Scott Weinstein

Current

Sr. Consultant at Lab49

Past

Sr. Technical Specialist, VP at Citi
Sr. Technical Specialist, AVP at Citigroup
Owner at Applied Recognition Inc.

Consultant at CSFB
Progammer at Lazard Asset Management
Architect/Project Manager at Sapient

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Education

University at Albany
New York University

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Scott Weinstein’s Summary

11 years of IT experience.
6 years of .Net development

Scott Weinstein’s Specialties:

Speech recognition software to enable hands-free use.
.Net (C#, VB.Net, C++/CLI), WinForms, win32, Project Management, Dragon NaturallySpeaking trainer, GUI design, system architecture

Scott Weinstein’s Experience

Sr. Consultant

Lab49

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Sr. Technical Specialist, VP

Citi

(Public Company; C; Financial Services industry)

September 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 6 months)
Sr. Technical Specialist, AVP

Citigroup

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Banking industry)

January 2006 — August 2006 (8 months)

CitiDirect Java to .Net Conversion: Jan 2006 – Aug 2006
CitiDirect, a corporate banking system serving over 35K clients, 250K users in 90 countries and 22 languages was converted from Java to .Net (WinForms). Responsible for design and implementation of a continuous conversion system for the CitiDirect code base. Created a set of build tools and a build process with the goal of a fully automated and continuous conversion system.
• Created custom MSBuild tasks, targets, and loggers to support the build
o Reduce build from two day high effort task to 3 hour automated process
• Extended ClickOnce to track installation success rate and to pre-download upgrades
• To accommodate low bandwidth users, used static analysis to decompose an assembly into the maximal number of subassemblies without cyclic dependencies – allowing ClickOnce to only download the smallest amount of code possible
• Analyzed and proposed solutions for numerous java to .Net conversion issues
Owner

Applied Recognition Inc.

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — January 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Applied Recognition builds software to enhance the capabilities of existing desktop speech recognition platforms. Released first product, QuickSwitch Basic in Oct. 2005.
Consultant

CSFB

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

June 2004 — January 2005 (8 months)

Developer on Collateral Pricing System migration.
• Worked with business owners, IT managers, and developers to define the scope and requirements for the migration project
• Performance upgrade in pricing/statements system. Replaced the XML generation component for a 40x performance improvement
Progammer

Lazard Asset Management

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Investment Management industry)

October 2001 — February 2004 (2 years 5 months)

Team Lead of existing internal applications: Marketing and RFP Studios.
• Initiated a survey of the user population to understand where applications were not meeting business and user needs. Stabilized the application and implemented a number of new feature requests so that user opinion of the application went from “poor” to “excellent”
• Conducted an investigation into the application’s overseas performance problems – provided a comprehensive review of available technical architecture options to improve application speed
• Initiated move to Microsoft’s .NET technology. Designed a migration architecture and plan
• Created .NET types for Documentum, an ADO.NET provider for DQL (avoiding COM and Java interop), and an XSLT based code generator for persistent Documentum objects
• Designed and implemented a Windows form based application enabling the continual review of all presentation content. Features inherited controls, custom components, and MS Office integration.
Architect/Project Manager

Sapient

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

July 1996 — May 2001 (4 years 11 months)

In a variety of roles - Developer, Sr. Developer, Architect, and Project Manager, worked on fixed-price, fixed-time enterprise projects