PROFILE:

Confidential veteran and proven business project/program manager with 20+ years of diverse leadership and management experience working in organizations that are leaders in their specific domain. Consistently focus on business and IT Governance as the driving force to assure investments in IT assets delivered business value, enabling organizations to achieve and maintain a strong competitive advantage, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Profound ability to understand business requirements, articulate a vision, evaluate risks, and define roadmaps to build and strengthen business and IT capabilities, processes, and infrastructure/system investments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SQL, Oracle, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Microsoft Visio, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft TEAMS, JIRA, CA Clarity, and Confluence.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

PROJECT/PROGRAM/PORTFOLIO MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Managed $20M multi - years global portfolio of data integrity (DI) business operational and technology projects with varying levels of complexity through leadership of 20 sub-functional areas teams consisting of 300+ membership.
• Mentored and coached project and program managers, and employed standardized tools and practices enabling tracking of 700+ DI remediation activities reducing non-compliance with Confidential requirements and various global organizations. Influenced PMO organizational change and once adopted reduced PMO resource requirements saving 5%+ annually.
• Program managed $10M global set of 250 regulatory compliance mini-projects. Led the application validation and instrument qualification teams, tracked progress of 1000s of deliverables and milestones, and minimized non-compliance exposure while delivering program 30% ($3.3M+) under budget.
• Participated in global disaster recovery (DR) solution project negotiations, which reduced cost by $1.2M.
• Delivered $1M project successfully mitigating against the potential loss of $1M+ per day and increased DR readiness by 100%,
• Project managed an additional $1M in various technology custom enhancements designed to optimized performance, improve team communication and collaboration, aligned with regulatory and business requirements, and reduce cost.
• Created data plans, collected, and aggregated data and status reports and established metrics, KPIs, and analysis. Articulated concise conclusions by designing functional and visually appealing presentation materials for executive leadership, leading to quick, actionable decisions.
• Propelled struggling, failing $3.5M financial data warehouse re-platform project to successful, on time, on schedule, in scope, and 10% under budget completion in accordance with re-baselined project plan and reprioritized deliverables. Eliminated redundant reporting and manual business processing, decreased monthly accounting cycle close time by 30%, and re-engineered IT and business functions to reduce operational cost profile.
• Directed 3 functional areas and managed 100+ internal and external onshore and offshore resources through successful, on time and within budget deployment of multiple projects/iterations/releases per month utilizing Waterfall, Agile and Lean methodologies.
• Identified and reported change control process deviations and enabled 100% compliance with change management policies while reducing internal audit inquiries by over 75%.

Confidential, New York, NY

LEAD BUSINESS DATA ANALYST/TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Managed project enabling the reengineering and automation of a manual intensive risk reporting process resulting in the elimination of 100’s of hours of monthly labor hours, reduced costly rework by 90%+ and increased expected revenue reimbursement of over $6M annually due to increased reporting accuracy and improved timeliness of submission while mitigating accessed regulatory violation penalties.

Confidential, New York, NY

LEAD DATA ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business data requirements, examined source data for completeness, identified data facts and dimensions, produced logical and physical data models, established preliminary aggregation strategy and recommended data extraction and transformation rules resulting in 100%+ system performance gains

Confidential, White Plains, NY

SENIOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Developed strategic roadmaps, delivered a comprehensive data strategy, negotiated system functionality for the financial data warehouse, drafted and communicated architectural design and demonstrated process for continual system improvements allowing finance department to save over $500K in anticipated business intelligence system acquisition cost.
• Managed the entire BI product lifecycle, conceived, designed, and led the development of comprehensive dashboards, analytical reports, and supporting infrastructure including conversion, funnel, cohort, and lifetime value (LTV) analysis, key performance indicators (KPIs), and an aggregation strategy replacing third party analytic platforms resulting in annual saving of more than $180K per product group.

Confidential, New York, NY

ORACLE DATA WAREHOUSE ARCHITECT/TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Established the vision for and led the design and development of the dimensional data warehouse and business intelligence system, pioneered the use of Metadata repositories to uncover patterns of system utilization, allowing for the identification of opportunities for system improvements and the ability to mitigate system issues leading to over 30% reduction in costly customer service calls.
• Conceptualized and programmed a custom ETL process utilizing Oracle SQL and PL/SQL that extracted, transformed and loaded more than over 1.5 billion transaction records per day, resulting in storage of over petabytes of data.