SUMMARY:

• IT leader and hands on practitioner who offers extensive Big 4 and top - tier consulting experience in cross-functional project team leadership, project-manager guidance, and client partnerships to deliver business capabilities based upon a customized integration of business process, software development, and organizational change management considerations.
• Plan and manage projects using Traditional approaches plus Agile Scrum approach within SAFe framework.
• Manage multiple, concurrent projects of varying scale in size, complexity, and visibility within parameters of time, scope, and cost.
• Use contemporary management style with “hands-on” involvement. Implement best practices to customize full life cycle project execution frameworks.
• Build strong cross-organizational alliances across business lines from developers to C-suite and develop strong, trusting relationships with stakeholder decision makers based on open communication, integrity and transparency.
• Mentor diverse, multicultural individuals (onshore and offshore) into motivated, high-performing project team members who translate requirements into deliverables and provide bottom-line business value.
• Leverage proficiency in diverse project types—including custom software development; systems integration; business process improvement; COTS procurement, customization, and deployment; and IT Infrastructure.
• Enable strategic project and program opportunities by developing proposals, business cases, and statements of work (SOW) that identify problems and solution approaches while detailing positive business impact.

KEY PROFESSIONAL SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE:

• Project Plans & Schedules
• SDLC Methodologies
• Risk & Issue Management
• Vendor Management
• Staff Coaching & Mentoring
• Business Process Analysis
• RFI/RFP/SOW
• Scope Change Management
• PMI PMBOK
• Change Management
• Application Development
• Full Life Cycle Testing/QA
• Insightful Status Reporting
• Critical Path Management
• Budget Management

KEY PROFESSIONAL TOOL EXPERIENCE:

• Rally
• Confluence
• MS Project
• MS Office Suite
• Visio
• Primavera
• TimeTiger
• Changepoint
• Planview
• SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experienced Project Manager /Scrum Master needed to support a project to create new BI Data Warehouse supporting Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) Business Analytics requirements.
• Mentored new Scrum Team (10 members) into a very effective team, while delivering multiple application data sources to the BI Data Warehouse.
• Experienced Agile Project Manager needed to support critical Collections & Recovery projects that will result in significant revenue increases.
• In process of managing 3 large and complex Agile/Waterfall projects requiring 100+ internal Service Providers.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to manage key projects supporting the acquisition of another Bank.
• Supported Loan Operations, Deposit Operations, BSA/AML, Online Banking, Electronic Banking, Communications/Marketing, Commercial Credit and IT areas.
• Worked closely with several Area SVPs in establishing a project management framework that provided timely and insightful insights into the execution of multiple cross area projects.

Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Client needed Agile project managers to support explosive growth in demand for its global wealth-services platform.
• Lead 2 Agile teams (with aggregate staff of 17) that were part of a multi-year, multi-train global wealth-services platform development and enhancement project featuring scalable and modular components.
• Utilized SAFe Agile development framework.
• Defined and optimized Agile processes—Daily Scrum approach, Sprint Velocity Calculation/Metrics model, Sprint Planning Guidelines and Exit Criteria, User Story Definitions, Task Structure templates, and User Story Dependency Diagrams.
• Coached and mentored Agile Teams in enhanced Agile Skills and Team Self Governance

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to provide end-to-end support in customization and deployment of enterprise wide SaaS application for tier-1 customer’s upcoming launch of whole life insurance-policy administration system.
• Led requirements gathering, implementation, and deployment in partnership with account manager and 3rd-party vendor.
• Acted as client’s primary client contact and internal advocate for production, development, and process issues needing remediation.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Charged with leading 2 initiatives
• Critical project that converted purchased credit-card portfolio into form compatible with Basel II Parameter Model banking standards.
• Data-warehouse and data-mart infrastructure upgrade project.
• Used Informatica ETL tool in successful, on-time, on-budget delivery of credit card portfolio conversion project.
• Partnered with key project stakeholders to develop Data Warehouse infrastructure-upgrade project plan.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Retained to revitalize agricultural dealer revolving-credit product project that was well behind schedule.
• Developed and implemented new project management framework.
• Managed project team of 20+ members in U.S., Netherlands, and India, while providing direction for and integrating 2 external vendors into project plan.
• Led successful deployment that generated critical new client-revenue stream.

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Client was implementing enterprise-wide COTS software package with numerous customized features.
• Resolved many project challenges, supporting migration of legacy in-house defined-contribution-plan-administration application to vendor-hosted COTS platform.
• Displayed leadership, vision, and direction for 40+ projects and 10+ project managers.
• Developed program and project management framework that enabled teams to drive their projects in optimal fashion.
• Negotiated arrangements with vendor for common SDLC and status reporting approach plus defect-remediation SLAs.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Retained to provide strategic project-delivery leadership for critical project supporting Basel II regulatory requirements.
• Led 15+ team members in planning, managing and execution of Basel II data warehouse migration using the Informatica ETL tool.

Management Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Basel-oriented PMO planned transition from development-focused program to implementation focused program.
• Member of 3-person team that guided Basel II Management Consulting Advisory and Implementation Services Program.
• Planned assessment approach and documented recommendations following holistic assessment of Basel II PMO

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Client needed top tier project-management support for critical Basel II regulatory projects.
• Led 12+ team members through 3 Basel II projects that encompassed retail credit, financial controls, and economic capital.