SUMMARY

• Over eight years of experience in the PMO/project management/business analysis with a proven ability to articulate business values and facilitate the creation of technical solutions to bring them to fruition.
• Strong experience in the financial services industry.
• Excellent experience in managing the multi - million dollar budget.
• Proficient in Agile Methodology, SDLC and PLC methodology.
• Strong experience in MS Project (VBA,custom fields), excel (macros, VBA, vlookup, pivot tables) and Visio skills.
• Strong project management skills including planning, scheduling, forecasting and budgeting with experience in resource allocation, etc.
• Excellent training skills, facilitation, power point 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 QualityCenter, 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

Project Manager

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Created the data mapping documents for mapping from PPM tools to Clarity PPM.
• Developed SRS and SDS documents.
• Developed data mapping documents.
• Developed business rules for migrating the 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 status reports from over 150 project’s into a single portfolio level report for CIO’s and senior management.
• Developed VBA macros for data extracting and manipulated data from multiple projects.
• Prepared and distributed communication materials.
• Trained, coached and mentored project and programme 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 accuracy of financial reporting and monitored actuals to the budgets.
• Developed macros and pivot tables to analyze the data for multiple project portfolio’s.
• 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 US and Canada technology groups.
• Conducted meetings with PM’s to obtain project statuses and progress.
• Performed financial analysis and variance analysis on a portfolio of projects.
• Developed metrics and KPI’s for tracking project performance.
• Reviewed the project plans and documents.
• Created metrics to analyze project change request data across multiple group project portoflios.
• Tracked financials,milestones, risks, issues, EAC,OPEX,CAPEX, Variances,Actuals, Estimates, forecasts and project health for over 60 projects.
• Developed powepoint reports on the program status.
• Created financial dashboards to assist the project and potfolio managers in a quarterly forecasting of CAPEX and OPEX.
• Created gantt chats and dashboards to track performances,burn rates and variance.
• Automated reconciliation of resource hours and names as per primavera saving PM’s considerable time and manual efforts.
• Acted as a point of contact for all retail and commercial technology PM’s.
• 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 PM’s on project methodologies and PPM tools.
• Developed macros and pivot tables to analyze the data for multiple project portfolio’s.
• Developed Ad-hoc reports for the program managers.

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

Project Manager

Confidential, Whippany, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the horizontal focus program areas including infrastucture, release, deployment, identity, access management and audit/compliance.
• Supported the infrastructure and release managers in managing infrastructure and release activities for a portfolio of 50 applications.
• Scheduled meetings with the application development managers and project managers on the status and project updates.
• Managed the change requests.
• Consolidated individual project status reports into a weekly status reporting deck.
• Created excel (macros,vlookups,pivot tables) and based reports for release of the KPI metrics.
• Managed hardware requests for the infrastructure teams.
• Maintained the master data of servers and datacenters.
• Created reports consolidating data from over 50 applications.
• Prepared ITSM’s and maintained the logs of scheduled releases.
• Created steering committee decks.
• Assisted in capacity planning activities and prepared headroom recertification reports.
• Managed onboarding of applications to identity and access management systems.
• Ensured compliance for audits and IT governance requirements.
• Maintained hardware and maintenance cost estimates.
• Worked with multiple application development managers (exec-directors) and over 40 applications.
• Assisted infrastructure and the delivery manager in coordinating releases, audits/compliance and infrastructure activities within the investment banking division.
• Worked with DBA’s, system analysts, QA’s, project managers and application development managers.
• Prepared powerpoint based monthly management decks.
• Created excel(pivot tables, vlookups,formulas,VBA) based scorecards and SLA reports.
• Createded the senior executive briefing pack by mining relevant data points from various systems.
• Managed documents using SharePoint.

Environment: MS Project 2010, Excel 2010, SharePoint, IIQ, IBID,Geneva,SAN,NAS, Linux,VMWARE,AIX, IBID, Sybase,Oracle,Pyramid, Windows 7, ITSM, HP Quality Release

Project Manager

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the business analysis, development, quality assurance, business groups and infrastructure teams to ensure successful delivery of all of the projects which form part of the overall program of work.
• Managed a budget of 25 million dollars.
• Conducted weekly meetings with the project teams and various stakeholders.
• Developed and maintained project artifacts including project plans, resource plans, project schedules and risk logs.
• Identified and documented risks, issues and mitigation plans.
• Tracked project SPI’s on a weekly basis for PMO reporting.
• Managed timesheets using the project server.
• Managed budgets, forecasts and resource allocations.
• Managed milestones, project issues and risks in the project server.
• Created and maintained the project WBS in MS project 2010.
• Managed project tasks and documentation in the SharePoint server 2007.
• Provided PMO’s with explanation for variance between the budget and forecast.
• Created a forecast of expenses for the future semesters.
• Approved timesheets in the project server.
• Processed invoices, tracked and created budgets, estimate to complete and man-month variances
• Forecasted project expenses for each semester and created estimates for change requests.

