DENNIS A.

GALVIN
15630 West 140th Terrace 913.764.7784
Olathe, KS 66062 dgeef978@westpost.net
SUMMARY
Project Manager with over 15 years experience in all phases of application devel
opment.
SKILLS INVENTORY
Project Management:
* Management of multi-million dollar projects
* Manage and monitor day-to-day project tasks, and reprioritize tasks as issues
arise.
* Planning, executing and implementation
* Assembling Project Teams
* Coordinating tasks of team members
* Coach, mentor, motivate and direct project team members and contractors, and i
nfluence them to take positive action and assume accountability for their assign
ed work.
* Infrastructure and Systems project management
* Management of third party and off-shore resources
* Systems and SDLC knowledge
* Ability to meet business needs in a complex IS environment
* Conducting and leading project meetings
* Effective internal and external relationship building
Analysis/Design:
* Documenting functional and technical requirements
* Prioritizing development requests
* Data conversion and migration
* Strong problem solving skills
Quality Assurance:
* Management of unit, system, integration, performance and acceptance testing
* Participant in Test Script Creation and updating for Mainframe/Desktop/Web/Voi
ce

TECHNICAL SKILLS
* Languages: COBOL, COBOLII, CICS, JCL,NATURAL
* Data Bases: DB2 Adabas, CA-Datacom
* Case Tools: Excelerator, XLII, Expediter, Cool-Biz, PBCS, Endeavor, NIKU, Cla
rity, Workbench, File Aid for DB2,NDM, FTP, TSO/ISPF
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DST SYSTEMS, INC., Kansas City, MO 2001 - 2010
Transfer agent mutual fund industry.
Software Project Leader
I coordinated and managed IT project development from beginning to end ensuring
adherence to departmental standards and best practices. Defined and verified obj
ectives, scope and deliverables. Determined and assigned tasks, maintained Proje
ct Work Breakdown Structures (WBS). tracked milestones and adjusted project plan
s and resources as needed, scheduled and lead team meetings with both technical
team and business analyst
* Initiated and led offshore (Bangkok) development project in an effort to revie
w, revamp and standardize processes and procedures for primary architectural cha
nges, resulting in saving on average 800 hours for projects requiring architectu
ral changes.
* Created a better managed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) which was used on all
projects in the department.
* Delivered the first phase of the Plan Indicator project, an 1800 hour project
6 weeks ahead of schedule and under budget. This project included Mainframe, Des
ktop, Web and Voice components.
* Enhanced Participant Contribution system to allow employee contributions to 40
1k to be processed through any bank chosen by the investment plan. Prior to enh
ancement investment plans could only use a single bank. This was a 5000+ hour pr
oject over 3 years with 40 associates working on it at various times in the proj
ect life cycle. It involved components for Mainframe, Desktop and WEB.
* Facilitated and participated in weekly conference calls with senior level mana
gement at both existing and potential clients.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA - Department of Social Services 1998 - 2000
Senior Disaster Recovery Systems Analyst
Provided Y2K contingency planning. Analyzed and evaluated all Mainframe applica
tions.
* Modeled all systems and identified critical paths which allowed for the propos
al and solutions to contingencies at critical paths.
BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF SOUTH CAROLINA 1997 - 1998
Healthcare insurance provider.
Software Project Manager
* Guided detailed design phases of software development, prioritized plan, and r
eported the deliverables being met to management.
* Carried out duties of Programming Manager in Manager's absence.
* Participated in department short and long term planning.
PHYSICIANS MUTUAL, Omaha NE 1995 - 1997
Healthcare and Life insurance provider.
Project Lead - New Development
Responsible for leading rewrite of Billing System
* Promoted from Programmer Analyst to Project Lead of Billing 1 month after proj
ect began.
* Taught CICS and DB2 classes.
* Convinced upper management to update billing system from batch reporting to a
fully integrated online CICIS with instantaneous access to information.
EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Associates of Arts - Des Moines Area Community College, Des Moines, IA
Completed 90 semester hours in Business Administration, Drake University, Des Mo
ines, IA
Project Management Training - DST Systems, Inc.