SUMMARY

• A competent and enthusiastic individual with over 18 Years of financial industry experience including 8 years of managing applications as Program/Engagement Manager/Application Development Manager.
• Currently working as Program Manager with Confidential Securities responsible for expansion of International Securities Lending Program (5M $).
• Extensive knowledge in Capital markets /BFSI/ Securities Lending /Collateral Management.
• Work with key stakeholders to meet the goals of successful project deliverables as well as effective financial management including alignment of finances, deliverables, allocations, governance and controls.
• Lead group portfolio planning and prioritization efforts and accurately capture and communicate project priorities
• Facilitate project management aspects including running project status meetings, escalating issues, developing and managing project plans, identifying risks and mitigation strategies and implementation of projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Work with C - Level executive team and cross-functional team leadership to establish priorities and milestones that align with our company goals.
• Expertize in both Application Development and Infrastructure projects, matrix managing both internal staff and external vendor contract teams.
• Experience in raising the bar on staff delivery performance and cultivating high performance work environments.
• Experienced in JIRA, SharePoint, Visio and MS suite of products.
• Have strong Database, Programing and ETL skills.
• Experience and in depth understanding of Project lifecycle, scope management, change control and process management
• Hands on Technical expertise in development applications and managing support applications (Follow the SUN Model / Run the bank / Change the Bank). Worked on building Data Warehousing (BI/DW), reporting, analysis and Datacenter migrations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end to end implementation of multiples schedules simultaneously.
• Managing the requirements - Data Acquisition, Database loading, and subscriptions setup as per Data Demand requested by consumer.
• Managed the offshore/onsite model for resources including BA’s/Tech/QA functional teams.
• Manage and maintain the project work plan, schedule, risk / issues on SharePoint.
• Ensuring data acquisition is done from Approved Data Sources (ADS) or Strategic Data Source (SDS).
• Defining Critical Data Elements (CDE’s) and valid rules associated for the attributes defines as CDE
• Conduct weekly stakeholder meetings including Data Quality Group (DQG)/Operations/consumers of the data and monthly Senior Management Review meetings (SMR’s).

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As part of Macrofunding Project managed the migration from SQL server to Hadoop with Micro strategy as front end.
• Successfully Implemented the Global One Securities Lending ( Confidential ) platform with 15 interfaces internal to Confidential Securities.
• Coordinated activities, resources, and information sharing ensuring the delivery of projects and key milestones using agile methodology.
• Manage and maintain the project work plan, schedule, risk / issues, and documentation on SharePoint and RAMP (Project Management tool - golden copy of documentation and approvals).
• Proactively managed performance, cost, scope, schedule, quality and other key project management activities
• Successfully managing multiple projects teams, including those functionally aligned as part of the project and organizationally aligned resources
• Responsible for the end-to-end integration of various work streams in order to deliver the intended project solution
• Established baseline project requirements and manage the change control process throughout the project lifecycle
• Created program and project level dashboards/status reports for Weekly working committee and Steering Committee Decks.

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing the effort for moving the applications to Cloud environment from Physical servers
• Implementing the version upgrade for Informatica from 9.1 to 9.6 across Collateral suite of applications.
• Analysis of replacing with RANSYS (Rolfe and Nolan) book keeping to GMI interface.

Confidential

Group Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing the offshore/onsite model for client deliverables in terms of Development Projects and Support functions
• Participated in defining SLO (Service Level Observance) and Responsible for managing SLA’s for the deliverable
• Interacting with Product / Operations (NY, London, HK and Milan) and manage Business Enhancements Requests for the Application.
• Defined and managed the lifecycle from project initiation through to program closure in partnership with PMO group.
• Performed data analysis for various interfaces such as security pricing, client billing, trade statistics.
• Proven PM capabilities to execute projects on time, within budget and to scope. Effective communicator by communicating the Stakeholders.
• Managed clients’ portfolios and internal technical groups to ensure delivery of projects on time, within budget, and to specification.
• Supported Sec Finance business/Client queries using strong SQL knowledge.
• Implemented Agile PM methodology including processes, procedures, templates, best practices, standards, guidelines and policies
• Present periodic Dashboard reports (RAG reports) on the current program, future opportunities and client issues.
• Managed and oversees the end to end project management activities such as project reporting, project planning/ tracking, scope management, production support, client on boarding, relationship management, and change/release management.