Merchantville, New Jersey, United States
Experienced manager of high-profile products at a major financial data firm.
● From the inception of the product, I managed the development of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the first analysis of the world's wealthiest people to update daily. Initial concentration on product design with later focus on process automation, document straight-through-processing and workflow improvement. ● Negotiated requirements from colleagues in News and Business and worked with Engineering to shepherd each deliverable through the Agile systems development life cycle ● Performed constant business analysis and process improvement, writing technical specifications, testing software and promoting all products to customers ● Designed automated processing frameworks, client-facing functionality, internal data entry tools, workflows and dashboards, always working on multiple initiatives simultaneously with little direct supervision ● Provided steady support to an international team of journalists, generating graphical representations of data for Bloomberg News and Television, building Excel tools and regularly performing SQL queries and quality control audits on the product's database ● Web presence at www.bloomberg.com/billionaires
● Performed Waterfall IT project management on multiple products ● Served as de facto team leader, writing business plans and managing the team's daily activities in addition to performing my assigned duties ● Lone global point of contact for product design and bug resolution for a product viewed by hundreds of thousands of people each day ● Regularly performed massive amounts of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) using Microsoft Access, Excel, and SQL ● Twice traveled to Bangalore, India to train third-party data vendors
● Led a Bloomberg Law team that composed more than 8,000 attorney biographies ● Researched and entered time-sensitive biographical and financial data ● Worked with customers to help improve our product