SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of diversified experience in Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile SCRUM Master/Coach, Software Design, Development, Data modeling, Implementation and Quality Assurance of web based and client server applications using n - tier architecture, with extensive experience in Finance & Banking solutions
• Expert in effectively driving the adoption and implementing Agile and SCRUM methodology across Global teams by enforcing SCRUM rules, removing impediments
• Result-driven, highly motivated, creative, with strong analytical & logical acumen & proven experience at building, motivating and leading professional teams, managing projects and supporting client relationships, implementing large & multiple projects successfully
• Exceptional ability to simultaneously manage multiple matrix teams to consistently deliver complete projects on schedule and within budget, despite intense pressure and aggressive timeliness
• Influential technical leader and skilled negotiator, successfully presenting strategic high-impact technology proposals and project plans to executive management to achieve buy-in, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Financial industry experience including Fixed-Income, Equities, Futures, Options, Equity Derivatives, Trading, Settlement Processing, Risk Management, Treasury Management Systems, Asset Management (Buy/Sell Side), Annuities, Mutual Funds, Credit Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, Cash Flow
• Established PMO, policies, guidelines, processes and continuous improvement recommendations to standardize PMO disciplines
• Proven experience at building, motivating and leading professional teams, managing projects and supporting client relationships, implementing large & multiple projects successfully and ability to interact with all levels of Management
• Ability to manage staff in multiple locations including full-time, consultants and out-sourced, co-coordinator for Onsite/Offshore projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Solution based, Extreme, JAD Sessions, RAD, Spiral, Offshore, RUP

Financial Application: Geneva 8.5 (Advent), Phase3 (SunGard), Fidessa, Shadow

Reporting Application: Business Objects, Web focus, SQL Server Reporting Services

Data Warehousing Tools: Informatica, Toad, Teradata

Project Management Tools: PPM, MS Project, Staff Planner, Delivery Tracker, Visio, Basecamp, Clarizen, Jira

Content Management Tools: Interwoven, Documentum, Teamsite, Toro

Databases: Teradata, Oracle 10i, Db2, SQL Server 2008, MS Access

Testing Tools: Selenium, QTP 8, Load Runner 7.X, Test Director 7.X

Operating Systems:: UNIX, Linux, Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 20, iOS, Android

Others: TCP/IP, WAP, Mantis, JIRA, Bugzilla, Testlink, Lotus notes, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, MS Outlook, Media Wiki, Google Analytics, Blogger, SVN, CVS, SharePoint, Omniture, Web analyst, VDI, VPN, WebEx, Lync, Skype, Workday

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Agile Project Manager / SCRUM Master

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Confidential (Big Data Project) - Exhibited the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption for the Confidential Project, where the goal was to have one central client database for all the departments
• Educated and reinforced SCRUM methodology to team members and key stakeholders
• Facilitated SCRUM ceremonies including Daily SCRUM, Sprint Planning, Sprint Tasking, Sprint Demo and Retrospectives
• Collaborated with members of the Retail, Institutional, Product and Business Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
• Worked closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories with detailed acceptance criteria
• Implemented a monthly release schedule that increased the number of work items released by 60%
• Created and maintained Committed vs. Delivered stories to help increase the velocity of the team
• Planned and projected Team Capacity along with Creating and maintaining Burndown, Burnup, committed vs. delivered charts to maintain growing velocity of the team
• Monitored the project progress and shared the information to stakeholders while identifying and mitigating team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis
• Provided update in weekly Management meeting, communicated status and provided RAG Status to executive members
• Worked closely with ACoE team and important stakeholders to improve the overall project health by creating a Roadmap, Communication plan, Release plan, Release checklist
• Worked closely with PMO to utilize the Project Life Cycle and Status Reporting Guidelines to ensure the quality of project
• Maintained SharePoint site, Confluence Page and Jira with/ all the project related documents
• Set up JIRA for the team - JIRA was a new tool for the Team and wasn’t set-up correctly
• Set-up Jira for the project, created Workflows, Issue Types, Versions, Labels, Components, Filters, Dashboards using several Gadgets, Agile Board and Email Subscription based on project needs
• Documented the best practices of how to use Jira & Trained the team on how to use and set up Jira
• Created several detailed Reports for the team and management to communicate the health and current status of the project

