SUMMARY:

Results oriented Project Manager/Business Analyst with the experience in managing multiple concurrent projects in the Banking Industry, utilizing waterfall or agile project management methodologies with cross - functional and geographically-diverse stakeholder groups.

EMPLOYMENT:

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiyear Illiquid & Concentration Risk Project for Global Market & Liquidity Risk Management Department (MLRM).
• Prioritized requirements, identified and mitigated project risk, and aligned resources to keep the project on-time and on-budget.
• Facilitated biweekly meetings with IT and the Change project managers, tracked the progress against initiative milestones on the Market Risk Book of Work (BoW), prepared biweekly status reports for the Central PMO office.
• Led the implementation of Volcker Limits framework with multiple project releases, and partnering with cross-functional teams in India, Poland and England. Conducted product demonstrations to business stakeholders and obtained business sign offs for delivered releases.
• Managed large scale UATs for Market Risk Dashboard, UI Workflows and Financial Reporting projects, defined; UAT scope, UAT schedule, developed test scenarios, prepared materials and led UAT sessions. UAT defect management, prioritization, and resolution.
• Collaborated with Global Market Risk teams, IT, Business Analysts, and QA staff to ensure that requirements are clearly understood at every stage of the project.
• Planned and managed Reorganization projects for Market Risk Department encompassing resource requirements, dependencies, timelines, milestones and success criteria as necessary to deliver on promised business value.
• Led BRD review sessions, obtained sign-offs from business users, maintained SharePoint site with project documentation.
• Worked on the initiation of CCAR 9 Quarter Projection project, partnered with key IT and business stakeholders to estimate IT and business budget and to develop project schedule.

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Identified, resolved and if necessary escalated critical project issues throughout the project life cycle, provided senior management status reports, maintained/updated project artifacts as required and worked on obtaining sign offs on project deliverables.
• Developed BRDs for various software and Market Risk reporting development projects including Volcker Rule Metrics reporting implementation, Front Office OTC derivative trading application enhancements.
• Worked on the in house Securities Master Solution that captures end-of-day market rates data for Fixed Income, Interest Rate Swaps and FX instruments.
• Created Data Flow Diagrams, Swimlane Flowcharts for the SOX audit team for Market Risks Reporting systems and Derivatives, Bonds and MBS Rates Capture systems.
• Created and executed UAT test cases. UAT defects identification and resolution.
• Played a key role in eliciting, documenting and translating business requirements to functional specifications in the database integration (DBI) project where OTC IR derivative trades were novated to the new risk analytics platform at another branch.
• Worked in conjunction with the Business Continuity team, managed the ongoing development, maintenance, and enhancement of disaster recovery-related activities, which include an annual planning workshop, quarterly management briefings, disaster recovery awareness and sessions, updating IT recovery/failover plan content, and supporting periodic tests of the availability capacity.
• Requirements reviews sessions to ensure accuracy, clarity and completeness of requirements by engaging Front Office and Middle Office Subject Matter Experts and Developers.
• Worked on internal and external audit inquiries; delivered ad hoc data requests, created presentation materials, provided explanations on proprietary trading platform functions.

Risk Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Monitored desk level VaR and PNL and limits, produced daily, weekly, and monthly reports for Front Office and Middle Office.
• Daily PNL reconciliation between off-balance sheet system and middle office risk system.
• Supported Middle Office OTC, Fixed Income and rates capture applications, raised change requests to development teams, participated in UATs.
• Utilized VBA in MS Excel and Access to create new PnL and Risk Metrics reports, used SQL queries for ad hoc inquiries to supply Fixed Income and OTC Derivatives trading data to Front Office, Middle Office and Internal Auditors.

Web Designer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating the look and feel of Confidential pages for a company’s website via HTML, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Front Page.
• Improved existing user-interface design, implemented on page optimization and scalability.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, NY, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of rollout project in which 5 field technicians upgraded 600 Windows 98 computers to Windows NT4.0 workstations.
• Responsible for Level 2 and 3 tier technical support on Windows and Novel NetWare network on the main campus and for remote locations with over 20,000 network devices.
• Managed user accounts, groups, print queues and controlling access rights using Microsoft Active Directory.

Desktop Analyst

Confidential, Mamaroneck, NY

Responsibilities:

• Installed and imaged Windows NT Operating System, replaced Hard Drives, SCSI controllers, RAM, motherboards and network cards, installed network printers.