Cystems

Danny Yu

Summary
Industry Verticals
Certification/Education
Employment
Clients
Projects
Skills
Publication

Summary:

Certified Project Management Professional
Seasoned technology professional with extensive expertise in the areas of business / systems analysis, design, development and implementation
Over 15 years of experience in IT project management and consulting.

Industry Verticals:

Banking
Financials
Telecommunications
Food and Beverage
Information Technology and Services
Music Copyright
Semiconductor
Energy
Education
Non-Profit organizations

Certification / Education:

Masters in Computer Engineering
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Certification, PMP
Certification, Internet Webmaster Professional
Certification, Java Programmer

Employment:

President, Cystems Inc. (Canada)
President / Project Manager, Cystems Inc. (Philippines)
Development Manager, Philip Semi-conductors Philippines
Project Leader, Shell Petroleum Philippines
Professor, De La Salle University Inc. (Philippines)

Clients:

Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
AT&T Canada
CIBC Mellon Trust Canada
Minshall Stewart Properties
Dick n' Jane
Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines
Coca-Cola Bottlers Thailand
Philip Semiconductors Philippines
Shell Petroleum Philippines
Glaxo Pharmaceuticals
Pacific Paradise
Manila Club

Projects

Internet Project: Designed the corporate website using Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Created the site's graphics and content.
Requirements Analysis to Software Development: Created business scenarios from interviews with used car dealership and freight forwarding domain experts. Created the functional specifications, technical design and developed the system using VB and SQL Server.
Requirements Analysis to Implementation: Technical project manager and business analyst for 3 mission-critical projects of SOCAN. Responsibilities include facilitating JAD sessions, making presentations to user management to gain approval and proceed to the design phase, making presentations to IT management to proceed to development phase. Coordinated integration testing, user acceptance testing, user and IT operations training, volume testing.
Systems Analysis to Software Development: Member of maintenance /development teams of SOCAN, AT&T and HOOPP. Tools used: ADABAS, Natural, Predict, Construct, Unix, shell programming.
Systems Analysis to Implementation: Technical team lead and systems analyst for the following projects: the US government's requirement to withhold taxes from US residents and non-residents; the financial industry's initiative to settle trades in 1 day and to automate the transfer of shares from one issue to another and to split issues. Responsible for project definition, creating and updating project plans and successful implementation of the project.
Systems Analysis: Systems analyst for the following projects: the financial industry's initiative to settle trades in 1 day and to automate the transfer of shares from one issue to another and to split issues.
System Integration: Integrated the Primary Interchange Carrier/Customer Account Record Exchange (PIC/CARE) systems of newly-acquired companies to AT&T's.
Unix Conversion: Member of conversion team of SOCAN mobilized to move ADABAS / Natural applications from the Alpha machine to UNIX.
Test Yield, Reject Rates: Project manager, requirements analyst, technical designer to the interface between Philip Semiconductor's product testing and quality control machines and the software that generates QA statistics
Oil Stock Management: Project manager, business analyst, technical designer, QA tester of Shell's inventory application for their oil depots. Trained customers on the use of the software.
Games: Designed the promotional computer game used by Glaxo to promote one of their products during one of the drug industry's trade fair.
Loans and Credit System, Funds Management, Cash Flow, Capital Expenditures: Project manager, business analyst and technical designer on the applications running on the corporate LAN.
Order Entry, Route Settlement, Sales Accounting, Finished Goods Inventory: Project Manager, business analyst and systems analyst to satellite systems built around Coca-Cola's BASIS system. Trained the customer on how to use the interfaces.
General Ledger System
Accounts Receivable System
Advertising & Promotions System
Club Membership

Skills

Project Management Experience

Create and maintain project plans
Prevent/minimize scope creep
Log, track and manage issues
Define escalation procedures
Allocate resources, report project status and staff performance
Hold checkpoint meetings
Create and maintain implementation plans
Manage software release.

Software Development Life Cycle Experience:

Project Initiation: Established need, scope and organizational structure
Feasibility Study: Cost/benefit analysis, technical and operational feasibility, conformance to IT/corporate objectives
Requirements Gathering/Analysis: Joint Application Design/Development (JAD) sessions, one-on-one interviews, data analysis, Entity Relationship Modeling, Data Flow Diagram, Activity Diagram, Requirements Document, presenting requirements/constraints to IT and user management
Functional Specifications: Entity Relationship Modeling, Data Flow Diagrams, data analysis, prototyping, controls, procedures, forms design, reports design, cross-functional interdependencies
Technical Design: screen design, database design, program specifications, package evaluation
Software Development: VB6, Java, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, HTML, Unix, Solaris, ADABAS, Natural, Construct, EntireX, Predict, MQ Series, SQL Server, MS Access, dBase, Clipper, PL/I, COBOL, RPG, PASCAL, FORTRAN, CICS, JCL, DCL
Testing: Test plans, integration testing, regression testing, coordinating and scheduling user acceptance testing
Training: Coordinated the training of warehouse, finance, payroll, operations, customer support and IT staff
Documentation: User procedures, user requirements, workflows, user manuals, technical manuals.
Deployment: Implementation plans, backup/recovery plans, release management

Business Skills

Developing long-term and short term IT strategic plan to support business operations
Understanding customers' needs, writing user requirements document, proposals, user procedures
In-depth understanding of customer's business processes, procedures and existing system.
Writing business requirements document and presenting to user and IT management for approval and sign-off
Use case development, business modeling
Conducting/coordinating user and IT training
Comfortable working with user and IT management.

Technical Skills:

VB6
Web Tools: Java, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, HTML, UML
OS: Unix, Solaris, SQL Server, OS/400, VM/CMS, MVS, VSE/SP, DOS/VSE,
Development Language - SQL, VB6, Natural, EntireX, Construct, Predict, PL/I, Cobol, RPG, Pascal, Fortran, CICS, JCL, DCL
Database: Adabas, SQL Server, Access
MQ Series
Corel Suite
Lotus Smartsuite

Publication

Decision Support System for Rural Electrification