russ barnett

vice president operations

About

To use my team building expertise, strong assertive personality and excellent communication skills to work within a strong company and build a relationship not purely built on “working for” but “working with”. I am an accomplished Project Manager/technology leader skilled in building and leading high-performance, service-oriented technology services. Effective business partner credited with spearheading vision and strategies to align technology with business requirements. Innovative thinker developing tools and techniques where barriers are encountered making seemingly impossible projects possible. SKILL SUMMARY: * Corporate Mergers * Major system consolidations. * Project Management * Analyzing and reducing costs. * Major system conversions. * Process mapping. * Process Improvement. * Data mapping * Team development and coaching. * Workshop facilitation. * Major cost reductions in Corporate Actions / Income / Client relations area of the bank. * Coordinating data conversions.

Country

canada

City

mississauga

Industry

management consulting

Skill

project management, project coordination, delivering projects, project scope development, programming, natural language processing, adabas, os/390, cobol, inter personal, microsoft office, microsoft excel, swift payments, process improvement, db2, sdlc, tso, jcl, cics, testing, mvs, pmp, software development, mainframe, business requirements, easytrieve, systems analysis, requirements gathering, quality assurance, analysis, ibm mainframe, visio, data modeling, requirements analysis, user acceptance testing

Experience

consultant

rbc

2006-1 - 2012-6 · 6 yrs 6 mos

senior consultant and project manager

mackenzie investments

1999-1 - 2005-6 · 6 yrs 6 mos

vice president operations

3c marketing

2018-3 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

Providing strategy and leadership to propel 3C forward and to stay ahead.

senior analyst and programmer

mackenzie investments

1995-11 - 1998-12 · 3 yrs 2 mos

* Was highly influential in the Investor's group merger with MFC working closely with the IG personnel in Winnipeg. * Worked with business to come up with innovative solutions to save time/money/FTEs. Then worked with IT to design code and implement the solutions. * This was a NATURAL/ADABAS shop.

contract analyst and programmer

ontario dairy herd improvement corporation

1993-11 - 1995-11 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Created an ‘on farm’ PC system for milk analysis which communicated data to mainframe nightly and automatically replenished/updated software on the PC – innovative for the time. This system was written in Microfocus COBOL on PCs interfacing with NATURAL/ADABAS on mainframe,

contract programmer and analyst

s c johnson's wax

1991-10 - 1993-11 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Created an in warehouse PC system on the fork lifts for order picking and automatic bills of lading and truck loading which communicated real time data to mainframe and automatically replenished/updated software on the PC – innovative for the time. This system was written in NATURAL/ADABAS on mainframe,.

vice president it

revlon international corporation

1981-1 - 1991-1 · 10 yrs 1 mo

Began as analyst programmer writing in COBOL and worked up to Vice President I.T. Controlled an RJE site connected with Revlon U.S. Suppported staff in all aspects of I.T. from data entry through to project managers. This was a COBOL OS/MVS site. Transferred by company from UK to Canada (Ottawa) in 1976 then transferred to Toronto in 1981.

president russ l barnett consulting inc

taking a break

2012-7 - 2018-3 · 5 yrs 9 mos

* Travelling with my family. * Playing golf, * Just relaxing after 21 years as a non-stop consultant. * Professional development – passed my PMP.

consultant

russ l barnett consulting

1981-1 - 2004-1 · 23 yrs 1 mo

Consultant to the Cosmetic Industry. Working with multiple companies (eg Givenchy, Sanofi) to assist them in improving their systems and providing technical/program support and management consulting.