SUMMARY:

• Technology and business visionary with over 17 years of diversified experience in driving projects and leading cross - functional teams to consistently meet key program deliveries.
• Adept at maintaining focus on achieving bottom-line results while formulating and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs in a variety of business industries, including Market Risk, Credit Risk, Confidential /Retail/Wealth Management/Investment Banking, Insurance, Anti-Money Laundering/Fraud Detection and ERP domain.
• Equipped with dynamic communication and presentation skills and an excellent grasp of complex Project Management, End-to-End Software Testing/Release skills with genuine enthusiasm for resolving business challenges through technical innovation.
• Dynamic team leader with motivational management style recognized for abilities to bridge gaps between business and technology and envision the bigger picture; demonstrated ability in exceeding customer expectations

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Project Management/Agile
• Scrum/Sprint Planning
• Business Strategy
• Integrated program plans
• Risk Assessment/Management
• RFP’s/SLA/re-engineering application
• Test Strategy/Test Plan development
• Process Improvement/COE setup
• Release/Change Management
• Continuous Integration
• Customer Service Excellence
• Vendor/contract Management

BUSINESS EXPERTISE:

• Extensive experience in the financial sector such as (Interest Rates, Credit Rate, Equities, Fixed Incomes, Derivatives), Enterprise Risk Management (Market Risk, Credit Risk, Operations Risk), Regulatory Compliance Retail Banking, Wealth Management, Payment and Insurance sector.
• Applications exposure include; Market Risk Incremental VaR, Stress/Back testing, Credit Risk, Cross-Asset Front to Back applications (Trading, Back Office processing, Payments, Accounting and Hedge Accounting) - Calypso, Murex; AML/Fraud, Fineos.
• Experience with Onboarding/Digitization on tablet
• Experience with cutting edge Brokerage solution Confidential system for clients, advisors, branches and head office.
• Responsible for setting up Program/Testing/Release Management COE for Tier 1 financial institution, transformation services, outsourcing
• Proposal preparation and communications in the selling of solutions to secure business contracts.
• Project/task/resource planning, organizing and prioritizing to optimize results and manage testing from concept to completion with remarkable deadline sensitivity.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES INCLUDE:

PROJECT MGT TOOLS: Microsoft Project, Clarity, PWA, JIRA (with project management add ons)

DATA BASES/LANGUAGES: MSSQL, DB2, MySQL, MS Access, Oracle, Netezza, SAS, Java, VBA

BUG TRACKING TOOLS: JIRA, HP Quality Center/ALM, IBM Clearquest, QA Director

BUILD/RELEASE: Continuous Integration (Atlassian Family- Confluence, Crucible), Stash, Teamcity, CaliberRM, WinCVS

OPERATING SYSTEMS: MS Window 2000/XP/Win7, Solaris, Linux

TESTING TOOLS: QTP, Test Partner, Rational Robot, Test Composer, Win runner, Load runner, Astra Quick Test

WEB AUTHORING TOOLS: Apache Tomcat, Web logic, WebSphere, Citrix metaframe, MS-IIS.

ERP etc.: Cognos, SAP BW

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage regulatory developments, methodology changes, and clarifications
• Work on internal technology enhancements and counter proposals
• Coordinate proposals for various clients
• Manage Confidential ’s FRTB initiation for Clients Simulation models, Data aggregation
• Coordinating Market risk workflow tailoring for FRTB including Back Test, P&L attribution test, market data management

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage Key transformational initiatives/project management necessary for Needs Navigator, Tablet deployments, Eforms and ESignature projects
• Coordinate/manage Fenergo implementation upgrade
• Project Estimation, budget, resource, release coordination, scrum management, project risk/escalation, daily leadership update
• Work with both internal and external partners to continually look for opportunities/changes that will enhance customer experience, improve operational efficiencies and/or reduce operating costs
• Mitigate risk factors through careful analysis of financial/statistical data. Anticipated/managed change effectively

PROGRAM MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing Fusion Program team from post development to implementation
• Coordinated System Integration with third party vendors for Confidential implementation
• Conduct daily scrum meetings thru JIRA Agile/Sprint dashboard, tracking the status and efficiency of teams using the metrics available in JIRA agile
• Manage resource allocation, billings, effort estimation, and timesheets
• Contributed to the Business Strategies of my Business Partners through the provision of cost effective and timely technology solutions for products, services, and management information
• Effective end-to-end Project Management includes Application Development, Batch process, Test/Implementation Approach, estimation, resource, defect management, Vendor management, Release closure reports
• Accountable for reporting/escalating the Change requests, budget for approval
• Responsible for oversight on regulatory requirements for the program
• Implemented Investors Group/GWL hosted JIRA and effective use of JIRA in Agile/Task/Defect dashboard/business communications
• Evaluate resource needs and orchestrate assignments as needed for both internal, contract
• Responsible for all schedule maintenance
• Manage the Datawarehouse Extract development/validation
• Taking appropriate action for the prompt awareness and diagnosis of issues/problems to project team and resolve and/or enhance program issues where required

