SUMMARY:

• Technology Project Manager with 15+ year proficiency in planning, designing and implementing lean Agile and waterfall technology solutions that address complex business opportunities and challenges for Syndicate Equities, Fixed Income and Structured Product business lines.
• Recognized for strategic thinking, due diligence, vision, technical expertise, leadership and management skills.
• Expertise in managing regulatory, compliance, and internal audit initiatives.
• Extensive capability in leading and managing geographically distributed and culturally diverse organizations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project Management
• Process Improvement
• Software Development
• System & Business Analysis
• Project Budgeting
• Vendor Management
• Strategic Planning
• Information Security
• Team Building

TECHNOLOGIES USED:

JAVA, J2EE Technologies, Jira, Confluence, GIAA, Microservices, React JS, Redux, Node.js, NPM, Jest, Enzyme, Jenkins Pipeline, spring, Cassandra, Hadoop, and Kafka. WebLogic, Tomcat, Flex 4.1, Flash Builder 4, ActionScript, DB2, Sybase, Oracle, TOAD, FIX protocols, Jasper Reports, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, HP PPM, MS Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Technology Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interface and partner with senior management and business stakeholders to understand book of work, program needs, generate annual budgets, strategize development, demonstrate functionality and delivery path and provided periodic status reporting and presentations to work groups.
• Manage and build high performing development team, identifying technology stack and hidden tasks, mentor junior staff, set objectives and conduct performance reviews.
• Track the progress of milestones and monitor the velocity of scrum tea.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Partnered with business work group and Vendors to complete the Prevailing Market Price Vendor evaluation and selection, interacted with various AD teams to get details for client segmentation which appropriately applied regulatory Confidential Markup disclosure rule.
• Oversaw MORCOM’s Syndicate tool enhancement, conducted user interviews to allow suitability information to be entered electronically by an FA and routed to be SM for approval. After approval, the system allows up to the approved number of shares to be indicated for an account, which alleviated end users pain points of manually filling the forms and complied 100% Confidential regulation and increased customer satisfaction.
• Architected and developed Evidence of Advice modules for advisory services business to capture the evidence of client interaction and provide detail reports for Supervisory Managers which complied entirely with Confidential regulation.
• Communicated with technology infrastructure partners, risk management for infrastructural changes, capacity and service continuity management planning, addressing vulnerabilities; interfaced with vendor management and human resources to onboard new consultants.
• Implemented drop copy functionality, interfaced with Bloomberg to enable regulatory mandated trace reporting in Syndicate Structure products.

Confidential, Whippany, NJ

Consultant/Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managed other developers, converting client server applications to web based, lead design sessions and complete Software Development Life Cycle. Development, testing (Unit, SIT, and UAT) and implementation strategies.
• Developed reusable Frameworks for application wide common tasks like Rendering Reports, Confidential calls, System login, utilities and message logging to reduce development lifecycle.
• Conducted meticulous GAP analysis for existing and proposed systems, while successfully reengineering key business processes to increase operational efficiency and alignment of business unit objectives.
• Architected and developed 529 setup/maintenance modules for advisors to link accounts with funds and monitor the holdings and historical data.
• Migrated legacy portfolio reports (Combined Summary, Asset Class Break down) to web based Jasper, provided intuitive, flexible and engaging user experience.
• Written standalone java programs to automate the batch jobs for sending Syndicate prospectus URL emails for clients.
• Implemented Dashboard systems to present KPI metrics to the JPM Managers to track and review all the critical reports (Trade Deficit, Option Link, Margin Debit, and Credit Balance), allowed Branch Managers to review and approve critical trading transactions like Mutual Fund transactions, Large Trades, Employee transfers etc. for each business day and maintained an audit trail of review activities for compliance.
• Interfaced with business partners across functional areas (Advisors, Supervisors, operations, compliance, and middle office) to understand business strategies and initiatives and convert them to agile technology solutions.
• Managed production incidents, prioritized tasks for the team, resolve conflicts, anticipated risks and formulated mitigation strategies.
• Designed and developed Sybase/DB2 Stored Procedures to provide data source and to implement complex business rules for frond end systems.