SUMMARY:

• A Proven transformational IT Leader, Program/Project Manager, Scrum Master, Software Architect, Software Implementation Manager with over 25 years of diversified experience in GDPR, Global Risk Management, Internal Audit IT & Infrastructure Deployments.
• Complete understanding of Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) & SDLC, applying Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies, managing multiple concurrent projects of all sizes, working with globally located distributed matrix & cross - functional teams.
• Leading the program on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to remediating all applications/data at rest spanning multi-year efforts.
• Excellent understanding and experience in applying Scope, Cost, Schedule plans, handling communications with stakeholders & Senior Executive Management, skillfully managing the cross-functional, distributed & globally located SMEs & resources, adhere to strict Quality standards and mitigate/resolve Risk/Issues and record them as lessons learned during closure.
• Proven expertise in creating strategic High Performing Teams, with Global, Matrix & Cross-Functional teams in startups to Large Enterprises.
• Hands-on experience working in GDPR remediation efforts, Internal Audit & Compliance, and Global Risk Management, as well as multiple Financial verticals like Retirement, Private Banking, Asset Management & Hedge Fund Trading.
• Result-driven, highly motivated, organized, detail oriented, creative, Influential leader and skilled negotiator, with excellent communication, planning, organizational & managerial skills.
• Proven experience at building, motivating and leading professional teams, and supporting client relationships and ability to interact with all levels of Senior Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PM Methodologies: PMBOK Waterfall and Agile methodologies (Scrum/Lean/Kanban & Extreme programming) Agile Frameworks like SAFe, LESS & DAD

PM Tools: Clarity, Project 2013, GPP, SharePoint, Visio, Office 2010, CVS, TFS, JIRA v5.2 & SVN

Other Tools: C, C++, C#, Java, SQL, MS Office, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, VBA, OO Perl, Unix Shell Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Sr. Program Manager

• Managed application teams (6 teams, 39 applications) to migrate to the new cluster following Agile scrum methodology using daily scrums, backlogs, reviews & retrospectives, refining the backlogs at every available opportunities to successful completion.
• Managing a critical firm-wide multi-year, multi-discipline initiative on Public Cloud (AWS) Applications Discovery & Assessment exercise (SOW to AWS), in order to classify to 6R’s (Retire, Re-Platform, Re-Purpose, Re-Architect, Retain & Re-Build) & identify candidate applications to move to public cloud (AWS, Azure or any other public cloud platform as per the prepared business case.
• As part of the Info. Security & audit findings, managed a very high profile regulatory, reputational & financial risk involving customer & institutional trade confirmations, identify, analyze with SMEs & mitigation efforts for Enterprise Big Data Hadoop Hardening program.
• Established Enterprise Governance & Access Security Policies for the new Enterprise Hadoop Clusters, controlling the infrastructure / application releases aligned with Audit/Information Security guidelines.
• Responsible for the management of critical Data Protection and Security Controls (Data Masking, Data Encryption & Data Redaction) as part of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) & Data Store Automation (Prod. Data Copy with Masking, Release Self Service & Automated Data Repair) Programs, controlling schedule, scope & budget forecasting, preparing custom reports for all levels of the Executive Management stakeholders.
• Managed the remediation initiatives for a Sev-2 issues Server Storage disk space & Log Retention Standardization identified early 2018, exposing visibility to the Senior Executive Management Team.
• Managing the successful migration of critical applications to Exadata platform, meticulously planning for PROD/DR, including High Availability, resulting in a smooth deployment with zero issues/incidents.
• Training other Onsite/Offshore project managers on PMLC methodologies, industry standards, processes, create enterprise-level communications & reports. Automate data-gathering scripts from multiple sources to create system of record related to applications, servers & dependent related information.
• Involved in the Analysis, Design & Implementation of a new Cost forecasting tool using data extracted from Clarity. The tool will automatically forecast the project / program costs based on the dynamic resource allocation used for senior Leadership Executives.

