SUMMARY:

Project Management professional with over 12 years Project Management Office (PMO) experience in IT, Legal, Regulatory, Compliance, Procurement/Supply Chain Management and Human Resource for both financial and healthcare industry. Skilled at developing and implementing Web, Digital and Database technologies to improve processes and services. Expert in waterfall and agile methodologies. Successful in balancing cost and quality with project development and delivery timelines. Also, has administrative management skills with a focus on problem - solving, written and verbal communication skills, extensive decision making and customer focus.

SKILLS SUMMARY:

Project Management: consistently employ technological solutions to increase communication while using time efficiently to track progress and meet goals. Communicate and maintain standards for the IT program and project management PMO which strives to standardize framework Procurement/Supply Chain Management, Risk/Issue Management and escalation, Recruiting/, Quality Checkpoints, Costing/Budgeting, Asset Management/Wealth Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Infrastructure Implementations and Migrations.

System Analysis: carefully examine existing systems and operations to understand client needs and design effective plans to support new systems. e-learning, SharePoint administrator and process improvement

Technology: Knowledge of MSOffice (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Project, Visio, InfoPath, SharePoint), IT Ticketing Systems, HP ALM, PPM Optics/Clarity, CA Agile (Rally), QuickBooks, SAP (300/900), COMPASS, Ariba, Ivalua

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NEW JERSEY

BUSINESS PROCUREMENT LIAISON

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility includes working across business and procurement stakeholders while being responsible for the execution of the sourcing strategy associated within the assigned portfolio of the indirect spend category. Contribute to overall functional strategy and process improvements.
• Ensures business needs and key strategies are integrated into a category/commodity spend. Work with each site to plan business alignment events that assist in market strategy, supplier re-engagement, contract upgrades and productivity results. Educates suppliers and internal customers on various procurement process.
• Establish and lead Business Alignment Events (BAE) and Business Review meetings and coordinate with relevant disciplines to manage/improve performance metrics both internal and external.
• In conjunction w/ Category lead d evelop action plans to improve quality, cost, and service; provide direct project management as required as well as coordination of project execution with support functions, as well as, develop and implement centralized corporate contracts that provide opportunities to increase productivity, reduce costs and align internal/external customers.
• Serve as key point of contact for all operational aspects for external suppliers: coordinate relevant internal/external support functions.
• Plans proactively and runs effective performance meetings with the suppliers identifying areas of improvement for both Confidential and supplier.
• Develop the cadence for regular project reviews of procurement projects. Used methodology to extract and identify the high impact procurement projects in GEP for monthly review. Plan strategically to focus the organization on new opportunities for Zero Based Budgeting savings to enable Global Supply Chain to successfully meet targets.
• Build partnerships with internal stakeholders to gather and/or understand the requirements of their procurement needs
• Facilitate communication between business units, internal stakeholders, and suppliers

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities include managing various global Confidential and Mergers and Acquisitions, Onboarding, and related Human Resources projects within the EPMO (Enterprise Program Management Office), taking a lead role in planning, coordinating and facilitating projects from project initiation through completion. (CRM, ERP, SFDC, Websites) Worked with suppliers to ensure the development of relationships, RFPs, negotiations and e-auctions.
• Built strong relationships with program sponsors. Orchestrate and drive the successful & timely completion of programs to achieve the business goals, including the identification and resolution of risks and issues which impact program delivery.
• Carried out Risk Management and mitigation planning. Ensure consistency of deliverables and artifacts across all programs in portfolio. Managed capacity and program alignment cooperatively across the portfolio. Maintain weekly and monthly operating reports. Guarantee compliance with all application tools used for program and project management. In partnership with the Program Management Office (PMO) managers, make certain that the collective activities of PMO support the goal of reaching Confidential ’s targets

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS PROJECT MANAGER (CONSULTANT)

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities include managing various global Mergers and Acquisitions, Onboarding, and related Human Resources projects within the EPMO (Enterprise Program Management Office), taking a lead role in planning, coordinating and facilitating projects from project initiation through completion.
• Managed supplier relationships including program timeline, including meetings, schedules, milestones and delivery.
• Manages medium/large project or larger programs consisting of multiple active projects from project definition through program governance, monitoring and close out. This includes identifying and aligning resources on integration points.
• Facilitate integration meetings to drive resolution to program issues and risks. Demonstrated Job Competencies
• Coordinate due diligence activities with internal teams, assist with the coordination of closing deliverables, engage in the integration process by coordinating functional teams and ensure that the business plan is properly implemented.
• Timely, transparently and accurately plan, track and report on all changes associated to schedule, staffing, dependencies, budgets or issue for any project part of the program. Prepare material and presenting issues requiring decisions from governance entities or leadership including creating detailed project plans for acquisition integrations with clear identification of resources, dependencies, risks and milestones. Manage relationships with cross-functional project partners/service providers.

