SUMMARY

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with over 5 years’ experience as a Project Manager. Highly organized, self - motivated, and results-oriented professional with experience working in the Finance, Banking, Insurance, and SaaS industries. Outstanding project management and team leadership skills complement excellent communication and organizational skills and an exceptional drive to produce superior results in challenging environments for a diverse client base. Willing to travel and fluent in Spanish. Qualifications and capabilities include expert skills in the following areas:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Project Manager

• Utilize CA Clarity and MS Excel to monitor budget and track expenses for the assigned program of related projects. Escalated risks or issues to stakeholders.
• Coordinate the acquisition of resources across one or more projects.
• Engage in the Project Estimation process by attaining projected work-hours from project team subject experts.
• Work closely with vendors to develop and deliver presentations for Senior IT Leadership to acquire 3rd party products. Coordinated development of Statements of Work (SOW) and Requests for Proposals (RFP).
• Coordinate design presentations to users to demonstrate web page and content flow. Adjusted baselined requirements based on feedback.
• Train new Project Management teammates on the use of MS Project, MS Excel and Clarity PPM.
• Proactively manage the development and execution of project schedules using MS Project.
• Manage communications across all project resources and instigated escalation matters to the appropriate management.

Confidential,NJ

Project Manager

• Managed development of project plans in MS Project.
• Utilized Clarity to manage project updates, resource allocations, define teams and document Risks/Issues. Collaborated with functional management to attain resource allocation estimates.
• Report project status to senior management during weekly program meetings via PowerPoint presentations.
• Managed meetings with Legal and Security to evaluate third party tools (Fabric.io & Blue Host proxy) to allow Twitter integration with TD Mobile apps.
• Coordinated with Markit on Demand’s third party services to ensure feasibility of their API’s working with TD Ameritrade’s mobile app.
• Developed risk management plan to review with project team and product management.

Confidential,NJ

Project Manager

• Managed a web project to automate Mizuho bank payments and transfers using third party technologies such as Automated Commercial Banking System (ACBS) and Money Transfer System (MTS), AS-400 and VB.NET.
• Managed Development efforts utilizing iterative approach. Facilitate scrum sessions and encourage technical teams to become self-managing.
• Responsible for project planning utilizing MS Project. Utilized CA Clarity for budget planning and forecasting.
• Work closely with Commercial Loan Operations Team to prioritize strategy, suggest process improvements and technology to be leveraged.
• Created communications plan highlighting meeting frequencies, change control process, and points of escalation.
• Analyze current processes within the Operations group and produced a presentation identifying areas where they can automate their process.
• Coordinate with AT&T and Advantage Technologies vendors to estimate infrastructure budget for new equipment.
• Prepare preparations to management and technical teams outlining open issues for resolution and risk factors.
• Manage development and approval of project artifacts such as project plans and requirements specs.
• Persistently ensure all project tasks are on track and within budget.
• Maintain relationships with key personnel in the Operational, Loan Processing, and IT functional areas; Partnered with Front Office and Operations team members researching and resolving system and process issues.

Confidential,New York, NY

Project Manager / Systems Architect

• Managed website project for the Disabilities Network of New York City (DNNYC) so that their mission statement was properly visible and visitors may donate money, participate in volunteering events, and contact politicians regarding issues affecting disabled people in New York City.
• Interviewed and negotiated with DNNYC sponsors to gather user requirements.
• Coordinated testing process to ensure that the developed functions, as per the base lined requirements, are properly implemented.
• Developed Data Models, Dataflow diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, and use Cases using MS Visio.
• Identified and developed alternatives and recommendations for project-related and operational risks.
• Liaised between DNNYC staff, users, and developers to assist in defining objectives, requirements, and priorities of applicable business system-related projects.
• Worked closely with DNNYC staff to develop a project schedule using MS Project.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

• Managed program project plans in an Agile environment for web-based Market Data Pricing, derivative valuation and hedge accounting services division utilizing MS Project and JIRA.
• Managed communications between Confidential Customers, Operations and the technical teams to ensure customer satisfaction and plan backlog of product release items.
• Presented weekly program status to Market Data Operations team via MS Power Point.

Confidential,New York, NY

Project Manager Consultant

• Managed the program budget for Treasury group utilizing MS Excel and CA Clarity. Responsible for creation and maintenance of project artifacts including requests for proposal, statements of work(SOW), project plans and project status reporting
• Created project plans and effort estimations in MS Project after consulting with technology, infrastructure and treasury governance groups.
• Implemented best practices in project management and requirements management based on guidelines from the Project Governance office
• Managed project quality assurance meetings to determine if projects were in compliance with the PMO Governance office mandates