Senior Project Manager at Great-West
Denver, CO 80111
United States

June 2009-Present

Project / Program Management, in a leading US Retirement Services Provider Employer: Great West Retirement Services. June 30, 2009 – Current Max is charged with guiding and controlling projects from inception through implementation. This work focuses on web/e-initiatives including the wholesale redesign of customer website and over 70 co-branded sites and special features, operational changes, enhancing functionality of current systems, and decision support. Due to previous experience, Max also assists in the establishment of Project Management Office processes and their effective integration across the larger Operations organization. Through this work Mr. Rutsch earned the “President’s Award” and was promoted while in this role. Responsibilities span the project lifecycle from business case creation, through development, testing, training, rollout and evaluation.

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Senior Project Manager at Charles Schwab
Englewood, CO 80111
United States

August 2008-January 2009

Project Management, Financial Systems and Web development in a top-tier US Brokerage Employer: Charles Schwab – Stock Plan Services – contract. August 11, 2008 – January 20, 2009 As a Sr. Project Manager, Max was charged with delivering projects which create or improve functionality of Web and online services, Plan Management systems, and Trading and Settlement systems including associated databases within a RUP framework. Responsibilities extended beyond management of development and test teams, to Business Analysis, requirements management, stakeholder, cross-function and cross-country team and vendor management, securing full legal compliance and approval for development, and risk analysis and mitigation.

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Manager at Grupo Santander
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
United Kingdom

April 2005-May 2008

Project / Delivery Management, Financial Systems Information Strategy within a major UK retail bank Employer: Grupo Santander, ISBAN UK – contracted to Abbey bank. April 20, 2005 – May 28, 2008 Responsible for Project Management of Business Intelligence, Data warehouse / mart, and management activities which saw Abbey’s entire Management Information life-cycle transformed, and the strategy and governance of data in Abbey’s source and core-banking systems completely revised. Project Management responsibilities of teams of 15+ resources creating strategy / implementing reporting and warehouse strategies and performing analysis that included SOX compliance. Max’s experience in Management, system integration and consultancy has proven essential in this work, managing efforts abroad and in the UK.

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Manager - Finance Operations at MCI (International) - now Verizon Business
Reading, Berkshire
United States

July 2002-April 2005

Financial System Management, Business Intelligence within a global Telecommunications Provider Employer: MCI (International) Ltd. – now Verizon Business. July 10, 2002 – April 15, 2005 In the Financial Operations group of MCI (Intl.), Max managed the financial reporting of MCI’s switched line costs, and the operation and development of a reconciliation and cost reporting system achieving cost savings / recoveries of $8M year on year (2003 - ’04 - ‘05). Promoted to this position, experience allowed Max to quickly introduce new processes improving both the precision and accuracy of figures produced by the team he managed, as well as quickly offering ad-hoc special focus information to support business units.

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Project Manager at Cendant Corporation
Centennial, CO
United States

August 2001-June 2002

Project Management, Web development within an American Internet Travel Provider Employer: Cendant Corporation – Trip.com / Cheaptickets.com. August 8, 2001 – June 24, 2002 In the PMO he co-created, Max managed multiple projects extending the Trip Network website and Strategic Partner / Co-branded websites functionality including use of Agile / Scrum methodologies. As lead Project Manager of an endeavor comprised of 4 distinct workgroups to 15 personnel, his work integrated 9 hotel and auto rental websites while advancing functionality of the host site. Other projects ranged from enhancements to site-wide transformations requiring control from the concept stage, through to releasing into production. Typically, Max managed development, testing, and other teams and oversaw Business Analysts. He additionally managed Trip Network’s defect remediation strategy and execution for a period to ensure site stability and revenue generation was not compromised.

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Project specialist at WorldCom International
London, London
United Kingdom

December 1999-May 2001

Project Management and System Implementation within a European Telco-Broadband Provider Employer: WorldCom International Ltd. December 9, 1999 - May 25, 2001 In the International Finance Operations division, Max managed the development and integration of a financial reporting system - $1M budget. As Project Specialist, Max was responsible for business case creation, requirements management, budget, design specification, planning, managing development and testing progress, system rollout and associated applications. As the primary business relationship owner, he also held responsibilities for production operation of the system.

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Consultant at IBM - International Business Machines
Dener, CO
United States

November 1996-July 1999

Management Consultancy – Telecommunications Industry Employer: IBM - International Business Machines. November 1996 - July 19, 1999 • Customer Care and Billing Implementation in a Canadian Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) 1999 • IT Organization Transformation of a Venezuelan Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) (1998) • Knowledge Management within IBM IT Consultancy organization (1998-1999) • Functional / business requirements Definition in a Venezuelan ILEC (1997) • Change Management for a System Implementation within an American IT Consultancy (1997) • Project Management office establishment / process development for an American Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) growing as a result of the Telecommunications act of 1996 (1997)

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