SUMMARY:

• Executive leader with extensive experience in leveraging business, technology, strategic leadership and management insights to successfully transform business vision to business value.
• Innovative leader focused on achieving exceptional results in highly competitive environments that demand continuous improvement.
• Expert in driving product, process and technology improvements while building partnerships with key business decision makers.
• Certified PMP and CSM working with top tier Investment Banks - defining requirements; modeling solutions using technologies eg: (J2EE, EAI, Finance Models, columnar DBs, SOA, Hadoop, UML, RUP, messaging, ERP, CEP etc).
• Working continually with C-level executives, very senior management.
• Led engagements from $3-120 mm spearheading next generation technologies.
• Built day action plans/roadmaps and executed/blueprinted them for multiple firms to help reduce Confidential and achieve higher profitability.
• Transformed and executed multiple asset classes risk frameworks (credit, market, counterparty) - GRAIN, RICE, Insights for Valuation, MoLAN applications etc. Cross savings across multiple organizations exceeded 55 mm.
• Achieved business savings > 40 mm leading big data Business strategy ideation and managed Data Lakes, cloud initiatives for storage, cross-sell, risk measurement, regulatory reporting, valuation, analytics and fraud detection.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Strategy planning and execution, Executive team leadership, CoEs, jumpstarting global practices, optimizing operations, leading complex turnarounds with focus on ROI, building strong relationships with different businesses, risk IT with excellent negotiating, mediating, influencing, conflict resolution skills. Strong background in definition, execution and management of all aspects of software development(SDLC).

T ECHNICAL SKILLS:

Containers/PaaS: Docker, Puppet, Chef, Heroku

Cloud Foundry: Pivotal, IBM Bluemix

Cloud Computing: Amazon EC2, Elastic MapReduce, Hadoop Cluster, Azure

Analytics: time series, Random forests, SVM, K-clustering, Mahout, Machine Learning, Text Analytics, NLP, LDA, Naïve Bayes, semantics, ontology, Lexalytics, Provalis etc.

Financial Software: TSA(Trading Solutions Architecture), OMS, EMS, DMA, Algorithmic trading, HFT and CEP

Columnar Databases and visualization tools: Vertica, Greenplum, MongoDB, Redshift, Cassandra, R, Revolution R, tableau, Pentaho, Qlikview, Datameer, Bigvis, Acunu, Platfora, SAS, Oracle, Sybase, SQL

Messaging: Tibco, MQ Series, Webmethods, SeeBeyond, JMS, Kafka, Kinesis

Java methodologies: Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, LDAP, SOA, SOAP, Jenkins, Nginx

Market Data: Reuters, Bloomberg, Telekurs, Markit etc.

Javascript Framework: Angularjs, Reactjs, Bootstrap

Architecture /services: TOGAF, Zachman, EA, SOA, CostXpert, SCA, grid computing, SaaS, Cloud computing

Application servers: Websphere, Weblogic, Jetty, Apache, Eclipse, JWS, iPlanet, JBoss, NetBeans

Business Modeling: Provision, ARIS, Bwise, Fuego, Rational, RUP, RSA, UML, TogetherSoft, Requisite Pro

Languages: K, R, Java, C++, VB, XML, C#, UML, C, SQL, WML, MatLab

Process modeling: UML, BPM, Rational Rose, Rational Suite, Visio, TogetherJ, RSA, RSM

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming, RUP, CMMi, Waterfall, OOM, SOA, SDLC

Business Modeling: Provision, ARIS, Bwise, Fuego, Rational, RUP, RSA, UML, TogetherSoft, Requisite Pro

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming, RUP, CMMi, Waterfall, OOM, SOA, SDLC

Others: TDD, Scrum with Kanban, continuous integration, continuous testing

Project tools: MS Project, Sharepoint, UMT360, MS project server, Clarity, Clarizen, Niku Workbench

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise PMO Head

Responsibilities:

