BARRY F. GUTKNECHT
OBJECTIVE
Combine the best of technology,
business, and leadership to achieve business objectives with technology and
process. Efficiently and reliably design strategic synergy, create the plan,
and deliver the goods, drawing on broad business acumen, extensive technical
knowledge, innovative team leadership, holistic process re-design, integrated data
security, role-based access, policy authoring, and an unflappable demeanor throughout.
BUSINESS
SUMMARY
Sharp business-focused technology
leader to build and deliver software and process solutions for mission-critical
objectives in demanding Wall Street environment. Innovator in authoring
security standards and implementing role-based access to applications. Experience
managing mission-critical infrastructure. Comprehensive business process design
draws from business domain expertise in Wall Street, Prime Brokerage, cost
basis, equity research, Investment Banking, and Syndicates, along with commercial
software, publishing, insurance, and banking industries. Reliable strategic
thinker with extended experience across all IT SDLC roles, delivers right-sized
best-of-breed products. Effective presenter showing complex subject matter to
variably-knowledgable clients. Comfortable designing long-term solution and
materializing it across multiple iterations. Proven leader retaining motivated
staff.
- Demonstrated success using
entitlements to restrict access to sensitive data, in scalable model.
- Familiar with Information
Security, obstacles, global regulatory standards, compliance.
- Real-world insight into vendor
integration, build-vs-buy analysis, avoidance of pitfalls.
- Experience analyzing and remodeling
complex business processes to capture efficiency, reduce costs.
- IT leadership experience
directing Product & Project management, software design, development,
QA, Operations, data publishing, corporate and commercial software and/or
websites.
- Effective communicator with
executives and technicians, translating business & technology
language.
- Proven effective public
speaking at Analyst Tours and tradeshows in US and Europe.
TECHNOLOGY
SUMMARY
- Certified in ITIL
best-practices to standardize IT plant operations.
- Adept at application architecture,
object-oriented analysis and design.
- Hands-on DBA experience in
Oracle and Sybase, data modeling, performance tuning, etc.
- Familiar with complexity in
building and utilizing highly interconnected enterprise tools.
- Proven ability to harness
untrammeled development environment without sacrificing creativity.
- Experience with security &
protection tools such as encryption, ciphers, authentication, PKI, etc.
- Design and leadership using PL/SQL,
TSQL, Java, JSP, J2EE, Powerbuilder, C, C++, XML, n-tier.
SIGNIFICANT
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Led effort to model Morgan
Stanley Prime Brokerage US and International businesses for role-based
access control, renovate applications, implement processes to maintain
quality.
- Modeled Morgan Stanley’s
first CMDB from disparate inventories, led Discovery vendor review.
- Authored and socialized Morgan
Stanley first Information Classification Guide,
originated position in new CISO office, required both business finesse and
technical knowledge to gain credibility quickly.
- Led Engineering,
Architecture, & Product Management for 11 commecial software products.
- Defined massive-volume
investment cost-basis product at Charles Schwab & Company
- Guided Thomson Syndicator,
commercial Syndicate Desk software, from $0 to $2MM in under 2 years.
- Saved AOL/Time Warner/Business
2.0 over $120,000 in 3 weeks through critical software re-write.
- Delivered ten-fold(10x)
performance increase for Business 2.0’s website with zero($0)
expenditure.
- Re-designed business process
at Hambrecht & Quist Capital Markets, gained 70% paper
reduction, remotely implemented software for 300+ distributed users, automated
> $10MM/mo order process.
EXPERIENCE
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Morgan Stanley
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Role-based Access Control
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New York,
NY
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VP Prime Brokerage IT
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Wall Street
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2004-
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Inherited
struggling role-based entitlements project and drove it to achieve its initial goals.
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Coordinated
revised approach after staff reductions extended its duration.
VP IT – ITIL CMDB and
Change Management
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Product
Manager creating integrated ITIL CMDB from multiple disconnected data sources.
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Educate
executives, foster adoption of new CMDB-based IT processes in their
organizations.
VP Information Security
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Create Data
Protection program to protect entire data lifecycle, from creation through
destruction, mitigate risks at all intermediate stages using technology,
process, education, and policy.
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Wrote first
data Classification standard to measure data sensitivity and prioritize
protection.
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Lead
requirements and vendor analysis for firm-wide e-mail encryption solution.
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Evaluate
off-shore contracts, solutions for CA 1386, privacy, data leakage, secure
passwords, et al.
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CYA Technologies, Inc.
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Commercial Enterprise Software
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Trumbull,
CT
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VP Software Engineering / Prod Mgmt
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Business Continuity, Secure Collaboration
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2002 – 2003
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Managed R&D
and Product Management for 11 commercial software products supplying object-level
backup, recovery, archive, transport, and validation of Documentum content and
metadata.
