SUMMARY:

Accomplished Sr. Project/Program Manager professional with over 17 years of financial and project leadership experience, providing technical expertise and leadership to IT projects for both private industries and government. Recognized for professionalism, commitment to excellence, and demonstrated ability to communicate and working with senior management, associates, and customers. Has great interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively with co - workers at all levels. Successful in balancing quality, cost and scope with project development and delivery timelines.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• User Needs Assessments
• JAD Sessions
• Project Governance
• Fixed Income Trade Flow
• Application Enhancements
• Quality Assurance/Testing
• Portfolio Man/ment
• Problem Solving/Planning
• Fixed Income/Structured Finance
• Feasibility Analysis
• Team Leadership
• Program Management
• Database logical schemas
• CMM Stages 1-5
• Use Cases
• Complete SDLC Management

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Excellent Strategist: Provide solutions that boost productivity and efficiency across the organization. Quickly identify problem areas and implement effective solutions to meet goals.

Exceptional organizational skills: Consistently recognized by colleagues for exceptional talent in requirements analysis and problem resolution in fast-paced environments.

Strong sense of responsibility: Solid professional standards; excellent track record of dependability. Maintain focus on achieving results while implementing business solutions to meet a diversity of needs.

Administration and Management: Knowledgeable of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, and coordination of people and resources.

Project/Program Management: Employ technological solutions while using time management to track progress and meet goals. Proven coordination of IT systems implementation, including managing plan items and related reporting requirements focusing on satisfying customer needs and organizational requirements. Ensure delivery of project goals, managing project needs and critical dependencies with hands-on approach.

Computer/Technical Skills: UML, RUP, CASE Analysis Tools, MS Office, Agile/Scrum, SQL Server, MS Project, Visio, Erwin Fusion, Mainframe, Oracle 9.1.6, ERDs, J2EE, .NET, DB2, MS CRM, VB 6.0, BASEL 1/2, AML, Solvency, Oracle Mantas, Wireframes, Quality Center, Data Flow Diagrams, Process Flow Diagrams, STDs, process specs, Use Cases, CMM, data normalization, data mapping, Hadoop, trading processing/systems, client/server, change management, Cognos, SharePoint, SOA, MQ Series, Clarity, process modeling, BRD, and RFPs, middleware apps.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Program/Project Manager

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Manage and direct global teams in an effort to enhance parts of the existing system for various product lines.
• Address deficiencies and gaps in AML data collection and scenario effectiveness, encompassing all aspects of design, development, testing and go-live phases. Direct the administrative functions of the program such as project funding, team's hours booked etc.
• Increase program's effectiveness by implementing a change management process and enhancing the CMMi process.
• Assist with various administrative functions of the program such as end of month hours and budget reconciliations, passing project Toll Gates, raising production and UAT Support tickets, updating the Book of Work and Total Quality Initiative for respective projects.
• Communicate comprehensive daily updates (oral and in writing) for respective projects and also update a portion of the Steering Committee deck for the purpose of communicating the program's progress along with risks and mitigation strategies to senior management.
• Participate in program's meetings (Program's pipeline, Book of Work, AML Review of Actuals vs. Forecasts etc.) and help rectify various issues such as communicating with project members to advise them to input hours in specific projects.
• Successfully represent the team with the Confidential Recon project for the regions assigned.

Sr. Project Manager, Consultant

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of nine people (US and UK) for the Solvency II project, which is a compliance directive for the whole company. Implemented scope change management process for the whole program.
• Prepared business cases, project charters, statement of work, project plans, risk management plans, WBSs, stakeholder analysis, communication management plans, data requirements, and training plans.
• Interviewed users, designed information management strategy, DFDs, PFDs, and logical schemas for DWs.
• Handled overview development work, change management, quality assurance, documentation requirements, conducted cost, time, human resources, procurement, and integration management.
• Communicated with the UK and US program teams regarding the progress and main events of the projects, prepared weekly reports for upper management, interviewed SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), produced BRDs, feasibility analysis, Case Analysis, Use Cases and other many governance documentation.

