SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) with over 12 years of experience that includes Strategic Planning, Enterprise analysis, Risk management, Project/Program monitoring and control, Regulatory and Compliance management for medium to large - scale initiatives - evaluation, development, implementation and system integration programs valued up to $30 Million.
• Proficient in decision-making and determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments. Experienced in establishing PMO COE best practice, strategic direction, governance & management. Proficient in all phases of project management exhibiting tremendous grasp of SDLC with proven track record from system design through integration, test planning, and verification via requirements-based execution, quantitative risk management, and formal change management techniques.
• Hands-on expertise in creating and providing credible challenge for Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), High Level Design Specifications (HLD), Technical Requirements Specifications (TRS) and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM).
• Successfully led cross-functional teams, identified program capabilities, assess resources, and collaborated with personnel (high level executives, vendors) ensuring projects delivered on time and within budget. Led PMO initiatives related to quality, methodology, expertise and tools.
• Enterprise wide Implementations
• Enterprise Risk management
• Custom Software Development
• Database Design (RDBMS)
• Systems Engineering
• System Migrations/Integrations
• Regulatory and Compliance
• Value-Added Leadership:
• C level communication specialist
• Cross-Functional Supervision
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Client Relations & Presentations
• Business & IT Planning
• Procurement and Vendor Management
• Project Management Office
• Federal and State Regulations /Mandates
• Project Lifecycle (IT/General):
• Requirements Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• System Migrations/Integrations
• ROI Analysis
• Costing & Budgeting
• Project Scheduling
• Testing/QA/Rollout/Support
• Change control

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Skills: MS Project || Planview || ClearQuest || Visual Paradigm || Blueprint || MS Visio || UML || SharePointNavigator || Lotus Notes || Rapid Agile || Agile Bench || MS Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - New York, NY

Program Manager / Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that original project charters as submitted to regulators are driving project plans
• Leverage iCAPS, starting with 4Q15 deliverables
• Track all ex-antes across multiple work streams.
• Leverage firm's standards for reporting in order to provide measurable evidence of progress towards closure
• Develop Interim, audit-able milestones with ability to adjust timetables, based on evolving facts.
• Manage the Internal Audit reporting.

Confidential, Detroit MI

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the Product, Price and Quote (PPQ) Program sales and marketing effort to develop new products, ensure compliance with state and federal regulations, implementation of new Sales Automation Process, rating, quoting, renewal and enrollment to specific market segment.
• I managed a budget of $11.2M and cross-functional team of 18 business analysts, developers, programmers, network specialists and reported to 14 business stakeholders from various divisions.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Project Manager/Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Integrate data from the two newly acquired banks with Comerica banks database, with the goal to eventually migrate all the data into Comerica’s archives. It was DB2 database and COBOL, JCL were the programming languages in the environment. Monitoring and alerting suspicious activities such as money laundering (structuring, shell company/trusts monitoring and Real estate transactions).

Confidential, Detroit MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with developers and subject matter experts (Select group of agents) to establish a project’s technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Led the business analysts to elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements meetings, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis. Approved all subcontractor invoices and material purchases from vendors, maintaining 100% accuracy with contract files.

Confidential, Ann Arbor MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirements elicitation, analysis and verification sessions to ensure that requirements statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, and verifiable, and that they conform to business stakeholders’ standards.
• Conducted JADs with the Program and Practice Directors, Account Executive, Managing Director, Project Administrators, Technical Development Lead, and Quality Services Lead to analyze and document the requirements. Successfully completed roll-outs with zero exceptions noted; standardized disjointed desktop back-end, and stabilized infrastructure. Assisted the Practice Manager in overseeing application development and ensuring that technical development staff met business user needs and requirements and adhered to the agreed upon specifications