Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst Resume
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SUMMARY
- Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst / Report Lead with over 15 + years working in the financial services industry (Equities and Fixed Income)
- Primary point of contact for all stakeholders including business users, internal technical teams, and third - party vendor. Meeting with and presenting to all business levels (Directors, Managers, Assistants)
- Coordinate with stakeholders to manage roadmaps for custom enhancements
- Developed and maintained full Life Cycle Project Plan (Timeline, Roadmaps, creation of issue lists, documenting risks and mitigation plans). Led UAT process; developing method of validation, test plan, logging issues
- Able to manage multiple projects and resources (on-shore and off-shore); experienced with Agile and Waterfall release methodology
- Chair meetings - Steering Committee and team status
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to lead and train others
- Translating requirements into Business Cases, UML, Business and Functional Requirements documents, IST and UAT testing documents for on-shore and off-shore teams providing all Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) artifacts
- Utilizing SQL to against Data Warehouse environment (Oracle) to capture and understand business data
- Performing data assessment on data files (inbound/outbound) and database tables to determine gaps and risk
- Strong analytical and technical skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a wider team with excellent communication skills
- Proven history of implementing testing process / methodology, including in depth understanding of QA testing tools (defect tracking, requirements gathering, automation, performance, etc), manual testing and scripting
- Strong knowledge of MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Design/Development Tools: Seismic, Smarthouse,Business Objects XI, Business Objects Universe Designer; Crystal Reports XI; MS Office (Excel {pivot tables, vlookups, functions, VBA}, Visio, MS Project, PowerPoint); Toad; Embarcadero Rapid SQL, JIRA, Intraspect, SharePoint; IBM Rational Clear Case; Clear Quest; Visual Basic; C; Java; Stored Procedures
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Actively manages the work efforts of multiple cross-functional teams through the project plan
- Managing vendor relationships
- Establish basic scope control procedures
- Develop documentation; monitors and reports project status; assesses the effectiveness and accuracy of documentation
- Initiate and maintain reporting relationships with project stakeholders including team members, peers, managers, customers, vendors, and other affected departments to coordinate efforts across multiple business units and ensure continuous efficient management of projects
- Analyze and report project status on a periodic basis
- Monitor project performance to maintain the quality of services, deliverables, and content
- Identify and eliminate obstacles to solution plans, business goals or implementation
- Lead the initiative on planning and implementation of contingency plans
Confidential
Senior Business Analyst/ Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Partnering with business SME’s to gather and document requirements for Basel III Regulatory Reporting
- Executing full lifecycle process, including planning, design, and implementation.
- Managing weekly review sessions on requirements captured and reporting project status
- Implementing /Monitoring critical path strategy plan to meet project completion dates
- Maintained strong relationships with the Global business teams
- Development of UAT test cases, for application functional testing and data validation
- Leading Global team UAT testing phase and user training
- Supporting Global team on all phases of testing and sign-off
- Utilizing Business Objects, and Excel VBA to perform data validation
- Ability to work independently and as part of a wider team with excellent communication skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to interface effectively with team members, IT groups, and business user.
Confidential
Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Develop Global Dashboard to be used for CITI Private Bank business line; technology used for reporting Business Objects and Data Warehouse environment
- Equities and Fixed Income Holding
- Used as team InfoView Report expert; training team members and business community on how to use and create InfoView Reports
- Performed data assessment on data files (inbound/outbound) and database tables to determine gaps and risk
- Utilizing SQL to analyze backend database to capture and understand current business process
- Gathering and documenting business requirements, creating uses cases as well as UML models, developing business process flows, writing test plans for IST/UAT, and prototyping Dashboard business views
- Chairing/Reporting project status meeting
- Managing different projects (new releases and BAU support)