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Guided acquisition
from MIT project to enterprise pilot at pharmaceutical company in Germany
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Directed product
management and development for commercial software to run all combinations of
platforms-- Websphere, WebLogic, Tomcat--Oracle, MSSQL, Sybase --Unix, Windows,
Linux.
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Maintained
executive relationships with technology partners.
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Presented
technical topics at Analyst Tours and tradeshows in US and Europe.
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Business 2.0 (AOL/TimeWarner)
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Internet Operations and Development
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San Francisco, CA
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Sr. Director of Engineering
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www.business2.com
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2000 – 2002
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Led technical
team for Business 2.0 magazine’s website, planned site evolution with executives
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Reduced frequency
of website downtime events from 3 times/week to zero within 3 months, by
creating a change management process and embedding a quality software mentality
into the team.
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Moved entire server
hosting cage to vendor across the country with zero down time.
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Retained 100%
staff during both Internet boom and bust periods.
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Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
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Corporate & Commercial Software
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San Francisco, CA
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Managing Director, Schwab Technology
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Retail Wall Street
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1999 – 2000
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Defined
strategic new product for retail investment cost basis, designed website and IRS
compliant statements to simplify complex process for wide audience.
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Managed technical
staff and project, including managers, analysts, developers, QA, DBA’s, DB2 data
modelers to build cost-basis engine scaled to process 50MM transactions/day in 7MM
accts.
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Thomson Financial
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Commercial Software
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New York,
NY
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VP Product Manager, Thomson Syndicator
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Debt & Equity Syndication
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1996 – 1999
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Directed creation
and evolution of commercial software product for Wall Street Syndicate Desks underwriting
corporate equity and fixed income instruments in US and European markets.
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Cracked a
locked market by acquiring major customers such as Lehman Brothers (NY & London),
Hambrecht & Quist, Chase, UBS, Nationsbank, Thomas Weisel Partners.
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Achieved product
profitability in 1˝ years, increased top-line revenue 25% in subsequent year.
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Maintained account
relationships with senior Wall Street executives.
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Retained 100%
staff through entire product lifecycle, including startup and maintenance
phases.
Project Manager
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Replaced
paper-intensive Ticketing process with electronic feed booking $10MM in
trades/month.
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Managed
technical team of developers and DBA’s to create Thomson Syndicator product
in PowerBuilder UI, to work with any of Sybase, Oracle, or SQL Anywhere
databases.
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Built and
maintained global production Sybase environment for mission-critical repository
which aggregated broker data, de-normalized Thomson data for reporting,
Syndicate activity for billing.
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Worked with customer
IT staff to install database servers and schemas, client machine software,
router and protocol modifications, user training at globally-distributed sites.
Sr. Application
Developer
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Designed and wrote
Powerbuilder OO service-oriented architecture, with client platform sensing, database
detection, client video resolution, international date and currencies, DB transaction
mgmt.
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Scudder, Stevens, & Clark
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Internal software
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New York,
NY
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Sr. Client/Server Developer/AVP
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Buy-side Wall Street
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1995 – 1996
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Built software
and feeds from legacy systems for Research Analysts to visualize huge volumes of
transaction and holdings data by various factors for trend analysis.
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Designed
software to verify proprietary trading models against massive historical
transaction data.
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Wrote and
implemented corporate standard for Powerbuilder software deployment on users’
PC’s.
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Greenwich Capital Markets/FMAC
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Internal software
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Greenwich,
CT
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Technology Director
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sell-side Wall Street
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1994 – 1995
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Single-handedly
provided IT for franchise lending and mortgage-backed bond securitization company--
software analyst, GUI designer, Sybase DBA, Powerbuilder developer, LAN admin.
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Citibank Private Banking, AVP
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LAN/WAN Construction
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New York,
NY, 1991-1994
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Managed staff
and projects in Powerbuilder/VB MS SQL Server development.
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Managed large-scale
projects for LAN/PC infrastructure, market data , negotiated contracts
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Installed
OS/2 Lan Server network, all servers(40), workstations(300), applications, user
training, transition from DOS to Windows, converted to Novell, added 200 nodes,
3 sites, 3270 connectivity.
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Johnson & Higgins
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LAN Support, Insurance Software
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New York,
NY, 1989-1991
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Built first
OS/2 Lan Server networks, provided network support to entire company.
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Wrote insurance
policy management software for association insurance needs.
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United Banks of Colorado
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Real-time Mainframe Software
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Denver,
CO, 1986-1989
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Responsible
for real-time Risk Management System which monitored the bank’s liquidity position.
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Assist Sr.
Programmers with real-time liquidity management system in PL/I.
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EDUCATION:
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University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
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B.S.
Business Information Systems, 1986
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ITIL Foundation
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ITIL Practitioner IT Svc. Mgmt
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ITIL Practitioner Change,
Config, Rel
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PERSONAL INTERESTS: Avid reader, enjoy my family, landscape
design, golf, theater, and travel.
