SUMMARY:

• Project management implementation across multiple vertical markets: financial, government, education, start - up, and small business.
• Comfortable with a wide array of IT technologies and languages
• Experience with Basel 2, and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations
• Developed a proprietary technique for project management professional certification training yielding 100% passing rate for my students.
• Full professional proficiency in Spanish and English
• Quality Control & Process Engineering
• Strategic Coaching & Performance Improvement
• Information Technology Risk Assessment
• Dynamic Leadership & Change Management
• Effective Contract Negotiation & Facilitation
• Business Recovery & Contingency Planning
• Fiscal Budgeting & SDLC Methodologies

FINANCIAL SKILLS:

• Financial products: municipal bonds, mortgage-backed securities, swaps & derivatives, stocks, commercial loans
• Experience with trade lifecycle processes including, transaction management, settlement processing to reconcile with the books & records of the firm for both equities and fixed income products
• Regulation: Basel 2, Sarbanes-Oxley

PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE SKILLS:

• Agile (SCRUM) & Waterfall methodologies, SDLC, use cases, user stories, requirements gathering, quality assurance, Business Process Mapping, process improvement, change management, incident management, root-cause analysis
• IT risk management, vendor management, client relationship management
• FIXML, FPML, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, XML, UML, Java, Angular, VB.net, ASP.NET, Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, MS SharePoint, MS Project, MS Team Foundation Server, CA Clarity, Jira, Crystal Reports, Oracle BI, Bloomberg, UNIX, Windows, Active Directory

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Confidential, NYC

Cyber Security Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage, monitor and control scope, schedule, budget and quality needs of the Cyber Security Risk and Control Self-Assessment of over 600 enterprise IT assets performed by a third-party vendor.
• Create and report cyber security metrics with respect to the risk assessment and management activities that inform on cyber risk posture.
• Develop operational structure and escalation procedures to support the program development, execution and maintenance to ensure that risk management services are properly executed and integrated with the three lines of defense framework.
• Provide oversight of third-party vendors to ensure contract compliance and SLA performance.
• Create oversight and reporting processes for management activities that include execution of activities, resource planning, and escalation management.
• Provided formal project management structure to implement a high performance and regulatory compliant Risk and Control Self-Assessment process across all First Line of Defense domains in the enterprise.

IT environment: Multiple proprietary data and analytics infrastructure comprising: Waterfall and Agile methodologies, Splunk, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, CA Clarity, Rally, ServiceNow, Insight, PL/SQL, SQL, XML, XSLT, SOA, Web Services, SaaS, SOA, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Norton Ghost 9, Remedy, VPN, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, ATM topologies

Confidential, NYC

Technical Product Owner/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Develop and present the program charter to obtain executive sponsorship to initiate the program.
• Program Management- responsible for project management, contract administration, requirements management, deliverable review and approvals, testing, and implementation activities.
• Organizational Change Management- responsible for business process improvement, organizational change, and training.
• Architecture and Infrastructure Management- ensure high system reliability and secure data management. Organize all infrastructure projects and conduct a full risk assessment with contingency strategies for the organization- Windows 10 migration, AD federation, Backbone modernization.
• Acquire, develop, mentor and manage cross-functional product delivery team.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Develop, maintain, and execute development strategy and roadmap for implementation and support of a major product involving several complex programs.
• Plan and monitor project spending/budgeting, and guided related projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Create and manage project/program resource loading and budget; reconcile budget monthly, and communicate risks to Leadership
• Manage and direct overall project team activities and monitoring progress, including project health, capacity planning, and internal process improvement.

IT environment: Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM, Kanban) methodologies, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, SharePoint, Crystal Reports, Cognos, PeopleSoft, SQL, XML, JAVA, C++, .Net, PowerBuilder, Oracle BI, Tableau, ETL, Json, Angular, SQL Server, Oracle, Cobol, Mainframe, WANG, SOA, SaaS, Web Services, CGI Advantage, Remedy, Active Directory Federation, Windows 7/10, Emphasys Elite, Single Sign-on, ECM (OnBase), call center, CRM, Letter generating engine, Service Bus, Adobe AEM, FileNet, Kodak Imaging software and hardware, numerous legacy systems and Access databases to be decommissioned.

Confidential, NYC

Business Development & Training Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Direct business forecasting and financial analysis activities and identify opportunities and risks along with action plans to ensure attainment of financial goals.
• Provide business analysis for projects that include requirements, success criteria, milestones, Key Performance indicators (KPIs), and Work Breakdown Structures.

IT environment: Waterfall and Agile methodologies, Six Sigma, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, SharePoint, Crystal Reports.

