SUMMARY:

• Application Development/Integration
• Senior IT program manager with program, project and development management experience in large scale, enterprise wide, mission - critical applications.
• Has managed PMO, development, QA and business analysis groups.
• Has managed several major projects which utilized cross functional teams spread across multiple geographical locations.
• Background in Big 4 consulting, software vendor companies as well as Confidential 500 companies.
• Technical expertise in mainframe, client-server, databases and web/J2EE technologies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• PMO, Program and project management
• Application development/System Integration
• Custody, Investment/Wealth management
• Software methodologies (Agile, RUP, SDLC,CMMI)
• Projects across multiple geographies
• Data Warehousing/Reporting
• Offshore development management
• J2EE/RDBMS/Web technologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mt. Laurel, NJ

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Currently managing a large multi-year project related to credit risk management and regulatory reporting including compliance with Basel regulations.
• Managed several projects related to data management and business intelligence for commercial & small business loan origination. Types of projects included major enhancements for the loan origination systems, integration of new in bound data feeds into a data warehouse, providing new outbound data feeds, building new BI universes and reports.
• Managed multiple work streams of data integration and reporting of a large enterprise critical multi-year program. Program implemented significant upgrades to loan/collateral processing workflow management, document management and reporting for commercial lending, small business and consumer loan departments.
• Was involved in software development projects related to a data integration program related to anti money laundering, and another related to credit bureau data transfer interfaces.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implementing program/project governance best practices for cost/budget management, application development, vendor management and testing.
• Adhering to computer systems validation, quality and Confidential standard project governance and system development practices which are all based on industry standard GxP quality practices and regulatory standards.
• Managing 4 large software development projects directly, involving diverse global business units, external clients, multiple technology vendors and internal staff across multiple geographies.
• Projects included a data warehouse/reporting application of clinical trials, a statistical projections application, a client web portal application and a web trials scheduling application. 2 of the projects used Agile/Scrum based processes.

Confidential, Lawrenceville, NJ

Program Manager/Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Supporting pre-sales process including RFP responses, due diligence support, SOW preparation and negotiations.
• Managing product implementation for external customers as well as building custom functionality for those customers.
• Managing full lifecycle of large scale strategic projects and software releases from concept stage to implementation. Implementing standards, procedures and best practices for PMO processes, program and project management, resource management and release process.
• Included implementation of HP PPM portfolio management tool.
• Was program manager in charge of a large custom development/implementation project to provide portfolio performance reporting to financial advisors and wealth management clients for a premier brokerage firm (Charles Schwab & Co). Application was also integrated with the brokerage firm’s public internet site.
• Implementation work included building complex data flows across multiple systems, 7 years of historical data conversion/mapping/aggregation, developing custom analytical reports, and building real time disaster recovery infrastructure.
• Was managing a large integration/implementation program to migrate and integrate wealth reporting data, applications and processes for use by more than 400 client institutions.
• Coordinating work streams across cross-functional teams of resources from sales, product management, business analysis, architecture, development, QA, infrastructure, client support and operations groups as well as third-party vendors.
• Some groups are geographically distributed across multiple locations in US and also offshore in India.
• Programs/Projects managed include fixed income analytics, money manager performance reporting, web services enhancements, large custom client project implementations, as well as developing new architectures and product offerings such as web integrations into partner sites, data mart delivery and data aggregation from 3rd party sources.

Confidential, South Brunswick, NJ

Head of PMO & QA for Print technology division

Responsibilities:

• Resource management, mentoring and overseeing work of a team of project managers, QA managers and staff.
• Was on the steering committee for evaluation, selection and implementation of a new portfolio management tool. HP PPM was chosen and was then responsible for implementing it for 2 departments.
• Establishing standards, procedures, best practices guidelines for portfolio/program/project and resource management, system development lifecycle, quality assurance and testing. Represented print division on the team implementing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Managed implementation of a major upgrade to a critical news editorial and pagination system which is used for editing and composing of Confidential Journal across multiple locations in US, Europe and Asia.
• Effort included application and infrastructure installation, vendor application integration management, user rollout, training and support.
• Managing / overseeing enhancement and refinement of an Advertising data warehouse built on Oracle database. Work included data validation, data warehouse development and rollout of OLAP reporting using Cognos tools.
• Provided oversight for implementation and roll out of Salesforce.com CRM solution for all the sales staff of Confidential .
• Was also responsible for new end-to-end classified enterprise advertising solution and managed scoping, requirements development, RFI/RFP creation, and vendor solution selection.
• As QA head was responsible for managing test infrastructure, overseeing application testing, change management and user acceptance.

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Consulting Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Mortgage products pricing: pricing algorithms for different types of mortgage products including fixed rate mortgages, Jumbo mortgages and variables rate mortgages.
• Interest rate risk hedging: for mortgage portfolio, hedging of credit risk using other securities products.
• Variable compensation payments for mortgage sales agents.

Confidential, Ewing, NJ

Development and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Architect, project and development manager for J2EE based order processing and third-party integration projects.
• End-to-end project management of projects related to public records search for mortgage/title insurance industry.
• Architecture (using J2EE design patterns, JMS messaging, log4J, Struts/Tiles, EJB, etc.), design, development and deployment of applications related to order entry, order processing and order fulfillment on J2EE platform and exposing interfaces as Web services.
• Providing project management and technical expertise and establishing project management best practices and methodologies. Implementing RUP based (use case driven, iterative) OO-development and testing methodologies.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end project management of client engagements including business analysis, architecture/design/ development, QA/testing and deployment.
• Primary business area of focus was Financial Credit Risk and Market Risk.
• Managing large-scale projects from inception through completion in PMO and non-PMO settings.
• Analyzing client project needs and prepare project proposals with time, budget and resource estimates, response to RFPs, creation of RFI/RFP for other third-party vendors.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• For Credit Risk technology area, acted as Project Manager was responsible for various projects in the PMO.
• Consolidated Credit risk limit management, daily evaluation, credit monitoring and daily tracking for multiple Latin American countries.
• Designed a NT/Citrix based solution for a global credit risk system primarily for use by Latin American business units.

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Process Improvement - Process Implementer

Responsibilities:

• Managed a process improvement initiative to streamline and standardize application development and change management practices for a technology division with 200+ development staff (some offshore).
• Assessed current practices defined strategy and obtained buy-in for recommended improvements.
• Established standards, processes, procedures and tools.
• Developed Intranet sites for change management including policies, procedures, process and tracking tools.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Establishing processes and methodology for quality assurance activities.
• Data architecture, design and data model for QA related tasks, issue tracking, status reporting in Oracle 8i and Oracle PL/SQL.

Confidential, New York, NY

Global Credit Risk Systems PMO- Business/Technology Liaison

Responsibilities:

• Credit process flow mapping - mapped across multiple departments, credit management process flows to document, review, refine and streamline existing processes.
• Enhancements and integration of Credit limit setting systems for counterparties across multiple channels of credit.
• Gathering business requirements, developing specifications and verifying implementation for Credit limit setting, daily credit exposure evaluation, credit limit thresh-hold setting, limit monitoring.
• Represented credit risk technology department on the Y2K Steering committee.