Tools: Used: Clarity, Tableau, MS Project 2013, SharePoint 2013, MS PowerPoint, SQL, Excel, VBA, Word, Visio & PowerPoint.

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master/Project Manager (PMO)

• Managed about 3 groups of Agile Scrum Development Teams, training & managing their product backlogs & sprint backlogs, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review and retrospective meetings, successfully implementing Agile methodology.
• Managed the successful implementation of Two Factor Authentication for the external client web portal as 2nd layer of security using DUO Auth-API. Involved in the analysis & design of this implementation as required.
• Managed the successful implementation of Nginx load balancer, replacing legacy squid, for increased performance and additional security future implementations.
• Managing the project for new Data Center migrations from Newark, NJ to New York, NY, managing all aspects as hardware, infrastructure management & configurations, security, software implementations & Go-Live planning…
• Member of the governance committee for ISO-9001 certification for managing the client information & data fulfilling Audit & Info Security compliance.

Tools: Used: JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Power Point, SmartSheet, Office 2010 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Sr. Program Manager

• Successfully managed the enterprise mandated Migration program for GWIM, upgrading infrastructure servers and applications using obsolete technology, servicing, and business areas, due to product end-of-life in a distributed global environment.
• As part of the GIS mandated program, managed the upgrades of all server infrastructure reaching end-of-life & operating systems to Linux, Windows Server 2008, database servers to SQL Server 2008 R2 from SQL Server 2003/2005.
• Designed & Developed, Managed & standardized the Release Management Program for US Trust & other verticals of GWIM, working closely with the cross-functional, globally located development & infrastructure teams, and achieving the 97% release adoption rate from 120 days to 14 days. Developed, Managed & standardized the applications deployments process, Status Reporting to executive management team with specific attention to detail and continuous improvements.
• Key member in the US Trust Integrated Release Control Room Team & Governance, successfully managing and taking ownership of the DTS for the largest release for US Trust since the merger.
• Successfully managed the implementation of infrastructure for CA scalability servers, SAN disks, network analysis working closely with network engineers & architects, CA Scalability experts and other SMEs.
• Responsible for managing the C&AD Infrastructure portfolio budget estimates & projections, resource & schedule planning for GIS Mandated programs related to high-visibility “Not Permitted Technology (NPT)” applications remediation efforts for GWIM, minimizing the security vulnerabilities for the organization.
• Responsible for managing Server applications remediation programs, including any De-Risking projects related to server software, critical upgrades/updates due to end-of-life tools used within the organization, managing teams from cross-functional & cross-border(off-shore/near-shore).

Tools: Used: GPP, Case Manager, Op-Plan, Microsoft Office 2010, Project, Project Server, SharePoint, Visio & SQL Server 2008 R2

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master

• Responsible for training and guidance on Agile Scrum processes to the management, product owner & development teams.
• Established Scrum Framework & best practices to the organization, implementing CLO, Trading & Research related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
• Facilitated the scrum activities in the early stages of agile implementation to familiarize the team & product owner to the scrum values.

Tools: Used: MS Project 2010, PowerPoint, Microsoft TFS & SQL Server 2008 R2

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager / Scrum Master

• Managed the Development Team (6 members) for a fast-paced pension advisory group, worth about $15 billion Asset under Management, keeping in-tune with the constantly changing business needs.
• Managed the AML project for PGA worth about $2M, customizing applications systems to the regulatory requirements.
• Managed the successful re-engineer & development of Account Maintenance, Servicing, Risk, Trading, & client reporting applications from JPMorgan Chase to Pacific Life infrastructure using Agile-Scrum methodology.
• Successfully managed the infrastructure implementation for the new group with servers located both in NY & Newport Beach, CA.
• Facilitated all the scrum activities, including product backlog review, daily stand-up, Iteration Planning (Team Capacity and Velocity Planning), sprint & product backlog Reviews, Release Management and Retrospective.
• Successfully implemented the enterprise Technology Standards, including coding standards & version control, quality assurance & control, risk identification & mitigation planning, release and change management controls.
• Successfully managed the integration of 3rd party Collateral Management & Risk Management (RiskVal) systems with enterprise repository.
• Manage the project to successful implementation of Enterprise Reporting Repository (Data-Warehouse) and executive reporting system following the full SDLC Lifecycle.

