Business Analyst / Project Manager Resume New York, NY - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Solutions driven Business Analyst with progressive experience providing project management, business analysis, application development and operations support.
Projects included large scale infrastructure, trading, transaction, compliance, security, E - commerce and web development deliverables impacting more than 500 users globally and involving budgets up to $5 million. Innovative and self-motivated team player with outstanding leadership, interpersonal, communication and technical skills.
Very strong functional and technical team liaison capabilities; managed and mentored cross functional staff and consultants.
Able to balance multiple projects concurrently. Experienced with Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies when supporting projects from initiation to close; PMP certified.

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Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst / Project Manager

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Drove the high-quality completion of critical projects from initiation to close for money market reform and electronic trading. Ensured defect free releases through careful analysis, planning, testing and QA efforts for 500+ global users.
Achieved seamless migration of applications to new data center platform that was transparent to business users, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime and delivered on time and on budget.
Provided oversight and management of annual SSAE 16 compliance audit remediation on key access controls. Led team in adhering to Software Security requirements ensuring software does not contain high severity security vulnerabilities.

Confidential

Business Analyst / Lead Developer

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Participated in the analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and operational support of mission critical portfolio management, trading and analytic applications used globally by the Fixed Income business. Directed task assignment, prioritization and resolved project scope and resource conflicts.
Tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and as per quality specifications. Led meetings with stakeholders and senior management reporting on progress, issues, potential risks and remediation. Mentored junior members and cross-trained members to better serve users and increase productivity.
Managed testing cycles, including test case creation and development of automated test scripts resulting in early bug detection and shorter testing cycles.
Conducted lessons learned to improve quality of deliverables, development process and relationship with stakeholders.
Utilized Share Point as centralized repository for business documents (business requirements, functional requirements, process flow charts, user guides) and technical specifications (implementation and deployment plans, release notes and production support FAQs). Utilized JIRA for sprint stories and releases.
Frequently Interacted with Front Office traders, Operations, Middle Office and vendors.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst / Lead Developer

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Led team in handling enhancements and bug fixes for global Fixed Income portfolio management application supporting 500+ users and managing $300B in AUM across 6 countries in 3 time zones. Improved the software release process by automating build and deployment processes which reduced errors and time needed for each global release. Replaced legacy platform with new technologies resulting in improved application performance, scalability and usability.
Led team in the analysis, development and enhancements of an analytics application which reduced risk and increased scalability over the existing process by automating the delivery of account positions, securities, transactions, prices and bond analytics to external vendor system on daily basis. Reduced annual database maintenance cost by migrating to Oracle.
Led team in the analysis and development of electronic trading platforms for corporate, emerging market and government bonds. The platforms resulted in higher trader efficiency, 10% fewer trader errors and 50% reduction in trade entry time.
Developed and tested new trading applications which provided faster MBS trade settlement and reconciliation of trade transactions with accounting systems.

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Engineer

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Monitored Web, Application and Database tiers during performance tests to identify performance bottlenecks. Gathered and analyzed server statistics using UNIX and Mercury LoadRunner. Championed changes in applications and infrastructure that led to improved application performance. Provided technical guidance to building better performing applications.
Automated the installation of WebSphere Application Server including HTTP plug-in configuration for UNIX and Windows.
Provided administration support for the shared load testing environment. Diagnosed and corrected environment problems involving the IIS Web, Oracle Database and File servers. Installed new software releases, upgrades and patches on servers

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Technology Officer

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Developed, tested and supported several cross-business Web applications.
Enhanced, tested and supported the Chase Latin American intranet site and the Investment Bank Portal application. The intranet Web site provided information about the business teams and ongoing project achievements in Latin America. The Portal application provided pre-trade research, analytics, post-trade confirmations and settlements for daily transactions.
Enhanced cross-business messaging application which routed trade executions and broker information from other bank businesses to the main bank settlement system on daily basis.