• Define project and program methodology for delivery of company initiatives, including Project Governance processes, standard tools & templates, financials, risk management, communications.
• Lead role in planning, coordinating and facilitating projects from project initiation through completion. Ensure risk processes, programs and internal reports are developed, implemented and effectively administered.
• Manage global architecture teams, formulate business strategy and technology architecture, patterns, standards, and product services with savings extending millions through innovative solutions.
• Ensure the generation and maintenance of integrated project plans (options development, risks management, opportunities identification, timing) that reflect the approved balance of scope, time, and resources.
• Deliver strategies for operations, project deliverables, milestones, recruitment, scope, best practices, maturity roadmap managing business expectations and responsibilities.
• Track and report project progress to stakeholders and senior management. Prepare status reports and facilitate project meetings.
• Lead and enrich the digital customer experience -customer personalization and generating digital demand, shorten and customize the card acquisition and approval process.
• Coordinate the integrations, dependencies and deliverables, communications identifying and helping resolve impediments, for 30+ teams from Loyalty, Servicing, Communication, reporting, MR, benefits, card art etc.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager, Enterprise PMO

Responsibilities:

• Spearhead the strategic business and technology enterprise data management initiatives for life, group and individual insurance programs.
• Lead the EDO PMO working with business, IT stake holders.
• Maintain excellent communication with all levels of management both within and across organizations to ensure smooth running of all projects. Plan the plan-manage budget, time and resource constraints, work with vendors for delivery.
• Developed project plans, communication plans, risk management analysis, budget forecasting spreadsheets and custom reports. Responsible for maintenance of project plans, project deliverables, issue/risk/dependency management, supporting decision making around scope changes, and internal and external communication.
• Prioritize programs and projects based on company objectives dealing with changing functional needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies.
• Developed the strategy and roadmap for data governance working with stakeholders on this agile engagement, identifying opportunities and building innovative solutions with vendors.
• Lead the cloud go-live initiative with methodology, requirements, risk register, project activities, performance, risks and issues, perform analysis of variances against plan and take appropriate corrective actions as needed.
• Actively engage with leadership from business case development through program delivery, delivery of critical programs within the portfolio, ensure organizational alignment on scope, schedule, quality, benefits and implement and monitor appropriate controls to proactively deal with barriers to completion.

Confidential

Executive Director, Enterprise Data Management, EPMO

Responsibilities:

