SUMMARY

• Innovative, results oriented Senior Project Manager and certified scrum master with over 10 years of experience in the successful completion of high profile and complex projects with cross - functional teams located throughout multiple locations. Along with managing technical projects also have extensive experience in managing multimillion dollar financial projects, executing business needs analysis, risk assessment, and contingency planning for a financial services agency.
• Strong skills in team building, communications and presentation, as well as inter-departmental senior executive and CEO communications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: Scrum; Agile Management; Workflow Analysis; Business requirements gathering and case writing; use care writing; test case writing; Waterfall Model; Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC); MS Project Server, JIRA project management, CA Rally, Workfront, Portfolio Management

Technical: IBM Connections,iOS (iPad), Android, SiteCatalyst, JIRA, CA Rally, Microsoft Foundation Studio (TFS), JIRA, Microsoft Project/Server, MS Visio, Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS); HTML; HTML 5, XML, CSS, IBM Rational, Crystal Reporting, Oracle ERP, MS Office Suite, MS SQL Server; MS SharePoint; COBOL; Query Management System; Microsoft Project Server 2016; Microsoft Project 2016; Drupal; SAP Business Objects; Microsoft Azure, Sitecore, uCommerce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,  New York, NY

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• The senior technical project manager is responsible for managing large organization wide projects; this includes the management of internal teams, onshore and offshore resources, overall project schedules, risk planning, resource allocations, budgeting, and internal senior stakeholder communications.
• Managed a $2.1 million project for the redesign of the Confidential website. This included managing 16 resources to deliver UX, art direction, front end & back end development work.
• Managed the implementation of the new Sitecore infrastructure for the Confidential website. This required leading a team of 6 to understand the impact, implement the new infrastructure and coordinate the use of the new infrastructure with the teams developing the new website.
• Managed a $1 million eCommerce project to deliver an integrated solution of all the Confidential products. The required engaging multiple business units to determine the full line of products, requirements, engaged an offshore vendor to implement uCommerce, and develop the necessary APIs to integrate to the current database.

Confidential New York, NY

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As senior project manager (scrum master) main responsibilities included managing client facing projects; this included project schedules, resource allocations, budgeting, and client side communication.
• Successfully delivered a $1.3 million project to automate the pricing for bundled energy packages sold on the market.
• Managed two scrum teams (12 team members) on parallel sprints to deliver interdependent deployments.
• Directly responsible for implementing, improving and overseeing scrum processes for FINO. These processes were implemented on all projects. Along with scrum processes also responsible to portfolio level reporting.
• Engaged and maintained relationship with clients to ensure deliverables, requirements and risks effectively reviewed and communicated.

Confidential New York, NY

Managing Director

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led a team of 23 team members to deliver a $1.5 million dollar IBM connections platform upgrade to the TFANet.org site which houses dozens of web apps which caters to over 45,000 users. Along with a platform upgrade also responsible for managing production support which includes a cross functional team of middleware, QA, support, app development, business analysts.
• Successfully managed two projects that led to the standardization of TFA data onto the Oracle platform. This involved leading a team of both 16 employees and a team of 5 consultants located in Minsk. The teams migrated data from DB2 and from SQL server onto oracle along with updating all related code and reports to utilize the new databases.
• Successfully managed a team of 8 developers in providing organization wide shared services. The team managed enterprise wide identity management, managed the shared code base on mule and provide production support to 4 project teams.
• Managed a team of 12 team members to deliver both production support and new modules to the Enterprise Business Intelligence team. The team leveraged the SAP product to dozens of teams, which required ad hoc canned reporting capabilities. In the first year of managing the team successfully delivered 10 sub-projects.
• Successfully led and managed 3 Microsoft project server administrators to implement an enterprise wide instance of Microsoft Project Server 2013. Project Server 2013 is used to manage over 35 projects in Confidential ’s IT project portfolio. Trained a team of 8 PMs in a “train the trainer” course in preparation for an organization wide roll out of Project Server 2013.
• Managed the decommission of a web platform. This required leading a team of 8 and coordinating with multiple teams to analyze the impact, implement replacements and migrations of components. The decommission required 6 subprojects over the course of 1 year.
• Key participant in the efforts to refresh, develop/standardize policies and SLAs in workflows for new development work, production support and financial project portfolio management. This involved specific areas such as PMO standards and practices, middleware and application development.

Confidential New York, NY

Senior Project Manager (Scrum Master)

Responsibilities:

• Senior member of the PMO, reporting to the CEO, provided leadership for key strategic and technical projects, through the direction of multiple teams.
• Led the efforts to determine, generate and implement policies and standards in process improvement. Specifically in the areas of change management, PMO standards and practices, instrumental in training the organization in the use of Microsoft Project Server.
• Successfully led the full cycle, planned and directed a $2 million dollar electronic journals platform (eJP) which houses 290 journal web sites using a SCRUM framework to deliver releases. Performed scheduling, release planning, resource allocation, forecasting, managed teams of 15 to 20 members comprised of cross-functional employees and contractors.
• Successfully lead a team of 20 that included in-house & external technical and business team members to develop and implement the iPad program. The team successfully met its goal of being the first medical publisher to the market with over 100 iPad apps in 2012. Key player in the development of a standardized process to incorporate rights & entitlements within apps along with developing a schedule of submission to Apple to ensure timely approvals.
• Successfully managed a $1.2 million dollar Analytics Program to completion. The program goal was to deliver SiteCatalyst analytics to both iPad apps and the eJP (web) Platform. This included managing a team of 10 in-house employees.

Confidential Queens, NY

Project Portfolio Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed a $4 million division of Confidential ’s IT project portfolio. This included developing multiple strategies with project managers to execute new initiatives along with maintaining an operation budget for business as usual work.
• Successfully developed operating practices and policies for operating budgets for “in maintenance” initiatives.
• Managed a team of 4 offshore consultants responsible for maintaining Confidential ’s general ledger servers.
• Developed new templates and standards for tracking monthly expense/actuals/forecasts.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed project plans, determined milestones, responsible for resource allocations for development/QA and UAT testing. Managed projects teams to successfully implement multiple projects that encompassed new development, maintenance and break/fix work. Identified, refined, and managed project goals, defined functions, and requirements focused around the planning & execution of the budget for the City of New York.
• Developed and disseminated standard practices for budget events used by business analysts and project managers. This included developing processes for preparing and reporting of city wide employee headcounts of over 128,000 employees, standardized flow for producing the draft budget plans and final New York City budget.
• Identified system needs, key participant in developing user requirements, prepared functional specifications for program development and determined impacts of complex program changes to the financial management system.
• Developed effective QA, system and user acceptance test plans and oversaw the successful completion of FMS testing.

Confidential Brooklyn, NY

Associate Staff Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and supervised procurement contracts and contract amendments whose dollar amounts exceeded $5 million. Developed project costs analyses and provided recommendation for awards.
• Conducted technical reviews of government contracts and modifications, and comparisons with similar products and services, collection and evaluation of, and reporting on market surveys and trends, and analysis of alternate vehicles in terms of office automation, hardware, software, and technical support requirements.
• Drafted and reviewed designs for specifications, contracts, request for proposals and competitive bids.