International Finance
Emmett spent 12 years, 1982 to 1994, in international financial applications as a consultant
to I.T.T.'s Datacol Unit, and later, as a consultant and a Manager of International Financial
Systems for Sterling Drug. Repeatedly, he streamlined monthly closings from an average of
21 days to 1 day, with perfect accuracy and substantially reduced staff. He championed the
worldwide data collection effort and developed the standardized global collection of $2 billion
of financial consolidations, monthly operations, budgeting, payables, receivables, and tax
reporting. He took an active role in designing and programming. He managed several teams,
and oversaw the assignments, responsibilities and efforts of 10 computer professionals, 3
support clerks, and several contract consultants. He created, revised, justified, and tracked
the $1.6 million budget for headquarters support services. (SQL, Paradox PAL/Object PAL,
Oracle, Inquire, Delphi/Pascal, COBOL, C/C++, Visual Basic/Basic; Intel x86, IBM
VM/MVS/DOS/S36, Novell LAN, Datapoint ARC).
Banking
For 6 years, 1990 to 1996, Emmett designed, programmed, and maintained systems for
Citicorp's Corporate Asset Funding, Commercial Paper Issuance, and Equipment Finance and
Leasing divisions. He enabled the timely tracking and management of $17 billion in monthly
outstandings, costs, fees, liquidity margins, syndication volumes, GAP analysis, and rating
agency compliance. (SQL, Paradox PAL/Object PAL, Sybase, Delphi, C/C++; Intel x86, IBM
VM/MVS/DOS/S36, Novell LAN, HP UNIX).
Pharmaceuticals
From 1985 to 1994, as a Manager of International Financial Systems for Sterling Drug and as
a consultant to Winthrop Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, he designed and
programmed a raw material utilization system, product sales database, international product
transfer system, inter-company inventory and unit pricing system, as well as the work
described in the International Finance section above. (SQL, Paradox PAL/Object PAL, Oracle,
Inquire, Delphi/Pascal, COBOL, C/C++, Visual Basic/Basic; Intel x86, IBM VM/MVS/S36,
Novell LAN).
Manufacturing, Retailing, Research and Academia
From 1973 to 1981, he worked as a consultant for Exxon Research, The NY Times, DuPont,
Xerox, Warner Lambert and McCrory/Newberry Stores, and a staff programmer/analyst for
SUNY at Purchase. (Databus, COBOL, PL-I, Adabas, Fortran, APL; Datapoint 6600 ARC, IBM
370-OS/340-DOS)