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RESUME FOR BERNARD HOFFMANBernard HoffmanPO Box 848Tolland, CT To provide enterprise-class technology leadership with comprehensive responsibility for product, project and servicedelivery in a dynamic professional environment.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEUTC – Pratt & Whitney (East Hartford, Connecticut)June 2018 to PresentInformation Technology DirectorLead High Performance Computing & Application Support teams for Military Engines. Created service deliveryvision and helped create a team of highly skilled, collaborative managers to improve service delivery.Implemented standard business processes, quality controls, project planning and execution for ME EngineeringCustomers. Provided strategic and tactical guidance improving security, performance and quality in HPCdeliverables. Founded and facilitated ME Computing Advisory Board to facilitate effective customer feedbackinto our core processes. Founded and facilitated ME HPC Architectural Review Board for development andproliferation of implementation and design standards. Implemented enterprise-class Data Center AssetManagement software for maintaining, tracking and reporting on ME USG assets and data center configurations.Implemented standard processes for recurring maintenance activities.Virtus Investment Partners (Hartford, Connecticut)January 2009 to June 2018AVP IT InfrastructureVision and StrategyCollaboratively created, published and executed on a year-over-year technology plan to seamlessly integrate 6remote sites and 2 enterprise COLO data centers encompassing over 400 employees.Engineering and ArchitectureProvide architecture and engineering support services to internal IT developers, vendors and trading partners.Focusing on network, telephony and application architectures for the organizationTechnical Support LeadershipDrove our outsourcing partner to manage delivery of help desk, technical support and procurement services.Direct responsibility for prioritizing work and providing high-level technical direction to support personnel.IT Project ManagementManage strategic projects for the information technology group. Provide SDLC structure, costing, RFP andexecution services to IT and business initiatives. Projects range from software upgrade coordination to newsystem implementation (scope through to production rollout).IT Vendor ManagementSourced, contracted and managed outsourcing partners and suppliers, over 10 years, to provide critical ITinfrastructure services. Negotiated contracts that were fair and equitable, monitored and held vendors accountablefor service delivery, and maintained negotiated service delivery standards.The Phoenix Companies (Hartford, Connecticut)April 2008 to January 2009Technical Project Manager (contractor)Phoenix Asset Management Spin-Off ProjectManaged the 5MM project chartered to spin-off and stand-up the Asset Management Division of The PhoenixCompanies. Led 6 tracks of implementation teams with only 6 months to do vendor selection, contracting,

procurement and spin-off/move related activities such as converting desktops, migrating email, building newservers, constructing support infrastructure and provisioning enterprise data/voice communications. Empoweredhighly productive teams to deliver heavily interdependent infrastructure elements. Project culminates with AssetManagement group move to new office space. Provided process and technical guidance to both teams andPhoenix IT executives.XL Capital Insurance (Hartford, Connecticut)September 2007 to April 2008Technical Team Leader (contractor)Peoplesoft GL Enrichment ProjectPlanned, lead, architected & implemented the effort to produce tools & databases necessary to assist InsuranceSegment CFO & staff with the task of enriching ledger data to a finer-grain of detail. Allocations, prorations, anddata cleansing operations were designed by the team and implemented using a rapid-prototyping stylemethodology. Informatica, SQL Server, XML & MS Access were the key foundation technologies behind theinitiative.ING Americas (Hartford, Connecticut)December 2006 to September 2007Technical Project Manager (contractor)Strategic Account Balance Initiative 1.5MM project was chartered to deliver daily account valuations to ING business partners using a new businessintelligence technology (FAST Search & Transfer AIW). Delivery team was comprised of six sub-teams toextract data from each of 5 critical areas of the business. We employed a combined SUMMIT Acendant waterfalland rapid prototyping approach to minimize delivery timeline, while complying with ING’s PMO and reportingconstraints. Managed overall deliverable, published effort and financial status to stakeholders, managed projectfinances and staff, and provided procedural and technical guidance to the team.Axis Group, LLC (Short Hills, New Jersey)November 2003 to December 2006Senior ConsultantGL/AP Consolidation Warehouse (Architect/Technical Project Manager)Managed the 600K effort to consolidate and conform 37 Macola ERP systems