Confidential, NYC

Project Manager/ Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Current State Architecture document that identified issues and gaps in functionality in the current system and a High-Level Future State design document in which SharePoint is used to address the issues and gaps described in the Current Architecture State document.
• Ensured integrity and security of SharePoint data in accordance with Information Systems security policy.
• Develop Project Work Breakdown Structure, Cost Structures, Risk Break down Structure, Project Master Schedule, Staffing plans, Resource Allocation & Balancing using Microsoft Project.
• Direct changes to the project scope, schedule and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep changes to the project plan accurate, updated, and authorized.
• Facilitate Change Management planning and implementation across an interdisciplinary development team.
• Designed processes to analyze agency business needs, identify user requirements, and devise feasible, cost-effective solutions.

IT environment: Waterfall and Agile methodologies, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, SharePoint, Crystal Reports, Cognos, PeopleSoft, SQL, XML, JAVA, C++, .Net, ETL, Json, SQL Server, Oracle, Cobol, Mainframe, SOA, SaaS, Web Services, CGI Advantage, Remedy, Windows 7, Single Sign-on, data center, CRM, Letter generating engine, Adobe, FileNet, numerous jail management legacy systems.

Confidential, NYC

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with 30 management-level directors to implement technical programs that improved business processes and performed quality assessments using Six Sigma methodologies throughout the agency.
• Supervise and coordinate 12 project professionals that administer field programs serving 150 clients.
• Oversee privately and federally-funded budgets of $1.1 Million utilized for operational, technology and administrative expenses.
• Conduct monthly trainings with groups of up to 40 participants for updates and critical skill reinforcement.
• Set up scheduling and prioritization systems to facilitate discussions among stakeholders and field groups
• Coordinating with project team to establish cost/schedule estimates for projects. Review of estimates and establishing the Code of Accounts for the development of Operating Budgets and Cost Control process.
• Establishment and management of contingency funds, escalation provisions and management Reserves.

IT environment: Windows 7, Microsoft Office Suite, CGI Advantage, FMS, mainframe, multiple proprietary legacy systems used to manage student records.

Confidential, NYC

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed processes to analyze customer business needs, identify user requirements, and devise feasible, cost-effective solutions consistently implemented by the executive team.
• Develop and implement test plans providing analysis, design, and development with release teams.
• Lead the development of the Program Management Office; defined project management processes including, requirements management, change control, and user acceptance testing across multiple city agencies.
• Functioned as Lead Business/Data Analys performing data analysis to reconcile financial transactions across multiple integrated legacy systems.
• Developed Project Work Breakdown Structure, Cost Structures, Risk Break down Structure, Project Master Schedule, Staffing plans, Resource Allocation & Balancing using Microsoft Project.
• Managed changes to the project scope, schedule and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep changes to the project plan accurate, updated, and authorized.
• Facilitated Change Management planning and implementation across an interdisciplinary development team.

IT environment: Waterfall methodologies, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, Crystal Reports, Cognos, PeopleSoft, SQL, XML, JAVA, C++, .Net, Oracle, DB2, Cobol, Mainframe, WANG, SOA, SaaS, Web Services, CGI Advantage, Remedy.

Confidential, CT

Project Manager / Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered required data, documented processes and evaluated solutions for streamlining syndicated loan processing.
• Assembled cross-functional teams to perform process discovery and document syndicated loan workflows.

IT environment: Multiple proprietary data and analytics infrastructure comprising: Waterfall, Six Sigma and Agile methodologies, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, LoanIQ, PL/SQL, SQL, XML, XSLT, Java, Java Swing, MatLab, Oracle, Bloomberg, SOA, Web Services

Confidential, NYC

Project Manager / Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered required data, documented processes, and coordinated with vendor to augment and automate trade processing.
• Assembled working groups to perform process discovery to document current and future state trade workflow.
• Trade workflow processing by the back office that reconciled with the books and records of the firm.

IT environment: Multiple proprietary trade processing and settlement platforms comprising: Waterfall and Agile methodologies, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, SaaS, SOA.

Confidential, NYC

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as key player and Senior Business Analyst on a vendor selection committee focused on the identification, validation and recommendation of an enterprise Business Analyst Workflow tool.
• Provided full project life cycle management while integrating multiple trading systems deployed worldwide.
• Performed analysis and data mapping for FpML, FiXML and XML trade messages for the following: information flow, application components, trade capture and processing systems.
• Analyzed client business needs, defined business requirements and recommended solutions.
• Designed, developed and implemented documentation standards for models and processes.

IT environment: Multiple proprietary trade processing and settlement platforms comprising: Waterfall, Six Sigma and Agile methodologies, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, SQL, XML, JAVA, C++, MQ Series, TIBCO, Oracle, DB2, UML, Rational Rose, Solaris 2.8, Bloomberg, SWIFT, ClearWeb, Mainframe, SOA, SaaS, Web Services, CMxtra.