SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and Six Sigma Green Belt with over 14 years of experience that includes Strategic Planning, Enterprise analysis, Risk management, Project/Program monitoring and control, Regulatory and Compliance management for medium to large - scale initiatives - evaluation, development, implementation and system integration programs valued up to $30 Million.Expert in developing and managing solutions and responses at various levels for regulatory letters/Consent orders etc. stemming from Confidential, OCC, Federal Reserve and other regulatory bodies.
• Rapid and definitive in decision-making and determining objectives and approaches to such critical assignments.
• Experienced in establishing PMO COE best practice, strategic direction, governance & management.
• Proficient in all phases of project management exhibiting tremendous grasp of SDLC with proven track record from system design through integration, test planning, and verification via requirements-based execution, quantitative risk management, and formal change management techniques.
• Hands-on expertise in creating and providing credible challenge for Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), High Level Design Specifications (HLD), Technical Requirements Specifications (TRS), Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM), UAT planning and implementation.
• Experienced with managing transitions of agile delivery teams from Waterfall to Agile SCRUM.
• Successfully led cross-functional teams, identified program capabilities, assess resources, and collaborated with personnel (high level executives, vendors) ensuring projects delivered on time and within budget. Led PMO initiatives related to quality, methodology, expertise and tools.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Enterprise wide Implementations
• Enterprise Risk management
• Custom Software Development
• Database Design (RDBMS)
• Systems Engineering
• System Migrations/Integrations
• Regulatory and Compliance
• Merger & Acquisitions
• Vendor Management
• C level communication specialist
• Cross-Functional Supervision
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Client Relations & Presentations
• Business & IT Planning
• Procurement and Vendor Management
• Project Management Office
• Federal and State Regulations /Mandates
• Requirements Analysis
• ROI Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• System Migrations/Integrations
• Costing & Budgeting
• Project Scheduling
• Test driven development (TDD) Continuous Integration
• Testing/QA/Rollout/Support
• Change control

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

• MS Project Planview ClearQuest Visual Paradigm Blueprint MS Visio UML SharePoint
• Navigator Lotus Notes Rapid Agile Agile Bench MS Office Suite Web Services (Web / Application) Infrastructure Management Customer Management (CRM) Configuration Management Release Management
• Windows Server and Network Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Sr. Project Manager - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects within Resolution and Recovery office in response to Federal Reserve System and Confidential letter related to Title I 165(d) of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, 12 U.S.C § 5365(d); a multimillion dollar multiyear program.
• Led narrative creation and analysis sessions and assist in drafting modules for Legal Entity project, Collateral Management, MIS and Third Party Contracts.
• Key responsibilities included Program schedule, Risks management/mitigation, Issues Resolution, Confidential co meetings, Resource planning and Budget committee facilitation.
• Led the monthly updates for SteerCo for the RRP Americas Program and other Ad hoc presentations and requests for information.
• Drove the Chapter Impacts assessment and RAID administration for the program.

Confidential, New York, NY

Program Manager / Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that original project charters as submitted to regulators are driving project plans for Shared services Funding and Liquidity, MIS (Management Information Systems), Legal Entity rationalization, Comm. and Trust playbook and Collateral Management
• Provide process guidance to teams when conducting comprehensive analysis for the potential risk areas in the recovery plans
• Leverage iCAPS, starting with 4Q15 deliverables.
• Track all ex-antes across multiple work streams.
• Develop well defined documents for processes to maintain critical operations supported by legal and operational frameworks.
• Provide timely and succinct updated to Confidential committee
• Co-ordinate and facilitate communication with stakeholders across various business domains and at all levels to ensure accuracy around the initiative. Communications include understanding regulatory requirements, auditing content to ensure it meets regulatory requirements and assisting business analysts in completing data investigations.
• Write scope of work, budget and program timeline along with content team leads
• Lead client status calls, present findings and serve as central point of contact for client needs; document and communicate project status to keep clients informed and involved
• Review/edit/final proofread all deliverables before they are provided to client.
• Develop and manage project budgets; anticipate needs and propose solutions as budget issues arise during an engagement Collect, monitor and validate project metrics
• Work with team to determine changes to program scope and implications for budget.
• Collaborate with other Program managers to create best practices in delivery approaches and internal team management for the GPMO.
• Leverage firm's standards for reporting in order to provide measurable evidence of progress towards closure
• Develop Interim, audit-able milestones with ability to adjust timetables, based on evolving facts.
• Manage the Internal Audit reporting.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• The program included four major projects where I managed a cross functional team comprising of internal SMEs, Business analysts and external vendors such as NASCO and Infosys. Combined budget for the four projects is $11.4M.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the Product, Price and Quote (PPQ) Program sales and marketing effort to develop new products, ensure compliance with state and federal regulations, implementation of new Sales Automation Process, rating, quoting, renewal and enrollment to specific market segment.
• I managed a budget of $11.2M and cross-functional team of 18 business analysts, developers, programmers, network specialists and reported to 14 business stakeholders from various divisions.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Project Manager/Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Integrate data from the two newly acquired banks with Comerica banks database, with the goal to eventually migrate all the data into Comerica’s archives.
• It was DB2 database and COBOL, JCL were the programming languages in the environment.
• Monitoring and alerting suspicious activities such as money laundering (structuring, shell company/trusts monitoring and Real estate transactions).

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with developers and subject matter experts (Select group of agents) to establish a project’s technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Led the business analysts to elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements meetings, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis. Approved all subcontractor invoices and material purchases from vendors, maintaining 100% accuracy with contract files.

Confidential, Ann Arbor MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirements elicitation, analysis and verification sessions to ensure that requirements statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, and verifiable, and that they conform to business stakeholders’ standards.
• Conducted JADs with the Program and Practice Directors, Account Executive, Managing Director, Project Administrators, Technical Development Lead, and Quality Services Lead to analyze and document the requirements.
• Successfully completed roll-outs with zero exceptions noted; standardized disjointed desktop back-end, and stabilized infrastructure.
• Assisted the Practice Manager in overseeing application development and ensuring that technical development staff met business user needs and requirements and adhered to the agreed upon specifications