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER (CONSULTANT)

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility includes for managing multiple software development projects through the full SDLC from initiation through deployment.
• This includes facilitating document reviews, team meetings, collecting and consolidating cost estimates, schedules and sign offs of pertinent artifacts in accordance with defined processes, managing risks, issue management and escalation, changes and action and tracking and reporting progress to management, project stakeholders, internal customers and third-party vendors.
• Coordinates test planning, script reviews testing and defect resolution and deployment planning and support and ensures that the project adheres to all Enterprise and GWIM (Global Wealth Investment Management) Technology risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls.

Confidential, BASKING RIDGE, NJ

PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Maintained ownership of medium sized to multi-million dollars agile/waterfall, as well as, Mergers and Acquisition projects from inception through completion.
• Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and PI/release planning, velocity, demo and other Scrum-related meetings, participated in Scrum of Scrums and executive meetings.
• Coached team of 25 software developers/engineers that were on/offshore.
• Completed timely and consistent project reporting such as: weekly/monthly project status, RAID (Risk/Actions/Issue Management/Decisions Management and escalation, log, budget/financials, project plans and release management.
• Responsible for SWAG estimate including resource allocation, software/hardware cost allocation, weekly budget allocation, project plan and weekly status reporting to management.

Confidential, NEW YORK, NY

ASSOCIATE, SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Completed analysis of processes/procedures to assess alignment within Confidential 31 Key Regulatory Matters Programs (CCAR, BCBS, LEI, KYC, AML, etc.) and Mergers and Acquisitions. Standards and Principles that are aligned with the One Chase Strategy. Interface with business SME's to fully understand the process and review potential gaps, as well as, Governance, Quality Checkpoints, Business Requirements & Scope Reporting, Impact Matrix Pre-Fill Meetings, Risk, Action, Issues and Decision Management and escalation (RAID) Items, as well as, develop program reporting/tracking that includes trends, metrics, milestones, etc. ensuring that projects are on time, on budget and with desired results.
• Served as IT PMO Lead mentoring project managers on program/project management process, create project documentation: project plans, weekly status reports, metrics/milestones, project charter, deliverable matrix and maintain SharePoint site.
• Worked closely with the release management roles to coordinate entry into testing and release into production. Collaborate with development team on functional and technical designs. Perform functional QA testing of enhancements, data upload/fixes, and code fixes in a staging environment, prior to their release to Production environment. Perform post-production release validation testing of CRM enhancement/fix releases (final QA testing).
• Partnered, identify and document end-to-end business requirements and stakeholder impacts ensuring objectives are met while acting as a liaison between business operations, support departments such as Finance, Compliance and Security, and IT, as well as, creating and maintaining reporting, metrics and attendance tracking, sending course invitations, conference room bookings. Document work flows and process/procedures and work collaboratively between the business and technical teams to ensure risk and user needs are adequately addressed, as well as, responsible for the design, development and deployment of curriculums and courseware.
• Lead cross-functional teams and deliver end-to-end solutions including create e-learning content developer, loading classes to Central, create guides, create demo videos, conduct QA, create calendar/deliverables/project plan and monitor usage and applicability of courses.
• Designed, developed and managed business processes and governance framework to support program/project with respect to developing information architecture and visual design, Performed and conducted integration testing, compiled and maintained all business and technical requirements for program, designed materials and led workshops.
• Projects: CCB IT Risk Management PMO Retail Finance PMO Enterprise PMO, Legal and Regulatory PMO
• Primary responsibility included management experience leading efforts involving project plans, schedules, estimates, cost estimates, resource plans and status reports ensuring time, budget and specification constraints within the Enterprise IT Project Management Office.
• Identified and anticipated risks and issue management; facilitated resolution, mitigation, and appropriate escalation and business cases.
• Identified and implemented project level improvements. Met financial objectives by forecasting requirements; prepared budget forecasts; scheduled expenditures; analyzed variances; initiated corrective actions. Provided timely and accurate project information and status updates. Developed and maintained relationships with internal and external key stakeholders
• Managed a team of over 25+ Administrative Assistants on major projects/administrative duties including Implemented human resources programs by providing human resources services, including talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health and welfare benefits, and development, records management, safety and health, succession planning, employee relations and retention, AA/EEO compliance, and labor relations; completing personnel transactions.
• Managed the Leave of Absence (LOA) process, to include full understanding of federal and state laws, company policies and vendor procedures. Ensures our processes are consistent, up-to-date, easy to comprehend from end-user perspective, as well as, recommend and implement enhancements. New Hire onboarding process that will promote a positive experience for new associates, this includes coordination of new hire orientation, announcements and onboarding plans.
• Coached employees on people management, on issues including HR policies and processes, restructuring, and employee issues, career development and leadership.
• Worked with Managing Director to manage annual performance and salary reviews, as well as, our pay transparency program.