Harry Barnes

Harry Barnes is a Business Technology Transformation Leader focusing on Strategic Enterprise Architecture

Harry Barnes's Bio:

Harry Barnes's Experience:

• Senior Vice President, Enterprise Development at QWASI, Inc.

  May 2014 - April 2015 | New York, NY

  Harry led relationship management of Qwasi's large technology resellers, including Syniverse, iConnective and YesMail, leveraging skills in negotiation to develop relationships to best serve the needs of our mutual customers. Harry drove the road map for Qwasi’s product suites with the Business and Technology Development Teams to implement systems and processes to allow for a scalable project management infrastructure to meet our customers needs. Harry created and implemented Business Intelligence, reporting and customer insight capabilities within the platform, leveraging Splunk, MongoDB, MySQL allowing clients to develop targeted interactions for their customers. Harry developed short and long-term strategies to address client needs and unique market requirements. Harry maximized agility, governance, transparency and efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.

• Vice President at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch

  July 2010 - May 2014 | Pennington, NJ

  Harry designed, implemented and executed technology architecture governance processes that provided enough rigor to balance risks associated projects and technologies being introduced to the firm’s infrastructure and ensure compliance with regulatory, GWIM and Bank of America internal technology policies with the minimal amount of impact to the projects. Harry oversaw Global Wealth and Investment Management (GWIM) Technology Architecture, ensuring the integrity of designing, building and operating Bank of America's enterprise technology infrastructure and operations. Harry defined governance models to guide technology solution decisions and project delivery for the enterprise. Harry defined high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state. Harry led programs which responded to internal and external regulatory agency’s audits regarding project management processes and technology risks for the group. Harry identified and analyzed GWIM business drivers, including analyzing industry, technology and market trends to determine their potential business, client and customer impacts.

• Vice President at Credit Suisse

  May 2006 - June 2010 | New York, NY

  Harry designed and implemented strategic programs aligned with Prime Services group, serving as the central global coordinator for large scale mission critical projects that resulted in substantial cost savings while improving and modernizing technology infrastructure to better serve customer needs. Harry was selected as PMO for the operations group, responsible for managing and reporting for an $88M project budget and ensuring projects met the strategic operational needs of the business. Harry established a new state-of-the-art prime services financing product that provided Credit Suisse with a competitive advantage within the global marketplace, successfully replacing several costly and deficient legacy financing products. Harry led the program to develop and enhance key architecture component, Cash and Security Aggregator (CASA), which provided real time client stock positions and cash balances for Prime Services clients; Positioned component to serve as the foundation for new products within Prime Services. Harry was recognized for strong leadership and effective interdepartmental communication, consistently meeting or exceeding all project timelines and budgetary goals.

• Vice President at JPMorgan Chase

  January 2004 - May 2006 | New York, NY

  Harry led a team of 6 project managers to create and deploy mission critical banking solutions, including designing an information architecture plan consistent with retail and middle market financial services (RMMFS) and regional banking group (RGB) strategies. Harry defined and published best strategies for development, identifying optimal tools to access and utilize information and collaborated with internal and client teams to implemented an SBFS data warehouse that quickly measured system performance and monitored customer behaviors, incorporating customer targeting criteria for marketing leads. Harry led a complete business intelligence portal project that leveraged Business Objects and enabled corporate managers to readily monitor key performance indicators. Harry successfully integrated JPMorgan Chase’s business functionality with Bank One’s underlying core technology post-merger by integrated SBFS’s business rules, measures, and indicators with Bank One’s data warehouse within a tight 5 month timeline after merger, enabling the business to easily track, profile, and measure performance of newly combined organization. Harry exhibited excellent change management capabilities while establishing new business rules to guide SBFS clients through transition, directly engaging clients in training and continued support to ensure adoption.

• Manager at Adjoined Consulting

  March 2003 - January 2004 | Jersey City, NJ

  Manager within the Business Intelligence group. Primary client was JPMorgan Chase before hired directly.

• Associate at Goldman Sachs

  August 1999 - October 2002 | New York, NY

  Harry provided hands-on project management defining business process, application, and technology requirements for multiple applications across all business units. Harry leveraged communication and negotiation skills to act as a liaison build alignment between business and technology team members. Harry led a complex initiative to generate a web-based document publishing system that enabled individual business line bankers to publish best practice information online, achieving an increase in knowledge sharing throughout the division and a reduction in time required to find and contribute content. Harry spearheaded development and enhancement of a secure communication portal, reducing cycle time for M&A deals by allowing parties to collaborate on documents safely online while adhering to strict legal privacy requirements. Harry played a key role in the technology strategy team specializing in framework architecture, focusing on the development of tools for knowledge management, workflow, document & content management, search, and web-based collaboration.

• Sr. Consultant at Accenture

  July 1994 - July 1999 | Northbrook, IL

  Harry delivered exceptional results to clients, working closely with them to design and implement new technologies and trained line consultants on technology architecture and system best practices to improve client project outcomes and solutions. Harry leveraged expertise to design and perform technology audits to ensure clients took advantage of best methodologies and tools to meet business objectives. Harry was chosen to represent the company in a consulting capacity with the following key clients: Marsh & McLennan Companies (Senior Systems Architect), Astra Merck (Architecture Team Lead) & Excel Communications (Architecture Team Lead). Harry managed team of 10 architects that designed a comprehensive website to provide external insurance carriers access to the internal systems of insurance brokers and collaborate on risk quotes for Marsh’s clients, resulting in system significantly shortened risk quotation times and allowed Marsh to better track relationships with their insurance partners. Harry managed a team of 5 architects through the total life cycle of a project for Astra Merck that supported the FDA New Drug Application (NDA) process, drastically reducing document submission times to maximize corporate ROI.

Harry Barnes's Education:

• Drexel University

  1989 – 1994
  Bachelor of Science

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