ Series - redesign.
* Wrote Jakarta ant based build scripts for build & deployment of the application modules
* Wrote wrapper shell scripts for CVS to control the access rights
* Upgraded CVS infrastructure by writing shell scripts detailed planning (for not loosing code base & developer activity)
* Wrote scripts for data mining & report generation
* Handled Performance Tuning
o Used OptimizeIt & Wily Introscope for analysis
o Fixed the problems by tuning SQL queries, Database model & introducing smart log statements
* Architected solutions for enabling the application for Blackberry device (Sales users).
* Led enhancement projects for the same application
* Migrated the application from EJB 1.0 to EJB 2.0
* Introduced xDoclet for auto generating application Deployment Descriptors
* Extensively worked on Application server clustering to improve performance and efficiency of system resources.
* Configured Production Sun ONE webservers to support caching, URL redirection, advanced http logging
* Evaluated entire application over BEA Application Server instead of ATG Dynamo
o Developed a web based product in Java for analyzing the dependency of the application on ATG frameworks
o Fine tuned initialization modules in the Dynamo Application Server to save memory
o Reduced database hits to improve performance
o Came up with steps for migrating application from ATG Dynamo to BEA Weblogic application server...

Created, developed and implemented a (GUI) tool that automated the uploading of complex account corrections that saved the company $300,000.00 in one month.
Determined a way to streamline the error correction process, trained staff and effectively completed the rollout schedule over 30 business units across multiple sites.
(Apr 98 Overall Employee) Creative, smart thinking and determination that significantly saved time in completing the process of correcting shareholder account errors.
Managing projects and/or acting as team member throughout the development life cycle of training, design, development, implementation, and support....