SUMMARY:

• Extensive Project Management skills, systems/process re - engineering, design, development, and systems implementation experience in Matrix environments using Waterfall and Agile Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Develop project charters, project scope, project objectives and project plans to ensure that implementations/changes are delivered on-time, within scope and on budget.
• Comprehensive problem-solving abilities through analyzing business requirements/needs, managing budgets and managing software development efforts.
• Proven leadership, technical and communication skills that have consistently led to successful project implementations.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Software: Java, PowerBuilder, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Rational Team Concert, JIRA, Clarity PPM, PMx, SQL, Siebel CRM, MS Project, ClearCase, ClearQuest, TeamTrack, SharePoint, Crystal Reports, COBOL, Team Foundation Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager of the Architecture team that provides Okta Identity Management and Single Sign-On (SSO) support for all corporate applications - employees, corporate clients and vendors.
• Responsible for providing client onboarding, Okta migrations and release management activities for the product.
• Manage the decommissioning planning effort of Time Warner applications not moving to the Confidential & Confidential IT platforms.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager of the Wealth Management and Consumer Banking systems projects that provides enhancements and required auditing improvements to Siebel CRM, Wealth Management and Schedule Transfers banking applications.
• Lead and facilitate the project implementations, execution and communication activities for key projects.
• Responsible for providing senior management/business weekly project status reporting, manage project financials (Actuals vs Forecast), manage Statement of Work (SOW) & change management, project plan management, release planning and testing management for multiple work streams.
• Lead and drive comprehensive planning, implementation and adoption across business, technology, operations and support groups. Manage, identify and track project risks, issues and dependencies across initiatives to ensure project successes.

Confidential, Somerville, NJ

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager of the Wound Closure Resource Center project that would improve the customer experience by optimizing the website design, improve the mobile experience and product search capabilities.
• Responsible for facilitating the project plan, requirement gathering effort, BRD documentation and project analysis activities.
• Managed weekly management dashboards and project status updates information to several business sponsors, senior managers and the steering committee groups.
• Planned, coordinated and consolidated project activities and requirements between the Marketing, Digital Marketing, VANTAGE, Web Channel and IT groups to improve the suture product catalogue experience.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager of the Confidential Hedging (derivatives) project that created a new hedging strategy using economic, accounting and Confidential investments for hedging simulation in asset-liability management models.
• Responsible for developing and managing the project plans and facilitating work streams project meetings. Manage the business requirements gathering, analysis and BRD documentation effort while identifying the project issues, risks dependencies.
• Provide weekly project status updates and management dashboards information for several work streams to sponsor groups including business sponsors, senior managers and the steering committee group.

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager of the Agile Fund Lineup Change project that automates the process of managing customer retirement 403b institutional plan/fund allocation changes for new and existing funds. The automation will provide the platform to consolidate fund information from 3 rd party vendors, simplify pricing, provide auditing capabilities and reduce cycle time.
• Responsible for creating and managing the project plan, project financials and the SDLC activities through the customized Agile cycles. Manage the business requirement analysis, BRD documentation, UAT and secured all BRD sponsor approvals.
• Provide weekly project status and financials overview to sponsors, senior managers and steering committee meetings detailing project deliverables, plan execution and issues/risks mitigation.

Confidential, New York, NY

Program Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the development work streams through all the SDLC cycles working between the IT, finance and risks groups managing the programs schedule, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Provided weekly program status stakeholder meetings and produce the management status reports for the Steering Committee, Management Committee, business and development teams regarding the program deliverables, plan, execution, defects and issues/risks.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager of the Agile Tech M development project that manages all the bank’s projects thru the SDLC life cycle. The system provides senior management with a vehicle to track all the Confidential projects status from inception to production release identifying on target and Confidential risk projects based on budget and schedule factors.
• Responsible for managing the project plan, systems integration planning/testing, facilitating UAT testing, defect and enhancement management, lead development and business team requirements/design sessions, communications planning/execution, pilot adoption and full adoption planning and execution activities.
• Provided stakeholder meetings to senior managers, business and development teams regarding the project plan/status, execution, defects and issues/risk mitigation for the Service Delivery Management Workspace, Project Management Dashboard and Engineering Workspace projects.
• Manage the escalation and resolution process of the project issues/risks to eliminate and minimize potential project delays.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the UAT Test Management team using offshore resources for testing the financial impact of system changes that affect the Basel, Risk Weighted Assets (RWA), GAAP, Banking Book and Trading Book products.
• Facilitated requirement and design review sessions with business groups and technical teams for BRD and FRD documentation validation check points.
• Managed the UAT testing effort that implemented, tracked system changes, data feed changes, project deliverables and project status.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Project Manager / Sr. Analyst (AVP)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading 3 offshore teams that comprised of a total of 13 members - Project Managers, Test Leads, QA Analysts for the Global Trade Information Management System (TRIMS) re-engineering effort from PowerBuilder to Java. The TRIMS system managed Letters of Credit products globally for import and exporting companies.
• Provided resource planning and determined resource utilization based on deliverables, project funding and project timelines. Developed, reviewed/approved project plans, and UAT testing strategies for system enhancements and new development.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Project Manager / Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed the implementation of the Confidential Stream Futures Confidential system by creating/managing the project plan, identifying/managing the issues/risks, provided the project status and communication to senior leadership.
• Responsible for leading development, migrations and testing teams using onshore and offshore resources through SIT & UAT testing environments.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements and documenting the BRD/FRD. Led the development and testing teams using onshore and offshore resources through SIT & UAT testing environments.
• Provided BAU support for the Corporate Actions Group.

Confidential, Harrison, NY

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing business intelligence onsite & offshore developers, project plans, negotiating project deliverables and timelines with various groups that includes: senior management, business clients and database teams for the leasing products business.
• Responsible for managing the project plan, gathering business requirements and functional requirements. Managed the UAT testing effort and defect tracking management.