SUMMARY:

• Accomplished PMP Certified IT Project Manager wif working experience in Banking/Financial Services and Consumer Services domain.
• Proven track record of delivering information services to meet critical business needs, improving team performance and efficient to complete projects.
• Strong analytical, problem - solving and synthesizing skills..
• Effective communication and leadership skills, dealing wif stakeholders at all levels in business and IT.
• Technically skilled and comfortable coordinating teh activities and deliverables from various areas of an organization or PMO.
• Highly knowledgeable in application development/Enhancement, Cloud Computing, Big Data Architecture/Analytics, database management, operating systems.
• Experienced in teh use of Project Management tools and methodologies (Project Plans, work breakdown structures, testing artifacts, go-live planning, etc.)
• Agile / Scrum and Waterfall system development lifecycle (SDLC) experience working wif local and offshore teams.
• Project Management, Business Analysis, Application development lead, Architecture, Strategic Planning, Contract Negotiations, Delivery Management, Vendor Relations, Test Management, Application Maintenance & Product Support, Disaster Recovery.
• Experienced and knowledgeable in various functional domains including Asset & Wealth Management, Fixed Income and Prime Brokerage, Hedge Funds, SOX, CCAR, DOD-Frank, Basel III, Regulatory Reporting, software integration, Business Process re-engineering, Resource Planning & Team Building.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Visio, Clarity

Cloud Computing: AWS Stack(EC2, S3, ElasticBeanstalk, RDS), Docker & Kubernetes

Big Data: Hadoop/ HDFS, MapReduce, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Pig, Zookeeper, MongoDB

DevOps: Jira, Confluence, CI/CD

Languages: Java, J2EE, Python, Spring, Hibernate, XML, Angular JS, HTML, JavaScript, SQL

Databases: DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, MongoDB, NoSQL, HBase, Cassandra

Middleware: WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss

Business Intelligence: Tableau, QlikView

Methodology: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Project Manager | Scrum Master

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Lead high priority, software development and integration for Confidential ACSS project using SCRUM/Agile approach.
• Managed teh entire Project Management Life Cycle for teh development and integration effort.
• Creating and maintaining Project Roadmap, project plan and detailed task lists.
• Facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings.
• Review and Maintain Product Backlog items in consultation wif product owner.
• Communication to Senior IT Leadership on status of teh project/work streams dat are currently in flight.
• Lead and facilitate meetings wif project stakeholders from all levels.
• Monitoring project progress and identify, track and resolve project risks/issues.
• Preparing project status reporting (Monthly RAG Reports, Bi-Weekly Stakeholder Reports) for stakeholders.