• Led the development of Confidential Predix Engine - the industrial internet with Harel Kodesh for industry solutions in Analytics and Big Data.
• Responsible for overall Technology program and project portfolio and identify portfolio risks, barriers and dependencies. Manage offshore and onsite resources and provide innovative ways for budget management.
• Spearhead EPMO (enterprise PMO) with following activities: Planning and Prioritization, plan the plan, thought leadership, PMO charter agreed upon, PMO governance, key performance indicators, management and stakeholder buy-in, socialize the strategy, agile methods, scope definition, deliverables, risk management, mentoring, monitoring and tracking, reporting and scorecard and visibility, ROI analysis.
• Developed project metrics and feedback measurements to ensure professional delivery of projects according to PMO best practices, standards, and proven methodologies. Developed key performance indicators for delivery improvement.
• Plan, execute, monitor and control project implementation using techniques from both waterfall and agile/scrum methodologies. Working with various software and service vendors on RFPs, legal negotiations and vendor selections.
• Partnered with business leadership and managing program delivery across internal IT, third party vendors and service providers. Participate in program and project team meetings, steering committee and senior management meetings.
• Take ownership for the project process, project deliverables and communication frameworks including administration of project collaboration tools and document repositories. Led 4 offshore vendors and 3 onsite vendors on various projects.
• Aligned IT strategy with business strategy, proposing business plans, top management and business stake-holder interaction, strategy formulation and execution, budgeting, formulating operating policies.
• Strategic leadership role, create partnerships with senior leaders and management, lead transformation and mindset change. Hire, motivate and mentor talent, customer delivery, technology integration and result-driven ROI approach.
• Develop model for identification, prioritization and governance of large-scale, cross-organizational projects and initiatives across PMO charter.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with stakeholders on budget planning for 2014(total ISGT budget was 1.4 bn), led implementation of programs with Program Area Group Heads while reducing the Confidential .
• Led the SDLC and PLC implementation initiatives for all ISGT and CTS programs-a global rollout.
• Prepare, analyze and report enterprise wide report to the senior management; including but not limited to: Planned Vs Actual for Programs Cost, Schedule, Budget and Milestone Progress.
• Facilitate the definition, management and negotiation of project scope and scope change controls between the project team and key business stakeholders for assigned projects. Work with offshore vendors for project deliverables.
• Identify risks in conjunction with the project team and stakeholders. Work with the project team and stakeholders to define mitigation plans and ensure plans are tracked and status of the risks are reviewed on a regular basis.
• Track and resolve project issues/impediments and team conflicts. Facilitate escalation of issues un-resolvable by the project team to the appropriate business or IT sponsor and track to successful completion. Identify and ensure risks are mitigated and create risk register, contingency planning.
• Tasked with implementing standards, procedures and associated toolsets for program management, process and reporting (PMPR)-a firmwide initiative to standardize all project management processes and practices.
• Work as programs coordinator for COO on budgets, programs implementation, program statuses, project health, and turning around amber and red projects. Oversee large projects from initiation to completion and provide guidance and mentorship to other project managers and IT teams to execute projects.
• Spearhead the central PMO / portfolio for Pioneer Prime, Risk Consolidation, DSL, RICE and GRAIN portfolio of programs for global portfolio transformations.
• Coach and counseled teams to translate customer and organizational objectives and critical success factors into actionable business, organization and technology strategies.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead global and offshore teams for Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office across asset(FI and Equities) classes.
• Assisting clients for integration with middle office and back office systems, message confirmations and payment configuration, collateral management.
• Provide support to IT leadership in portfolio management operations including budgeting, financial reconciliation, vendor management and procurement.
• Initiate, develop project plans, specify strategy, staffing goals and schedule, mitigate risks, review contingency plans, allocation of the available resources, business process management and integration strategy.
• Spearhead team for bespoke software development, messaging requirements, interfaces and vendor solutions.
• Built the integration framework for market data feeds, order management systems, middleware technologies, and databases. Built input adapters for event updates and multiple event processing.
• Evaluate project and program performance across IT with key performance indicators and develop action plans to achieve performance goals.
• Defined the project deadlines, WBS, project plans for multiple and interactive projects.
• Led reconciliation teams across asset classes for middle office including counterparty risk, market risk. Cloud computing services for recon and client reporting functions.

Confidential

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Co-developed a global expansion strategy for the Global Electronic Trading Services with detailed revenue models, capital investment projections, strategic roadmap and annual growth forecasts of over $45 mm. for 60 exchanges.
• Successfully drive the planning, architecture, development of projects in equities, rates.
• Spearhead the trade services for direct execution via combination of institutional proprietary trading tools and relationships with OMS, EMS and DMA providers. Built the BIG data model.
• Assessed, analyzed and transformed service initiatives, product/technology releases, methodology rollout and solution delivery.
• Create new methodologies, reusable components and blueprints, best practices and delivery alliances.
• Led team of 45+ employees and consultants with budget exceeding 8 mm. Set-up the core PMO responsible for delivery, evaluation and risk mitigation of key programs.
• Built the future state trading system-functional and architecture. This will combine equity and fixed income systems along with risk management and trade execution, trade capture and settlement including OBS transactions.

Confidential

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for deliveries, manage client expectations through project managers, ensure all quality processes are followed.
• Setting up a PMO, responding to RFPs, regular program/project review with clients, target setting.
• Transform the operations of a major bank, leading a team of 70+ employees and client resources across organizational change, business process reengineering and technology delivery.
• Built the trade/product lifecycle system for trade capture, pricing, booking and structuring.
• Automated real-time order flow execution network. Implement best execution, facilitation for derivatives.