SUMMARY:

Dynamic leader known for solving challenging Business problem with innovative approach. Skilled at planning and implementing strategies for high scale Business initiatives, building partnerships with key business decision makers and presenting to senior executives. Managed global high - performing technical teams across Financial and Insurance industries.

EXPERTISE IN:

• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Risk Management
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Relationship Management
• Solutions Architecture
• Global Collaboration

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

CRM tool: Rally, Gemini, MS Project, Clarity, JIRA, HP Quality Center, HP Project and Portfolio management, One Note, MS PowerPoint Salesforce (SaaS)

Reporting: Power BI, Microsoft BI tools, MS Excel, Crystal Report 10

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access (Design, Modeling, ETL)

Programming Languages: PL/SQL, ASP & .NET C#, J2EE, Java, DHTML, CSS, SOAP, XML, XSL, Java, JScript, VBScript, UNIX shell script

Development Tools: Visual Studio, SQL Navigator for Oracle, MS Visio, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Altova XMLspy

Servers Data transfer tools:: Windows & IIS Web Servers, J2EE server, UNIX, SharePoint, CSC, Azure WinSCP (FTP), BizTalk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with Vendor team to get customized product with in set timelines.
• Regular follow up with Engineers and QA team for internal customizations, reporting and product functionality verification.
• Facilitated training and demo sessions for Business and providing weekly status reports to all stakeholders.
• Co-ordinating with packaging and deployment team for installation of product.
• Working closely with the IT infrastructure team to recommend, establish, and follow policies on system use and services.
• Created project plans, presentations and various documentations for managing risk factors during SDLC phase.

Confidential, Whippany, NJ

IT Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Discovered, piloted and rolled out vendor solution to replace Real Estate commercial mortgage application which improved flexibility and provided new functionalities to business. Facilitated Vendor Demo and performed POC with selected vendor. Coordinated IT tasks related to integration and migration of data and documents. Facilitated audit and led QA testing team and conducted Milestone item testing (UAT) with business users. Lead the transition of Vendor product to Agile and trained them on Rally.
• Led Backshop and LMW Data Cube BI & SSRS report implementation. Reviewed data model for cube report and procured infrastructure for both applications. Performed data analysis of BI cube and compared it against existing Adhoc reports and calculations to confirm data quality. Provided walk through, facilitated UAT and training to global users on Cube functionality. The cubes saved over 15 hours per week for Confidential team.
• Co-ordinated Data Governance Discovery phase for Salesforce to implement it on Enterprise wide Investments applications such as Private placement, Capital Market and Alternative Investment. Collaborated with Salesforce COE to manage duplicate data for reports and dashboards and workflows. Executed ExactTarget POC and implemented Salesforce plug-in for marketing emails.
• Co-ordinated with various IT & business stakeholders for Enterprise wide MarkIT project to conduct end to end testing of Debt Asset, Position and Cash feed with downstream systems (MarkIT, TWS, Blackrock Aladdin, IDEAS, Pyramid, DRMS systems and with Bloomberg for FX rate and index rate feeds.
• Co-ordinate with architecture team to migrate stand-alone server for REIOS & LMW to CSC hosted environment. Decommissioned legacy system (REIOS) infrastructure including DEV, Test, PROD & DR servers for Web application and Database resulting in $500K/year savings of cost and maintenance efforts. Facilitated Backshop Azure Cloud site migration & testing and completed MORE audit process for IT risk and security.
• Led the Japan ALICO merger project for Real Estate Investment applications. Facilitated meetings with Japan on the discovery and analysis for XNET replacement systems. Coordination with UK, Japan and Mexico users in different time zone for gathering requirement and testing of BAU items.
• Created framework for DevOps through QA automated regression test for 9 Real estate applications resulting in lower costs, improve test cycle times, enhance quality and reduction in production defects by 60%.

Confidential, NYC, NY

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led initiatives to recognize risks associated with Regulatory, Compliance, Trade surveillance and AML application development and mitigated their potential impacts within IT, on the business, and on the firm’s reputation such as implementation of Regulatory Inquiry system and new regulatory reports (Option Position/ Brokerage) created for Report Center using MS BI tools, ASP.NET, XML & SQL.
• COE transition process — Project Lead for new .NET based web applications and led the conversion of existing applications to .NET. The position requires regular communication and escalation with offshore teams.
• Implemented vendor product CL Search (OFAC application) that enables screening of client information against various sanctions lists and news services using PGP encryption / decryption. Used Control-M Job Scheduler for various applications like Tokyo Trade Surveillance and Futures Surveillance Reports.
• Project Leader for Document Matter Management System (DMMS), vendor product which converts physical documents, store, manage and provide flexible search for electronic documents and matters (including multiple versions). Negotiated resource and schedule with Zurich team for infrastructure setup using JIRA tool. Managed migration of other multiple applications that are managing e-documents into DMMS.
• Initiated and led efforts for Application / Infrastructure Rationalization. Reduced the production support by 70% using rationalization and consolidation.
• Virtualization of 4 physical servers for 14 applications. This project provided cost benefit to the department. Major part was getting right infrastructure with right configuration, proper software installation, testing of all application, changes in team site user push and Network settings for URL.
• Managed Oracle Migration from 9i to 10g for all the applications supported by LCD. Led HR migration project, Sybase to Oracle Migration project, classic ASP to ASP.Net migration project for various applications. These projects were challenging in terms of coordination, sequencing and timing of tasks.

Confidential, Plainsboro, NJ

Technology Leader

Responsibilities:

• Led the project on Charles River Upgrade and its effects on PMR. Data Analysis and mapping for Equity Post Trade Compliance Migration Project using Charles River Trading System, SQL Loader and Informatica for uploading data files (Position, Security, Equity, Fixed Income, Fund, Assets files) from Confidential, Bloomberg, Macgregor Databases into staging database.
• Delivered Entitlement Project Customized Reports and Account display for different Users in Fixed Income PMR.
• Donahue Report-Enhancement in ASP screens display and improvement in its working.