SUMMARY

• 15+ years of IT experience in Program Management, Business Analysis and IT Strategy Consulting.
• Worked in Banking & Financial Services Domain and developed a deep understanding of strategic imperatives, operational framework and organizational challenges as required by clients in diverse businesses.
• Expertise in Wealth Management and Asset Servicing and U.S equities market.
• Industrial expert in Identity & Access Management systems like Sailpoint; Process account management, privileged access (Cloakware)
• Expertise in Dada warehousing; Data integration; Application integration; informatica Power center and IICS platform
• Detailed oriented professional with extensive experience on ETL & reporting.
• Proven ability to lead projects involving cross - functional teams in providing business solutions
• An excellent team player that combines a solid work ethic with strong analytical and communication skills
• Very good experience in managing financial regulatory projects.
• Well experienced in new system acquisition, onboarding new tools, infrastructure migration, retiring legacy systems,
• Well experienced in working with multiple cross functional teams simultaneously and define problem, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusion.
• Proficient and experienced in communicating complex technical concepts as well as business drivers in clear language to diverse audiences
• Excellent organizational, time and resource-management skills; able to effectively multi-task to lead projects to successful fruition and reliably achieving challenging targets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Planning
• Schedule Management
• Project Monitoring
• Business Analysis
• Cost Control
• Planning & Analysis
• Co-ordination
• Risk Management
• Process Control
• Process Development
• SDLC Waterfall
• Agile / Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a highly sensitive city-wide procurement project for New York city.
• Coordinating between multiple government agency to ensure all stakeholder communication are established
• Develop CIO scorecards and present the project status to senior management and project directors
• Identify gaps in the existing business process and make changes as needed to adapt to the new system seamlessly
• Developed an end to end change movement plan and established an easy cross walk for all Agency users to adapt and get trained to the new system and business process
• Moved entire city procurement warehouse from paper-based system to CRM based online platform
• Run daily checkpoint calls with internal IT team and Vendors, end to end project tracking, Sprint planning, prioritization, risk managrment, issue tracking and escalation managemebt.

Confidential

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end to end delivery of data and application integration project at Confidential
• Responsible for migrating the data integration platform from Informatica Power Center to IICS
• Responsible for migrating the application integration platform from IIB to IICS by developing the integrations from scratch
• Develop Project plan, WBS, detailed project tracking, resource allocation and manage teams at different geographical location,
• Defining strategy, set up priority, manage individual deliverables, issue & escalation tracking,
• Driving weekly management meeting and monthly steering committee meetings
• Conducting UAT with business users, Release management; Stakeholder communication.

Confidential

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the transformation of Identity and Access Control management system across the organization with a new tool called Sailpoint, which includes birthright provisioning and on-boarding applications to Sailpoint.
• Responsible for delivery of the Process/Service account standardization program by implementing Cloakware tool.
• Responsible for managing end to end migration of 200 + applications to sailpoint platform as a part of Identity and access managrment program.
• Developed a custom built onboarding process for different categories of applications to get onboarded to the IAM platform.
• Engaging the infrastructure team to set up the environment before migration.
• Coordinate the release management and Go-live process by engaging members from multiple teams.
• Responsible for managing projects that affects in a Program level across multiple Development groups / work streams / business units.
• Work with the Product Managers to define the roadmap for the product and translate into user stories.
• Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.
• Owning project from initiation to closure; managing budgets & schedule. Also, responsible for triaging run-time issues with the project.
• Establishing communication plan between multidisciplinary teams. Drive cross functional projects, help making decisions, identify critical path, and assign ownership by involving respective functional managers
• End to end project management ensuring timely delivery of end product to client within stipulated schedule & cost and meeting all quality standards defined.
• Develop an end to end MPP detailing the schedule of the project ensuring team member allocation and leveling
• Ensuring smooth execution of the project through effective tracking, strategizing, risk and issue management, defining & improving internal processes to ensure quality of deliverables and effective people management including mentoring.
• Maintaining effective communication channels within the organization as well as at client end through status reporting and escalation management as applicable.
• Planning activities involving various requirements, monitoring overall project operations for ensuring timely completion.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing multiple projects of varying size from inception to delivery. Manage project delivery across groups / functional areas, while working with cross geographic teams.
• Work with product owners to define/understand the strategic vision & participate in enterprise project office meetings to help prioritize the project accordingly.
• Responsible for all project management activities such as planning & managing the project scope, cost, time, quality, communications, risk and resource for all assigned projects.
• Effectively use enterprise wide tools to plan and manage multi-location, cross-discipline and cross functional projects with focus on project costing, budgeting, schedule management, risk tracking, resource planning, offshore billing and management reporting.
• Provide project/product management expertise via creation and maintenance of project plan, work breakdown structures, schedule estimates, effort estimates and delivery reports. Monitor project progress and lead project status meeting to keep project on track.
• Liaise between customers, vendors and internal groups to ensure delivery of project on time and within budget.
• Define / improve processes and ensure project are managed appropriately in accordance with the firm’s standards.
• Report status to all level of management, customers and other stakeholders at product/project level.
• As a project manager lead the data warehousing team involving multiple upstream and downstream systems
• Managed ETL projects using informatica to store data from multiple sources for generating reports on the enterprise reporting platform.
• Maintain the release schedule for all core services and communicate release details and schedules to the upstream, downstream and business teams as required
• End to end release management involving multiple teams.
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Mobile Innovation projects: stating with ideas, completed a competitive analysis, and developed a concepts and business requirements, created visual designs, user stories and product backlogs.
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents.
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured functional spec, test plans and test cases.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
• Execute all the test case and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect.
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts.
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet customer needs
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
• Monitor debugging process results, track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.