SUMMARY:

• Experienced product, project, program and PMO manager
• Delivery of millions of dollar’s worth of projects and portfolios, with budgets ranging from $50k to $50 million
• Stood up new platform for selling securitized debt; incuding mortgage, auto and credit card
• Experience in enterprise level implementations, including a prior organization wide PPM rollout and Dodd Frank compliance portfolio
• Hands on management from inception to analysis, design, development, testing and implementation/ post implementation
• Proficient in project planning, tracking, risk/ issue management, scope management, executive level status reporting
• Understanding of business needs and the IT work required to implement
• Developed project pipeline and project selection criteria
• Stood up a PMO for the Securities and Exchange Commission
• Great communication and interpersonal skills. Can effectively foster and maintain collaborative relationships with business partners, executives, and IT
• Management of budgeting and project financials, including resource management, budget forecasting and actuals
• Good working use of tools including JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, Visio, PPM, Primavera and Clarity

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project/ Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with both IT and Business groups to drive product delivery. Have to fully understand all aspects of the technical solution, as well as the requirements and needs of business groups
• Production of wireframes, requirements definitions, and functionality documentation
• Facilitate enhancements and roll outs to new teams
• Approval of user stories and test cases
• Development of use cases to amend stories
• Weekly status updates, milestone reports, and risks/ issues
• Work with IT on build parameters
• Work with business groups to determine must haves and nice to haves
• Create job aids, processes, document handoffs for go to BAU

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Deep dove with technical leads into high level and more granular architectural and technical solutions for the migration
• Managed multiple work streams and technical teams, including development, systems, and QA/ testing
• Drove teams toward completion of all stories, milestones and epics
• Communicated project status, progress on deliverables, and risks/issues to stakeholders and leadership
• Managed project scope, budget, quality and delivery of requirements
• Addressed risks, issues and critical dependencies
• Acted as a liaison between business and technical staff at all levels
• Drove appropriate levels of project governance to ensure risks, issues and critical dependencies were addressed

Confidential

PMO Manager

Responsibilities:

• Establishment of projectized organizational methodology and toolsets, including: templates, instruction, and gating
• Streamlined project selection and prioritization, allowing for greater portfolio alignment, oversight and control
• Created financial, strategic and risk metrics that allowed Senior Level Executives to make Go/ No - Go project strategic decisions
• Defined project methodologies, oversight and change controls.
• Managed quarterly portfolio review process.
• Created a project change review board
• Produced a multitude of organizational templates and reporting standards, as well as ad-hoc reports for executive level as needed

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Team was tasked to build a tool that could calculate monthly, and then daily total liquid resources of bank
• Managed a bi-weekly ‘scrum of scrums’ stand-up with scrum leads.
• Discussed current progress and completion of stories, upcoming story completion targets, and issues and risks
• Facilitated vetting of solutions between scrum master’s and tech leads
• Closely worked with senior executives to ensure strategic and financial portfolio alignment and coordination
• Role entailed portfolio oversight, tracking and reporting on individual agile team pods
• Team lead for the operation readiness effort. Very high priority and expensive project, therefore a great deal of internal auditing and process reviews
• Ensured that all requirements had been met and tested, all process mapping was completed and approved, and teams were in place for implementation

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Projects included a Confidential PPM implementation, as well as numerous data infrastructure and security projects
• Worked with analysts, architects and developers to establish technical solutions
• Drove project teams to completion within scope, budget, timelines, quality, and SLAs. Managed monthly financial headcount and forecast vs. actuals
• Managed monthly financial headcount, forecast vs. actuals, and accruals
• Captured and successfully mitigated risks and issues by running weekly meeting and subsequent follow-ups
• Extensive use of MS Project and MS Office

Confidential

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed monthly financial headcount, forecast vs. actuals, and accruals
• Captured and successfully mitigated risks and issues by running weekly meeting and subsequent follow-ups
• Extensive use of MS Project and MS Office