Eric Caster

Background

About Eric Caster

Accomplished Senior Project and Program Manager specializing in IT infrastructure and applications. Specializing in transforming vision into solutions by prioritizing business goals, developing strategies, creating plans, and delivering large complex cross functional IT projects on schedule, on budget with quality while cultivating stakeholder relationships. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Program managed Fidelity’s B2B Initiative to standardize data formats and communication protocols. Converted over one hundred and sixty applications throughout the enterprise.$5 million annually savings. Recognized by InternetWeek and Computerworld. • Functional manager of Fidelity’s first application to transfer data between distributed applications and mainframes. Processed 3 billion transactions annually by over fifty applications in six different business units. • Functional manager of Co-Op platform used by fifteen business units for fifty-seven functions to provide data to distributed applications. Grew volume from two to seven million transactions per month in one year. Managed primary Co-Op mission critical trading application. • Project manager to consolidate systems. Managed a dozen development projects to provide required functionality. Provided recommendations to prioritize development projects. Created new groups to manage. Specialties: Project Manager:* Applications development and upgrade projects * Infrastructure projects for deployments, consolidations, and standardization Program Manager:* Enterprise wide initiatives * Coordianation of events spanning cross-functional groups Functional Manager:* Applications * Infrastructure