SUMMARY

Experienced project manager offering over 20 years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects. PMP trained with a computer science degree and over 25 years of software development and business finance experience. Excellent business strategist in planning and managing multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains. Possess outstanding communication and negotiation skills in being able to leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams. Expert in Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies. Managed numerous M&A, regulatory, compliance, and financial applications. Known for high quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. Proficient in PPM. JIRA, PlanView, MS Project, Excel and other PM tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Project
• Visio
• PPM
• Data Modeling tools
• PowerPoint
• Excel
• Various development platforms and databases

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

PMO - Program / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct responsibility for overall management of assigned projects and stakeholder management
• Build and maintain project execution plan/charter, including approach, scope, tasks, durations, work effort, dependencies, budget, planning assumptions, risk profile, team structuring, staffing, resource allocation, and deliverable definitions
• Make project-level decisions and manage track team leads and day-to-day team activities
• Identify and manage project risk factors; manage and resolve project issues
• Run SCRUM calls and update JIRA user stories accordingly / Sprint Planning
• Work directly with the PMO lead to adhere and oversee project’s change control process & escalate unresolved issues.
• Portfolio financial oversight and analysis
• Communicate status / issues/ risks to upper management and stakeholders on a regular basis

Confidential, New York, NY

PMO - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop and sustains relationships with business and cross-functional project teams
• Involve in the entire project lifecycle, ensure adherence to SDLC
• Manage project scope, schedule and risk including change control process
• Agile and Waterfall project methodologies utilized, Scum Master exposure
• Oversee multi-function project teams with at least 20 -25 team members including Developers, Business Analysts, and QA / UAT personnel
• Coordination with project teams having resources in multiple locations, onshore and offshore, including external vendors and consultants
• Assist with the coaching of other Project Managers transitioning into an agile methodology
• Maintain project work plans; creates required deliverables
• Create/manage funding documentation to ensure final approval within budget allocations
• Understand and consistently manage business expectations
• Report status on assigned projects, including schedule, cost, scope, risk/issue, roadmap planning
• PowerPoint, MS Project, Excel, SharePoint repository for tracking, PPM and other project management tools

Confidential, New York, NY

PMO - Program / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead and provide direction and guidance for a wide array of activities associated with project planning and management of several cross-functional teams (BA, business, technology) to ensure projects’ completion on time, within budget and to client specifications.
• Manage and resolve all project planning-related artifacts like budgets (definition, tracking and capitalization), risks, issues and dependencies
• Manage and oversee the end to end project management activities (SDLC) such as project reporting, project planning, issue / risk identification and tracking, scope management, estimation, client management, relationship management and other project documentation preparation for projects of high business complexity (involving multiple systems interfaces that are highly visible to the organization).
• Heavy resource and vendor management
• Serve as a liaison between clients and internal technical groups
• Define and manage the lifecycle from project initiation through to program closure.
• Measure and monitor program actuals, forecasts, budgets, and updates plans with accurate, up-to-date information
• Follows financial standards & processes (e.g. monthly external revenue accruals, software capitalization, procurement & external payments).
• Report financial information and status to the required executive level through steering committees.
• Provide advice to internal clients on the implications of business trends, issues, operating environment changes and firm or business unit strategy.
• Conducted process and system interface flow diagrams utilizing Visio and MS Office tools
• Simultaneously manage complex international multimillion-dollar regulatory (IRS Cost base reporting),Compliance (annual SWIFT MT* messaging) and M&A projects (German bank’s acquisition and Mellon merger).
• Have ultimate accountability for all activities performed by the team including production support, new development, adherence to SDLC and CMM standards
• Travel abroad (Brussels, Frankfurt, UK) to liaison with our business users in understanding requirements; obtain participation from the appropriate applications, and support teams.
• Represent the bank in all on-going clients / end users’ product delivery effort (Credit Suisse, DTC, JP Morgan, ING, etc.)
• Portfolio project administration for compliance and regulatory projects within the bank - TPM (PMO) functionality. Evaluate/define/ track budgets (ranging from .5 to 5 million), resource loading charts, project phases and deployment.
• Supervise on/off-shore support and development teams as well as intense vendor management ( Cognizant and Wipro )
• Lead cross systems/platforms infrastructure feasibility efforts
• Supervised platform upgrades - Linux
• Directly supervise the team responsible for various financial client-facing products including reporting, files, SWIFT
• Oversee all the development effort ranging from small to a larger scale application on the various platforms, such as mainframe/Linux with Java and .NET.
• Evaluate all BRDs (business requirements) and participate at the creation of the effective FRD (functional requirements document).
• Analyze requests, troubleshoot issues, provide solution, and implement system modifications and enhancements.
• Coordinate the effective QA (UAT) effort; review all test scripts and monitor their successful execution.
• Ensure the development of the efficient, cost effective applications in keeping with business needs. Define needs to encompass long range technical planning.
• Work in conjunction with Division Heads to meet the overall needs of the business.
• Review and evaluate individual and group performance and objectives.
• Agile and Waterfall project methodologies utilized, familiarity with Scrum Master, Jira
• Proficiency at PPM, MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, and MS Excel, ALM and other defect tracking tools

Confidential, Paramus, NJ

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the development of the new Quantum View Application, myups.com-utilizing Java, .NET and DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Wrote and designed numerous stored procedures utilizing static and dynamic SQL
• Designed, coded, and tested changes pertaining to the package tracking and UPS Web visibility applications
• Presented System design and flows to the Business and user community
• Lead and participated on all the levels of Business and functional design phases
• Coordinated all efforts in HR Legacy System Migration efforts (Mainframe to PeopleSoft)
• Technology and tools utilized: Java, .NET, CICS, Cobol, Stored procedures, MQ series, DB2 v.7 table structure

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Senior Consultant/Application Manager

Responsibilities:

• Order Entry, Shipping, General Ledger, P&L (profit and loss), and others.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a senior consultant on a project, was involved in the development of the new PROCARE system.

Confidential, Ramsey, NJ

Senior Consultant/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the Y2K Payroll System preparation and certification analysis effort.
• Prepared detailed system and Data Base impact assessment documents as well as acted as a part-time DB2 DBA for the DB2/PeopleSoft Human Resources package implementation.
• Prepared numerous test plans for the complete end-to-end Payroll integration testing
• Designed, coded, and tested changes pertaining to the new Payroll System periodic releases
• Led the performance improvement effort within the Payroll/Human Resources group
• Supervised a team of 6 consultants
• Led the analysis, design, and development of a multinational and multilingual Automated Delivery Information System.
• Concurrent responsibilities involved project design, data analysis, program specifications, coding, testing, turnovers to production, systems implementation and maintenance
• Assisted in design and creation of multiple database tables and indexes.
• Wrote numerous CLISTS for system/performance testing
• Involved in performance estimates and considerations.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a senior consultant on a project, was responsible for the enhancement and day-to-day support of one of the largest subsystems within Merck/MEDCO - Co-pay Management System.