SUMMARY

• Experienced project manager offering over 20 years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects.
• PMP trained with a computer science degree and over 25 years of software development and business finance experience.
• Excellent business strategist in planning and managing multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Possess outstanding communication and negotiation skills in being able to leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams. Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies.
• Able to manage project teams and known for high quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Project
• Visio
• PPM
• ERWIN (entity relationship tool)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

PMO - Program / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead and provide direction and guidance for a wide array of activities associated with project planning and management cross-functional teams (BA, business, technology) to ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget and to client specifications.
• Manage and resolve all project planning-related artifacts like budgets, risks, issues and dependencies
• Serve as a liaison between clients and internal technical groups
• Manage and oversee the end to end project management activities such as project reporting, project planning, issue / risk identification and tracking, scope management, estimation, client management, relationship management and other project documentation preparation for projects of high business complexity (involving multiple systems interfaces that are highly visible to the organization).
• Define and manage the lifecycle from project initiation through to program closure.
• Measure and monitor program actuals, forecasts and budgets and updates plans with accurate, up-to-date information in a timely manner.
• Follows financial standards & processes (e.g. monthly external revenue accruals, software capitalization, procurement & external payments).
• Report financial information and status to the required executive level through steering committees.
• Provide advice to internal clients on the implications of business trends, issues, operating environment changes and firm or business unit strategy.
• Ensure project delivery is in conformance with company methodologies and standards
• Conducted process and system interface flow diagrams utilizing Visio and MS Office tools

Confidential, Woodland Park, NJ

Project Manager, VP

Responsibilities:

• Simultaneously manage complex international multimillion-dollar regulatory (IRS Cost base reporting), Compliance (annual SWIFT, MT* messaging ) and M&A projects (German bank’s acquisition and Mellon merger).
• Travel oversee (Brussels, Frankfort. London) to liaison with our business users in understanding requirements and obtain participation from the appropriate applications and support teams.
• Represent the bank in all on-going clients’ / end users’ product delivery effort (Credit Suisse, DTC, JP Morgan, ING, etc.)
• Portfolio project administration for compliance and regulatory projects within the bank - TPM (PMO) functionality. Evaluate/define/ track budgets (ranging from .5 to 5 million), resource loading charts, project phases and deployment.
• Supervise on/off-shore support and development teams as well as intense vendor management ( Cognizant and Wipro )
• Lead cross systems/platforms infrastructure feasibility efforts.
• Directly supervise the team responsible for various financial client-facing products including reporting, files, SWIFT
• Have ultimate accountability for all activities performed by the team including production support, new development, adherence to SDLC and CMM standards
• Oversee all the development effort ranging from small to a larger scale application on the various platforms, such as mainframe/Linux with Java and .NET.
• Evaluate all BRDs (business requirements) and participate at the creation of the effective FRD (functional requirements document).
• Analyze requests, troubleshoot issues, provide solution, and implement system modifications and enhancements.
• Coordinate the effective QA (UAT) effort; review all test scripts and monitor their successful execution.
• Ensure the development of the efficient, cost effective applications in keeping with business needs. Define needs to encompass long range technical planning.
• Work in conjunction with Division Heads to meet the overall needs of the business.
• Review and evaluate individual and group performance and objectives.
• Agile and Waterfall project methodologies utilized, familiarity with Scrum Master, Jira
• Proficiency at PPM, MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, and MS Excel, AML and other defect tracking tools

Confidential, Paramus, NJ

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the development of the new Quantum View Application, myups.com utilizing Java, .NET and DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Wrote and designed numerous stored procedures utilizing static and dynamic SQL
• Designed, coded, and tested changes pertaining to the package tracking and UPS Web visibility applications
• Presented System design and flows to the Business and user community
• Lead and participated on all the levels of Business and functional design phases
• Coordinated all efforts in HR Legacy System Migration efforts (Mainframe to PeopleSoft)
• Technology and tools utilized: Java, .NET, CICS, Cobol, Stored procedures, MQ series, DB2 v.7 table structure

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Senior Consultant/Application Manager

Responsibilities:

• Order Entry, Shipping, General Ledger, P&L (profit and loss), and others.
• Led the analysis of the FEPPI under CICS interface development.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a senior consultant on a project, was involved in the development of the new PROCARE system.
• Assisted in the design phase and implementation of the Replacements and VERTEX projects for the on-going releases of the NRX system. Heavy interface with both DB2 and CICS systems groups, and user community groups regarding performance estimates and considerations; formulation of project objectives and interpretation of system requirements.

Confidential, Ramsey, NJ

Senior Consultant/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the Y2K Payroll System preparation and certification analysis effort.
• Prepared detailed system and Data Base impact assessment documents as well as acted as a part-time DB2 DBA for the DB2/PeopleSoft Human Resources package implementation.
• Prepared numerous test plans for the complete end-to-end Payroll integration testing
• Wrote various CLISTS in order to expedite the conversion process
• Designed, coded, and tested changes pertaining to the new Payroll System periodic releases
• Led the performance improvement effort within the Payroll/Human Resources group
• Supervised a team of 6 consultants
• Led the analysis, design, and development of a multinational and multilingual Automated Delivery Information System.
• Concurrent responsibilities involved project design, data analysis, program specifications, coding, testing, turnovers to production, systems implementation and maintenance
• Assisted in design and creation of multiple database tables and indexes.
• Wrote numerous CLISTS for system/performance testing
• Involved in performance estimates and considerations.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a senior consultant on a project, was responsible for the enhancement and day-to-day support of one of the largest subsystems within Merck/MEDCO - Co-pay Management System.
• Functions entailed: Formulation of project objectives and interpretation of system requirements.
• Logical data base design and coordination of responsibilities among the members of the development team.
• Heavy interface with both DB2 and CICS systems groups, QA and user community groups regarding performance estimates and considerations.