Director - Project Management/Business Analysis

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed various in house and new projects for clients, created business requirements, functional specifications, scope, time and cost estimate documents. Established best practices for business analysis/project management.
• Created change and communication management plans, gathered requirements, and directed multiple teams.
• Saved company $100k by negotiating with company's offshore vendor, increased projects' profit margins.

Project/Program Management Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Used Clarity to generate reports, investigated financial requests, managed project portfolio and assigned resources.
• Managed assigned PMs.
• Successfully gathered requirements and delivered projects in time and on budget.

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed the CV side of the Confidential platform dealing with various OTC derivative products, interviewed Users, gathered requirements, wrote BRDs and testing plans/scripts, delivered application enhancements, designed GUIs.
• Updated project plan and release schedule, coordinated Level 3 support issues, responded to Users’ inquiries.
• Created Risk and Communication Management documents, explained new application functionalities to Users.

Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Defined and implemented SDLC standards, measurements, reporting, portfolio/business management for company’s private equity and structured finance clients.
• Managed business analysis and budgetary functions.
• Implemented P&L, trading and off the shelve applications. Established objectives, deliverables, scope, cost, and schedule. Designed equity derivative, and alternative investment applications. Managed users' expectations.

Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects to achieve agreed milestones on scope, time, budget and required quality standards.
• Maintained appropriate documentation; provided ad hoc progress reports to management, clients and stakeholders.
• Worked with network engineers and developers using Agile to ensure business and technical requirements are met.
• Engaged in the development and operation of the PM Office. Contributed in establishing policies and processes.

Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed requirements for Structured Finance applications and drafted documents inclusive of application’s wireframes, mock-up reports/charts, use cases, business requirements document, and user manuals.
• Selected projects that delivered the highest ROI from scarce resources through Clarity and actively participated in all technical and business meetings to facilitate application process improvements. Enhanced credit estimates appl.
• Exercised attention to detail in preparing project plans, coordinating timelines, defining project scope, and estimating expenses. Designed PFDs and Use Cases, used Agile/Scrum methodology and modified logic.

Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed deliverables for development of trade repository aligned with B2 capital calculations.
• Analyzed data from the trade source system into the T-Hub environment; identified requirements and analyzed complex product requirements. Gathered requirements from user categories and SMEs to analyze the data needed for the Basel 2 database. Implemented scope change management process for the whole group.
• Created High Level Design & Data Mapping Specs to document and communicate requirements to Dev/QA groups.
• Improved processes by suggesting implementation of extensions and sanitization to the physical data model.

Director of Development/Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Skillfully navigated complex development projects exhibiting proficiency in strategic planning, company alliances, due diligence, and profitability analysis. Created opportunity fund to enhance company’s acquisition capacity.
• Documented all fixed income applications of CSFB to enable outsourcing of Support Group; effectively summarized data feeds, logical and physical models, diagrams, application’s coupling, cohesion, SOA, MQ functionality and logic.
• Interviewed various SMEs to get a better understanding of the applications and thoroughly documented them.
• Eliminated a $550k project budget deficit by restructuring and renegotiating consulting contracts and human resources. Implemented scope change management process for the whole PMO.

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Reduced procurement costs by 40% by managing vendors and offshore teams during application deployments.
• Led intricate projects throughout complete life cycle with accountability for scheduling, procurement, risk assessments, human resources, quality assurance, budget, compliance and project integration management.
• Employed strong documentation skills to assemble SOWs, project charters and software development plans for 9 different initiatives. Leveraged well-honed leadership expertise to supervise and direct development team.
• Championed process improvement efforts to advance company through 2 out of 5 CMM stages.

Fixed Income Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Assessed and identified requirements for web banking, defined processes, and created intranet application via J2EE standards for company’s Confidential . Conducted portfolio project functions through Clarity.
• Devised web-based tool to integrate 40 separate accounting systems into a centralized PeopleSoft system.
• Successfully steered reclassification of company-held assets, supported project manager in designing work breakdown analysis and defining the ten major risks. Effectively implemented spiral model project methodology.
• Assisted in the analysis, design, development and implementation of the project by creating DFDs, PFDs, process specs, data repository, the selection of objects and classes using System Architect, MQ and SOA functionalities.