Technical Project Manager|Scrum Master

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Created and Managed project proposal, project plan, development, implementation and post-implementation support.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-ups, Sprint reviews, retrospectives and demos wif team and stakeholders.
• Assisted wif backlog creation, grooming. Identify and remove impediments to prevent distractions in teh Software Development Life Cycle.
• Maintain and publish Agile KPI metrics (e.g. velocity and burn-down)
• Collaborate closely wif teh Stakeholders to facilitate release management across teams.
• Ensure project documentation are maintained, and communications are timely and effectively distributed.
• Provided guidance and mentorship in transforming teh Team to following Agile methodologies from traditional waterfall methods.
• Participated in Data analysis, data remediation, QA/UAT defect triaging and application trouble shooting.
• Estimating effort required for teh projects and creating project plans and timelines, allocating resources.
• Monitored progress and maintained issues list, risk mitigation plans.
• Provided regular status reports to inform all project stakeholders of milestones reached and any issues encountered.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• CRM: Worked on enhancements and process re-engineering of work flow for teh Customer Relationship Management application. Achieved faster data retrieval times by 20 percent.
• Data Warehouse (Hadoop/HDFS):Implemented big data warehouse platform using Hadoop and HDFS. Data gets ported to Mongodb for further analysis for client products and transactions.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed software system development and integration projects for mission critical banking applications through all phases of project life cycle - analysis, design, development, testing and implementation.
• Implemented and Facilitated teh Scrum process (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews & retrospectives)
• Identified and removed impediments to deliver teh product/platform goals and deliverables.
• Participated along wif Product Owner to implement and execute disciplined product backlog including communication, estimation and impact to scrum team.
• Partnered wif key stakeholders to streamline business processes, identify improvement opportunities and resolve issues throughout project life cycle.
• Liaised globally wif Product Manager, Information Security, Implementation, Operations and Technology development teams in order to meet timely delivery of tasks and project milestones.
• Maintained Project checkpoints and Product acceptance wif Business upon completion of major Build/Releases.
• Conducted regular UAT review sessions wif teh key business stakeholders to monitor progress and maintain issues list.
• Implemented regulatory and compliance requirements such as AML, SOX, OFAC, FATCA in private banking applications.
• Successfully completed migration project for upgrading teh web application servers for teh private bank to IBM WebSphere 8.1. Regression tested more than 22+ application portfolio for performance and compatibility.
• Managed different phases of multiyear enterprise wide software upgrading project - Greenfield. Collaborated wif different global teams to successfully complete teh required changes for private bank applications.
• ProjectGreenfield will consolidate many legacy applications to common securities HBUS platform. Achieved substantial cost saving > 6 million for teh bank.
• Developed and Implemented data masking strategy for 25+ non production databases to comply wif regulatory and audit compliance requirements
• Developed and rolled out enterprise wide tools and utilities - CCR, DCR which generates audit logs for all teh sql run against private banking databases. These logs are monitored for any unauthorized activity.
• Provided guidance and mentorship to team of 12+ onshore and offshore developers. Held joint design and review sessions.
• Provided status reports, make presentations to senior mgmt, keep them informed about any issues/risks.
• Maintained list of project Risk/ Issues and collaborated wif key stakeholder for mitigating them.
• EFos: This is an Order Management and Trading system for teh private Banking clients. Front office users enter teh order for purchase or sale of securities through this application. Teh order is then routed to teh market maker ( Pershing ) and a return message wif confirmation is received once teh order is executed.
• Credit Risk Monitoring and Valuation:This application is used for monitoring and calculating Credit Risk for teh clients wif line of Credit. Application calculates available collateral and required collateral for teh clients wif credit Facilities. Client’s custody portfolio is evaluated based on credit baskets wif concentration and diversified ratios and clients under margin are calculated on a daily basis.
• Web2: Web2 is an internet banking application for Clients of International Private Bank and used by teh customers for self service. They can review daily balances, transactions and equity positions. OnDemand and monthly statements are also available. All required legal documents are also available for review and printing.
• Greenfield:This is flagship global project to consolidate core banking applications to a new HUB platform. This is a global Multiyear and multi-phase project which will consolidate many legacy application to teh new digital platform and saving a substantial amount in maintenance of many disparate legacy systems.
• Data Warehouse: Private Banking Data warehouse is built on DB2 which stores all customer financials data, transactions, current asset positions and customer details. their are daily custom feeds which update teh information and inserts new records. Many custom reports are generated by Actuate Reporting tool from teh data warehouse. This warehouse supports many other applications for their data needs.

IT Project Manager

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Developed functional specifications based on high level business requirements.
• Analyzed and prepared data requirements in consultation wif business stakeholders and other team members to meet application requirements. Conducted data Validation, Clean-up and Mapping for data migration needs
• Designed, maintained and built conceptual, logical and physical database models and data driven solutions for 38 private banking business applications.
• Created and maintained repositories for master data and data for CRM, KYC and Credit Risk data during migration to DB2 MDM platform.
• Provided ongoing third level support for data issues in Production for multiple private banking applications. Researching data issues and providing solutions for data validations and clean during data migrations.
• Designed and developed role based authentication and access for 30+ databases for private bank
• Analyzed data for generating daily custom reports for Credit Risk, Compliance, Net New Money Inflow for teh private banks multiple applications.
• Analyzed and Designed custom feeds for teh nightly loading of customer positions, transactions details into Private Banks Datawarehouse from teh multiple systems.

Software Engineer

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects from start to finish including project proposal, project plan, design, development, testing, implementation and post-implementation support.
• Meetings wif teh business users and document functionality gaps and maintain issue list
• Estimating effort required for teh projects and creating project plans and timelines.
• Analyzed existing batch processes and identified bottlenecks and suggested teh fixes saving 5 hour critical processing time
• Analyzed user requests for new/enhanced functionality and provided estimates.
• Regular status reports to inform all project stakeholders of milestones reached and any issues encountered.
• Responsible for generating systems documentation for production support and end user guidance.
• Successfully migrated all physical servers to VM wif cost savings of 4 million.
• End Client Reporting System (ECR): Developed and maintained a comprehensive system used by brokers for their daily tasks for client management and reporting wif functions for opening new accounts, daily activity analysis, current portfolio status, performance of teh client portfolio against standard market indicators. Teh application was developed in Java using JSP, Servlets and Java beans, HTML and JavaScript. Weblogic5.1 was teh application middleware and Sybase was used as teh backend database.
• Client Toolkit (CTK):This is a web application dat can be integrated into a correspondent firm's home page on teh Internet. Teh application provides real time account information such as Activity, Balances, and Positions for each client account. It also provides Stock Quotations, 1099 information, Financial Summaries, Research and Performance data. Teh application was developed in Java using a 3-tier architecture wif Weblogic as teh application middleware. Sybase was used as teh backend database. Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, HTML and JavaScript were extensively used.