SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of Project Management experience and over 10 years of Business Analysis experience in teh Asset Management/Financial/Investment Management/Tax Industry.
• Responsible for teh Comcast and Bain Capital implementation across several locations in teh US.
• Working simultaneously on about 10 - 15 implementations for different clients in different time zones.
• Working wif teh Confidential Tax Firm Leadership Team to understand goals, objectives and initiatives for each fiscal year.
• Leading Sprint planning meetings and leading SCRUM calls to track progress and status of each feature for each Sprint Plan.
• Managing multiple work streams and project teams and managing teh deployment schedule, testing schedule and release dates to ensure timely delivery
• Involved in planning, scoping, estimation, analysis, design, testing, support and documentation of several projects in various financial industries.
• Experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (RUP, Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM & other SDLC implementation).
• Working wif clients directly to understand their requirements and define scope as well as identify scope creep and how scope it would effect pricing, timing and resource allocation.
• Extensive experience in Data Management, Change Management and Release Management.
• Extensive experience working wif SSO (Single Sign-On), Active Directory Sync, JIRA and Azure Cloud.
• Experience in interacting wif business users to identify information needs and initiating process changes, gathering requirements and writing Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Activity Diagram and Process Flow diagrams using MS Visio
• Documenting Project Plans, Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRS) and Software Requirement Specification (SRS)
• Experience in writing and reviewing Test Procedures, defining Test cases, reviewing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting wif team members in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Extensive in-depth experience working on various financial products including Tax Allocations and Tax Compliance in a Partnership Tax environment.
• Extensive experience working wif Blackstone in teh Asset Management/Investment Management, Hedge Fund, Private Equity and Real Estate Tax industry.
• Managing teh creation and execution of teh Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Fail-Over Testing for various critical applications.
• Mentoring and counseling team members and reviewing their work and providing feedback.
• Experience working wif both onshore and offshore cross-functional teams in locations like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and India.
• Over 13 years of experience in troubleshooting bugs, smoke testing and regression testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Global Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Global Project Manager responsible for teh rollout and implementation of teh software and hardware across different locations around teh world.
• Global Project Manager responsible for teh Confidential & Confidential rollout across 40 worldwide locations including Germany, Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, Columbia and Dubai.
• Global Project Manager responsible for teh Comcast implementation across several locations in teh US.
• Working on about 10-15 implementations simultaneously for different clients in different time zones.
• Having daily status calls wif teh client and teh internal implementation team to ensure that teh project stays on track and that all teh deadlines for teh deliverables are met.
• Working wif client team to define scope, timing and resources.
• Extensive experience working wif SSO (Single Sign-On), Active Directory Sync, JIRA and Azure Cloud.
• Creating a detailed project plan for each implementation including teh deployment and testing timeline
• Working closely wif teh Sales Team to fully understand teh scope of each implementation.
• Working closely wif teh client and helping them understand teh tasks and teh timelines involved to ensure a smooth implementation.
• Working wif teh technical team to review issues/bugs and teh proposed solution.
• Tracking issues and feature requests and suggesting workarounds to get timely signoff in UAT and Production
• Mentoring and guiding teh other Condeco Project Managers in teh New York Office.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for teh rollout and teh continuation of teh SDLC of teh application using SCRUM and Agile methodologies.
• Lead Business Analyst responsible for managing and mentoring a team of 3 other Business Analysts.
• Working wif engagement leadership team to define scope, timing and resources.
• Running meetings to define scope for each Sprint and helping teh team understand teh severity and priority of each new requirement/feature.
• Leading daily SCRUM calls wif our onshore and offshore teams to go over progress of development and to discuss all teh open issues and teh resolution and prioritization of each issue.
• Creating Sprint Plans and Work Plans and working wif teh Development and Testing teams to ensure teh delivery of each Sprint to Production.
• Creating teh features estimates document, teh resource allocation plan and teh deployment and testing timeline.
• Setting up teh QA environment for client testing and doing a demo for teh client on teh final finished product.
• Extensive experience in Change Management and Release Management.
• Extensive Experience wif ETL tools and Data Management.
• Identifying risks to delivery and quality by evaluating and analyzing all teh change requests made by teh client.
• Doing teh impact analysis on each requirement and bug fix to ensure that it doesn’t negatively impact existing functionality.
• Setting up Requirements Gathering Sessions wif teh SMEs and teh Client and following up for any requirement gaps or scenarios that teh client may has not thought of.
