Maureen Brennan

Current

Systems Analyst at Bridgewater Bank

Past

Senior Programmer Analyst at inUnison Technology Services
Business Systems Analyst at First Calgary Savings
Solutions Architect at Fincentric Corporation

Intermediate Programmer Analyst at Richmond Savings Credit Union
Programmer at Northwest Trust Company
Programmer at MSS Computers

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Education

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Royal Roads University
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

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Maureen Brennan’s Summary

A Software Consultant with 18 years experience in the requirements gathering, development, testing, implementation and support of software mostly in the Microsoft stack. While working for a software development company in Vancouver, traveled internationally (US, South Africa, Italy, Japan) acting as a software development consultant.

Strengths:
- Highly self-motivated. Dedicated to learning the latest technology trends and ways information technology can be used to solve business problems, gain/retain customers and gain competitive advantage.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Develops good rappor with collegues and partners/vendors
- Dedicated to creating processes and using automation and technology to manage repeatable tasks
- Exceedingly resourceful and politically astute
- Current interest is working in an organization using .NET & SQL Server. Also interesting in utilizing my team leadership and management skills. Enjoy developing staff.

Myers-Briggs: INTJ

Maureen Brennan’s Specialties:

Banking and Financial Software Solutions
Microsoft Development Technologies (.NET Framework - C#.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server, ADO.NET, Sharepoint, MSXML)
Team Leadership and Mentoring
Software Coding Standards and Code Reviews
Process Management
Software Architecture
Technical Writing
Project Management
Object Oriented Analysis & Design Techniques including UML
Educated in both Software Development & Business (have a BCom).
Entrepreneurial and Collaborative Leadership Style

Maureen Brennan’s Experience

Systems Analyst

Bridgewater Bank

(Privately Held; Banking industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Bridgewater Bank is Calgary-based bank and is a subsidiary of Alberta Motor Association (AMA).

Role involves assessing requirements, designing, developing, and testing software solutions used by the bank.

Accomplishments:
- Wrote a .NET application using C#, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) and SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) that automated internal account reconcilation processing that saved the company time and money
- Enhanced a Broker Contact Tracking Application written in VB.NET using a SQL Server DB by adding Territory Management functionality for tracking sales agents by territory
- Wrote SQL queries as required by the business to extract banking data for users

Skills: requirement analysis, software design, software development in .NET, testing, issue investigation, debugging and replication, BI report writing, data mapping

Tools: SQL Server, C#, VB.NET, Wealthview Developers Kit (WBDK), Global Event Control Server (GECS), Powershell
Senior Programmer Analyst

inUnison Technology Services

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

January 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 3 months)

inUnison is an IT Services Company created from the merger of First Calgary Savings and Envision Financial.
- Provided to management software design and development estimates required to enhance and customize a PC-based retail banking application
- Developed enhancements and fixes for a PC-based retail banking application using the application's software development kit
- Developed a prototype using VB.NET and MSXML 4.0 to facilitate the connection of a Windows-based retail banking application to a COM-based XML gateway. This gateway transferred XML request and response documents to and from the host banking system and led to the development of a online identification application written in C#.NET with web services. The identification application displayed the customers scanned drivers license to the bank tellers.
- Prioritized software issues based on risk

Tools: WBDK, SQL Server, C#, VB.NET, Web Services, MSXML 4.0, Subversion.
Business Systems Analyst

First Calgary Savings

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

July 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Technical Lead/Project Manager for retail banking software customization project. This role required:
- gathering software requirements by interviewing systems users
- writing functional and technical specifications
- assigning functional specifications to programmers
- estimating the design, development and deployment required for implementation
- maintaining a project plan of system enhancements
- mentoring application users on the banking application.
- developing banking transaction receipts for Epson POS printer into the banking system
- developing banking enhacements to facilitate 3rd party integration of .NET applications to banking software

