Jack D. Vrins
Information Technology Executive
Senior IT Manager
Information Technology Projects
Pacific Gas & Electric

Mandated by Federal and State Regulators and in response to the energy crises of 2000, the $60 MM Market Re-design and Technology Upgrade (MRTU) initiative focuses on improving/upgrading the Business Processes and IT systems to assure delivery of power and to create a “stock-market” like trading system for energy. Most complex IT effort associated with bidding, scheduling, and settling energy procurement transactions.

  • Delivery Manager Back Office Settlement Systems
  • Directed the Design, Development, and Assembly Test phases of multiple in-house applications for Back Office Energy Procurement settlement Transactions.
  • Directed the Middleware and Infra-Structure/Technical Architecture teams in transitioning to a new Enterprise Middleware/SOA standard and a new Hardware/Applications Architecture
  • Directed and Controlled all project activities related to: planning, scheduling, risk/issue identification/mitigation, change cntrol, resource acquisition, resource leveling, budget control, project costing and forecasting.
  • Staff: 7 Direct reports, 53 - Matrixed reports. Budget: $10 MM
  • Technical: Legacy, Vendor Application, Middleware, Client Server, Hardware, Software

Wells Fargo Bank

Strategic E-Commerce initiative to link vertical business portals for the purpose of cross-selling financial products and services.

  • Sr. Project Manager, Portal Manager
  • Delivered a Single Sign-On authorization process of the Wholesale Banking portal (Commercial Electronic Office -CEO) with the Private Banking (Private Client Services) and Retail Banking (www.wellsfargo.com) portals.
  • Coordinated design, development, and implementation.
  • Directed 5 Project teams including requirements, web design and development, information security design and development, and testing.
  • Coordinated implementation with legal and compliance, marketing, sales and enrollment, and three customer support channels.
  • Staff: 3 Direct Reports - 42 Matrixed Reports. Budget $2.8 MM
  • Technical: E-commerce, Portal Management, Client Server, Security, LDAP, On Line Help

Barclays Global Investors - Web Project Manager

Significant Expansion of www.BGICash.com - BGI's Institutional Money Management website to include real time Customer Account Information and Customer Trade Information.

  • Web/E-Commerce Project Manager
  • Managed a cross functional project that designed, developed, tested, and deployed www.BGICash.com providing 200 Institutional/Government clients with on-line acces to $10 Billion of annual transactions
  • Project was a pilot for the company's first SDLC Best Practices, including QA and UAT procedures, to ensure the project quality met or exceeded Business Sponsor expectations.
  • Delivered e-commerce solution on time and within budget
  • Staff: 6 Direct Reports, 3 Matrixed Reports. Budget: $500K MM
  • Technical: Integration Legacy - Client Server through Gallego XML, conversion Legacy databases, complex Linkage Legacy based Customer database - to real time Customer Account Information

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