SUMMARY:

• 23 years in IT and over 18 years of Project management experience in Banking/Finance
• Handled Projects worth $4 - $6 million annually with multi client/functional/location/technology delivery
• Implemented projects in Cards (Payment Platform, Digital Transformation), Retail Banking, Basel III, Investment Banking/Liabilities/Loans/Trade finance - including Legal and Regulatory compliance
• Complex & business critical project management-aligning Project with Organizational goals, Managing impact across projects
• Conducted effective evaluation of requirements from the multiple stakeholders - POC
• Business users, Sizing with the respective technology teams (SDLC cycle including Post Implementation support)
• Finalizing the requirements with prioritization/ allocation of available resources for the involved technology teams
• Project Management using Waterfall, Agile methodologies
• Extensively used Planview, Rational Team Concert (RTC), Blueprint, SP, MS-Project
• Project Documentation - Design Charter, BR, Project Plan - Scope/Timeline, Estimation, FR, Design, Security Requirements, Technical Assessment, Validation, Implementation and Post Implementation - Lessons learnt), Process work flow, Project Metrics & Measurement - EAC, Variance, Burnout Chart, Sprint Velocity, Budget - Cost/FTE
• Communication Plan - Being focal point of communication across multiple stakeholders publishing Status/Risks/Issues throughout the Project and during implementation
• Tracking/reporting of all stages of Project development/testing/implementation to senior management/country business
• Versatile Implementation experience - Preparation of cut over/implementation plan for delivering project in production - working with multiple stakeholders
• Ensuring all deliverables of Projects handled for completion, post implementation review and PQA audits
• Entitlements, Desktop/Environment virtualization
• Quality Management/Quality Assurance - Effective defect resolution, comprehensive remediation of defects with minimum turnaround and adhering to SLA, Addressing Quality Audits - Tools - ALM-QC, SP
• Global best practices - USA, Singapore, India
• Senior Stakeholder & Sponsor Guidance
• Multi Discipline, globally distributed team management
• Performance enhancement, Production issues management
• Vendor management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

Project Manager/Scrum Master/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in finalizing & prioritizing Business Requirements/User Stories for the above work streams globally and facilitating solutions, delivery and timeline for deliverables from as per needs of the Global business.
• Responsible for planning, documentation (Planview, Sharepoints, Rational Team Concert, Blueprint), delivery & reporting to Senior Management for Status, Issues/Risks and Mitigation plan for the Projects/Program for Solution Development Sprints (SDT)
• Interacting with global business/ technical teams for finalizing delivery of prioritized business requirements within the planned releases from 2012 to Till-Date
• Involved in sizing/feasibility of business requirements for various chronological releases for GO TO COMMON programs
• Involved in solutions/design discussions across the workstreams and tracking the impact of changes in the scope/time/cost of the original requirements listed in the Global Requirements Repository
• Responsible for delivery of requirements through the SDLC process (BRD/FRD/TSD/Development/Testing) until implementation and post go live support
• Agile Methodology - Involved in Sprint Planning, Conducting the Sprint, Daily Sprint calls, Scrum of Scrum meetings, User Story - Creation/Elaboration/Execution/Closure, maintaining Product/Release/Sprint backlog, Sprint Deliverables, Sprint Closure, Lessons learnt meetings.

Confidential, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reported to Regional PMO on Budgets (Plan, Plan Vs Actuals), Resource Planning, Status updates to Senior Management
• In-charge of communicating across multiple stake holders across Projects for all co-ordination activities to ensure Project meets deadlines. Highlight Risks, Risk Mitigation, Issues including Implementation
• Quality Assurance - through QC and walkthrough with teams to provide status/resolution strategy/approach/timelines for all Quality issues
• Project documentation - Status updates and deliverables (Agile Methodology)

Confidential

Project Manager, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning (Plan, Budgeting, Plans Vs. Actuals, Resources, Approvals for Process flow)
• Project metrics including financials and reporting to Senior management
• Tracking Development/Testing/Risks/Issues providing remediation and documentation required for all stages of the project
• In the Confidential catered to expansion of the symbols to all downstream applications and reports fulfilling the Option clearance Board standards
• Check Suppression for all Products - Confidential /SP10

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• BRD through Implementation (SDLC cycle - Agile methodology)
• Provide User interface for setting up Check Suppression rules (8 new CICS screens)
• Porting over and storing old/new check suppression rules (new DB2 table)
• Retain Bulk Wire check suppression functionality in the enhancement
• Enhancing check suppression to product level (Options, Purchase, RSS, RSL, Intl)
• Facilitating product level check suppression to be viewed in the front end (achieved by MQ)
• Enhancements in reports for Check Suppression
• Performance management in designing 2 DB2 database tables
• Market Data (External feeds for Confidential /SP10 Application)
• User Entitlements
• QA Process

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• It will be easier to identify a contract’s underlying security, original expiration date, call or put, and strike price without the use of code-translation tables.
• It provides more flexibility than the OPRA symbols. The new convention allows for the addition of unique identifiers for new issuers, for the indication of expiration days other than the standard monthly expiration, and for adjusted contracts. It also indicates more precise and varied strike prices.
• Involved in the following Projects as a part of Joint Venture
• Market Data (External feeds for Confidential /SP10 Application)
• User Entitlements
• QA Process
• Offshore/Onshore model (Team size: 3)

Confidential, NA

Assistant Relationship/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reported to Regional PMO/Country Business in Initiating/Planning Release/Project Plans (Initial/finalized budget after prioritization, Budget Vs. Actuals, EV assessments)
• In-charge of communicating across multiple stake holders across Projects for all co-ordination activities to ensure Project meets deadlines. Highlight Risks, Risk Mitigation, Issues including Implementation
• Quality Assurance - through QC and walkthrough with teams to provide status/resolution strategy/approach, timelines for all Quality issues
• Procurement Management – interaction with Vendors for Software purchases
• Management for responsible country and status reporting to senior management for all countries in the EMEA region.
• Project documentation
• Deliverables, Status updates.