SUMMARY

• Hands - on technical project manager offering 10+ years of experience delivering multiple application business solutions on time and within budget.
• Highly motivated and detail driven problem solver with exceptional leadership, team building and mentoring skills.
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency when required to fast track projects.
• Produce clear and accepted project schedules and technical documents.
• Control and monitor execution of work, and quality control.
• Facilitate excellent communications between all shareholder groups and virtual teams.
• Knowledge in software technical design, architecture and development, coding, testing and delivery protocols.
• Proficient in several application languages and operating systems, MS Office applications and databases.
• Complete understanding of SDLC methodologies, ITIL V3 Foundation, RUP and other frameworks.
• Earned a PMP certification, an MBA degree in Finance, BS degree in Computer Science, and a Masters Certificate in Project Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Management: Project Management, Release Management, Technical/Resource Management,Staff Leadership, PMP Certified, SDLC, Rational Unified process,ITIL V3 Foundation knowledge, Configuration Management

Technical: MS Project, Word, Excel, Sharepoint, and other Office applications,Perl, Java, J2E, XML, VB, C, C++, Web development,SQL, DB Stored Procedures, UNIX Shell,UNIX, Linux, Windows,Oracle, Access, SQL Server, MYSQL, DB2,Eclipse, WSAD, Subversion, ANT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Manages within a PMO the implementation and consistent delivery of Confidential Online projects to SDLC timelines, budgets and expectations of quality.
• Works with clients, developers and vendors to determine software requirements.
• Creates and manages project budget vs. actual expenditures (capital and expense).
• Creates and manages work breakdown structure (WBS) and scheduled project plan.
• Manage project scope and timeline through formal change management processes.
• Manages project issues and risks through an internal issue/risk process.
• Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbally) to clients and stakeholders.
• Manage projects with dollar values in excess of $500,000 and ensures compliance to corporate and legal standards.
• Utilize SharePoint for reporting and artifact gathering; Quality Center for issues tracking, and MS Project 2003.

Project Release Manager

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed release of business technology solutions for the Wealth Management desktop and branch server platforms running MS Windows OS, across 25,000 desktops in over 600 domestic ML trading offices. Duties included planning, analysis, scheduling and coordination of tasks throughout development, testing and implementation of off-the-shelf and custom software.
• Utilized Confidential Software Configuration Management system for planning and control to maintain versioning of software and releases.
• Oversaw key software deployments of the MS Office 2007 suite, IE7, and major component upgrades of the Thomson Reuters' ThomsonOne and SalesForce ATP telephony software.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders in release process, including engineering, packaging, quality assurance, and business owners.
• Directed life-cycle activities of application/workstation platforms and products from concept through implementation and release. Used Sharepoint and MS Project tools to retain key artifacts and track progress.

Configuration Manager

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw deployments of software to development, integration, production, and testing environments, including the internal document management system.
• Managed the configuration management team projects using MS Project.
• Maintained and controlled the release of ETS web site testing software.

Project Manager/Team Lead

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Directed multiple application projects centering on extracting, transforming, and loading external source data (benchmarks, attributions, hedge funds and derivatives) into an internal data warehouse system. Generated reports for the business owners. Led maximum 5 developers for the ML business risk analysis group with an annual project budget of around $500K.
• Furnished application technical specifications including SOW, work breakdown designs, case models, project schedules, testing procedures and scripts, and cost and budget analysis. Worked to continually update and improve client application experiences, to reduce costs by roughly 30%.
• Hands-on lead developer, utilizing Oracle, Perl, Unix and Java, developing software toolset and configurable file sweeper for team usage.

Project Manager/Team Lead

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed completion of mutual fund application conversion data extract and transformation applications to Confidential Corp. due to acquisition, from Confidential.
• Controlled and monitored team execution and development performance of 3 developers, documenting SDLC activities for periodic reviews by senior management.
• Provided business process design for internal business functions (Finance and HR departments), and presentation to internal clients.
• Provided web design and coding services for new Intranet IT/Business web site.

Project Manager/Team Lead

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw mutual fund application conversion work to Confidential Corp. due to acquisition.
• Maintained project plan and controlled and monitored the development execution and quality of team work of 3 developers, documenting the SDLC activities for periodic reviews by senior management.

Technical Manager

Confidential, Horsham, PA

Responsibilities:

• Managed project staff of 2 to 3 developers with project budget of $80K.
• Used Perl and C++. Oracle and DB2 databases, using PERL DBI embedded tools.
• Developed on SUN Ultra workstation platforms, with UNIX OS.
• Used Crystal Reports for ad-hoc data warehouse backend reporting.

Technical Manager

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the ODS (Operational Data Store) component of the Physician/Drug DSS data warehouse.
• Managed a software staff of 12 people on 8 major projects with estimated annual budget of $1M.
• Involved in business requirements gathering, project and program design, scheduling, and production support coordination. Used Perl and C++. Oracle and DB2 databases, using PERL DBI embedded tools.

Technical Manager

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of the electronic billing process, all registration web pages and CGIs, and customer support tools for the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, a leading information-based web site.
• Managed a software engineer staff of 8 and 15 major projects with estimated annual budget of $2M.
• Received multiple promotions and acclaim based on ability to get the job done and on time..
• Major project consisted of migration from the Netscape Publishing system to Open Markets Transact 4.
• Utilized a RAD development methodology. Used project planning tools, source code controls and coding standards.
• Worked closely with all business areas, especially with Marketing, Finance and Business Operations.
• Occasional hands-on application developer using such tools as Perl, C++, Oracle SQL, UNIX csh/ksh scripts and ProC.