Matthew Dean
Hollis
Summary
Adaptive analyst and technology professional with extensive experience in project planning, API development, and systems analysis. Recognized for leadership in the modernization of a digital account opening application and workflow. Adept at requirements gathering and fostering collaboration across teams, driving innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency. Strong communicator with a focus on impactful results.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Systems Analyst
Fidelity Investments - IWMS
01.2024 - Current
- Led the analysis and defined the requirements for a new, modernized API suite to orchestrate a streamlined and entirely digital account opening process for clients.
- Documented and led design sessions across teams in a highly integrated flow with a focus on optimizing system design.
- Conducted API analysis of modern and legacy APIs to understand gaps and ensured all business and systems requirements were met.
- Used deep knowledge of the current business process and applications to provide insight for architectural decisions needed for sleek, scalable solutions.
- Maintained a backlog of personally authored epics, user stories, and test cases to drive the scrum team to meet project deliverables in timely and efficient manner.
- Led development, deployment, and validation of three APIs in a year to meet critical release timelines.
- Led a Guild for all systems analysts in the Fidelity IWMS business unit to share, refine, and expand their skills as an analyst.
Senior Systems Analyst
Fidelity Investments - IWMS
07.2019 - 01.2024
- Supported the rollout and continued expansion of a digital account opening experience for custody clients.
- Worked in a highly-collaborative environment working on the "framework" of the application, integrating with all parts of the workflow.
- Led software development lifecycle from requirement analysis, to story writing and refinement, to test planning, test case development and test execution.
- Balanced multiple initiatives by completing and updating documentation, managing scope and adjusting schedules.
- Maintained strong communication with dependent teams to consistently execute releases that depended on 10+ squads meeting the same timelines.
- Led the product area effort to document the existing flow from end to end, detailing the intricacies for each system involved in the account opening process.
- Introduced the "framework" for standalone maintenance capabilities within the application.
Systems Analyst
Fidelity Investments - Asset Management
01.2015 - 07.2019
- Supported the Fixed Income Trading floor, creating and maintaining internal applications to allow for monitoring, trading, and research related to fixed income assets
- Worked with traders on the floor to understand the current applications and documenting requirements for potential improvements.
- Gathered requirements, wrote epics and stories, and led refinements with teams across shores to ensure a successful development life cycle and on-time delivery.
- Modernized the databases and eventing systems that provided real-time trading and market information to the users.
- Provided production on-call, in person support on a regular basis.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics, Economics
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY05-2024
Skills
- Software development lifecycle
- Systems analysis
- API development
- Requirements gathering
- Data modeling
- Scrum framework
- Communication
- Project planning and coordination
- Microsoft desktop applications
- Technical documentation
- Application support
Timeline
Principal Systems Analyst
Fidelity Investments - IWMS
01.2024 - Current
Senior Systems Analyst
Fidelity Investments - IWMS
07.2019 - 01.2024
Systems Analyst
Fidelity Investments - Asset Management
01.2015 - 07.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics, Economics
Hamilton College