SUMMARY:

• Management Consulting / International Business / Project Management / Client Relations Finance & Banking
• Senior Program Management Executive successful in defining key business strategies and translating into high - impact actions, operations, and financial results.
• Expert performance in creating processes, developing strategies, and driving process improvement initiatives. Successful in building and leading high-performing teams, overseeing technology, regulatory related projects, building out PMO functions, creating company structures, and sourcing, securing and cultivating investor and client relationships.
• Outstanding analytical, critical thinking, team building, negotiation, contract management, and leadership skills.
• Fluent English, Russian and Georgian.
• Delivery-focused, highly resourceful and strategic leader able to quickly grasp new skills and technologies, effectively communicate strategies, synthesize complex information, remedy complex issues, collaborate with cross-functional leaders, create and manage full SDLC of projects, and support cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives. Strong understanding of sequential and iterative approaches such as Waterfall and Agile Scrum. Thrive in dynamic environments requiring quick thought and collaboration.

EXPERTISE IN:

Program & Project Management, Team Leadership, International Business, Vendor Management, Management Consulting, Business Analysis, Business Strategy, Business Development, Testing, Negotiations, AML, Contract Administration, Client Relations, Waterfall, Agile Scrum, SDLC, and Risk Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Currently leading and managing projects in the Payments, Program Office, Risk Management, and Legal departments to smooth onboarding of new clients and vendors.
• Work with the C-level to identify solutions to ongoing operations issues, and create governance structures for various projects such as: data governance, technology implementation, portfolio management, compliance projects
• Hired initially as a Sr. Project Manager for Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) Transaction Monitoring Risk Analytics and selected within 2 weeks to manage the Data Governance PM Team and lead the entire Project Management department:
• Managed the Issue Management tool and created the SDLC structure for AML projects.
• Liaised with stakeholders, including anti-financial crime, operations, technology, DFS 504 and business teams.
• Created project plans for various business lines and technology related business cases, developing mitigation plans and strategies, creating/executing vendor remediation plans, and more.
• Decreased audit and self-identified issues from 200 to 20 by identifying solutions, creating issue management plan and delegating tasks. Escalated Financial Investigation Team and created project plan.
• Reduced Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) risk by leading team of SMEs and supporting methodologies/protocols.
• Collaborated with PMO Group to ensure timely milestones. Established entire lifecycle development process.
• Helped onboard vendors; utilized issues management, vendor management, gap analysis and program management.
• Delivered a 70% efficiency improvement by leveraging Lean Six-Sigma methodologies to improve PMO operations.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed teams of up to 40. Responsible for data cleansing, migration plan/strategy, and more.
• Provided governance, analyzed processes, creating tracking mechanisms, and conducted weekly meetings.
• Collaborated with Head office to increase efficiency and facilitate other objectives.
• Consistently delivered strong results, consequently receiving recognition for outstanding performance and achieving timely project milestones.
• Identified project risks, managed project deliverables, created schedules, presented reports, and worked in cooperation with cross-functional leaders to drive successful completion throughout all lifecycle phases.
• Improved business team performance 50% by creating Migration communication/task management structure.
• Significantly decreased project issues by developing and implementing issue/QA tracking mechanism.
• Created high-impact project milestone tracking mechanism. Increased delivered task efficiency by developing WBS task guidance to track business team members.
• Decreased outstanding open items. Ensured successful project management, tracking and monitoring.

Confidential, Union, NJ

Management Consulting, VP

Responsibilities:

• Business consulting role working on Eastern European Investment projects. Responsible for project and vendor management, gap analysis, project packaging development, investment/market research, and more; reported to CEO
• Managed 3rd party consulting teams performing investment feasibility studies. Identified/secured vendors.
• Managed technology project implementations (full SDLC). Successfully collaborated C-level executives.
• Led projects from inception to completion through clarifying project goals, addressing complex challenges, communicating strategies, and leading teams to achieve targeted goals in deadline-oriented environments:
• Defined business requirements, coordinated with various partners, communicated with stakeholders, etc.
• Built/cultivated hedge fund managers, institutional investors, and 3rd party consulting firm relationships.
• Advised/influenced executive leadership on PMO business objectives and delivery impacts.
• Recruited, hired and onboarded new employees. Directed project teams to consistently deliver strong results in deadline-oriented environments.