Matthew Barnes

Collaborated with end-users through meetings, emails, and phone calls to assess and prioritize business needs.

• Reviewing User Stories to accurately capture requirements, significantly reworking and refining existing designs to accommodate newly identified needs, preventing unnecessary recoding and testing.
• Delivering proof-of-concept demonstrations to validate designs, ensuring alignment with end-user needs and preventing unnecessary rework, thereby optimizing time and cost efficiencies.
• Tracked time diligently and reported progress consistently, instilling confidence in project status and addressing estimate concerns proactively.

Designed, developed, and deployed new systems and updates, significantly enhancing Mutual Fund record-keeping and reporting capabilities.

• Collaborated with multiple stakeholders to align system processes with new IRS regulations for Mutual Fund record-keeping, ensuring all updates adhered to IRS guidance and were implemented within specified timelines.
• Automated end-of-day reporting, significantly reducing workload for support teams, enabling them to prioritize other tasks and eliminating potential human errors.
• Designed and implemented a system to provide new visibility for back-office users by providing real-time transactional information, enabling informed planning and responsive actions.

Supported project initiatives by directing and coordinating the efforts of team members.

• In the sudden absence of a team lead, coordinated and managed multiple team members' work schedules and vacation times to ensure timely completion of system enhancements and milestones, while maintaining thorough testing and quality assurance.
• Coordinated offshore team efforts to achieve aggressive milestones, including reviewing code and testing, providing guidance on project challenges, optimizing tool utilization, and promoting effective work habits to keep a regulatory project on schedule.