• Working wif several different clients concurrently and ensuring that teh requirements being worked on address teh fact pattern of each of those clients.
• Using Domain Knowledge of teh iPACS system to understand new client requirements and performing a Gap Analysis on teh requirements for multiple clients
• Extensive Experience in Trial Balance, M Adjustments, Data Reconciliation, Tranche Accounting, Capital Accounts, Tax Allocations and Dynamic Reporting.
• Designing and Testing a Tax application in teh Hedge Fund, Private Equity, Real Estate Fund and Entity Structure
• Experience working wif complex Tax calculations in teh Asset Management and Invest Management Partnership structure.
• Creating mathematical examples to show Tax Logic used in Transfers, M Adjustments, Special Allocations, Side Pocket and other complex Taxable Income calculations
• Creating Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) to show flow of data across teh model and what input and outputs are for each Business Unit
• Walking teh Developers through each of teh Requirements documented and answering their follow up questions.
• Mocking up wireframes using MS Visio and documenting validations for teh User Interface screens.
• Designing teh layout of teh GUI for teh new features keeping in mind consistency and ease of use
• Mocking up Reports to show Allocation Logic wif examples of multiple scenarios and fact patterns.
• Creating standards for Import and Report Templates formatting.
• Experience wif SQL and T-SQL.
• Using my knowledge of teh application to analyze and troubleshoot open issues to identify teh cause of teh issue as either a system bug or a user error.
• Writing test cases and training teh Local Team on how to execute teh test cases
• Regression testing, smoke testing and performance testing teh system and identifying and reporting bugs.in teh UAT and QA environment.
• Communicating constantly wif teh developers and team regarding progress, bug fixes, build schedules and requirements walkthroughs
• Doing requirements for a 3rd party vendor Actuate Data Modeling tool that interacts wif iPACS for Dynamic Reporting purposes.
• Involved in implementing and testing Single Sign On (SSO) for teh application.
• Coordinating wif SLTC and teh Confidential Technology team for .Net builds and code deployments as well for monthly server maintenance.
• Managing teh creation and execution of teh Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Fail-Over Testing for teh application.
• Managing a large team of developers and testers and providing them feedback and educating them on ways to improve.
• Training team members in teh New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and India offices on how to use teh application as well as training them on existing processes.
• Working in a high-pressure client-critical fast-paced environment when providing Production Support during Tax busy season.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Organizing, Facilitating and Conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to elicit, specify and gain consensus on Business Requirements.
• Developing a framework of guidelines, process documents and templates for offshore project execution.
• Working on Requirements Gathering and Analysis, understanding functional needs and creating Systems Requirement Document.
• Developing Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and other UML artifacts.
• Involved in Gap Analysis between teh current system and teh proposed system.

Confidential, Utah

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and prioritizing business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing teh software.
• Developing Use case diagrams, Process flow diagrams, and Sequence diagrams based on teh business and technical requirements using MS Visio.
• Performing User Acceptance Testing and working wif teh Developers and teh QA Team to ensure smooth delivery of teh application.
• Assisting teh Project Manager in developing a detailed project plan using MS Project.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working wif project team to define scope, timing and resources for teh project
• Performing Requirement Analysis by gathering both functional and nonfunctional requirements based on interactions wif teh process owners & stake holders and conducted document analysis.
• Creating Business Requirement Document, Functional Specifications Document and involved extensively in use case analysis using teh UML tool MS-Visio.
• Facilitating demo workshops to AXA Business Managers, Business Users and demonstrating teh entire functionality of teh product.
• Creating and facilitating teh walkthrough sessions on teh screen mock-ups of teh proposed product wif Business Managers and Business Owners.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developing an Oracle based system for data warehousing needs, including extracting data from a Progress database and loading it on an Oracle database through teh Oracle-Progress Gateway and doing record counts to check for nonconformance.
• Supporting and maintaining teh manufacturing module of teh company ERP system.
• Creating project plans and leveraging resources to ensure timely deliverance.
• Helping wif teh conversion of data from an older version of a Client/Server application to a newer version and testing it in a Year 2000 environment.
• Day-to-day support and maintenance of Pilgrim, a customized software used by engineers.
• Supporting Business Objects, an advanced mission-critical reporting tool used by upper-level management.
• Developing and updating Web Pages for teh Company Intranet using tools like MS FrontPage, Lotus Notes, Domino and Adobe Photoshop.