SUMMARY:

• Hands on Experience in PM Role incl. Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling & Closing.
• Working Knowledge across multiple functional areas such as Product Development, System Engineering and Technical Sales & Marketing Support.
• SDLC
• Agile - Scrum & Waterfall
• Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development & Testing
• Change & Risk Management
• Payments Life Cycle for POS, ATM, BANKING, FX
• EMV & Contactless (NFC) & Tokenization
• Authorization, Clearing, Billing & Reconciliation Systems
• Risk & Compliance: Understanding of PCI, AML, KYC, C Cards & US Regularity Compliance policies
• Independent analytical problem solver with clear understanding of Finance & Accounting principles
• Data Analysis, Data Modeling & Reporting, Operational Risk

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

ERP: Oracle Financial R12 ( General Ledger)

Databases: MS Access, MY-SQL, PL-SQL

Data Modeling Tools: MS Visio

Project & CR Management Tools: MS Project, Clarity & JIRA

Requirement Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, UML

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/Vista

Servers/Mainframes: Windows NT/2003 Server, DB2

Other Tools: MS-Office, 1 Note, Documentum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with corporate-wide senior business sponsors and subject matter experts, as well as technical partners (onshore and offshore) to identify and map technical solutions to business needs.
• Advice the development, testing and production support teams as needed, providing requirements knowledge and subject matter expertise to the teams performing these functions.
• Perform Data analysis and validation. Recognize/anticipate issues , risks and cross-functional gaps , and coordinate resolution across functions.
• Manage Payments Dashboard updates and Operational risk elements .

Confidential, NY

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform project analysis & management, working closely with Business/Stakeholders to understand project, prepare project plan, execution, control & monitor project progress.
• Gather business requirements & Understanding system impact and workflow
• Proactively monitor projects, identifying scope/requirement changes. Identifies project impact and escalates/notifies management and project team as necessary.
• Facilitates problem resolution and adds value by proactively anticipating needs and potential weaknesses and risk.
• Define data requirements and gather and validate data, applying judgment.
• Works closely with Development and Testers to ensure requirement understanding and to ensure implementation meets expectations and quality.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepare work plan, Strategy & Road Map (Technical & Operational): Evaluate product technology solutions and provide solutions for specialized problems.
• Define and track in writing the tasks, dependencies, priorities, roadblocks, deliverables and risks to minimize exposure and risk across multiple projects
• Gather business requirements evaluating data sources, translating requirements into Specifications, Application Design, Visio Flows, Modeling, Technical and Business writing and testing various methodologies
• Write Business requirements document (BRD), USE Case Specifications, Functional Specifications document (FSD)
• Analyze and create development work items to accommodate new changes required for enhancement of Authorization and clearing systems for POS, E-Commerce, EMV, Tokenization & ATM payment processing products
• Work with functional managers in preparing Work Breakdown, pro-forma schedule and creating SOW for the projects based on working knowledge and real world experience and help establish an inception deck for project planning and strategy
• Work and manage Data Analysis, Business Analysis, Gap Analysis, System Architecture Analysis & Design and Quality Assurance
• Create Systems Requirement Specification for Compliance (PCI, KYC, AML & Card Associations) Items and requirements.
• Facilitate Operation and Installation Review Calls for Dev. releases

Environment: Windows 2000, MS-SQL Sever, MS Office, C#, Java, Pearl, HTML, Document-um 5, MS Project, MC Project, MS Visio, Oracle Financial, HSM, Tomcat

Confidential, New York, NY

Manager - Payment Processing / BA-E commerce.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements interviewing stakeholders, business partners and end users
• Translating business requirements into functional specifications and design
• Develop recommendations to strengthen internal controls and improve operational efficiency in a Customer centric environment. Responsible for determining the impact of Operation based development and release on payment processing and accounting as a whole incl. General Ledger
• Working knowledge of PCI standards and policies. Monitor Credit Card fraudulent activities and ensure the implementation of full proof credit card verification process
• Execute SQL queries for creating Reports & Analyzing the performance of an individual product and Business
• Acting as a bridge between Risk, Finance, Tech and product groups on episodic issues to ensure systems and processes accurately calculate, and produce meaningfully reports.
• Monitor client expectations through client involvement and communication throughout the lifecycle of the project; educate clients and stakeholders on the benefits and risks associated with the project
• Accountable for managing global payment gateways activities and vendor relationships. Make sure efficient operation that complies with PCI regulation. Monitor a very large volume of debit and credit transactions, charge back data, data reconciliations, reports and discrepancies etc with JP Morgan Chase Paymentech, American Express, Barclays, PayPal, PayPal Express check out and Plug-Pay

Environment: SQL, J2EE, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Visio Data Modeling Tool, MS-SQL, .NET framework, Mobile technology

Confidential

Business & Product Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Technical Writing and prepare programming modules as per the projects assigned to our team
• Develop and ensure the adherence of testing strategies
• Look into areas of Improvement with stakeholders; identifies user requirements; assesses feasibility; analyzes costs/benefits; prioritizes projects, integrates activities to ensure successful implementation to improve business processes and support critical business strategies
• Design and specify solutions to address business needs and the methods of deploying them
• Technical Marketing and Price Negotiations with Vendors
• Preparing and managing project budgets