Summary

Core competency in managing delivery of global software projects and architecting enterprise scale production grade solutions. 8+ years of project management in a software career that spans 15 years. Architected numerous cross departmental integrated software solutions for financial & insurance sector. Complete project management and fiscal responsibility in 13 projects totaling $12MM in cost that resulted in huge improvements in KPI and operational efficiencies for large enterprises. Remain fascinated with the business of the business, managing organizations, people and economics and creating competitive advantage.

Career Ambition

Use my passion, motivation, courage and excellent analytical skills to challenge and get challenged along with the knowledge I gain from a course in business administration to push my limits in the financial industry that fascinates me immensely.

EducationBachelors in Engineering, 
Majors in Computer Programming, Digital Signal Processing and Digital Electronics

Professional Certifications

PMP - Project Management Institute’s “Project Management Professional” 
Microsoft Certified Professional
Clarify CRM Certified
AML CAMS(Certified Anti-Money laundering Specialist) certification in progress.

Professional Experience

Confidential Merrill Lynch, NJ Mar 2010 – Ongoing
Sr. IT Project Manager III / Technology Delivery Lead, Global AML

• Senior Technology manager responsible for multiple concurrent initiative projects with a matrix team of 100+ stakeholders (inclusive of business partners and other technologists).
• Managed Global AML regulatory projects with implementations in Japan, Singapore, Brazil and Switzerland to mitigate country specific reputational risk, provide a consistent KYC On-boarding approach for prohibited and restricted customer types and develop consistent messaging to regulators on high risk customers.
• Automated Central KYC/AML data capture to improve collection, review/approval and reporting processes for all countries.
• Delivered end-state infrastructure including policy and procedures to allow international offices and jurisdictions to post into a central hub to facilitate generation AML/KYC reporting, law permitting.
• Engaged multiple business units across Advisory, Operations, Client Investigations, Global AML and Client Data Governance to develop consistent and focused project goals and expectations.
• End to End SDLC project implementation of domestic projects using Full Rigor Six Sigma methodology to deliver AML CIP KYC solutions to automate CIP process for new accounts & key identity information updates on existing clients and provide mechanism to resolve CIP alerts and automate account restriction and closure for un-resolved CIP alerts..
• Closely interacted on a daily basis with PMO Change mangers and other technology PMO groups over the life of the project.
• Fiscal responsibility relevant to budgeting, forecasting, monthly variance analysis and development of annual and quarterly plan transfers.
• Responsible for management of Scope, Time, Cost, Risk, Communications, Issue/Conflict resolution and On-boarding of resources.
• Successful on-boarding of resources from 30+ cross-functional and cross-divisional development teams under aggressive timelines.
• Total Domestic and International portfolio worth over 5MM.
• Conducted weekly project team meetings to proactively identify changes in scope, budget overrun and timeline slippages to plan measures to re-access and amend budget, timeline and scope of work as needed to ensure timely project delivery.
• Involved in prioritization of projects for strategic program development.
• Closely worked with technologists to coach and assist in gap analysis and the delivery of BRDs, Design documents, Design concepts, UML Diagrams, Use cases and other artifacts to support project development and delivery.s
• Proven ability to quickly fathom complex business processes and product knowledge to propose and deliver solutions.

Confidential, Roseland, NJ 2000 – Mar 2010 Project Manager/Project Lead, Individual Life Insurance

• Successfully delivered software system that enables closed loop processing (integrates 5 enterprise applications) to realize 150% improvement in processing efficiencies.
• Project manager and architect for delivering enterprise scale business intelligence solution for customer data.
• Worked with project staff consisting of resources from Bangalore, Manila, Dublin and Panama.
• Managed resources from multiple silos of a matrix organization during software development lifecycle.
• Actively coded in C++, Java and perl to develop modules for a wide ranging databases including UDB, SQL Server and Oracle.
• Achieved $1MM cost reduction through business process re-engineering of back office call centre processes.
• Successfully executed projects in complete Software Development Life Cycle involving multiple deliverables at various stages of the life cycle including and not limited to project plans, cost estimates, budget and resource plans, statement of work, quality guidelines and change management procedures.
• Conducted weakly and quarterly status meetings with executive management and development teams to communicate, resolve open issues and track progress of project.
• Integrated applications and developed interfaces to deliver a standard desktop environment significantly reducing data retrieval times and dramatically reduce paper usage by more than 95%
• Engineered solutions for mission critical business units resulting in the migration of the legacy applications to emerging technologies.
• Established release management guidelines and policies to streamline release activity across the business unit.
• Assumed ownership of troubled applications and trained new hires to get up to speed.
• Mentored managers on following appropriate software development life cycle policies and led peers to define custom policies for out of the ordinary software development environments.
• Analyzed work distribution patterns in the back office and delivered solutions to automate work distribution in real time.
• Systemized core insurance business processes like the death claim payment process resulting in a 250% reduction in the erroneous overpayment of death claims.
• Supported and developed tools to migrate application to new version 4 levels up.
• Participated with the business in knowledge sharing sessions and recommended cost effective solutions to maximize return on investment on existing business processes and suggest new information technology solutions that would help to maximize productivity.
• Architected and managed business intelligence data mining project enabling customer centric statistical analysis of data and focused customer campaigns.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA 1998 - 2000 
Tech Lead/Senior Developer, Billing Operations

• Lead and co-ordinate development with 3 teams involving technical and business resources to enable traceability of customer activity and automatic creation of customer invoices.
• Developed a CRM application to manage workflow of customer requests and to provide customer centric view for back office processors.
• Designed and developed a software robot to intelligently load data using custom business defined rules and policies.
• Guided vendor teams to extract, transform and load data for data warehousing and report generation.
• Developed framework for key resource in enhancing multi dimensional reporting applications by developing supporting framework.

Confidential 1996 - 1998 
Developer, Inventory Management

• Developed turnkey solutions to collect and integrate information from multiple sources across diverse technologies to a single repository for centralized access available across the company.
• Reviewed with the team to understand complex inventory management procedures and provided solutions for streamlined order placement and management.
• Authored programs in legacy systems to allow transparent access to applications executing on windows platforms.
• Actively participated in achieving CMM level 4 certification for Tata Consultancy Services.

Additional Information

Awarded First Class with Honors for exceptional performance in undergraduate school Interests include travel, tennis, and ski.