Overview

High-performance Program and Project Manager with over 15 years of successful PMO development and management and delivery and rescue of global complex, high-risk projects. 

• Financial Services
• Business Process Design
• Change Management
• UAT & QA
  

Project Management Profile

• Passion to succeed; strong sense of project ownership.
• Commitment to quality, process and meeting deadlines
• Thought leader, agile learner and a creative problem solver
• Team builder, leader, motivator and mentor
• Effective in anticipating risks and in developing mitigation strategies
• Expert Requirements Development skills.
• Skilled in relationship building, stakeholder management, and influencing
• Exceptional written and presentation abilities
• Strong technical background

Confidential NYC
Business devlopment 
Dec 2009 – Present
Business and capital development for UK-based tele-dermatology diagnostics start-up.

• Development and implementation of project and portfolio management processes as well as direction of the Business Analysis function
• Successfully managed multiple, simultaneous projects including eCommerce website navigation design and implementation as well as end-user experience and behavior targeting
• Championed and led effort to develop and deploy metrics and analytics-based planning and decision making

ConfidentialNYC
Director, Enterprise PMO-Centre of Excellence 
Feb 2007 – Dec 2007

• Successfully created global PMO charter, requirements, governance processes, IT Asset Management and development plan.
• Led the development and implementation of formal project management process based on the PMI framework for multiple SDLC’s (Waterfall, RUP, Agile.)
• Project review, remediation and PM mentoring of multiple projects - financial, manufacturing and business process outsourcing
• Preparation of and presentation of executive steering committee status and financial reports
• Preparation and presentation of Executive Committee reports.

Confidential NYC
Director, eCommerceIT 
Sep 2005 – Jan 2007

• Managed multiple, simultaneous, inter-related web-based projects
• Introduced formal planning and specifications as well as formal project management and SDLC processes.
• Successfully re-organized applications development portfolio along strategic lines.
• Managed a team 18 (PM/BA’s. UI designers, developers and QA team)

Confidential NYC
Selected engagements 2004-2005
Program Manager
Confidential

• Managed the conversion of multiple, simultaneous Retail Brokerage asset management applications to a eCommerce-based thin client platform.
• Full life-cycle (CMM Level 4); requirements development and definition through implementation
• Solutions and technical architecture; coordination of off-shore UI design and technology groups
• Stakeholder management and communications

Program Office Director American International Group

• Oversight of $30MM in capital projects assuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Oversight and Quality Assurance of Business Requirements
• Conflict resolution; Risk, Issue and Scope Management
• Software package evaluation, selection and deployment; HP PPM
• Vendor and stakeholder management and stakeholder communications.

Confidential NYC
Selected engagements: 1997-2003
Project Management
Confidential

• Planned and managed testing and certification of derivatives products Market & Credit Risk and Exposure applications (Interest Rate & Currency Swaps, options, futures.)
• Developed approach and strategy to test and validate complex valuation model involving Monte Carlo simulation. Provided tools to extract test data directly from production using direct SQL inquiries [Sybase, Unix].

Practice Management Confidential

• Planned and developed a Foreign Exchange Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) and GSTPA practice for a New York-based financial services transition management consultancy
• Settlement & Liquidity Risk operations impact evaluation
• Software evaluation and integration

Business process testing and certification

Program Management - PMO Confidential

• Directed the Program Office for the integration and consolidation of the JPMorgan into an enhanced multi-currency Chase general ledger system involving 80 team members.
• Project plan, timeline, milestones and dependencies
• Risk identification, management and mitigation
• Communications to stakeholders; management of cross-functional team leads and multiple work streams

Program Office/Project Management Confidential

• Established a Global Program Office for Senior Executive Management (annual IT budget of $2 billion).
• Development of standards and methodologies (CMM)
• The development of a Standard Project Scorecard
• Project budget tracking, management and reporting
• Risk management, project management mentoring and co-management

Program Management Confidential

• Successfully managed the global SWIFT-based industry and mandatory testing program for major international broker-dealer/investment bank. Multi-location testing; team of 50
• Full end-to-end testing of foreign exchange, trading, equity and fixed income securities processing and funds transfer functions.
• Coordination of industry associations, custodial and settlement facilities, trading partners, internal users, global subsidiaries and affiliates

Applications Development Manager responsible for full life-cycle development of major manufacturing and sourcing initiatives.
Confidential (Fleet) 1989 – 1993
Project Manager responsible for the execution of various strategic initiatives.

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Education

• MBA Studies in Finance and Operations Research
• BA in Economics with Mathematics