Jim Russo

Current

Application & Enterprise Architect at Daimler Financial Services
Adjunct Professor at Madonna University

Past

Manager - Server Technical Support at DaimlerChrysler
Team Leader – Windows NT at DaimlerChrysler
Systems Integrator at DaimlerChrysler

Systems Analyst at DaimlerChrysler
Systems Analyst at Computer Task Group
Systems Engineer at EDS
Computer Programmer at Higgins & Associates
Seminarian at Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Advanced Theological Studies, Jerusalem

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Education

University of Michigan
Saint John's Seminary
Sacred Heart Seminary

Michigan State University

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Industry

Financial Services

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Jim Russo’s Summary

If you review my job experiences you will see that I have a vast background in all facets of data processing.

Jim Russo’s Specialties:

As a developer, I have experience in most facets of data processing, from mainframe programming to web development to unix scripting to hardware support to name just a few.

More recently, I have been involved in Enterprise Architecture activities concentrating on Web Services and moving in a direction towards SOA.

Jim Russo’s Experience

Application & Enterprise Architect

Daimler Financial Services

(Public Company; Automotive industry)

January 2006 — Present (4 years )

The Enterprise Application Design (EAD) Team has been mandated to govern and execute application architecture design activities within Daimler Financial Services (DFS) in alignment with its ITM governance and Project Management Office (PMO) practices.
Adjunct Professor

Madonna University

(Higher Education industry)

September 1998 — Present (11 years 4 months)

Teach a variety of Computer Information Systems classes from introductory to graduate level. Please review http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=221254 for recommendations.
Manager - Server Technical Support

DaimlerChrysler

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; dcx; Automotive industry)

January 2002 — December 2005 (4 years )

•Manage a team of Systems Administrators who are responsible for the 24x7x365 support of all production and development Microsoft, AIX, Solaris and Linux servers for DaimlerChrysler for the NAFTA region.
•Also responsible for setting the hardware and technical operating system direction for DaimlerChrysler for all server hardware and operating systems in the DaimlerChrysler NAFTA region.
•Interface with both hardware and software contacts from companies such as Microsoft, Intel, HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems, EMC, Veritas, SuSE, Red Hat and many others.
Team Leader – Windows NT

DaimlerChrysler

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DCX; Automotive industry)

January 1999 — December 2001 (3 years )

•Team Leader for a team of Systems Administrators who are responsible for the 24x7x365 support of all production and development Microsoft servers for DaimlerChrysler in the NAFTA region.
•Also responsible for setting the hardware and operating system direction for all Intel based servers in the DaimlerChrysler NAFTA region.
•Interface with both hardware and software contacts from companies such as Microsoft, Intel, HP, IBM and many others.
Systems Integrator

DaimlerChrysler

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DCX; Automotive industry)

January 1997 — December 1999 (3 years )

•Define technical architectures for projects based upon business and technical requirements. Advise applications groups of standards and processes needed to follow to make their projects a success.
Systems Analyst

DaimlerChrysler

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DCX; Automotive industry)

January 1988 — December 1997 (10 years )

•Programmer/Analyst using COBOL II, IMS DB/DC, MS Access, Visual Basic, Sybase, Unix, Javascript, LiveWire, HTML. Technical architect of the team that designed developed and supported a Mainframe, Client Server and Web based Owner Relations system at Chrysler which, in 1997, was voted “Top 20 Client Server Systems in Business Today” by Computer World / Client Server Journal.
Systems Analyst

Computer Task Group

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

January 1987 — December 1988 (2 years )

•Systems Analyst on a COBOL IMS Vehicle Owner Database at Ford Motor Company. Programmer on a large PL/1 IMS Order Release System at Eastman Kodak.
Systems Engineer

EDS

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

January 1985 — December 1987 (3 years )

•PL/1 IMS programmer for Automobile Routing, Damage Liability, Dealer Name and Address systems at General Motors.
Computer Programmer

Higgins & Associates

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1984 — December 1985 (2 years )

•COBOL programmer for a Medical Insurance Analysis, Census Inquiry System.
Seminarian

Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Advanced Theological Studies, Jerusalem

(Program Development industry)

February 1980 — June 1980 (5 months)

Studied and traveled in Israel for 4 months, prior to studying at the North American College in Rome, Italy.

Jim Russo’s Education

University of Michigan

Post Graduate Studies in Computer Science (GPA 4.0 / 4.0) 1982 — 1984
Saint John's Seminary

MA , Theology (GPA 3.95 / 4.0) , 1979 — 1981

Graduated with honors. In addition to studying at Saint John's Seminary, I also studied at the North American College in Rome, Italy, and at Tantur Institute for Advanced Theological Studies in Jerusalem, Israel. While at St. John's I had the opportunity to meet both Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa.

Activities and Societies:

Spent a summer at Most Holy Trinity Parish in Detroit, Michigan, ministering to people living on the streets.
Sacred Heart Seminary

BA , Philosphy, History and English (GPA 3.9 / 4.0) , 1976 — 1979

Graduated with honors.

Activities and Societies:

President of the College Ministry program.
President of the Ecumenical Outreach organization.
Michigan State University

Computer Science (GPA 4.0 / 4.0) 1975 — 1976