SUMMARY

• Around 20+ years of experience in Analysis, architecture, design, development and testing
• Experienced in Banking, Wealth Management, CPG, Insurance P&C, Airlines, State welfare and Health Care, Federal Government, Hedge fund
• Experienced in Pre Sales, Development, Maintenance, Enhancement, and production support
• Experienced in Client Partnership, Program management, Portfolio management an Project Management
• Worked on Demand Management and Strategy review of Portfolio Management.
• Managed team of 150 at Avon, 40 at Citi Bank and 50 at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
• Experienced in Business Intelligence, Cloud, Big Data, JAVA, Legacy and .NET
• Experienced in large deal RFP response and presentation - $50 million
• Executed projects in Functional, Matrix & Project oriented organizations.
• Implemented Big data project for Coke - RFP response thru implementation
• Responsible for maintaining Service levels & holding reviews and Steering committee meetings
• Experienced in Public sector - Department of Health - WV State and Federal Reserve
• Experienced in Legacy Modernization, Big Data, Cloud, Transformation and Database migration
• Experienced in Infrastructure upgrades, Patching, and Vulnerability updates
• Involved in submitting RFP’s and pre sales activities for new projects at Citibank, CPG and Morgan Stanley.
• Worked on Project Management methodologies including RUP, PMP, ITIL and AGILE.
• Experienced in establishing and, managing PMO - PMI and Scrum (Agile).
• Experienced on Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, CPG, Pharma, Airlines, Government and Wealth Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• HADOOP, PIG, HIVE, HBASE, MAPREDUCE, SQOOP, ZOOKEEPER, J2EE, ETL, JAVA, XML, UML, IBM WEBSPHERE, IBM BDW, UNIX, COGNOS, TM1, BUSINESS OBJECTS, MICROSTRATEGY, ESSBASE, Hyperion, ABINITIO, INFORMATICA, ETL, ORACLE Financials, ORACLE, TOAD, SQL SERVER, SYBASE, EDI, MVS, CICS, DB2, IMS, IDMS, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, MQ Series, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, TELON, AFP, OGL, PAGEDEF, FORMDEF, AUTOSYS, MS-WORD, MS-EXCEL, MS-PROJECT, MS-POWERPOINT, MS-ACCESS, VISIO, WINDOWS-XP, AOP, HIPAA, USE CASE, RATIONAL REQPRO, CLEARQUEST, CLEARCASE, MS-PROJECT, PLANVIEW, BPM, REMEDY, JIRA, nGage, Cedar, Navigator, HP PPM Devops and Primavera.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Enterprise Program Manager

Confidential - Wilmington DE

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Partners, PMO, project sponsors product owners, vendors and Ancillaries
• Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals
• Coordinated all API development for data transfer from FIS to Barclays
• Represented program in Steering committee meetings and Managed Program Roadmap
• Implemented multiple applications on Azure cloud
• Led major project workshops, site visits, demos, architecture reviews and major JAD sessions
• Participated in Product Launch Roadshows and coordinated and ran critical meetings
• Managed Portfolio of Applications across Checking, Savings and Cards Domain
• Managed post production problem and Incident Management
• Negotiated and signed-off SLA’s with FIS, technology partners and Ancillaries
• Worked with operations management to hire and establish Back office and Call Center
• Multiple internal and external reporting including Navigator Status reporting for companywide reporting
• Responsible for Stakeholder management, Benefit management and operations management
• Managed Upgrades, Patching, Including Security and Vulnerability review and updates
• Procure adequate resources working with delivery team to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and chairs the program management meetings
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues
• Understand and communicate interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
• Managed Risk, Issues and Dependencies and Action items across projects on central confluence repository
• Managed project scope and sign-off including Change management
• Responsible for Project Charter, financial approval and Gate approvals
• Negotiated and defined the Statement of Work and Specifications for the requested project and services.
• Technologies used .NET, Saleforce, Devops, Hadoop, MS Office, Rally,Jira, Navigator, Cedar, nGage and Azure

Senior Project Manager

Confidential - Manhattan, NY

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with VPs, Program Management and Portfolio Management, project sponsors and strategic partners
• Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals
• Full Project life cycle ownership: Successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for several cross functional initiatives simultaneously
• Managed Data quality across projects including documenting Data dictionary and Data Lineage
• Conduct status reviews with various technology and business teams and leadership
• Manage and lead project teams consisting of internal / external resource
• Managed Infrastructure upgrade including WAS 8.5 across environments and Oracle database upgrades
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Build and maintain relationships by engaging business sponsors, PMO, key stakeholders, SMEs and project team to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships
• Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project
• Procure adequate resources working with delivery team to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
• Communicate roles and responsibilities of the project team, per the Enterprise Program delivery guidelines
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources, and chairs the project management team meetings
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues
• Understand and communicate interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
• Owned and Managed Risk, Issues and Dependencies log
• Manage project scope and changes through the change management process
• Assist in dispute, negotiation, arbitration, or litigation, as needed.
• Responsible for Project Charter, RACI Matrix, financial approval and PPM Project initiation
• Define the Statement of Work and Specifications for the requested project and services.
• Technologies used included Java, Oracle, Jira, MS Office, MS Project and Cloud

Program Manager

Confidential - Montvale, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Plan the delivery of the overall program in accordance to the mission and the goals of the organization
• Develop and implement long-term goals and objectives to achieve the successful outcome of the program
• Implemented annual budget and operating plan to support the program
• Developed a program evaluation framework to assess the strengths and areas of improvement of the program
• Developed forms, templates, tracking tools and records to document program activities for PMO
• Business case development, business adoption, presentation and user training
• Identify and prioritize projects, deliverables and Implementation Roadmap
• Responsible for driving monthly Steering committee meetings and weekly senior management reporting
• Manages multiple vendors, Architects, Project Managers, and Analysts, developers, and testers,
• Managed Risks, Issues, Assumptions and dependencies across program.
• Led Sprint planning meetings and implemented and monitored Scrum board
• Responsible for Sprint planning, prioritizations, estimation, workshops and burn down charts
• In consultation with the Executive Director, recruit, interview and select well-qualified program staff
• Manage allocation, utilization cost, time schedules and standards with well-defined milestones
• Technologies used .NET, Oracle, Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio and SharePoint, VSTS

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall delivery of each project and managing program dependencies
• Business case development, business adoption, presentation and user training
• Responsible for driving monthly Governance and Steering committee reporting to senior management
• Manages multiple Architects, Project Managers, Business Analysts, developers, testers and project leads.
• Responsible Stakeholder management, Benefit Management and Governance
• Responsible for Data architecture, data governance, data quality and data modelling
• Responsible for Metadata Strategy, Metadata Capture and Storage, Metadata Integration & Publication and Metadata Management & Governance
• Defined and created Business glossary and Data dictionary for Metadata Management
• Designed and implemented Data Lineage as part of Metadata Management
• Automated Metadata capture using Informatica.
• Responsible for coordinating shared services, release management and user trainings
• Technologies used UNIX, Informatica, QlikView, Cognos, Java, Jira, Oracle, Cognos TM1.

Senior Program Manager

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Stakeholder Management and Governance reporting
• Involved in implementing PMO process standards and best practices including BPM
• Responsible for program strategy identification, implementation and Benefit management
• Implemented scrum using backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task definition.
• Identification and implementation of standards and operating models
• Responsible for the overall delivery of various teams in the program.
• Tracking program and project level financials
• Coached team on Scrum
• Technologies used include UNIX, Windows, Java, MS SQL Server and Rainstor, DQ Profiler and dashboard