SUMMARY:

• Experienced IT professional offering 10 years of Project Management experience and 5 years of Business Analyst experience.
• Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Expert in waterfall and Agile project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Domain Experience includes Commercial Banking, Capital Markets and Wealth Management.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Apart from contributing to the processes and strategies which enhance any projects I am working on, I feel that my greatest strengths are firstly my ability to deliver projects to agreed timescales. Secondly my skill at gaining a clear understanding of a client’s/Business teams exact needs, and thirdly being able to co-ordinate and lead all project team resources whilst at the same time building strong working relationship with other project managers.

EXPERIENCES:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning.
• Collaborated closely with product owner and backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing.
• Effectively tracked teams progress\, including burndown, velocity and release forecasting.
• Contribute to product roadmap planning, scheduling and release management.
• Identify and remove organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Monitor and manage dependencies to other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are resolved.
• Manage money movement program including multiple projects in coordination with Business, technical, risk, compliance, marketing, training and QA teams.
• Managing vendor relationships from commercial negotiations to implementations.
• Cross functional coordination with all the business teams including User experience, Content development, legal and compliance approvals.
• Coordinate with Marketing and Training teams for business deliverables and training materials for contact center and operations groups.
• Periodic distribution of the project status reports and executive summaries and dashboard presentation to senior management.
• Conform to all audit, regulatory, vendor management and technology standards.
• Support QA testing activities, reporting and resulting risk mitigation.

Technology: MS Project, Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Jira, VersionOne and SharePoint.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading project teams in the delivery of Business requirements from inception to completion.
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment while the company in transition to an Agile Methodology.
• Coordinating and managing all project activity, & ensuring project deliverables are achieved to plan.
• Setting up and delivering the best practice PM systems and controls.
• Gaining the confidence of the stake holders and become the focal point for communication.
• Ensuring that control procedures are in place and adhered to project adherence best practices.
• Formulating and circulating agendas and action lists.
• Gathered resources required, assigned responsibilities and coordinated project staff directly and indirectly to ensure successful completion of the project.
• Project budgeting, reporting and approvals.
• Tracked project deliveries using project management tools.

Technology: MS Project, Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Jira, STAMP, CREST, PMUWS, ClearQuest

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Dublin, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led and implemented complex projects and Global teams—mitigated risks, managed requirements, and worked with project stakeholders while managing expectations at the department and project levels.
• Responsible for coordinating multiple related projects in ETL and BI applications.
• Communicate with the stakeholders at multiple levels and build credibility and establish rapport
• Responsible for costing, estimating and planning projects.
• Writing detailed and summarized project progress reports.
• Monitoring actual expenditure figures against project budgets

Project Manager

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for more than one cross-company project at a time
• Managed resource and capacity planning for projects.
• Responsible for business analysis including analyzing the business needs, identifying the system key stakeholders, mapping out key business process.
• Supported development and software quality assurance to ensure optimal progress and product stability for end users.
• Training team as a domain expertise on Confidential and Wealth management in conjunction to client requirements for high quality deliverables.
• Experience of working with sponsors, stakeholders, and solution providers.
• Extensive client interaction for product review and change management
• Managing and supporting the testing and implementation of business initiatives.
• Producing and delivering project documentation, e.g. user manuals and support.

Project Manager/ Lead Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage and Track the Wealth management application development
• Lead project as lead Business Analyst and coordinate with onsite Product Managers and Business Analysts in Gathering requirements and enhance product based on the requirements from client.
• Support development team at offshore in understanding the enhancements and issues and help them in the development process.
• Responsible for business analysis including analyzing the business needs, identifying the system key stakeholders, mapping out key business process.
• Supported development and software quality assurance to ensure optimal progress and product stability for end users.
• Training team as a domain expertise on Confidential and Wealth management in conjunction to client requirements for high quality deliverables.
• Extensive client interaction for product review and change management

Lead Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements gathering and design sessions and developed test plans based on business processes, requirements and system designs. Categorized requirements into FURPS (Functional, Usability, Reliability, Performance and Supportability) and maintained the requirements to Use Case traceability.
• Developed a Business Model for the system which included analyzing the business needs, identifying the system key stakeholders, mapping out key business process,
• Interacted with the traders to gather requirements, give demonstrations and provide pre-sales support in a helpful and professional manner.
• Worked with the technical team to ensure that varied changes including configuration change requests submitted by the test team are logged, cross environment impact is assessed and cross environment migrations are managed.
• Responsible for creating complete test cases of varying complexity, executing tests, measuring expected and actual results, and reporting status ensuring accurate coverage of requirements and business rules.