Environment: MS Project 2010, Project Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2007, MS Outlook 2010, Oracle FAH, Informatica, AIX, PL/SQL.

Project Manager

Confidential, Fort Washington, PA

Responsibilities:

• Reported on project risks and prepared risk management templates.
• Managed multiple offshore development teams.
• Escalated issues to delivery managers and senior management.
• Identified change requests and provided cost and effort estimates for implementing new requirements using MS excel.
• Prepared project plans and other project artifacts.
• Prepared project budgets, forecasts and tracked actuals.
• Prepared weekly status reports using MS Powerpoint and delivered weekly presentations to the business stakeholders on a weekly development status.
• Managed budgets, estimates, forecasts and resource allocations.
• Managed multiple projects and teams simultaneously.
• Prepared project schedules using the MS project 2007.
• Scheduled daily meetings with the clients and development teams.
• Managed the change management process and multiple projects simultaneously.
• Managed teams consisting of business analysts, quality analyst, developers, architects and vendors.
• Facilitated daily meetings with the offshore development teams and business stakeholders.
• Managed business requirements for integration with ecommerce applications and external Websites.
• Identified project’s staffing requirements and assisted in selecting the team members.
• Reviewed SLA’s, SOW’s, data mapping documents and solution architecture documents.
• Reviewed user stories, wireframes and mockups.

Environment: MS Project 2007, Flash, MS PowerPoint, Teamforge, Balsamiq, MS SQL, My SQL, Drupal, PhP, Jmeter, Java Script, Webex, JSON, Web 2.0, JBoss, HTML, CSS

Project Manager

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Managed the offshore development teams.
• Ensured the project was completed within predetermined timeframe and budgets.
• Prepared SOP’s and work breakdown structures.
• Prepared project plans, project budgets, estimates and forecasts.
• Prepared and distributed the daily project updates to required business sponsors, project teams and management to ensure the project was delivered on time and in within the budget.
• Distributed minutes of meeting documents and followed up on action items and assignments.
• Used SharePoint for collaboration and document management.
• Prepared action items for team meetings, risk logs and issue logs.
• Delegated tasks to the team members to ensure delivery within the time and budget constraints.
• Prepared project initiation documents and MS PowerPoint presentations.
• Managed business sponsors expectations to ensure delivery of the solutions.
• Designed and developed the project document templates based on the SDLC methodology.
• Coordinated all of the project activities in accordance with the established project scope, schedules and budgets.
• Identified project staffing requirements and assisted in selecting the team members.
• Collaborated in definingprojectgoals and timelines with the senior management and business partners.
• Prepared risk management templates and reported on the daily risk status.

Environment: Microsoft Project,MS Powerpoint,Objective C, Microsoft Visio, Sharepoint, Asp.NET Jquery, Java, Javascript, Quality Center, Apple IOS

Business Analyst

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and distributed the minutes of the meeting documents amount team members and the business stakeholders.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed the requirements and managed the changes.
• Escalated issues to the IT managers and senior executives.
• Conducted JAD Sessions to gather requirements.
• Interfaced with the client as part of the requirements engineering team to finalize the project scope.
• Conducted interviews with SME’s and business stakeholders to document the business requirements.
• Worked with the QA teams for regression, smoke, unit and system testing.
• Assisted in creating test scenarios and test cases.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on the SDLC methodology.
• Prepared presentations and project status reports using MS Powerpoint.
• Used SharePoint for collaboration and document management.
• Prepared action items for team meetings, risk logs and issue logs.
• Delegated tasks to the team members to ensured delivery within the time and budget constraints.
• Prepared project initiation documents and MS PowerPoint presentations.
• Managed business sponsors expectations to ensure delivery of solutions.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.

Environment: MS Powerpoint, Microsoft Visio, EMC Documentum, MS Project Server, TestDirector, LoadRunner, Quality Center

Business Analyst

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with the client as part of the requirements engineering team to finalize the project scope.
• Conducted interviews with the SME’s and business stakeholders to document business requirements.
• Worked with the QA teams for regression, smoke, unit and system testing.
• Assisted in creating the test scenarios and test cases.
• Gathered requirements for equities, trading, credit, rates, futures and options.
• Created business requirements documents, functional requirements document and requirement tracelibilty matrices.
• Liased between the technical teams and the business stakeholders.
• Created the process flow diagrams, business model diagrams and use cases in visio.
• Created ad hoc reports for the project manager.
• Assisted in issue resolution and root cause analysis.
• Asssited in the GAP analysis.

Environment: Bloomberg,Excel, Word,Visio, Oracle,Charles River