SUMMARY

• He is a PMP certified project & program manager with 15 plus years of experience in successfully managing a portfolio of large and medium scale projects within the Financial and Banking domain, not - for-profit and Pharma domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management methodologies: Perot Systems, sIMPLE, PMBoK (3rd edition), SDLC Waterfall, Agile Scrum Business Support MS Office, Lotus Notes, Office 365, CISCO WebEx, Ariba (db Buyer), MS Lync, MS Project (through 2010)

Content/Release Management: JIRA, MS SharePoint (through 2013), MS InfoPath Designer (through 2013), CA Clarity, Version One, Qxchange, Interwoven (Teamsite)

Data mining: Connotate, MS SQL, MS Access (through 2010)

Architecture Design / Flowcharting: MS Visio (through 2010), MS Excel (through 2010), PitchPro Analytics Qlikview, MS Excel (through 2010) - NPV, IRR, PV, FV, Power-Pivots, VBA Applications Oracle UPK, SalesForce CRM, SAP R/3, MS Project Server, Connotate, html

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Technology Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Built customized SharePoint InfoPath 2010 browser based form w/ cascading drop downs and form library for gathering SLA templates w/ customized workflows to solicit data from various business groups across the Organization.
• For an Organization wide metrics project, automated the metrics solicitation process by evaluating three options (which included consolidating files and metrics using VBA), and building a customized SharePoint List with work- flows for use by 5 team members in order to solicit metrics specific information and record it. Lead the data cleansing prior to migration to the SharePoint List.
• Built a mechanism to automate reporting using Power Pivot tables, SharePoint Lists, v-lookups, and generated analytics at a granular level for various Business Groups.
• Built a formula driven SharePoint list with workflows which had 30 views for 30 different Business groups for on- going updates of the metrics on a BAU basis.
• Built the Quality Management Team's Home Page and Landing Page with downloadable content.

Confidential, Jersey City

Project / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for the Regulatory book of work with a budget of ~ € 9 million.
• Completed gap analysis and ensured that the PWM Book of Work is in sync with the DB's Program Governance Framework (PGF).
• Set up the framework to solicit, scrutinize and monitor budget forecast/actual and resources forecast for the PWM IT monthly updates, and managed the reoccurring process. Built multiple decks to provide updates to senior management team.
• Reconciled budget and resource information from db datacore (DB's Excel/OLAP model) and Clarity on a weekly basis.
• Reduced the recruitment TAT from 2 months to 1 month by building an HR model using VBA, which estimated the exact touch points along the two month long recruitment process. Conducted interviews, and on-boarded contractors.
• Received KCS3 certification (ITIL hierarchy) in order to author and publish 9 knowledge articles identifying solutions and workarounds for a third party tool called NetX360.
• Big data Analytics (Digital Strategy): Kick started the project, authored the Program Plan, co-authored the DRD, solicited one time extract from source systems, reconciled with the DRD and successfully completed the pilot. Apache Hadoop was used as the back end tool and Qlikview was used as the front end / analytics tool. As part of this project, I managed the Qlikview lead, recruited Qlikview developers and Business Analysts, interacted with the Business Stakeholders and DataWarehouse owners to understand detailed requirements and completed project management and business analysis responsibilities for the pilot implementation for the Lending and De- posits team.
• IRRBB: Conducted a PIW for the Interest Rate Risk Compliance project for the PWM Resi mortgage portfolio to comply with Fed MRA, authored the current and target state architecture diagram, co-authored the BRD and oversaw the creation of the FRD and the FSD and completed Release Management activities through 3 environments to Go Live.
• Volcker Rule (Dodd Frank): Completed PIW, Charter, Project Plan (.mpp) and schematics for the Volcker Rule implementation (PB KYC) and built a work flow for the Volcker Reporting and Tracking System.
• FFIEC: Conducted PIW with ITAOs, completed discovery session and identified applications that were FFIEC relevant and required FFIEC compliance.