Skills: project management, requirement analysis, software design, software development, assignment delegation, unit testing, 3rd party integration, mentoring and knowledge sharing of banking application
Solutions Architect

Fincentric Corporation

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

April 1996 — November 2004 (8 years 8 months)

Fincentric Corporation (formerly Prologic Corporation) is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner and their financial services products are installed in financial institutions in over 25 countries.
- Technical Project Manager and Team Lead for both domestic and int'l projects for the custom development /customization of Fincentric’s Windows PC-based client/server retail banking applications, Ovation™ and Wealthview Banking™, for the regional market. This included business requirement analysis, technical designs, team mentoring, overseeing the custom development, testing and implementation
- Developed custom enhancements for Fincentric customers (financial insitutions) around the globe that improved efficiencies and increased revenue
- Developed and taught technical training courses
- Developed proof of concept prototypes for pre-sales

Skills: project management, requirement analysis, software design and development, assignment delegation, unit testing, mentoring, team leadership
Intermediate Programmer Analyst

Richmond Savings Credit Union

(Banking industry)

January 1994 — April 1996 (2 years 4 months)

- Application Developer responsible for development and maintenance of the organization's PC-based in-house retail banking application called Relationship Banking System (RBS) written in Prologic Corporation's PROBE programming language using a SQL Server database
- Interviewed users in the company's various internal departments, analyzed and documented requirements, designed solutions, unit tested and implemented software solutions
- Technical lead on the implementation of PC-based Mutual Fund application
- Successfully developed service charge enhancements in the banking system that lead to additional income for the organization.

Skills: software development of banking software in a production environment, mutual fund software development exposure, production support of mission critical software, client/server software development, requirement analysis, software design, unit testing.

Tools: PROBE programming language (4GL), SQL Server, JetForms, Windows 3.x.
Programmer

Northwest Trust Company

(Banking industry)

January 1993 — November 1993 (11 months)

- Application Developer on large banking development project that planned to significantly feature enhance and then replace existing branch retail banking software that ran on AS/400's with a PC-based open source software solution called Ovation™ developed Prologic Corporation.
- Software team comprised of eight developers plus a team of ten business users from various internal departments.
- Technical lead on deposit subsystem; supported user test streams and developed software fixes as required.

Skills: large banking software development team, client/server software development, troubleshooting, requirement analysis, user acceptance testing support.

Tools: PROBE programming language (4GL) developed by Prologic Corporation, Novell Netware, Windows 3.x
Programmer

MSS Computers

(Computer Software industry)

December 1991 — December 1992 (1 year 1 month)

MSS Computers is a ACCPAC Plus development partner. Role involved:
- developing a feature rich Windows based Point of Sale (POS) application, SuperClerk™, that integrates with ACCPAC Plus suite of accounting products
- Co-developed module to consolidate inventories from multiple store locations at day end
- Development team included the company owner and two application developers (including myself).

Skills: new product development of point of sale software, application integration to 3rd party software (ACCPAC), end of day balancing and reconcilation, system analysis and design, unit testing, application support.

Tools: Microsoft 'C' programming language, ACCPAC Software Development Kit (SDK), Windows 3.x

Maureen Brennan’s Education

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

.NET Development Certificate , 2008 — 2008

Completed 5 course .NET Development Certificate from SAIT in Calgary. Accredited as "Certified .NET Developer".

Developed N-Layer desktop and web applications using .NET Framework 3.5 (C# & VB.NET) and SQL Server 2008.

Projects included building school registration application in C# and using ADO.NET. Additionally, built Boat Leasing Web Application using C# and ASP.NET using AJAX extensions.

Covered LINQ, WCF and XML Web Services.
Royal Roads University

Bachelor of Commerce Degree , Entrepreneurial Management , 2003 — 2005

Managerial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Sustainability, Corporate Strategy, Globalization
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Diploma , Computer Systems Technology , 1990 — 1992

Logic & Problem Solving, Operating System Concepts, Systems Analysis and Design, Programming with C, Pascal, VB