SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of extensive experience as a Senior Project Manager in projects related to Investment Banking, Brokerage, Financial Services, Loan Origination System, Trading Systems and Capital markets.
• Worked under Portfolio Management Systems, Change Management, Performance Measurement and Financial Risk Management Systems, asset liability management, liquidity management environment.
• Experienced in Project budgeting and forecasting for cross functional complex undertakings in challenging environments.
• Proficient in creating realistic WBS for complex undertaking along with the detail task (activity) list.
• Experienced in tracking run rates, semester based fund allocation and forecasting and vendor negotiation.
• Track record of delivering mutli - workstream projects on time with budget exceeding $12M to $14M.
• Experienced in PPM tools such Clarity, MS Project and ePLC.
• Experienced in PMO tools and technique, framework and collaboration.
• Experienced in end to end SDLC on both Agile and waterfall environment and also in hybrid of the two.
• Experienced in creating UML diagrams including: USE CASE Diagrams, Activity, Sequence, Class, Collaboration, State, Workflow, Process flow, Dataflow and Deployment Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Expert in Root Cause Analysis, Feasibility Studies and Risk Assessment and in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT Analysis.
• Thorough understanding of IFRS and IASB, GAAP, BASEL I II III, Dodd Frank and SOX.
• In-depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Rational Unified Process and Product Data Management
• Strong Leader and Team Builder with excellent analytical and communication skills with capability to handle new technologies and situations, dedicated to meet deadlines and provide necessary deliverable and resolve issues creatively using out-of-the-box thinking.
• Expert level skills in analyzing complex data sets, performing ad-hoc analysis and data manipulation using Excel, Access, SQL and R.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Environment: Redhat, SQL, Oracle, JBoss, Clarity, ePLC

Confidential, Jersey City

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in initial pre - planning phase as a Project Initiator to perform a feasibility study of initial estimates for available options such extending life of the infrastructure, replateforming applications and migrating applications to West Coast.
• After Initial Estimation prepared presentation material for EPMO and prepared Cost Benefit Analysis along with Initial Return of Investment (ROI)
• Prepared over all WBS with level 1 and level 2 activities based on PMO s template and forwarded the WBS to respective business SMEs and Technology pillars for Level 3 activities.
• Budgeted level 3 activities based on the cost estimates and time estimates provided.
• Filed for Solution Architecture Assessment and received compliance approval for the underlying architecture for this project.
• Received internal Ringi(CPMO budget approval) approvals for project budget and filed for PER (Project Execution Request) to kick off project s design phase.
• Arranged meetings with Vendors for Statement of Work and Quotation negotiations and comparisons.
• Supported Contract Negotiations among preferred vendors and MUFG s Technology group for Total Cost of Ownership of the infrastructure.
• Handled invoices from vendors, contractors, subcontractors who performed infrastructure setup, penetration test and project support work.
• Created Gantt charts based on the activities that can be accomplished in parallel and are independent from the sequential activities.
• Created milestones list for each project phase and identify its key success factors.
• Coordinated communications across the matrix enterprise to expedite project documentation (approvals and requests)
• Created resource plan and supported Technology group in Human Resource Acquisition.
• Filed for Project Execution Request (PER,Ringi) and had the funding approval done.
• During Design phase, arranged meeting with business users to verify and review Detail Design Documents.
• Arranged meeting with Enterprise Architecture team to support Interface Design Specification.
• Successfully performed Design Phase exit by getting Detail Design Document, Application Security Assessment, Security Access Profile, Functional Design Document, Traceability Matrix, Development Unit Testing Plan document approvals.
• Acquired professional consulting services from vendors for infrastructure setup regarding test environments and production environments.
• Provided weekly PMO status on cost variance, schedule variance, CPI, ETC, SPI and current risk status.
• During Development Unit Testing Phase, created PMO test quality metrics reports from Team Foundation Server s report of Unit Test Cases.
• Arranged meeting for resource conflict resolution for all functional groups related to system environments and business clarification.
• Arranged Demo s with business during development phase for initial validation of scope to collect Change Request Content.
• Arranged session for Development Team to transfer knowledge to offshore SIT Team, supported the approvals of SIT Plan from PMO and reviewed test scenario plans for SIT Phase.
• During UAT Phase, arranged session for business users to participate in business level testing of application and collected HP QC reports of defect ratios, test case execution rate and defect severity.
• Using the planned test cases vs actual test cases execution created report for weekly progress for percent complete and reported Schedule and Cost Variance to PMO.
• During Implementation Phase, conducted thorough phase entry checklist measurements with the Development and business teams and prepare migration (cut-over) plan for deployment of application on assigned Go-live schedule.
• Managed and controlled CCR (Change Control Request) throughout the project life cycle for scope, timeline and overall budget changes.