Confidentia, Manhattan, NY

Business PMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Solicited inputs from key Stakeholders to build Governance for Change Management and Demand Management. Solicited inputs for the pre-Release Communication and presented this deck monthly to key Stakeholders.
• As an Optic Administrator (Program Management and Reporting tool), migrated over 65 scorecards from Power- Point to Optic and ensured that the content was accurate. Was accountable for conducting training for Program Managers.
• Managed the generation of the Strategy Council deck to be reviewed with senior Stakeholders on a biweekly basis.
• Built a process to gather inputs for 64 projects from the BAU side on a weekly basis, and orchestrated the call to discuss impediments, issues and risks with the Managing Director of the function.
• Conducted sessions with work stream leads to understand and build the Testing, Data sourcing and Platform capabilities plan into a Master Program level plan using MS Project 2010.
• Managed the Technology Convergence call, which was a daily one-hour call where issues and action items relevant to technology and business were discussed.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Project/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• For the GNW Program, in an Agile environment, worked with the user story authors to complete user stories, orchestrated the grooming sessions, used planning poker for effort estimation, and presented mock ups after each Sprint. Built a framework to effectively manage the project using tools such as MS Project-SharePoint synchronization, MS Excel-SharePoint synchronization. Analyzed how market data can be broadcasted using aggregation services such as Bloomberg etc.
• Visited L.A. and Boston to meet with project team members and conduct a Project Initiation Workshop (PIW) to build the consolidated Program plan and independent plan for six tracks.
• Streamlined the GCS Admin customization for the L2C Program by analyzing the sequence of User Stories and tracking the successful completion for the program to Go Live.
• Completed pilot Client Onboarding, orchestrated the UAT strategy for seven applications, which included over 200 testers, and sequentially granted domain and role-based access. Worked with Stakeholders in EMEA and the NA regions to achieve a successful completion of the UAT sessions and was an integral part of UAT and Production support for two programs.
• Monitored, tracked and reported on Factset Migration Program, wherein users and application were migrated from a third party tool to an in house tool in order to save costs.
• Completed Release Management for 8 applications to Go Live by managing code push through Dev, UAT and Prod environments, simultaneously managing the entire defects management lifecycle and the enhancements bucket.
• Managed discussions and flowcharted detailed process flows for two Confidential products from Lead to Cash exhibiting data flows between PeopleSoft, CRM, BIZ, Ariba, CS Product Strategy and Sales.
• Managed the enhancements life cycle end-to-end for the GNW program from sourcing the Enhancements through requirements/user stories authoring through development grooming/estimation and UAT.
• Authored 37 test cases for two applications, GCS Admin and Contacts Management to ensure successful testing by the business Stakeholders, and managed their expectations.
• For the L2C Program, drafted a data flow diagram exhibiting interactions from and to GCS Admin with other applications such as PeopleSoft, CRM, BIZ and Ariba.
• Programmatically built an Excel/VBA application to process Contracts / Invoices from Lead to Cash for two Confidential Products, DirectorsDesk and WorkSpace.
• Leveraged Connotate, a data mining tool to mine the World Wide Web to source information on the competition for Confidential products.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

PMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple releases for implementation of an MS SharePoint based enterprise wide vendor management application in an Agile environment.
• Frequently managed weekly calls with the project teams, focusing on identifying and resolving issues and mitigating risks.
• Co-managed the project at an implementation level by working with the developers, interacted with stakeholders and managed their expectations.
• Co-Managed the UAT sessions and completed hands-on testing during off business hours, and delivered results so that the developers could execute the changes on the next business day.
• Completed Release Management for the applications to Go Live by managing code push through Dev, UAT and Prod environments, simultaneously managing the entire defects management lifecycle and the enhancements bucket.
• Drafted an RTM for the tactical solution and PERT template for effort estimation.
• Drafted a technical requirements document for the vendor management application which defined servers, disaster recovery plan etc.
• Investigated and drafted an MS SharePoint permissions document for the application defining permission and access levels for various roles.
• Co-developed the MS SharePoint site for the group and was involved hands-on in the content migration process from the erstwhile site to the new site.
• Managed the organization transition from the erstwhile to the new structure. In the process, effected changes in Clarity and PAR.
• Orchestrated the introduction of Clarity to the tower by conducting workshops on reporting for the designated project managers, streamlined the reporting process globally across projects, generated a portfolio report for 15 projects and presented an analysis and forecast for the upcoming reporting period.
• Orchestrated and developed a workflow for collecting weekly portfolio RAG reports for 15 projects and also presented and discussed analysis and forecast of the same.
• Constructed a WBS and conducted an effort estimation workshop for designated project managers. Constructed and automated a portfolio template to enable management of infrastructure projects. Constructed an MS Excel model to automate tracking, report generation, analytics and generation of a Gantt chart for both defects and day-to-day activities (VBA) to automate and standardize the naming convention for projects in Clarity.