OBJECTIVE

• Over 15 years experience as a IT specialist and Project Manager in the Financial and Insurance. Hands - on experience leading all stages of system development efforts, including requirements gathering and analysis, design, architecture, development, testing, implementation and support.

SUMMARY

• Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project, PlanView, WorkFront, JIRA, Confluence
• Project Management: full cycle Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence, Enterprise Financial Reporting implementation projects, new insurance and banking products onboarding, IT security, infrastructure and applications upgrades
• Project Communication: identifying, understanding and resolving issues; building positive relationships with business, guiding and influencing business stakeholders
• Project Stakeholder Management: identifying stakeholder, establishing communication and relationships, influencing and engaging of executive level stakeholders
• Project Monitoring and Controlling: reports to senior management on project progress/milestones and issues
• Organizational Change Management: current state assessment, deficiencies identification, Target Operating Model design, current business processes updates and introduction of new business processes
• Project Budgeting: up to $34 mln
• Project Scheduling: projects up to 18 months
• Project Planning: ensure completeness, accuracy, consistency and quality of all artifacts required for each project phase
• Risk Assessment and Impact Analysis to business and operations
• Resource Management: planning, allocation and monitoring
• People Management: leading up to 40 cross-functional team members
• Vendor Management
• Mentorship for junior Project members
• Master Data Management for Enterprise: gathering requirements, data quality analysis, creating metadata registry
• Databases design, development and administration: MS SQL server, MS Access, MySQL
• Web development: ASP, PHP, JavaScript, XML
• Full cycle report development: SAS Business Intelligence Platform, MS Reporting Services - SSRS, IBM Cognos 8.4/10 Report Studio
• Broad technical experience including application deployment, infrastructure, security & network
• Sound Engineering, Music Recording, Mastering, Producing: Steinberg Cubase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Data Lake projects for an insurance/financial industry client
• Define the strategy and framework for data quality analysis and monitoring
• Resolved the organization and IT security challenges
• Define the framework for data services (data cleansing, data migration, data analysis, data extraction, transformation, loading)
• Provide leadership and expertise in data quality to challenge, support, enable and improve data quality
• Interact with data consultants, functional SMEs and key users to define data quality rules and drive the continuous improvement of data quality
• Developed framework for data/report consumers
• Provided recommendations for the enterprise wide data quality framework and processes
• Acted as a single point of contact/SME for data quality framework

Confidential

Sr. IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Full cycle Project Management: projects up to $25 mln, 12 month
• Led geographically and culturally diverse cross-functional teams up to 20 members
• Project Management tools: MS Project, WorkFront
• Communication with the business clients: gathering requirements, presenting candidate solutions, running pilot and presenting the results to the business, identifying and negotiating the win-win solutions, driving and influencing business
• Identified and resolved/escalated potential conflicts between long-term architecture direction, major stakeholders and project constraints
• Presenting project status/milestones/issues/risks to steering committee, presenting candidate solutions to business and IT executive decision makers
• Identified and managed project risks
• Ensuring project delivery on time and on budget: Payment Hub, Customer Information Foundation etc.

Confidential

IT Security Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Full cycle Project Management: projects up to $4 mln, 12 month, up to 20 cross functional team members
• Led geographically and culturally diverse cross-functional teams
• Project Management tools: MS Project, WorkFront
• Communication with the business clients: gathering requirements, presenting candidate solutions, running pilot and presenting the results to the business, identifying and negotiating the win-win solutions, driving and influencing business
• Identified and resolved/escalated potential conflicts between long-term architecture direction, major stakeholders and project constraints
• Presenting project status/milestones/issues/risks to steering committee, presenting candidate solutions to business and IT executive decision makers
• Identified and managed project risks
• Ensuring project delivery on time and on budget
• Successfully managed IT Security projects:
• IT Audit driven project based on External Assessment findings: Secure Email implementation (including Penetration Testing), Enforced TLS, Enterprise Secure portal)
• Privileged Access Management (CyberArk implementation)
• Real Estate (4 local offices migration)
• Moneris Vault implementation (integration with legacy system and web applications including data )Cyber transformation platform

Confidential

IS Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed full cycle IT projects (new insurance products, Enterprise Reporting, new services) up to $2 mln (PlanView, MS Project)
• Successfully implemented new insurance products and IS services
• Developed project plans (initiation to closure) adapting estimating models as required, documented estimating assumptions, refined plans and managed performance against them
• Managed project scope/requirements changes, multiple and competing demands and priorities determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk using appropriate fact-based metrics/assumptions
• Determined quality standards and oversaw the execution/production of project deliverables and management documents
• Raised and tracked issues and conflicts, removed barriers, resolved issues of medium complexity involving stakeholders and escalated to appropriate level where required
• Provided schedule and costs forecasts including risk based provisions and identified resources and skills required
• Recommended external vendors and third parties and managed the relationships at the project level
• Set direction and vision for the team and managed performance, reward and recognition
• Established succession plan for key positions, including own
• Selected & built a high performing diverse team that leverages individual capabilities & strengths
• Created a reporting system for Resource Management: PlanView, SSRS, Excel. Estimated annual saving $50K

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical and project management expertise for full-cycle e-commerce, BI projects
• Coordinated and led collaborative effort with various stakeholder
• Resolved technical, organizational and production issues
• Led the integration effort for payment, inventory, and shipping systems
• Vendor and client management
• Documented and transferred knowledge to the end user

Confidential

Senior Business Intelligence Infrastructure Engineer/Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a BI SME and PM implemented (SDFC) BI applications for IT infrastructure. Estimated saving CAD$ 120K/year
• Provided technical leadership, standards and best practices to infrastructure teams during infrastructure design and build phases of initiatives and projects
• Project Management, SDLC up to $1 mln (MS BI: SSAS, SSIS, SSRS; SAS BI Framework, IBM Congos)
• Business Intelligence subject matter expert (BI SME) for projects which resulted in a successful implementations of financial analytical applications
• Planned and led collaborative efforts with various stakeholders, full cycle Project Management for BI projects
• Determined standards and roadmaps for hardware and software. Decided how infrastructure is built and recommended infrastructure standards for organization wide initiatives.
• Conducted major studies regarding system usage, made recommendations for improvements, and determined infrastructure system requirements
• Designed, developed and tested emerging hardware and infrastructure software solutions.
• As a BI SME implemented SAS BI application (Activity Based Management, Cost Management and Chargeback): installation, security configuration, maintenance and documentation.
• SDFC for Cognos 10 maintenance and automation scripts. Estimated savings CAD$100K/year (Cognos SDK, C#)
• L3 support for Business Intelligence applications

Confidential

Senior Business Intelligence Application Analyst/ echnical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• BI Application Project Management: Project Planning, Controlling and Monitoring, Change Management (MS BI: SSAS, SSIS, SSRS; SAS BI Framework, IBM Congos)
• Business Analysis for BI systems
• Provided technical support for implementation SAS applications
• Resolved system implementation issues - cross-platform and security
• Planned and performed capacity assessment for BI applications
• Created technical documentation, led and participated in knowledge transfer process
• SDLC for BI application components
• Designed new and analyzed existing Business Processes, provided recommendations for improvements
• Business Analysis for new BI applications and updates to existing applications
• SDLC for ETL packages (MS SQL Server 2008 Integration Services SSIS)
• SDLC for reports (MS SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services SSRS)
• Designed and implemented Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing applications (MS SQL Server 2008, IBM Cognos 8.4)