EXECUTIVE PROFILE:

Highly accomplished leader successful in creating vision, direction, identifying opportunities, creating consensus and coordinating large scale initiatives Recognized for the ability to quickly analyze business drivers and develop strategies and business solutions that reduce costs, drive growth and organizational excellence Natural communicator and team leader with strong negotiation and interpersonal skills; proven ability to motivate, energize and lead to success; thrives in challenging, fast - paced environments requiring focused decision-making and problem-solving skills; highly proficient at relationship building

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile/Scrum and Waterfall/SDLC methodologies
• PMI/PMBOK Methodology
• Linking Strategic Business Direction to Technology
• Vendor Selection & Management
• Operational Optimization/Integration
• Business Needs Analysis
• Aligning Architecture with Business Objectives
• Global Team Leadership
• Blended Offshore / Onshore Delivery Models
• Revenue & Profit Growth
• End-to-End Solution Delivery
• Critical Thinking & Decision Making
• Financial Services Front, Middle & Back Office
• JAD Session management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Software Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide software project management expertise to upgrade from a prototype to a profitable commercial product; the product is a robot that will assist surgeons with total knee replacement surgeries
• Manage a 20-million-dollar software budget; procure consulting services, hardware and software; provide an estimate for the 2020 Software Budget
• Provide project management support for four project teams responsible for all software development initiatives (Application System, Data Management Layer, Clinical Application and Core/Saw Robot Control)
• Scrum Master for the Application System Team - Run all Agile Ceremonies; perform the role of Servant Leader
• Attend all Agile Ceremonies across the project to stay abreast of software development activities
• Identify, document and mitigate risks; asses, document and resolve issues
• Communicate/collaborate with all levels of global teams/stakeholders to ensure the timely development of software

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior IT Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Integrated Trapeze, an Enterprise Asset Management solution for the Confidential The goals of this project were to properly manage all railroad assets such as locomotives, passenger coaches, rails, signals, etc., to reduce cost, mitigate risk, reduce liability, increase safety and extend asset life as mandated by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
• Managed multiple workstreams simultaneously for the Engineering and Mechanical departments

Confidential, Dorchester, MA

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• The primary goal of this project was to install Confidential ’s turnkey DevOps Platform, ADOP
• Extensive analysis was performed to validate that the Confidential and Confidential Statements of Work matched the Confidential business requirements
• Developed project plans to manage all tasks/activities across the team
• Extensive vendor management

Confidential, Boston, MA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Performed Agile coaching for the project team, focusing on Kanban Facilitated all scrum ceremonies (daily standup, backlog grooming, sprint planning, demos and retrospectives) Customized Jira sites based on business needs
• Legal, Regulatory and Compliance
• Conducted research and business analysis to obtain Confidential in all 50 states
• Various project management assignments
• Managed the on-boarding of Digital Assets Liquidity Providers
• Created an Integrated Milestone Plan to align with the 2018 Project Roadmap

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Servant Leader for multiple technology enhancement projects simultaneously for Confidential
• Prime Services and Business Intelligence business units Performed the Scrum Master role for all projects managed Collaborated with Product Managers and Technical Team members to build out Roadmaps and Sprint Plans Conducted all Agile ceremonies (Daily Stand-up, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Sizing, Demo, Review, and Retrospective)
• This project was a regulatory requirement to conduct disaster recovery testing across the financial services industry.
• Confidential was required to simulate production data transmissions via NDM and MQ with DTCC, NSCC, OMGEO, and OCC.
• I provided leadership to a technical project manager for the 2017 test. Both tests were highly successful.
• The tests involved switching the IP channels from the Production environment to Disaster Recovery Confidential Program
• The purpose of this large-scale infrastructure project was to convert the Confidential Business Intelligence database from Sybase to ORACLE.
• Five separate VM environments were created ((Development, SIT Test, UAT, Production, and Disaster Recovery.
• The new ORACLE database was streamlined to remove unnecessary data and tables.
• The Confidential and Finance Business Units will leverage the ORACLE database to generate dashboard reports

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior IT Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed technology enhancement projects for the anti-money laundering transformation program Constructed an AML data governance program that supports the foundation of compliance and risk at Confidential globally Responsibilities included improving the quality of data in the Know Your Customer platform system

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the Global Data Office; managed multiple projects simultaneously
• Research Target Validation - Agile/Scrum project to accelerate drug discovery by reducing time from nomination to selection and avoiding unnecessary experiments MRI’s Imaging Pipeline - Agile/Scrum project ensuring the ability to ingest, explore, and analyze brain MRI imaging data BIIB037 Data Analysis
• Project to enable the extract of Alzheimer’s disease insights from internal/external data sources Data Landscape
• Project to create a data catalog to provide an end-to-end view of all data assets within Confidential

Confidential, Boston, MA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed SharePoint enhancement projects for HR and Global Investment Technology; managed a project to upgrade infrastructure/software to manage call routing across MFS, managed a regulatory project to support FCA regulation changes for corporate access in the UK; and managed a project to launch a new
• Managed Wealth Fund for the US retail space
• Created training materials and educated 160+ employees and consultants in the usage and updating of a newly developed intranet dashboard site that reports project status information
• Responsible for budget management, resource management and allocation, status reporting, risk and issue mitigation, and communication across all levels of management

Confidential, Weston, MA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects simultaneously across many groups within the GAM portfolio
• Responsibilities included successfully managing internal and external stakeholder relationships at all levels, senior management reporting communication and collaboration; built and maintained an SDLC repository in SharePoint; end-to-end SDLC management, extensive risk and issue identification and mitigation management