Environment: AIX, Windows, .NET, MS SQL, DB2, Webservices, IBM ESB, Java, Clarity, ePLC

Confidential, NY

Consultant - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed project charter with project sponsor and client manager along with program manager for Risk Metric Enhancement agile iteration
• Discussed business requirements and high level issue list with business groups such as risk, financial planning and analysis, treasury and technology
• Proposed project schedule based on the total business requirements and created high level project plan for the internal Project life cycle management tool called PTS (Portfolio Tracking System) for SDLC.
• Created level 2 project schedule by discussing with several technology groups such as treasury analytics, risk analytics, webservices group, CDA (common data acquisition) and UI group.
• Created gantt charts based on the activities that can be accomplished in parallel and are independent from the sequential activities.
• Finalized the level 2 project schedule and created JIRA issue list for each technology group.
• Assigned specific sections of BRD,FRD and Technical Design Document (TDD) to the specific groups as project moved to elaboration phase.
• Held daily project meeting conference call for the clarification of business requirements and addition of stories in JIRA for each requirement.
• Held demo meetings with business group as few JIRA issues were closed and moved to SIT environment for testing.
• Collected SIT test cases and attached to each JIRA issues and reconciled with test plan.
• Reported daily Defect ratio for issues under testing stage and updated other issues that were still under development stage.
• Assigned JIRA issues to Business group as issues were closed and moved to UAT environment.
• Held meeting with business groups for UAT triage and assigned defects to specific groups.
• Updated model validation document for newly added model to be validated by model validation team.
• Verified the scenarios results by comparing the results from excel tool that performs the similar calculation by using market data for interest rates.
• Swapcurves, scenarios parameters such as CPR,CDR,LS and uses macroeconomic variables such housing price index and unemployment rate to calculate the projection over the next 9 quarters.
• Validation of data models, data lineage and end to end mapping of positions and market data.
• Updated SQM templates for UAT approval plan, Cutover plan and MDD (minor development plan).
• Prepared training documents, presentations, release notes for production deployment and release.
• Created early life cycle support plan along with group leaders contacts for production support.

Environment: Oracle PL SQL, Java, JIRA, MS Sharepoint,Scrum, MS Excel,Websphere,J2EE,Webservices

Confidential, NJ

Consultant - Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted several meetings with business users to collect business requirements and went through the process of elicitation to define project priorities.
• Defined project timelines, milestones, POC objectives, stakeholder communication checkpoints and supported Senior Project Manager in creating a robust WBS for the design phase of SDLC.
• After finalizing business requirements, arranged several sessions with business users to convert current manual procedures in to business processes using MS Visio.
• Supported BPM Architect to convert MS Visio processes into BPMN models and identified roles, stages and intermediate processing requirements.
• Proposed and designed data models and source to destination mapping (net framework to mainframe)
• Documented all design artifacts and followed PMO guidelines to Create Functional Design Document, Functional Requirement Excel, and Detail Design Document.
• Lead the high level PMO meetings with stakeholders in Tokyo for the timeline discussion of webservices (WSDL) availability and design specification.
• Verified and validated BPMN model using a dry - run walkthrough procedure with business stakeholders.
• Documented financial calculations, their respective validation rules for implementation.
• During DUT (Development Unit Testing) phase, lead the team of Developers to identify unit test cases based on component breakdown of the front .net application and BPM process design.
• Collected Testing Metrics and created PMO reports for Unit Test Ratio, Defect ratio, Implementation percentage to represent in high level PMO meetings.
• Arranged meetings with business users and iGate(offshore testing team) to create SIT test cases by creating high level test scenarios.
• Uploaded Test Scenarios, BRD in Quality Center for internal QA validation process and created high level hierarchy of test case repository (Test Lab, Test Plan in QC).
• Verified unit test execution from developers team in Team Foundation Server and uploaded the reports to Quality Center.
• Prepared and documented Trouble Recovery Procedures (TRP) for over 117 interfaces of the Loan Application System.
• Prepared and documented Application Recovery plan and DR plan with the support of Business Continuity Process Team (BCP).
• Prepared and documented Test Plan with Unit Testing Time lines, test modules breakdown and timings.
• Prepared and documented Early Life Cycle Support Plan, Service Level Agreement, Operation Level Agreement, Training Manual Table of Contents, Migration Plan, Deployment Plan, and Dress Rehearsal Plan.
• During PreSIT phase tested all interfaces by running high level scenarios and uploaded evidence in the Quality Center.
• During SIT phase arrange test triage meetings with BPM and .NET team for defect triage, allocation, assignment and resolution, and also verified testing progress of SIT test case execution by validating test case evidence of offshore team.
• Created PMO progress reports for CPMO meetings to report overall project quality, implementation conformance with the design and requirements.
• During UAT phase, planned dress rehearsal timelines task list, Pre-Production environment deployment and preliminary smoke testing to validate rehearsal s success, and share progress reports with CPMO.
• Prepared Go-live timelines, and resolved project Go live obstacles to ensure the success of release deployment as planned.

Environment: MS Visio, Rational Software Architect, BPM Webmethods, MS SQL, MS Excel, HP Quality Center, MS Team Foundation Server, MS SharePoint., Clarity, ePLC.