SUMMARY:

• A seasoned, senior IT Project, Program & Portfolio Management Professional with documented s spanning several decades:
• Managed innovative complex, enterprise - spanning strategic initiatives with development and business groups disbursed over wide geographies. Comfortable defining and structuring projects, managing P & L, implementing tollgates, etc.
• Designed and successfully deployed innovative, mission-critical online transaction & information systems for highly regulated industries.
• Effective program advocate, communicator, facilitator and conciliator for all levels of organizations, from “C-suite” to customer-facing production environments. Consistently achieved consensus of large numbers of disparate stakeholder constituencies while delivering optimal business results.
• Formed and managed teams with total staff complements exceeding 150 development, implementation, IT service delivery and operations professionals in 4 countries.
• Skilled at managing both Waterfall and Lean / Agile software and product development and guiding corporate transitions from traditional to modern paradigms and practices.
• Completed large-scale engagements and programs for systems development, intricate implementations, migrations and infrastructure roll-outs ranging from $500K to $25 Million of professional services (with total budgets exceeding $1 Billion) for Blue-Chip institutions, including:, Confidential, Citibank, Daichi-Kango Bank, Confidential, Pepsico, Microsoft, A T & T, start-ups, and others
• Knowledgeable in multiple business and technology domains and disciplines, including: PMO practices, performance measurement and metrics, capital markets, finance and banking, operations, supply chain, infrastructure deployment, manufacturing, logistics, systems analysis, software development, strategic sourcing among others.
• Taught wide array of Management subjects, including: IT Leadership, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Capital Budgeting, Finance & Risk Engineering and Manufacturing / Industrial Engineering at top-tier University, for over 10 years
• Created from “whole cloth” new products in the IT, financial and health care spaces. Established organizations for their development, implementation and market entry.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Management and New Products Strategy Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Advise principals on various aspects of entrepreneurship, business and operational planning, IT Requirements and financing alternatives for potential new ventures.
• Defined operational structure and financial model for Agile new products development process.

Confidential, MN

Senior Program Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program Portfolio consisted of more than 50 cross-functional projects involving: network security analysis and architecture, software development on a variety of platforms, database migration, data warehousing, vulnerability assessments and remediation, protection of rmation, etc.
• Managed both Agile SCRUM and traditional Waterfall development and deployment teams distributed and off-shore, with total budgetary responsibility exceeding $20MM. Represented development groups to Senior Corporate Management to define and establish goals, objectives and expectations.
• Used Clarity, Planview, CA-Rally, MS-Project and SharePoint (among others) to manage programs, projects and teams.

Confidential, Baton Rouge, LA

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Advised clients in Confidential, Financial Services and on investment evaluation for new products and service development, strategic deployment of IT within highly regulated domains, structuring of projects and new initiatives for revenue cycle optimization, network security, encryption of PII/PHI data, integration of Agile SCRUM and Lean methodologies appropriate budgets and staffing levels to achieve corporate objectives, risk management, curricular development, inter alia.

Confidential, Palm Beach, FL

Founder, Chief Systems Architect and Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualized and designed an elegant technology-centric solution to address fundamental needs of every major constituency in the health care value chain: Consumers, Providers and Payers while offering a high-integrated platform to improve the quality, responsiveness and economics of the health care system. Solicited and managed investors, sponsors and co-venture relationships.
• Managed Agile development teams distributed over three States.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Online Product Architect Business and Technology Strategist

Responsibilities:

• Defined operational requirements, systems architecture, IT infrastructure and system specifications for new mobile delivery platform for social-media oriented al product suite, to be developed using Agile methods.
• Created system architecture, staffing plans, marketing strategy and financing documents for initial round of fund-raising.

Confidential, NYC

Adjunct Professor

Responsibilities:

• Taught in graduate and undergraduate programs.
• Supervised graduate and senior-level undergraduate thesis projects.

• Project Management
• Management of Information Systems
• New Product Design and Development
• Statistical Quality Control and Improvement
• Quantitative Methods for Managerial Decisions
• Managerial Strategy
• Supply Chain Management
• Managerial Accounting and Finance
• Industrial Health and Safety
• Capital Markets and Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Derivatives and Risk Management
• Operations Management
• Managerial Economics
• Design for Manufacturability
• Valuation of Securities
• Financial Accounting
• Foundations of Management

Confidential, San Diego, CA Johannesburg, SA

Group CTO, Director and Program Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for R & D and commercialization of a novel multifactor authentication system for encrypting and financial securing transactions over the Internet.
• Designed and developed a unique optical-media based authentication token along with necessary new manufacturing processes, new materials development and quality assurance programs (6 patents pending for my work).
• Created and managed multi-site PMO. Supervised software and infrastructure development teams in Australia and South Africa along with integration projects with 3rd party banking and card processing systems

Confidential, New York City

Senior Program Manager and Strategic Technology Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed technical feasibility, financial impact, operational risks and development/migration issues of “build vs. buy” decision for replacement of Confidential ’s high-volume OTC equity securities trading platform. continue to operate and support legacy mainframe-based system (with ever-increasing costs and difficulty of finding technical resources), develop internally a new client-server based replacement system, or 3) adopt and adapt an existing “off-the-shelf” product from an outside vendor.
• I developed a framework and methodology for analysis of the options, performed a detailed and comprehensive study of each alternative and prepared “balanced scorecard” and other tools to facilitate decision-making by top management.

Project Manager and Senior Systems Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed secure trans-global electronic securities marketplace for a prominent multinational vendor of online trading systems.
• Product utilized IBM MQ-Series messaging paradigms, encrypted data, the Microsoft .NET server platform and various Internet development tools and languages.
• Selected and managed relationships with technology tools providers in UK and outsourcing firms in India.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager, Analyst and Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed process, procedures and interface modules for “passing the book” between trading operations to enable Confidential to seamlessly trade securities around the clock. Supervised two programmer/analysts and reported to Confidential ’s C.I.O.
• Worked extensively with project management and development teams in Japan and the Confidential .
• Defined data warehouse strategies for trading analytics and support systems.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Engagement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed $10 MM implementation of the Confidential Internet Banking Platform for an entirely new, completely Internet-based bank for one of the world’s leading financial institutions.
• Principal point of contact between vendors and senior management of Bank for overall management of project.
• Managed PMO consisting of team of 16 technical project managers at Confidential site, each with responsibility for a key component of the implementation.
• Established change management process and procedures; approved project plans and monitored program-related development tasks at HQ in Atlanta.
• Supervised roll-outs, UAT, alpha and beta testing.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reengineered legacy system (domiciled on an obsolete technology platform for which vendor support was no longer available) for mortgage-backed securities accounting and trading, defined new platform and systems architecture and developed migration strategy.
• Designed new securities master database along with interfaces to Confidential ’s mainframe and networked-based downstream processing systems.
• Designed trading support system which encompassed cross-border, multi-instrument derivatives and repos (repurchase agreements) to replace two non-functional systems and were non-compliant with new Confidential .-mandated securities trading surveillance, compliance and auditing requirements.
• Worked extensively with Confidential ’s Compliance Department to establish requirements and functional specifications. Developed interface specifications for data transfer to Confidential ’s mainframe-based central general Ledger systems.