Sr. Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile SCRUM for Data Group Enterprise across global teams - Accomplished servant-leader team, capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time within budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams
• Trained and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Worked with the department managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks while empowering teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Coached new SMs & trained teams, which resulted in early delivery of project & reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding
• Utilized Agile SCRUM practices to help the team increase their velocity by 59% within the first year of Agile adoption
• Facilitated cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 8 agile teams globally
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices
• Facilitated SCRUM of SCRUM for offshore teams along with SCRUM ceremonies including Daily SCRUM, Sprint Planning, Sprint Tasking, Demo and Retrospectives
• Communicated the progress to senior management thru Burndown, Velocity and Committed vs. Delivered charts
• Facilitated Agile Adoption Retrospective for the Enterprise Group with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance
• Redesigned and revamped the Firmwide Directory (used across the firm by over 87k users) - Researched, analyzed, documented the usage and best practices for Directory along with planning and managing the project throughout SDLC.
• Researched and analyzed data from Seismic and other resources to figure out usage and pattern across the firm for the Directory
• Interviewed and surveyed several users to get Voice of Customers and understand the needs and asks for the new Directory
• Worked closely with several cross functional matrix teams and UX team to gather and document requirements and user stories
• Created SharePoint site, detailed Wireframes and detailed BRD with Use cases and through Web design specifics
• Created and maintained Resource Allocation, Budget, Project Plan, WBS throughout the project lifecycle
• Held weekly status meeting across teams to gather status and provided RAG Status to executive members on the bi-weekly basis
• Worked with Senior Management, Business & Release Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning
• Sybase 15 Migration - Migration of LDAP databases from Sybase 12.5 to Sybase 15.7 due to Data Center Migration
• Created and maintained a list of all the active LDAP databases with their Sybase version
• Worked with several teams across board to prioritize and plan the databases releases based on dependency
• Was responsible for full SDLC process including creating and maintaining detailed documentations, schedule, release plan, and final Sign-off for migrating all the services successfully with minimal amount of downtime for all applications
• Set up Jira across several teams - Jira was mandated by Firm across the teams, and many teams
• Lead the role of main Point of Contact for teams to set-up Jira
• Documented the best practices of how to set-up and use Jira
• Set up Jira Concepts, including Workflows, Components, Filters, Dashboards, Email Subscription and integration with QTP, ALM and other external tools
• Trained teams and individuals on how to use and set up Jira for their team
• BOXI Reports - BOXI reports are used by internal and external teams to analyze data in form of reports
• Created and maintained BOXI reports to view individual’s time logged
• Created and maintained BOXI reports to view hours logged against the project, to ensure project stays on budget
• Created and maintained BOXI reports to view time-off for employees and contingent workers
• Multiple Projects:
• Took ownership and responsibility for the success of projects through planning, directing and coordinating activities pertaining to IT application development projects to ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished On-time and within budget
• Took projects through the Project Life Cycle, from Scope Management, to doing ROI and preparing other needed documents to get the project budget approved, then doing Project Planning and maintain SharePoint sites, Project Repository, Project Documents and Plan including RAID Document (Risk, Assumptions, Issues, Dependency) in the Execution Phase then through the Release planning and eventually Close out projects
• Worked closely with PMO to utilize the Project Life Cycle and Status Reporting Guidelines to ensure the quality of projects
• Was responsible for allocating and balancing resources and creating quarterly and yearly team budgets with Cost Estimations and Cost Analysis
• Created weekly and monthly status reports along with RAG statues, worked closely with upper management to create presentations for the Executive members in Exco and Steerco
• Worked closely with internal and external teams inducing onsite and offshore teams, R&D team, Business team, Operations team, Marketing team, IT team and QA team on several collaborative projects

