Juzer Bannister

Background

About Juzer Bannister

Proven leader with over 9 years of experience managing Global and Regional Digital projects utilizing Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Senior Software Engineer and Project Coordinator with over 10 years of experience on development, system integration, deployment and support of complex business business-critical applications Senior lead engineer responsible for development and deployment of numerous projects, including custom, enterprise applications. Production deployments to internal and external customers primarily in the US, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and Australia As Project Manager, designed and implemented transition plans and deployment for ITG’s Toronto office. Successfully met goals and requirements and completed client migration, including management and coordination for logistics and operations, technical specifications, site-preparation, testing, training, and end-user deployments, including Sybase servers, Enterprise server. Personally managed transition for several critical clients Conducted customer planning and requirements gathering processes, and prepared functional specifications for Mutual Fund accountants (Capital Research Management Company), after successful kick-off to convert their mainframe/Legacy accounting applications to real time, client/server systems. Concurrently, worked with accountants and successfully completed the new Change Management policies, which were implemented after the conversion process was completed As software engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc, responsible for converting Intel assembly language into functional C-language equivalence. Project included conversion for hundreds of 3rd party video cards. Successfully completed the project, enabling developers to compile code for use on key platforms, such as PowerPC, and by reducing resources needed to replicate additional proprietary 3rd party assembly code Specialties: Senior IT Project Manager with a strong software development background Extensive Financial Industry experience ranging from Mutual Fund Management, Institutional Brokerage, Credit Cards and Banking