SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of extensive experience in Project Management /Business Analysis with proven ability to articulate business values and facilitate the creation of technical solutions to bring them to fruition.
• Strong experience in financial services industry
• Experienced in Agile Methodology,SDLC and PLC methodology
• Strong experience in MS Project (VBA),Excel (macros, vlookup, pivot tables) and MS Access skills
• Strong project management skills including planning, scheduling, monitoring and budgeting with experience in requirement gathering, gap analysis, risk analysis, effort estimation etc.
• Excellent Training skills, facilitation, power point presentations, maintaining performance metrics, devising training documentation & communicating to users.
• Demonstrated high capacity to learn new technologies rapidly with no formal training.
• Expert in Risk Assessment, Preparing project schedules and project plans.
• 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, PL/SQL, HTML, Outlook, Balsamiq Mockups, ASP.Net, Bloomberg, Clarity, Loadrunner, Informatica, Jmeter, SQL Server

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Supported Portfolio manager in managing strategy and planning activities for a portfolio of Retail and Commercial technology projects with a combined budget of over 100 million dollars.
• Supported Retail technology portfolio manager in process governnace, process improvement and auditing activities.
• Received TD WOW Rewards for performance.
• Reviewed project financials, risks, issues, variances, project health, dependencies, EAC, Exepnses, Burn rate for all projects with the portfolio.
• Liased between program managers and US technology PMO
• Created excel (VBA, pivot tables, vlookup, macros) based PPM tool for entire US and Canada technology group
• Gathered requirements for enhancements to the project management workbook
• Performed major enhacements to the excel based project management tool
• Documented issues and bugs found during workbook testing
• Developed VBA programs to automate reconciliation of resource hours and names with time tracking systems
• Created financial dashboard to assisted program and project managers in quarterly forecasting of CAPEX and OPEX
• Created retail and commercial portfolio reports tracking project financials and status
• Provided technical support related to PPM tool to project managers
• Created Dashboard to track key performance indicators traking monthly spend,quarterly EAC and resource hours variance by team
• Consolidated status reports for each project into a single program level report for CIO’s and senior management

Environment: Sharepoint, Excel 2003/2010, Powerpoint,Primavera, Clarity, Portico, VBA

Business Analyst

Confidential, Whippany, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked on horizontal focus program areas including Infrastucture, Release & deployment, Identity&Access Management, Audit/Compliance.
• Created Excel based reports for release KPI metrics.
• Managed Hardware requests for infrastructure team
• Prepared ITSM’s and maintained log of scheduled releases.
• Assisted in capacity planning activities and prepared headroom recertification reports
• Managed onboarding of applications to Identity & Access Management systems
• Ensured compliance to audit 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 delivery manager in coordinating release, audit/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 deck
• Created Excel(pivot tables, vlookups,formulas,VBA) based Scorecards and SLA reports
• Created 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:

• Prepared weekly / monthly status reports.
• Designed MS Excel based reporting tool which was used for for weekly PMO and monthly GM and CIO reporting .
• Supported project manager in managing the project and ensured compliance with PLC methodology
• Verified and processed invoices for hardware / software purchases and consultants
• Tracked project SPI on a weekly basis for PMO reporting
• Managed timesheets using project server.
• Managed project issues and risks in project server
• Created and maintained project WBS
• Managed project tasks and documentation in SharePoint Server 2007
• Provided PMO with explanation for variance between budget and forecast
• Created forecast of expenses for future semesters
• Created filters, graphical indicators, formulas in MS Project 2010 for efficient management of project WBS.
• Approved timesheets in 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 template
• 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 budgets, forecasts and tracked actuals
• Gathered client requirements and prepared business requirements documents
• Prepared weekly status reports using MS Powerpoint and delivered weekly presentation to business stakeholders on weekly development status
• Managed multiple projects and teams simultaneously
• Prepared project schedules using MS Project 2007
• Scheduled daily meetings with clients and development teams
• Managed change management process and multiple projects simultaneously
• Managed teams consisting of business analysts, quality analyst, developers, architects, vendors.
• Facilitated daily meetings with offshore development team and business stakeholders
• Managed business requirements for integration with ecommerce applications and external websites.
• Identified project’s staffing requirements and assisted in selecting team members
• Reviewed SLA’s, SOW’s, data mapping document, solution architecture document
• Reviewed User Stories, Wireframes, 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 offshore development teams
• Ensured project was completed within predetermined timeframe and budget
• Prepared SOP’s and work breakdown structures
• Prepared project plans, project budgets, estimates and forecasts
• Prepared and distributed daily project updates to required business sponsors, project team and management to ensure project is set to be delivered on time and in budget.
• Distributed minutes of meeting document, 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 team members and ensured delivery within time and budget constraints
• Prepared project initiation documents and MS PowerPoint presentations
• Manage business sponsors expectations to ensure delivery of solutions.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Coordinate all project activities in accordance with established project scope, schedules and budgets
• Identified project staffing requirements and assisted in selecting team members
• Collaborate in definingprojectgoals and timelines with senior management and business partners
• Prepared risk management template and reported on daily risk status

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

Project Manager

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and distributed minutes of meeting document amount team members and business stakeholders
• Conducted user interviews, gathered Requirements, analyzed the Requirements and managed changes.
• Escalated issues to IT managers and senior executives.
• Conducted JAD sessions to gather requirements.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on 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 team members and ensured delivery within time and budget constraints
• Prepared project initiation documents and MS PowerPoint presentations
• Manage business sponsors expectations to ensure delivery of solutions.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Coordinate all project activities in accordance with established project scope, schedules and budgets
• Assigned action items to appropriate team member and prepared weekly status reports
• Provide weeklyprojectupdates to senior management following up with any concerns they have.
• Performed task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS Project.

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 SME’s and business stakeholders to document business requirements
• Worked with QA teams for regression, smoke, unit and system testing
• Assisted in creating test scenarios and test cases
• Gathereds requirements for Equities, trading, credit, rates, Futures and Options
• Created business requirements documents, functional requirements document saqnd requirement tracelibilty matrices
• Liased between technical teams and business stakeholders
• Created process flow diagrams, business model diagrams and use cases in visio
• Created ad - hoc reports for project manager
• Assisted in issue resolution and root cause analysis
• Asssited in GAP analysis

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, Clarity, MS Powerpoint, JAVA, SQL Server, LoadRunner

Business Analyst

Confidential, Fairport, NY

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed financial, credit and mortgage documents of consumers and businesses
• Prepared spreadsheet and reports using MS Excel- pivot tables, vlookups, hlookup, macros etc
• Prepared loan repayment schedules
• Maintained loan data in ASR
• Created business requirements documents, functional requirements document saqnd requirement tracelibilty matrices
• Liased between technical teams and business stakeholders
• Created process flow diagrams, business model diagrams and use cases in visio
• Created ad - hoc reports for project manager
• Ran credit reports

Environment: MS Project, MS Excel, MS Visio, SQL Server, ASR,, Quality Center, Bloomberg