Mark S. Brizendine 3135 Rocky Ridge Road Wildwood, MO 63038 Home: (636) 273-1197 Cell: (913) 481-2221 mb121ff76@westpost.

net SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS Software Development Director, expert in the design and delivery of large cost e ffective and high performing software solutions. Skilled in all phases of the p roduct life cycle from feasibility analysis and conceptual design through deploy ment and enhancement. Proven ability to collaborate with business teams, analyz e critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunit ies, and develop innovative and cost effective solutions. Strong record in buil ding and leading large global development teams and driven to deliver quality pr oducts with flawless execution. Key qualifications include: * * * * * * Large scale software development Technology Architecture / Integration Global Staff Management / Team Building Outsource transitions and organization Global Project Management and Process Improvement High-Volume Transaction Processing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Thomson Reuters / Instinet, Creve Coeur, MO 1993 - 2010 With over $13 billion in revenue, Thomson Reuters is the market leader in provid ing innovative financial solutions for market professionals. Technical Director, Head of Reuters Plus Development (2007 - Present) Led all development related activities for the entire Reuters Plus product line and set team direction in alignment with business needs. With over 77,000 insta lled clients, Reuters Plus was Reuters primary wealth management product offerin g in North America. Managed an annual budget of $3.8 million and reported to Vi ce President of Development, Real-Time Technology. * Built and managed an award winning culturally diverse global development team of 65 developer, QA and support personnel spread across four development centers located in St. Louis, New York, Bangkok and Bangalore. * Developed workflow process and departmental procedures to ensure seamless inte gration of Bangkok and Bangalore teams into global structure. * Transitioned server development function to Bangkok, Thailand, optimizing team performance and saving $500,000 per annum. The Bangkok team achieved a CMMI Le vel 5 maturity appraisal. * Partnered with the business teams and senior management in defining the direct ion of the product to ensure technical feasibility for new product initiatives. * Consistently delivered major projects on time and recognized by management mul tiple times for outstanding performance. * Built a strong service focused team that exceeded service targets by an averag e of 48% over the last three years. * Delivered overall savings of $1.7 million per annum by successfully migrating 77,000 clients to a new time-series data source with zero client interruptions. * Expanded transaction capacity by 110% with no additional capital expense and e xtended the life of Reuters Plus by initiating architecture changes.

Development Manager, Reuters Plus (2005 - 2007) Recruited by the Vice President of Reuters Plus Development to transition the de velopment of the Reuters Plus desktop, server and infrastructure support functio ns out of El Segundo, CA, due to the closure of the El Segundo development cente r. Led the transition and management of all three teams including collaborating with product management to set project direction, creation of project plans and aligning team objectives with corporate objectives. * Built strong development team that successfully transitioned server developmen t and infrastructure support functions to Kansas City and St. Louis. * Researched, selected, and effectively negotiated contracts with external off-s hore development firm to transition desktop development function to Bangalore, I ndia, while ensuring successful integration of on-shore and off-shore teams. Man aged relationship through life of contract. * Established standardized methods for all groups ensuring a tight integration o f the global team. * Successfully managed multiple software releases from requirements definition t o final QA sign-off increasing both product reliability and competitiveness. Development Manager, Client Data Services (1998 - 2004) Led a team of three developers implementing a data layer framework for Research & Analytics, a high-end market data and analytics platform for market profession als. Responsible for leading the team through all phases of the development pro cess and ensured the quality and integrity of both the R&A product and the data presented to the user. * Promoted to this role in recognition of management capabilities and contributi ons made. * Developed the data-layer framework for the Research & Analytic (R&A) product p roviding standardized API and ensuring product data integrity. * Migrated the R&A product to run in a Citrix MetaFrame environment for Internet delivery adding a new market to increase sales. * Designed and implemented an SQL database to store fundamental market data prov iding a normalized view of all data sources. * Designed and implemented distributed query architecture to retrieve fundamenta l data. * Member of the management team tasked with the migration of the R&A product and development staff from Instinet to Reuters. Helped to formulate the strategic planning on how best to integrate both the technology and the development staff. Team Lead (1997 - 1998) Led a team of three developers to design and implement a data server to provide all historical, fundamental and symbology data for the Research & Analytics prod uct. * Promoted to this role in recognition of technical and leadership skills. * Implemented quality control monitoring tools to ensure a high level of quality with the server. Senior Software Engineer (1993 - 1997) Tasked to design and implement a data server and middleware for financial produc t designed for institutional professionals. * Successfully designed and implemented a distributed cross reference database p roviding symbol conversion for 300,000 financial instruments. * Key member of a team tasked with converting to new, more cost effective and sc alable, high-speed quote feed. * Designed and implemented new quote processing process resulting in a 300% capa city improvement and greatly improving the quality of our data by ensuring quote s were not dropped, while also providing a more responsive application.

Sprint, Kansas City, MO 1990 -1993 Project Lead (1991 - 1993) Led a team of up to 18 full-time and contract software developers to design and implement a network management system. The primary function of this product was to provide Sprint's customers with the ability to create custom network routing plans for toll-free call traffic and to monitor the status of their routing net works. The product was developed on Sun Sparc workstations in C++ using the Rum baugh object oriented methodology. * Promoted by management in recognition of technical and leadership skills. * Responsibilities included developing project plans, tracking and reporting sta tus, system architecture, managing technical staff, writing performance evaluati ons, hiring and mentoring of staff. * Responsible for providing project status reports to senior Sprint management. Senior Software Engineer (1990 - 1991) * Designed and implemented an OSI level 5 compliant X.25 PSDN gateway for the cl ient application. * Designed and implemented a socket based inter-process communications library p roviding the communications foundation for product. * Key member of team tasked to create an object oriented development methodology that was adopted by Sprints' advanced technology group. Integrated Newspaper Systems International, Overland Park, KS 1989 - 1990 Senior Programmer / Analyst Member of a team developing a newspaper composition package. * Designed and implemented a satellite wire feed capture program with both AP an d UPI parsers. PARS Services (Worldspan), Kansas City, MO 1986 - 1989 Programmer/Analyst Development of travel agency back-office accounting system. Designed and impleme nted an interface with the PARS airline reservation system to process and databa se reservations through travel agency interface records. Responsibilities inclu ded all phases of the development process from initial design to deployment for a travel agency back office accounting system. Acute Care America, Huntington, WV 1985 - 1986 Data Processing Manager / Medical Billing Manager Acute Care America provided contract physician services to hospital emergency ro oms. Responsibilities included all data processing operations within the compan y including supervising a team of 7 employees, evaluation of current and future needs, development and management of yearly budgets, oversight of the medical bi lling department and the design and implantation of custom applications. * Developed and presented an in-depth analysis of the medical billing department systems with recommendation to bring all medical billing in-house saving the co mpany $2 million per annum. K & A Litho Process, Inc., Kansas City, MO 1983 - 1984 Database Programmer

TECHNOLOGIES C++ C# JAVA .NET SILVERLIGHT WPF ASP.NET HTML CSS DOM XML XSLT XPATH JAVASCRIPT JQUERY SQL TCP/IP CLOUD SAAS UNIX/LINIX

EDUCATION Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas BA Business, 2002 University Of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas Liberal Arts, Major: Computer Science