SUMMARY:

• I am a hands - on PMP and Agile PMI certified Senior IT Project Manager with over 20 years of experience in IT.
• I specialize in managing all aspects of technology projects and resources, and their deliverables including creating project plans, project charters, identifying and mitigating risks, and providing detailed presentations and documentation for status reporting.
• I track issues and use communication plans and reporting to provide senior management teams and other stakeholders a clear understanding of the project status.
• My proven track record of completing PMO, application projects, using both Scrum and Waterfall methodologies within difficult time and budget constraints, using excellent organizational, presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills, make me an excellent choice for your position.
• I am a results oriented, self- motivated leader, with strong analytical, decision-making, and problem solving skills.
• This includes managing large cross-functional teams in multi-tasking environments, including off-shore resources.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Scrum Product OwnerLean, XP, Scrum

PMO Management of Programs and ProjectsCreating new process and procedures

Corporate Compliance (IT Governance)Change Management

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Vendor Management

Release ManagementOff-shore management coordination

Information RadiatorsITSM

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)Project Management Lifecycle (PMLC)

Waterfall PM MethodologyAgile Software Methodology

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Manhattan

IT Senior Project Manager - Change Management

Responsibilities:

• Created and managed the Change Management process including daily CAB calls and reporting to upper management.
• Established process best practices and ensures adherence by all internal/external groups across IT.
• Drive the efficiency and effectiveness of the Change management process.
• Collaborated with cross functional teams to with their business requirement requests for approval and implementation from development to QA/UAT on to production.

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the delivery of a server move for a software application from one state to another, with a software upgrade as well.
• Responsible for delivery of the project through the Agile SDLC lifecycle. This included managing Java programmers, DBA, the design team, etc.
• Responsible for managing and leading professionals in prioritized projects through the software upgrade from Saba 3.5 to Saba 5.4. Project completed on time and on budget.

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

IT Project Manager - PMO/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivery of multiple projects including planning, risk & issue management, change control, documentation, budget, resources, tracking & reporting, and stakeholder management.
• Responsible for managing and leading prioritized projects through the software development life cycle (SDLC) from initiation phase all the way through to a post-implementation review.
• Delivery-focused, hands-on manager, who added value through providing in depth technical expertise and ability to question the content and quality of IT back end and front end work delivered on the project working with Release Management.
• Accountable to corporate for compliance with the project delivery framework. (SDLC)

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

IT Auditor - PMO/Regulatory

Responsibilities:

• Created and presented regulatory/PMO application documentation for USA branch of GPC Bio-tech. Including writing the computer systems validation policy, the IT strategy, portfolio management, computer security, and the SDLC methodology documents (SOW’s, project plans, etc.).
• Trained international corporate personnel on the compliance of FDA GxP regulations using as training tools the documentation policies I authored for the company.

Confidential, Manhattan

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed assigned projects to adhere to established time schedules for successful transition of IT applications as they related to the merger between the Confidential.
• Presented project status and accomplishments to upper management weekly.
• Justified recommendations through in depth analysis of data using Mercury’s ITG.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed financial team and project plans for the company’s general ledger activities as it related to the merger with Confidential . This included identifying gaps between the systems of Confidential ’s mainframe GL and Confidential ’s GL.
• Managed all documentation (charters, sow’s, FRS, design spec, etc.) for all phases using the established SDLC; for accuracy, timeliness, efficiency, thoroughness, SOX compliance, etc., and provided feedback to upper management.
• Provided direction to Retail, Commercial, and various other teams in order to keep the projects moving forward and on target with the corporate calendar.
• Represented the GL on weekly status meetings that included upper management and business stakeholders.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

IT Audit Project Manager - International / Various Systems

Responsibilities:

• Member of the both domestic and international IT Audit teams for IT compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Responsible for documenting IT Audits to assess compliance with SOX section 404 for various financial applications. Identified controls and demonstrated how the control supports the COSO framework. Developed and executed test scripts to validate that the controls were working.
• Facilitated status meetings, etc. including off-shore coordination.
• Identified and accessed deficiencies for both validated and non-validated systems across technologies.
• Responsible for reviewing international and domestic teamwork packages prior to external auditor review.

Confidential, Groton, CT

Project Manager/ IT Auditor - Various Systems

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed testing documents for compliance with GxPs and CFR Part 11, including statement of work, project plan, requirements and design, disaster/recovery test plan and data center review, test summary reports, unit, system and UA testing along with IQ, PQ and OQ testing as they related to the Confidential merger with Pharmacia.
• Created the power point review and training manuals for instructing non-FDA personnel on computer validation (CSV) in a regulated environment as was need for this project. The room training was so highly regarded that I was sent across the country to Confidential locations as an instructor and expert on this topic.
• Authored the observation reports needed to review the validation status of various documents and phases of the given system.
• Made Risk Assessments and Gap Analysis of systems for company merger as it related to production, disaster/recovery and regulatory compliance and presented my findings to upper management.

Confidential, Manhattan

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and supervised the programming team in an international effort to convert assets from one custodian to another.
• Facilitated the cash management communication between the country-wide domestic partners and outside vendors, along with the international partners, in creating a validation test plan for the entire data path. This included developing the disaster/recovery test plan for each application in the path and how it responded to down time.
• Wrote the disaster/recovery continuity plan for the main trust application and was asked to participate in the company’s data center disaster/recovery test planning.
• Designed and built the message infrastructure using MQ Series. This included the design of the software, and the decision making as to which technology to use (NDM, FTP, etc.) The messaging loop was international and very complex in planning and testing.
• Designed the path of the Architecture through the various technologies.
• Developed and implemented the business test plan for all the different ‘Books of Business’ the application required such as Investment Management, Custody, Brokerage, Fiduciary, and Asset Accounts.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervised seven COBOL programmer/analysts supporting the Clearance and Settlement system used for international security accounting.
• Interfaced globally with internal/external company contacts (vendor and clients) in making changes to the international accounting system.
• Wrote the Validation Test Plan to include messaging from both the technical functionality and the business functionality. First, technically, the new “hold” transactions had to be tested through the SWIFT network, through to the Custodian with the BIC’s. Set up a CICS test region and pointed the transactions through to our test gateway and on to the Custodians. Secondly, we incorporated in that test, from a business function point of view, all the ‘MT’ messages for the business functions.
• Analyzed different international governmental laws pertaining to trading in each of the affected country and come up with a single technical design for all countries regardless of local laws.