SUMMARY

• Sr. IT PMO/program manager/portfolio manager and project manager with over ten (10) years of experience with a proven ability to articulate business values
• Facilitated the creation of technical solutions to bring them to fruition
• Strong experience in the financial services industry
• Proven experience managing multi - million dollar budgets
• Proficient in agile methodology, SDLC and PLC methodology
• Strong experience in MS Project (VBA, custom fields), Excel (macros, VBA, vlookup, pivot tables) and Visio
• Strong project management skills including planning, scheduling, forecasting and budgeting with experience in resource allocation, etc.
• Proficiency in training, facilitation, PowerPoint presentations, maintaining performance metrics, devising training documentation and communicating to the users
• Demonstrated the capacity to learn new technologies rapidly without formal training
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: MS Project 2010, MS Project Server, Excel 2010(VBA, Macros, pivot tables), Visio, MS Access, PowerPoint,SharePoint, Windows, ITSM, HP Quality Center, Oracle, Linux,HP PPM, SQL, SAP FICO, MS Project Server, Oracle, Sybase, Geneva, EMC Documentum, SQL Server, Drupal, Java, HTML,Outlook, Balsamiq Mockups, ASP.Net, Bloomberg, Clarity PPM, Loadrunner, Informatica, JMeter, SQL Server, Primavera

Project Management: Budgeting/estimation, Schedule Management, Communication Management, Resource Management, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. IT PMO/Program Manager/Portfolio Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Supported the Portfolio Delivery Lead in governance and reported the Legal Entity Portfolio to the IT and business stakeholders
• Responsible for financial and demand management across a CHF 200m project portfolio
• Conducted meetings with program and project managers to review the projects and program financials and resource plans
• Managed the portfolio budgets, actuals, forecasts and headcounts
• Managed monthly variance and governance reporting processes across the portfolio
• Maintained reference data for projects
• Tracked department funding to projects and reviewed budgets and financials with department leads
• Identified gaps in the existing reports and designed new dashboards and reports for monitoring portfolio financial and FTE’s
• Developed financial models to determine provider/supplier department costs, ran rates, exit rates and CAPEX/OPEX costs
• Ensured consistent reporting of budgets/actuals/forecasts across the portfolio
• Liaised with IT COO, portfolio finance and demand management leads to resolve financial demand management issues and ensured consistent reporting across portfolio
• Tracked the status to ensure timely delivery across portfolio
• Provided One PPM technical support to PM/PMOs
• Performed Extraction and manipulation of raw project data from Clarity PPM (One PPM) for developing Portfolio level metrics/reports in excel (pivot tables, formulas, vlookups and charts)

Environment: Excel (Charts, Pivot tables, Vlookups, formulas), PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word, One PPM, IAnalyze, My Shop, Project Server

Sr. IT PMO/Program Manager/Portfolio Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Built and maintained the program financials, head count and variance analysis reports of a CHF 100M+ program
• Liaised with IT COO, portfolio finance and workforce management teams to resolve financial and resource hiring issues
• Coordinated budget/forecast reductions, transfers, PO adjustments and supplier budget allocations
• Managed the monthly variance reporting process, reviewed variance commentaries provided by the project managers, compiled variance and trend analysis reports for central PMO
• Tracked the monthly GL accruals, payments, purchase orders, actuals, budgets, BaU and Ctb costs across the program
• Managed program RAID log on SharePoint
• Worked closely with the RFIT COO and portfolio management teams to ensure compliance to their requirements
• Identified gaps in the existing portfolio reports and developed new reports to analyze additional data points
• Developed dashboards to monitor the daily changes in program financials and variances across multiple projects
• Developed FTE analysis, supplier funding, critical hire and ran rate analysis reports
• Conducted weekly meetings with the project managers to review their financials and resource plans
• Provided training and guidance to the project managers and PMOs on Clarity PPM (One PPM)
• Developed program headcounts and financial reports for the Steering Committee and FED reporting
• Worked with the RF IT portfolio management teams, LE central and CCAR business PMO teams to ensure consistent reporting of budgets/actuals/forecasts across the program
• Created planning roles, cost plans and managed resource allocations in Clarity PPM (One PPM)
• Acted as a booking manager for over 40 resources and managed their allocations in Clarity PPM
• Performed extraction and manipulation of raw project data from Clarity PPM (One PPM) for developing the program level metrics/reports in excel (pivot tables, formulas and charts)
• Produced PowerPoint based program status reports and PMO operating models

Environment: Excel (Charts, Pivot tables, formulas), PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word, One PPM, IAnalyze and My Shop

Project Manager

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Created the data mapping documents for mappings from PPM to Clarity PPM
• Developed SRS and SDS documents
• Developed data mapping documents
• Developed the business rules for migrating data from the existing PPM tool to Clarity
• Tracked financials, milestones, risks, issues, EAC, OPEX, CAPEX, variances, actuals, estimates, forecasts and project health for the entire project portfolio
• Consolidated the status reports from over 150 projects into a single portfolio level report for the CIOs and senior management
• Developed VBA macros for data extracting and manipulated the data from multiple projects
• Prepared and distributed communication materials
• Trained, coached and mentored project and program managers in relation to methodologies, the delivery processes and best practices
• Created VBA macros to consolidate financial forecasts across all of the projects within Enterprise PMO
• Ensured the accuracy of financial reporting and monitored actuals for the budgets
• Developed macros and pivot tables to analyze the data for multiple project portfolios
• Supported the PMO lead in managing a budget of 200 million dollars
• Created steering committee decks
• Supported the PMO manager in tracking portfolio level budgets and financials
• Supported EPMO in policy changes, governance and auditing activities

Environment: Excel 2010/2003, PowerPoint, Primavera, Sharepoint, Word, VBA, Clarity

Project Manager

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Performed enhancements to excel based PPM which was being used as an enterprise standard for the US and Canada technology groups
• Conducted meetings with PMs to obtain project status and progress
• Performed financial analysis and variance analysis for a portfolio of projects
• Developed metrics and KPI’s for tracking project performance
• Reviewed the project plans and documents
• Created metrics to analyze the project change request data for multiple group project portfolios
• Tracked financials, milestones, risks, issues, EAC, OPEX, CAPEX, variances, actuals, estimates, forecasts and project health for over 60 projects
• Developed PowerPoint reports on the program status
• Created financial dashboards to assist the project and portfolio managers in a quarterly forecasting of CAPEX and OPEX
• Created gantt chats and dashboards to track performance, burn rates and variance
• Automated reconciliation of resource hours and names via Primavera saving PMs considerable time and manual efforts
• Acted as a point of contact for all retail and commercial technology PMs
• Developed VBA macros for consolidating data from multiple projects for reporting
• Supported the program managers in managing a budget of over 70 million dollars
• Developed report tracking program financials, risks, issues and status
• Provided training to PMs on project methodologies and PPM tools
• Developed macros and pivot tables to analyze the data for multiple project portfolios
• Developed Ad-hoc reports for the program managers

Environment: Excel 2010/2003, PowerPoint, Primavera, Sharepoint, Word, VBA