Ron Gillespie:  

hree direct reports. ’02 – 04 Assistant Vice President – Promotion; no additional responsibilities Assistant Vice President/Manager -Documentation & Compliance Unit (2002) Selected to start-up a new unit to manage the Audit/Compliance documentation for all COB Units. In addition, conducted special projects. Managed two direct reports. Assistant Vice President/Continuity of Business Coordinator (1999 – 2002) Coordinated the COB certification testing for six data centers. Project planned and managed data center recovery testing. Chaired weekly project team meetings that ranged from 120 to 300 participants. Led working sessions with application development group to resolve problems identified during the course of test preparation. Acted as the primary point of contact for all test planning and crisis management during the test. Issued test post mortem and tracked problems to closure. Interfaced with all levels of the data center organization, application development, SA, DBAs, and infrastructure units. Health Management Systems, New York City, NY 1996 – 1999 Managed four Medicaid state data processing contracts (including the 2nd largest contract) that generated annual billing of $250 million. Performed data analysis, application analysis/development (JCL,COBOL, SAS, and DYL-260/280), and project management (planning, implementation, evaluation). Led project teams in process improvement and business development projects, prepared business and technical specifications, performed testing, resolved data processing abends and client problems. In addition, worked heavily with Client Managers to resolve state agency inquiries or request for information. Summit Bancorp (formerly UJB Financial), Westwood, NJ; Oradell, NJ; and Hackensack, NJ 1988 – 1996 Reengineered business operations and wrote policies and procedures. Identified opportunities to reduce cost and streamlined operations. Acted as the single point of contact for users requesting access to the mainframe and performed annual entitlement reviews. Performed project planning and management of assigned special projects.