Chris Tulino

Current

Assistant Vice President at Radian

Past

Partner at Haiku Enterprises, LLC
Consulting Project Manager at Radian
Project Manager at AICPA

Business Analyst at Radian
Director at Answerthink
Principal Engineer at Naviant
Analyst at Andersen Consulting (Accenture)

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Education

Colorado State University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Rowan University

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Financial Services

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Chris Tulino’s Summary

Professional Project Manager (PMI Certified) with over nine years of experience managing teams, and projects across a variety of industries. Accustomed to mentoring other project managers and working effectively within Project Management Office (PMO) environments. Advanced business analysis skills and deep technical knowledge. Excellent organizational and communication skills.

Management Skills
- Excellent skills working with teams to plan single projects and with project managers to plan complex interdependent projects and programs
- Advanced knowledge of MS Project including techniques for plan development, tracking and reporting
- Use of critical chain project management techniques to manage time and resource buffers, minimize risk and maximize the benefit of task duration variance
- Use of business analysis techniques to elicit true requirements for projects, processes and technology components
- Use of quality assurance, quality control and automated testing techniques to ensure project quality
- Excellent soft skills to motivate and align team members and project stakeholders
- Ability to train and mentor other project managers

Technical Skills
- A rich technical background in current software development methods, tools and techniques
- Experience at every station within the software development life cycle from business analyst to project manager to tier 2 support
- Ability to review technical solutions and participate in the design and development of technical projects
- Excellent ability to speak to and understand technical tasks from system architecture to database design, to object design.

Chris Tulino’s Specialties:

Project Management, Program Management, Managing a PMO, Mentoring Project Managers, Building teams

Chris Tulino’s Experience

Assistant Vice President

Radian

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RDN; Insurance industry)

May 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

Assistant Vice President, Mortgage Risk Solutions, Information Technology Department
Partner

Haiku Enterprises, LLC

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 9 months)
Consulting Project Manager

Radian

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RDN; Insurance industry)

May 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 2 months)

- Managed projects for the Radian Information Technology Project Management Office (PMO)
- Managed multiple development and operational organizations to sucessfully deploy several major production system releases
- Participated in PMO Strategic Planning Sessions
- Provided input and direction to the development of an internal development life cycle methodology
Project Manager

AICPA

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

November 2002 — July 2004 (1 year 9 months)

- Provided Project Management Training and Mentoring to developing project managers within the AICPA's Exams Department
- Managed projects and action teams for the Exams PMO, including the production of two administrations of CPA Simulations, planning of four administrations of CPA Simulations, training and transition for production staff and management staff, development 12 month resourced project plans for an entire department and the development of quality and productivity enhancements.
- Provided project management and software development expertise to the AICPA for the development of the Computer Based Test (CBT) for the Uniform CPA Examination.
- Worked with the AICPA's development staff, operations, and psychometrics team, several vendors, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), and Thompson Prometric to coordinate and manage and a myriad of business and technical aspects.
Business Analyst

Radian

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RDN; Insurance industry)

June 2002 — November 2002 (6 months)

- Developed requirements for an enterprise system redesign as a member of a ten-person team of senior business analysts working with over sixty subject matter experts and users.
- Performed project planning, management and tracking for the business analysis team.
- Developed use cases, domain class diagrams, system process specifications, and other required design documents in order to shape and design the next generation of business applications to run Radian's business.
- Represented a team of business analysts at the project "Team of Peers" meetings in accordance with Microsoft's Solutions Framework, working with all levels of Radian management, both technical and operational.
Director

Answerthink

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ANSR; Computer Software industry)

February 1999 — April 2002 (3 years 3 months)

- Directed Software Development Projects for the Conshohocken Technoplex (Multi-million dollar, international, multi-site software development projects)
- Contributed to Project Management Training Courses (Project Planning and Project Tracking)
- Contributed to Cross-Practice Methodology
- Participated in project reviews for the Office of Risk Management
Principal Engineer

Naviant

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1996 — February 1999 (2 years 5 months)

- Project Manager, Data Analyst, Programmer, Business Analyst and Technical Mentor on several engagements for major clients
- Developed Proposals, Software and Business Analysis for FleetBoston Financial Corporation
- Collaborated with Marketing Executives to document the requirements for a large marketing data warehouse and supporting applications creating a competitive advantage.
- Developed Data Warehousing Methodology providing a common technique for building data warehouses and a mechanism for communicating that technique to clients.
Analyst

Andersen Consulting (Accenture)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1995 — October 1996 (1 year 5 months)

Programmer, System Test Leader
- Led 17-person System Test
- Developed field level database replication programs
- Developed PowerBuilder Contact Management System
- Maintained all back-end and database programs

Chris Tulino’s Education

Colorado State University

MBA , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
Stevens Institute of Technology

BE , Mechanical Engineering , May 1992 — May 1995

Activities and Societies:

Class President, Fencing, Ski Team
Rowan University

Engineering May 1990 — May 1992

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