Sr. Project Manager / SCRUM Master

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Agile - SCRUM Methodology - Implemented Agile SCRUM across the program to improve communications between different departments; to provide more transparency across different departments; and to obtain great business value with short turnarounds
• Worked closely with several department heads and SCRUM coaches to introduce SCRUM globally
• Implemented SCRUM across global teams by introducing 2 Week Sprints, holding Daily Stand-up meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Tasking Meetings, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective Meetings
• Held weekly meetings, sessions with the coaches and team to do health check for the
• Trained employees on basic standards of SCRUM and how to follow SCRUM
• Protected team from over-commitment, managing backlog, prioritizing resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 7 major initiatives
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress on a regular basis
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction
• Researched, implemented and introduced Project Management tool in accordance with SCRUM methodology
• Client Data Migration- Managed global project of establishing a centralized Client Database System in Paris for all clients
• Coordinated the project with all teams in New York, Paris, London, Zurich and Chicago through all phases
• Documented the Data Mapping rules and Data Migration Process with the Business and Marketing team
• Provided weekly Status updates via Video Conference to the offshore team members, Vice President and Executive Members
• Documented and executed the complicated release process involving global subsidiaries while communicating the steps and status throughout the release to all the stakeholders
• Managed and scheduled the Data Migration Process through the API from the New York office to the corporate office in Paris
• Worked with the Quality Assurance team to ensure Customer Data is successfully migrated and is not lost during the Migration Process, by doing several Migration runs
• Migration of the Datacenter from Secaucus NJ to Wood Dale IL - Consolidation of all servers to one central location
• Helped in research and decision making for how to migrate a physical Datacenter
• Created Cost Estimation document comparing possible platforms for migration
• Discussed all the open issues and came up with a contingency and mitigation plan while maintaining ongoing RAID list
• Was responsible for full SDLC process including creating and maintaining detailed documentations, schedule, release plan, QA plan and final Sign-off for migrating all the services successfully with minimal amount of downtime for all applications
• Designed Client reporting: Trading activity, Settled trades, Unsettled trades, Position, Cash details, Cash Balances, Dividend pending, Dividend paid, Profit and Loss, Equity Report, Transaction history, Short Stock Interest, Interest report
• Gathered requirements from Client services and Operations for new suite of Client’s reporting
• Produced and regularly updated the project and status documentation in a timely manner, including project summary reports, project plans & associated schedules, issue and risk logs, functional specifications, technical design specifications, management status updates/reports, action log
• Escalated risks and issues as necessary, developing and implementing mitigating actions in partnership with stakeholders
• Created and maintained the WBS, Schedule, Project Status Document and list of Open Issues across multiple internal and external teams. Held weekly WebEx meetings with all responsible teams to get their respective status and follow up on any open issues
• Tax Reporting: 1099 B, 1099 DIV, 1099 INT & 1099 MISC
• Worked with the tax team and corporate action team to plan project WBS, estimates and coordinate project tasks and timelines
• Managed project plan, getting updates from all project members, recording risks and devising mitigation and contingency plans, reporting any changes or concerns to senior management
• Geneva (Advent) upgrade to 8.5
• Worked closely with Advent (Vendor) and Newedge Infrastructure team to upgrade Geneva
• Reported status, issues, risks and change requests to relevant stakeholders on a regular basis, including reporting against budget, productivity, capacity, development effectiveness and others as necessary
• Back office system migration from Phase3 (Sunguard) to Shadow
• Created and maintained the project plan with all phases, Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, QA and Migration
• Regulatory reporting: Bluesheet, OATS, LOPR, Corporate action module design and testing
• Worked closely with Business and Technology groups to understand the relevant Business processes and root of Business needs/concerns from end to end, to design options for appropriately sized solutions to solve the Business needs and to work with all stakeholders to arrive at consensus on these solutions
• Liaise throughout the development of solutions with the Technology and Business teams to ensure that the requirements are clearly understood and that the adjustments that inevitably arise at this level of activity are appropriately managed through the Change Control process
• Conducted periodic steering committee meetings with executive and senior management to communicate high-level project status, obtain critical decisions and guidance, and ensure continuous organizational commitment
• Documented business process and information flow maps. Perform root cause analysis to identify current state process inefficiencies

Sr. Project Manager / Product Development

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Regulatory Trade extract report - Trade activity report for Confidential
• Gathering data requirements and design data model for Regulatory Trade extract report
• Data mining and data field derivation as per Confidential and Compliance requirement
• Gathering business requirements on report and further creating test scenarios to make certain that testing results correspond to the business expectations
• Create project plan, test plan and tracked project during various phase of SDLC. Achieved almost all the project milestones ontime
• Create periodic status reports for end-users, and implementation team, visibility into the progress of the implementation
• Actively participated in JAD sessions from requirements gathering phase through UAT
• Bluesheet report for Confidential - Create Bluesheet report as per new Confidential requirements
• Gathering data requirements and design data model for Bluesheet report
• Understood current business processes via interviewing key users in Compliance and IT department
• Prepare formalize product requirements and create BRDs and FRDs
• Data Warehouse Project - on Teradata
• RFP for data warehouse vendor selection. Lead role in infrastructure/vendor selection and timeline for installations
• Develop and manage detailed Project plans from vendor selection to creating data marts for business
• Planning & scheduling of Teradata hardware and network updates on Pershing infrastructure
• Lead data analysis role & gathering business requirements to prepare ETL document
• Manage data loading from source systems (Mainframe & archive files)
• Testing data loading script and data load to stage EDW tables
• Business analysis on Trade and account data for data enrichment and business requirements
• Data validation, conversion and massaging to load trade activity data into Trade data mart

Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the end-users, core technical and finance personnel to gather business requirements and compiling Functional requirement specifications (FRS) for TCMS
• Generated UML (Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams), Use Cases, Supplementary Specifications as a part of the requirements for Prime View application and the corresponding data format for the various reports within
• Developed Traceability Matrices, interacted with user, Development and QA Teams to ensure overall quality and data validation
• Analyzed and validated the trades and validated the successful generation Reports
• Developed Test objectives, Test Hierarchy, Test cases, Traceability Matrix and scripts, coordinated User Acceptance Testing, collaborated with Developers as needed to isolate root use of defects and analysis and maintained defects
• Documented the results of each test, and provide error reports and correction requests to the appropriate developer
• Client Reporting Project Phase I & II, Enhancement to four modules and implemented them to live Reporting System
• Documented detailed business specifications and other project documents including Project Plan, Use Cases, Functional Requirement Document, Wireframes and Flow chart.
• Maintained Project Plan and Status Report on weekly basis using meetings, reports and web based Project Management tools. Communicated plan deviations, risks and mitigation options.
• Managed the regression testing on Enhancement Process, verifying no new defects were caused by production fixes.