SUMMARY

• Project Manager, Business & System Analyst specialized in areas of financial and operational applications in rapidly evolving technological environments.
• Full life cycle project management track record managing and implementing multiple complex projects leading a global cross - functional teams with excellent administrative, analytical, organizational, and process improvement skills within a fast-paced infrastructure and application development environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Skills and Technologies: HP-UX, Linux, AIX, Microsoft Windows (XP & 2007), Sybase ASE/IQ, SQL, VB 6, OS, MVS, VSAM, CICS,JCL, COBOL, FILEAID, XPEDITER, TSO/ISPF, VM, IMS, RACF, Changeman, OPC, Jira. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Microsoft Project, Visio, Netbackup, AutoSys, PVCS, Remedy, Clarity, PPM, Primavera, EPM, Planview, C++, Java, Korn Shell, Syncsort, Rough Wave, Ab’nitio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Melville, NY

PMO Senior Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated project activities for IP Commence Mobil Apps Payments Support System platform migration to EVO environment.
• Managing backend system conversion for all output deliverables such as reports and data file replacements. Responsibility included user survey for deliverable replacement requirements, data analysis and data mapping.
• Coordinated activities for EVO website hosting transition from vendor to internal including environments setup for production and QA. Established process for staging for updates from vendor prior to production deployment.
• Requirements gathering and managing project activities for Merchant enrollments data collection to ensure compliance requirements are met thus minimize fines from Card Association for non-compliance of Merchant data.

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Application Program Specialist / Project Coordinator - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Standardized format for jobs running in all test environments and corrected job schedule dependencies for all job streams to create a more stabilized test environments.
• Automated process to extract production accounts transaction history and customer accounts cross reference file for test environment data refresh.
• Supported FSC restructuring for addition and removal of branch locations and resolving ATM Cash on hand continuous out of balance issues.

Confidential, Syosset, NY2

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated excellent communication skills partnering with Senior Management, Product Leadership, and Business Stakeholders to prioritize, track and report on the Homescan Project portfolio. Actively participated in strategic planning and implementation of major initiatives. Applied structure Project Management methodology including preparation of Project documentation, schedules, budgets and management reporting.
• Mentored and coached team members by providing supervisory oversight and guidance throughout all phases of the SDLC, identifying and mitigating project risk to ensure processes and procedures were followed in accordance with the established Project Management standards, driving quality, on time and under budget for project deliveries utilizing proven effective relationship building, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Sponsored ongoing improvements in SQM, Configuration Management processes, development of project management disciplines, best practices, reporting standards and project metrics that address the needs and opportunities of the business and technology partners.
• Successfully implemented multiple projects (6 to 12 a year of varying size/complexity) with average team budget of $2MM. Projects delivered on business commitments within schedule and budget guidelines with near 0% defects.
• Managed the migration of warehouse data processing from Sybase ASE to Sybase IQ. Converted the main processing of Consumer reporting application from HP UX platform to Linux Server Farm enabling a reduction in processing time of 50% and increased productivity by 50%. Conversion of processing to Linux servers also enables easier scalability with much lower cost.
• Successfully orchestrated two separate data center relocation for Homescan systems. Managed the yearly Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery planning and testing for Homescan application to ensure recoverability of data with minimal impact to processing.
• Successfully transitioned project management processes and control to the centralized Project Management Office. Converted projects in Clarity and PPM to EPM utilizing MS SharePoint to consolidate and centralize project documents, metrics, communication, status reports enabling easier accessibility to team members and stakeholders.

Confidential - Long Island City, NY

Project Leader/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis, requirements definition, data mapping and design for functional changes in support of numerous system migrations of accounts from different platforms within Confidential and other bank acquisition conversions.
• Managed full project life cycle including project plans, functional requirements, high level designs, detail designs, test plans and scripts, quality assurance testing and regressing testing of ongoing system enhancements and maintenance.
• Performed yearly resource planning, allocation, and forecasting for scheduled and planned projects..
• Successfully converted client accounts for EAB and Cal Fed acquisition with no noticeable interruption to client accounts access.
• Managed the yearly Confidential Disaster Recovery testing of various Confidential Consumer Liability Systems. Established the critical data backup process and recovery checklist that enabled successful recovery testing.