into a unified repository usingWherescape RED. We deployed a rudimentary master data management and produced an enterprise Master Chartof Accounts with several aggregate hierarchies. The team delivered a Data Warehouse designed to adapt to arapidly changing Florida-based Financial Services organization. The system was fully productionalized in 90days including basic reporting from Cognos 8 BI Suite. Reduced time to process monthly consolidated financialsfrom person-days to automated hours. Prototyped a Stratature EDM master data solution and presented findingsto client.Affordable Housing Program Warehouse Integration (Lead ETL Engineer)Constructed DataStage ETL jobs for AHP data feed into existing Kalido DIW implementation. Mentored juniorstaff on Kalido 7, load and management of the DIW warehouse. Made necessary modifications to Axis storedprocedures to prepare staging and load areas. Prepared prototype validation reports using Actuate.Insurance Reserve and Expense Reporting (Architect/Lead Engineer)Guided Insurance client though report definition and data mapping process. Provided project managementguidance and oversight. Enhanced Actuate toolset to improve report developer productivity. Modeled andmapped a process to aggregate base-monthly data to reporting aggregates.Insurance Reserve and Expense Application (Architect/Lead Engineer)

Designed and developed a Reserve and Expense estimation system, employing enterprise-class technologies(Java, XSL/XML, Tomcat, SQLServer), to rehost a legacy process for a NY State Insurance client. Theapplication grossly simplifies a process that has historically taken weeks – unifying disparate interfaces andproviding needed process visibility and control. Generated requirements, constructed project plan, authoreddesign specification, and lead effort to construct and deploy the software.Global Procurement Data Warehousing (Project Lead)Designed and developed a world-wide Procurement Data Warehouse, employing enterprise-class technologies (JDEdwards, Oracle ERP, Kalido, Business Objects), to improve spend-analysis and executive visibility for a globalPharmaceutical client. Phase I rollout bridged France/US ERP systems with Phase II scheduled to integrateBrazil, UK, and Australlia. Employed standard and client-specified Project Management methodologies tomitigate risk and offer on-going visibility into project progress.Business Process Re-engineering (Senior Analyst)Defined scope of an SAP'esque global information system for aircraft manufacturer to improve as-built businessprocesses. Presented feature/function analysis, detailed estimated workplan and design strategy for movingforward. Rallied Information Systems group to work cohesively towards enabling a more efficient, empoweredbusiness user. Demonstrated tangible year-one savings of over 2MM while delivering enhanced functionalityand business intelligence.Web Content Management (Senior Analyst)Studied landscape of Content Management vendors to produce a strategic plan for aircraft manufacturing client.Proposed to senior management a paradigm shift from custom-built web portal to COTS portal and enterprisecontent manager. Produced executive review document to showcase findings and build consensus amongstakeholders. Demonstrated business case for migration effort; with a goal of enabling the corporate vision of aglobally-seamless organization.Kalido / Oracle Data Warehousing (Senior Analyst)Conducted proof-of-concept, rapid-deployment of Kalido DIW and SQL Server / Oracle data warehouse.Modeled and constructed staging area and data cleansing / load scripts. Delivered executive briefing of projectfindings.RRC Kolot (Wyncote, Pennsylvania)August 2003 to March 2004Technical Project ManagerRitualwell Renewal Project:Conducted preliminary project scoping, produced workplan and estimates, authored and circulated RFP, managedentire Vendor Selection process for redesign and rebuild of web-based content management solution. Producedand presented executive-level tool and architecture reviews for Plone/Zope, Tomcat/Coocoon and custom builtASP/PHP options. Provided technical guidance and support to ensure project success and mitigate risk.Negotiated feature/function delivery and associated project cost.Captive Capital Corporation (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania)March 2000 to November 2003Director of Information TechnologyProduct Evolution:Overall responsibility for ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and functionality for all custom developed software.Strategically aligned with Microsoft products to deliver quality systems in a cost-conscious, performance-orientedenvironment. N-Tier system architecture with Visual Basic, ASP, COM , and SQL Server at the core. High-Level Design/Architecture and Executive Presentation Project Planning, Time Estimation, and Release Management Analyze, Design, Code, Test, and Deploy Core Portions of the Product Manage parallel development efforts on different versions of software Manage relationship with off-shore Quality Assurance group