Tools: Used: JIRA, SVN, Pentaho, Business Objects XI, C#, .NET Framework 3.0/3.5, Oracle 11G R2, ODAC 11.0.2 & Java

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

• Managed the implementation of new audit monitoring systems (FORESITE & @Task) using full-SDLC methodologies (Analysis, Design, Execution, Testing, Implementation & Training).
• Successfully implemented the Internal Audit Data Warehousing system, for optimized data management, synchronization, Analysis & Reporting.
• Managed regulatory audit progress reporting system following stringent audit policies, successfully managing the key stakeholder expectations.
• Coordinating the communications between our team and external auditors (PwC), federal & state regulators reviewing the internal audit practices & recommendations to the audit processes.
• Prepared monthly Executive Reporting Suite using Business Objects to our Internal Audit management for monthly reviews include audit performance, Findings, Reporting & Remediation efforts.
• Managed the implementation & support of Internal Audit - Quality Assurance Review (QAR) system enabling the executive management to evaluate audit quality performance following the Delphi technique methodology.

Tools: Used: Office 2007, SharePoint, Project 2007, TFS, DB2-UDB, Pentaho, Business Objects XI

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Coordinator

• Managed the successful analysis, design, development & implementation of the new Position and P&L Viewer applications, supporting the constantly changing business requirements.
• Successfully managed all key stakeholders (Hedge Fund traders, Trader Managers & Executives), developing & supporting trading applications for Equities, FX, Commodities, Futures, and Options in a very fast paced and volatile hedge fund trading environment, using Extreme Programming agile methodology.
• Responsible for the successful development & implementation of executive EOD Positions reporting application, monitored daily by the Trader managers & CEO.
• Facilitated the bi-weekly stakeholder meetings for all system-related enhancements, features and bug fixes, to improved business productivity & value and profit realizations.

Tools: Used: Microsoft Project 2003, Office 2003, C#, .NET Framework 3.0, Click-Once, SQL Server 2003, Sybase, SSRS & CVS

Nomura Securities International, New York, NY

Senior Team Lead/Analyst - Global Risk Management Technology

• Successfully implemented the Global Operational Risk - Loss Event Tracking system, adhering to the strict local and federal regulations & process guidelines.
• Managed the integration of CDS Risk Analysis and Position evaluation system using daily data obtained from Mark-It Partners into the legacy Global Risk Management system, increasing the evaluation & accuracy of risk values, following the full SDLC processes.
• Managed the data warehousing project involving ABS, RMBS & CMBS asset class data from Loan Performance daily, with the ability to perform What-If scenarios & Monte-Carlo simulations (initial database size of 5TB, expanded to 25TB) using C#, SQL, Perl & Sybase IQ.
• Managed the design and implementation of intranet Credit Risk Reporting System following factory design patterns using C#, ASP.NET & Ajax.
• Managed the resources both locally and globally to support the Global Risk Management team, providing round the clock support.

Tools: Used: C#, .NET Framework 2.5/3.0, Java, Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ & CVS

Confidentia, Alpharetta, GA

Senior Systems Analyst

• Worked as a Sr. Systems Analyst, providing application development & implementation services to large clients like Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, PaineWebber, JPMorgan Chase and Teleport Communications Group (TCG) using C, C++, C#, SQL (multiple flavors like Transact-SQL, PL-SQL, ANSI-SQL), Unix shell scripting and Object Oriented Perl. (v5 & above) on VAX/VMA, Sun Solaris and other UNIX flavors & Microsoft Windows.

Tools: Used: C#, .NET Framework, Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ, SQL Server, Oracle, CA-UniCenter, CVS, PVCS, VSS