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Apply effective Management for Confidential production releases, business client and regulatory reporting for Confidential and the Confidential
• Responsible for the development & operational budgets, $20MM+
• Accountable for comprehending and reporting to the program management team from a timeline, cost and risk perspective, the testing impact of scope changes/PCRs. Resource allocation, budget- clarity tool.
• Ensure effective communication and reporting with Steering Committees, Management, Executive, staff and other functional groups for all projects, programs and lines of business
• Counterparty Credit risk and Confidential measurement (Risk factor simulation and calibration) cross sector implementation project
• Managed implementation for Confidential (Credit Risk Data and Repository) with Composite (Data Virtualization)
• Managed Confidential ’s Confidential calculation overall audit process
• Managed Prototype development that produces Benchmark for VaR/Back Test
• Developed and participated review the Confidential documentation required for the program
• Implemented DAC (Data Automation Composer- In house tool development for real time end-to-end data quality validation) for VaR, Back Test data validation and reduced Test cycle execution time,
• Setup release management team, and implement Continuous Integration for Market Risk, and Credit Risk technologies.
• Implemented Confidential hosted JIRA and effective use of JIRA in Agile/Task/Defect dashboard/business communications.
• Manage all billings, effort estimation, Test Estimations, and timesheets for Testing/Release Teams.
• Playing a vital role in creating, analyzing and signing-off all documentations
• Work with the application team SCRUM masters to enhance productivity by handling issues and external dependencies.
• Estimates, dashboards, defect logs, closure reports and ensuring all test/release artefacts comply with standards and audit requirements, monitoring their record in the project SharePoint/confluence/JIRA and participate in gate reviews
• Review plans and project documentation using risk analysis methodologies and tools that align with the development approach/methodology selected for the project

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated effort Estimation for all the activities/phases within the program.
• Provided framework for the products, legal entities, and location wise functional coverage.
• Framework coverage for all aspects of the IRD business, including operations (confirmations, settlements, payments, funding, reporting), middle office (trading risk, market risk, credit risk, PnL) and front office (trade entry, basic modelling).
• Responsible for all documentation, reporting, managing & tracking all IT and business related issues for the projects; including escalation and resolution
• Designed framework for Trade Capture, Trade Events, Workflow (Trade, Confirmations, Settlements/Payments).
• Played a key role in the coordination of all planning, execution and reporting for program testing activities, as well as making sure that all sign offs on deliverables to meet governance requirements.
• Managed release efforts for Capital Stress Testing - involving verification of Algorithmic Financial Risk Management software.
• Developed and debugged Back Office reports, DTCC batch upload process, and the Dodd- Frank process.
• Managed UAT/Production Parallel Execution
• Supported Operation/User Team for the Back Office processes/Testing/Training
• Release management coordination for each Sprint among all the interfaces, modules, and stakeholders

Confidential

Strategic initiative Program, Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented End-to-End solutions for packaged application with agile approaches.
• Provided End-to-End Coordination/management for the data migration for Murex, Calypso, DSTS, FIS, Bloomberg, Summit, WSS.
• Managed Wire-Payments project- Message gateway capability was upgraded, enabled STP process/workflow logic for the existing wire payment system
• Facilitated daily meetings for the project progress/status for numerous upstream/ downstream groups, including MO,
• Demonstrated execution effort for Complex M3 project (Monitor key risk/control measures and increases management’s ownership) where trading data across multiple common dimensions and from multiple sources are hitting a single cognos tool
• Managed non-deterministic testing for Reconciliation structured exception management project that introduce workflow across exception/break management processes, FOBO recon, Fiserv integration
• Ensure the test/release process, methodologies and tools are applied appropriately and test phase entry/exit criteria are agreed to by stakeholders and applied by the project team
• Define and implement processes and procedures for receiving and releasing tested software.

Management Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined and implement processes that allowed Development/QA teams to deliver high quality software products in a Test Driven development environment.
• Project Manager/Scrum Master for Product Automation Project
• Coordinate Infrastructure needs for the projects
• Responsible for developing all program artefacts and financials.
• Facilitated Project Status Review, Marketing Requirement Document ( Confidential ) and Technical Design Document ( Confidential ) review meetings with business analysts, developers, testers and clients.
• Scoped and directed build out of release test environments for new and ongoing products, brought release test beds to a predictable reflection of live service, managed Selenium automation framework on sanity, non- sanity testing
• Ensured systems designs adhered to architectural guidelines and were in line with strategic, business and systems directions
• Work with the product owner to groom the product backlog
• Matured the PMO/processes; incl. development of the PMF & SDLC, Agile approach, Test Driven development