Walnut Creek, CA 94597

Cell Phone: 925-216-6380

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/scottsaftler/
Email: ssaftler@sbcglobal.net
SCOTT SAFTLER
TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS HYBRID
Applications Development Professional who strives to also understand the Business side of the
applications. Expertise turning data into information for finance, sales and clients. Equally comfortable
discussing bits and bytes with development teams, financial reporting techniques with the accounting
teams or pricing and analysis concepts and goals of the business teams.

EXPERTISE
Technical:
o VM/CMS Operating System
o Windows, XP through 8.1
o 4GL Software NOMAD
o REXX
o Inter-platform data transfers
o Microsoft Office Access, Excel, Word, Macros and VBA
o MVS/TSO
o HTML and CSS
Business:
o Automated Accounting Systems
o Financial Reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bank of America, Concord, CA 2002-2014
Software Consultant
Provided technical support for mainframe-based billing analysis and financial reporting system, providing
data to Finance, Billing and Sales teams as well as statements for services to external customers.
Developed database driven procedure for data loading into MIS system. Cut development and
testing time for new data input files by roughly 70-80%.
Modified billing application to calculate differentiated pricing on wires based on destination
country of wire, rather than type of wire. Increased revenue to bank of roughly $250K per month.
Built automated interface from billing system to account system of record. Cut lead time on
collection of monthly billing charges by approximately 5-10 days. Revenue increase due to earlier
fee collection estimated at $100K per month, as well as reducing data entry errors for fee
collections by more than 90%.
Built Excel-based spreadsheets to allow field Sales teams to generate special pricing profiles for
billing customers. Automated sending of final pricing as well as nightly handling of incoming price
profiles, resulting in savings for billing staff, cutting errors by 90% while extending price change
window by minimum of 1 business day.
Wrote and maintained database-driven system for distributing production as well as ad hoc
reporting to business partners using MS Outlook. Flexibility of system allowed us to cut response
time to requests for one-off or production reports by 60-70%.
Built an application installation and versioning system for VM/CMS applications. Filled an audit gap
found due to lack of structured and auditable system available on platform.

BSL Associates, Norwalk, CT & Walnut Creek, CA 1986-2002
Software Consultant and Office Manager
BSL Associates was a US-based division of BSL International, supplier of contract programming on Banking,
Petroleum and Government sectors.
Set up US operations initially in greater New York area, establishing accounting and HR systems,
integrating accounting with UK-based home office. Moved operations to San Francisco area in 1989,
with requisite changes in accounting and HR systems due to differences in state laws.
Found contract work and, where needed, staff to fulfill contracts, expanding operations to 5 US-
based contract programmers.
Personal Contracts:
o Modified and tested mortgage tracking and reporting system for NY State Agency to
correctly perform in 2000 and beyond, to fulfill audit requirements.
o Wrote new billing analysis system for international banking client, designed to bill offshore
financial institutional clients for cash management services. Initial revenue increase in
excess of $5 Million annually.

Dun & Bradstreet Computing Services, Cambridge, MA & Wilton, CT 1978-1986
Technical Sales and Product Support
Company was developer and supplier of 4GL database software running under VM/CMS and MVS/TSO
operating systems.
Worked with local sales team to bring in new clients for mainframe time-sharing systems.
Worked with existing clients to utilize available systems software, either through classroom training
or one-on-one meetings.
Headed initial testing of major new release of 4GL software.
Acted as liaison between field technical staff and product developers for problem resolution and
enhancement requests.
Helped to develop classes on advanced topics related to 4GL software and its usage.

EDUCATION
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 1973-1977
B.S. in Computer Science
Degree program stressed project and assimilation of basic course principles to real-world situations.
Worked with team of 4 students at mini-computer manufacturer to certify new version of BASIC
compiler, reporting results to company management.
Taught basic computer usage to math students at local high school.

LEADERSHIP
Chapter President of Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, 1976-1977
President of Homeowners Association, 1999-2003
Organizing committee for Walnut Creek (CA) Art & Wine Festival, 2002-present.
Board of Directors, Contra Costa County (CA) Historical Society, 2010-present.