Meryl Sonon

About Meryl Sonon

Highly respected Leader of Application Development and Program Management. Proven ability to build strong technology teams. Success in leading and delivering large, mission-critical projects that involve all aspects of Information Technology including application development, quality assurance, operations, hardware installation, networking, database conversion, information security and production support.Major accomplishments include- Ameritrade/TD Waterhouse merger: Built the PMO office and served as Program Director of the Technology Integration for the largest merger in the history of the on-line financial services industry. Under my leadership, we successfully completed the systems integration in 16 months and converted 3 million client accounts and billions of dollars in assets with zero down-time to the clients. This took over man-hours of work to complete and provided over $300 million in synergy savings to the combined corporation- Ameritrade/Datek merger: Accountable for front end systems integration which contributed to large portion of the $100+ million synergy savings- Improved Broker transaction times on Ameritrade’s web site by over 25% as measured by Keynote Systems, and increased web activity volumes from two million to over ten million transactions daily without a need for additional hardware while achieving 99.99% availability.Specialties: Application DevelopmentMetricsProblem ResolutionQuality AssuranceProcess EngineeringLarge Program ManagementStrategic PlanningOrganizational PlanningBudgetingSystem IntegrationTeam BuildingProduction SupportSDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)Coaching and Mentoring

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   NiCE

   Jan 2023 — Present · Sandy, UT, US

Education

• University of Maryland

  MBA, Finance

  1989 — 1992

• Virginia Tech

  BS, Computer Science

  1982 — 1986

Skills

• Teamwork
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• Security
• Project Planning
• Enterprise Architecture
• Budgeting
• Sql
• Visio
• Software Project Management
• Application Development
• Vendor Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Metrics
• Software Development
• Process Improvement
• Planning
• Process Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Databases
• Sdlc
• Team Leadership
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Integration
• Agile Methodologies
• Team Building
• Management
• Testing
• Pmo
• Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Budgets
• Requirements Analysis
• Strategic Planning