Gary Wells

Sr. Vice President, Technology at Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Pittsburg, California, United States

About

Thirty years application development experience as a development manager, project manager, product manger, systems architect, and senior developer. Nine years in the software development industry followed by seven years IT management at a leading investment banking and brokerage firm, seven years as a senior partner in two consulting firms, three years product manager of a hosted ASP model CRM solution, and most recently seven years as the Director Applications Programming of a financial services firm. Expert at management of offshore development with sixteen years multi-vendor multi-project experience. Managed and developed projects on intranet/internet web, smart client, client server, and IBM Midrange platforms. Co-Author of the WebLogic Bible published by Wiley Press. Specialties: - Managing Offshore Development and Vendor Relationships - Planning Multi-Year Application Roadmap Strategies - Application Design, Architecture, and Development - Application Integration, proprietary and third-party - Environment Configuration - Project Management - Technical Expertise: BEA WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, Resin, Java, J2EE, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2/400, PostgreSQL 8, ER Studio, Erwin, Rational Rose, MS Project, Windows, AS/400, RPG/400, S/36, RPG II, S/34, S/32

Experience

  • Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco ()
    • Sr. Vice President, Solution Delivery
      Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Managing Director, Solution Delivery
      Jul 2017 - Feb 2023 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    • AVP, Strategic Solutions & Architecture
      Nov 2013 - Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Director, Applications Programming at Kaspick & Company
    Jan 2007 - Nov 2013 · 6 yrs 11 mos

    Responsible for all application development and support. Managing a team of ten local and thirty to fify offshore development resources, responsible for a rolling three year strategic roadmap of development projects each year.

  • Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at SmartCompany, Inc.
    Jul 2004 - Nov 2006 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Responsible for all product development, production management, and professional services activities since the company’s inception. Product responsibilities include managing a development team of 18 offshore resources grouped into multiple developer and QA teams, and a small team of onshore resources for production implementation and support activities. SmartCompany’s CRM product is a hosted web-based solution with contact management, calendar and task management, lead management, pipeline management, order fulfillment, and document management modules. It supports the tracking of all activities including emails, notes, and status changes resulting in one-click access to activity, pipeline, and sales reports and graphs. The product is accessible via a browser-based web solution, an IE plug-in toolbar, Word and Excel add-ins, and a .NET based smart client.

  • Co-founder and Vice President of Professional Services at ZeeWare, Inc.
    Jul 2000 - Jul 2004 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for creating and growing the professional services division since the company’s inception. Responsible for recruiting and managing the technical members of the professional services teams across multiple client engagements. Led the BEA certification effort to become a qualified member of the BEA partner program. Co-authored the WebLogic Bible published by Wiley Press. Functioned as a Project Manager, Internet Architect, client-side GUI developer, server-side Java/J2EE developer, and Data Base Architect in consulting engagements as needed. Banc of America Securities, 2000-2001, Project Manager, Application Architect, Developer Banc of America Securities, 2001-2003, Project Manager, Application Architect, Development Manager, Developer Banc of America Securities, 2002 - 2003, Technical Advisor and Data Architect and Developer for a data warehousing and OLAP reporting project. Banc of America Securities, 2003 - 2004, Assistant Project Manager, Architect, Developer

  • Various at Banc of America Securities
    1992 - 2004 · 12 yrs