SUMMARY:

Innovative, with broad - based expertise in strategic, operational, and technical delivery of large scale IT ProjectsResourceful and technically orientated professional with more than 25 years of experience in leading all phases of IT projects for various banking, financial, insurance, telecom. Track record of success in executing large-scale IT projects and directing diverse Onsite and Offshore teams to resolve complex project problems, while meeting deadlines and budgets. Specifically skilled in total project life cycle management, project requirements development, technology integration, system engineering, budgeting, and Agile Project Methodology.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Project Governance & Control
• Team Building & Leadership
• Financial Management & Analysis
• Strategic Planning & Execution
• Quality Assurance & Compliance
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Client & Vendor Relationship
• Performance Optimization

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Platforms, Software, and Servers: Sun, Apache Tomcat, IBM Red Hat Linux, LPAR, Oracle WebLogic, MQ, F5, Mainframe, Windows, Linux, NGC Container, VM, JAVA, J2EE, Visual Basic, C++, Unix, ETL, XML, HTML, Wildfly JBOSS

Tools: and Languages Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, BMC Remedy, Wireframe, Quality, Mutual Authentication Single Socket Layer (MASSL), INTROSCOPE, SPLUNK, Channel Secure SiteMinder, BoKs, AnthilPro, Eclipse, ESKit, MS Project Enterprise Edition, Visio, MS Access, Sharepoint, Kibanna, Postman

Applications / Data Base: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Business Intellegence (BI), Confidential Wealth Management Enterprise DATAMART, SAP, COGNOS, OBIEE, IBM TSA (Tivoli), Informatica GRID, Notifications, Integrated Compensation, OBIEE, RISE / Data Power, CMS, Cloud

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple AGILE development Scrum Master led squad’s interaction in the Bank’s waterfall world, fulfilling source data needs from backend systems, and delivering according to Enterprise mandated processes and standards.
• Called upon to achieve the highest flexibility in support of the Product Owner’s work with the Line of Business towards the goal of discovering their IT need as it is developed.
• Assumed the role of my Domain Manager to deliver of this major release.
• Guiding Product Owners, Agile Tech Developers in Project Process to develop and deliver product to production 0n enterprise release schedule dates.
• With Scrum Master, manage and coordinate the front door for new release features, working in close coordination with Ux / Design / Product Owner, to new development, testing and implementation.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior Technical Project Manager, Wealth Management - Infrastructure / Applications

Responsibilities:

• Starting with delivery of new blueprinted servers from procurement to the Domain management, planned, resourced, executed this project in close collaboration, to lift and reconfigure Wealth Management group’s backbone data mart (17 terabytes, DB2), OBIEE and associated applications with enhanced functionality, in the new ‘tech refreshed’ server environment.
• Bringing the Bank’s Enterprise PMO mandated process to this project’s scope and schedule managed and monitored formally throughout the life of the project, and all the way to implementation and lessons learned.
• Cost / Budget was managed by this project manager in close collaboration with Program Management.
• Our delivery successfully beat the clock to be off end-of-life servers, and launched into production problem free after extensive testing and warrantee period.
• Restored it to back on track, completing Agile build / design / end-to-end testing, Extensive User Acceptance Test, and Implementing by final date promised.
• In close coordination with Business Sponsor and my Director, conducted an extended warrantee period, re-building confidence in our technology team.
• This success averted a major and costly ‘miss’ by the Technology group.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the planning stage of the new Infrastructure project, Network Segmentation, in the company’s Cyber Security group, meeting the PMO objective to start the planning process until a subject matter specific Project Manager could be found and assigned.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA enior IT Project Manager, Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Business Services (EBS) / Middleware ‘Tech Refreshes’ of Applications suites including regression testing to be production ready in new state-of-the-art environments.
• Framed these projects in coordination with Functional Domain management, executed, and delivered while fitting smoothly with their release schedule.
• These suites of applications served a broad range of business consumer groups, including functional upgrades where required in their new environment.
• Managed implementation and deployment of Mutual Authentication Single Socket Layer technology for safeguarding 140 applications in Community Banking.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr IT Project Manager - e-Commerce

Responsibilities:

• Re-worked this off-track e-commerce project and team supporting the business, an SAP project, while keeping the ongoing in-flight work underway restoring IT Leadership’s commitment to the business.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Sr IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• The infrastructure piece placed an added demand on my overall project management, requiring tight multiple team effort coordination.
• The program called for consistent ‘project health’ (dashboard reporting), formal financial estimation and tracking to senior management.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Requirements and Design phase of the company’s core BI (Business Intelligence) & Data Warehouse project.
• Completed POC, Business signoff and approval.
• This project development process used a hybrid of waterfall and Agile methodology.
• For a ‘first’, the design mapped the business’s required dashboard metrics from multiple platforms, to full corporate strategy.