Professional Summary

• Clarified client's business requirements, technology needs and project objectives, via feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all stakeholders
• Created testing methodology that passed SEC inspection for major electronic commerce firm
• Cut overall project budget by 7.3 based on testing and methodology for major Clearing firm
• Customized testing methodology specifically for each client that fit within their SDLC that discovered 73 more defects than previous release with similar features being added
• Tested Portfolio accounting systems that encompassed securities trading and derivative swaps
• Experience developing/managing a work breakdown structure
• Experience leading enterprise level end-to-end and system integration tests and managing defects in Quality Center
• Led Ecommerce catalog projects from inception to completion utilizing PMBOK methodology
• Experience in the entire life of trade life-cycle, trade matching, position/cash/transaction and reconciliation with customers
• Experience in portfolio valuation and accounting Investment performance measurement and reporting
• Experienced in providing executive level reports and managing testing teams both onshore and offshore

Technical Skills

• SAP, CRM, ERP, CMM, ITIL, RUP, RAD, FIX, TIBCO, ISO 9000, X-Trader, SDLC
• Project Management Skills
• MS Project Management, MS Office Suite, VISIO, Derivative Trading, ITIL, E-Commerce, Network Trading, Business Analysis, Excel, Software testing, Reengineering Clearing Applications, MS PowerPoint, Derivatives Trading, Futures Options trading, Use Cases, Agile Methodology, PMBOK, OO, Share Point 2007, Oracle, HP Testing Suite, RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Charles River, Microsoft SQL Server, Excel, Quick Test Pro QTP , Agile, Waterfall, Black Box testing, Soap, WBS Traceability Matrix, Cognos testing, ETL Testing, PRISM

Professional Experience

Confidential

Financial Consultant

• Performed critical thinking in terms of analyzing the issues and understanding the client's objectives and tailoring a financial budget suitable in making restoration of church and enhancements to the church.
• Developed presentation materials and client deliverables in PowerPoint and Visio format performing presentation at the completion of research of the issues involved
• Created Project Plan approach in reporting and staying within budget and on-time
• Performed Research in comparisons to other neighboring churches and congregations in estimating costs, expenses and strategic direction

Confidential

Project Manager

• Performed critical thinking in terms of analyzing the issues and understanding the client's objectives and tailoring a methodology suitable to delivering interim releases and to the environment
• Developed presentation materials and client deliverables in PowerPoint and Visio format performing presentation at the completion of research of the issues involved
• Created project schedule, test approach and test plans for each project testing phase System, UAT, Integration
• Responsible for reviewing and approving the Entry/Exit Criteria for each QA program/project
• Tested backend applications that were migrated in Aladdin
• Performed parallel testing between Charles River and Aladdin replacement system
• Oversee and coordinated test execution for both onshore and offshore
• Verify project schedule test results as required to ascertain system compliance
• Established relationships with other departments and key business partners with the organization
• Secure sign-off and test results from appropriate parties of testing plan
• Provide the process and leadership around defining and delivering business requirements
• Gather and analyze business requirements from stakeholders
• Conduct impact analysis of business requirements on existing technology platform, present findings and facilitate solutions
• Performed Portfolio Accounting on positions, securities, trades, as it related to Allstate Investments portfolio.
• Performed data migration of data from trading data and swap data to the Aladdin system from Charles River
• Performed Systems and Integration on Portfolio Accounting applications
• Coordinated User Acceptance testing on new Aladdin accounting system
• Create use cases from business requirements
• Created and reported test metrics/status to Management and make adjustments as needed for improvement
• Oversee the logging of defects in Quality Center and determine the appropriate severity level
• Coordinate defect resolution with software development
• Lead defect meetings with PM and Development and ascertain the release that will provide fixes
• Provide status to Upper Management and escalate the most critical issues and risks
• Proactively collaborated and communicated w/other core team members on system integration requirements and various high visible issues

Confidential

Project Manager

• Performed critical thinking in terms of analyzing the issues and understanding the client's objectives and tailoring a methodology suitable to delivering interim releases and to the environment
• Developed presentation materials and client deliverables in PowerPoint and Visio format performing presentation at the completion of research of the issues involved
• Created test approach and plans for each project testing phase System, UAT, Integration
• Hosteddefect meetings with PM and Development and ascertain the release that will provide fixes
• Provide status to PM and escalate all issues and risks to PM
• Proactively collaborate and communicate w/other core team members on integration
• Created testing methodology uncovering 10 of high severity defects before releasing into Production
• Created design specs for business logic, screens and feature functionality utilizing use cases for testing educational software
• Responsible for reviewing and approving the Entry/Exit Criteria for each QA program/project
• Developed test plan and test strategy for back end portfolio application
• Performed SIT and UAT testing on back-end Portfolio Accounting system
• Created Bug vetting and Change Management strategies
• Created test cases and scenarios for testing Portfolio valuation and accounting applications as they were ported from mainframe system
• Interface with Software Development and Technical Services Groups on the technical design and development process ensuring business requirements are understood and delivered and schedule coding completion dates
• Gather and analyze business requirements from stakeholders
• Conduct impact analysis of business requirements on existing technology platform, present findings and facilitate solutions
• Performed as a liaison between Mumbai, India and Chicago office coordinating testing methodology
• Provided action plans to mitigate risk and help implement them when applicable
• Facilitated client working sessions and led recurring project status meetings

Confidential

Project Manager

• Performed critical thinking in terms of analyzing the issues and understanding the client's objectives and tailoring a methodology suitable to delivering interim releases and to the environment
• Developed presentation materials and client deliverables in PowerPoint and Visio format performing presentation at the completion of research of the issues involved requirements
• Gather and analyze business requirements from stakeholders
• Conduct impact analysis of business requirements on existing technology platform, present findings and facilitate solution meetings
• Responsible for reviewing and approving the Entry/Exit Criteria for each QA program/project
• Coordinated End to End User Acceptance testing
• Established communication between application programmers, QA, BA and end users.
• Performed requirements gathering on a rigid schedule to complete assignments on-time, within budget with quality response performance.
• Performed planning and analysis of testing and implementation plans also integrated them into the larger Project plans with milestone dates.
• Interface with Software Development and Technical Services Groups on the technical design and development process ensuring business requirements are understood and delivered
• Provide the process and leadership around defining and delivering business requirements
• Gather and analyze business requirements from stakeholders
• Conduct impact analysis of business requirements on existing technology platform, present findings and facilitate solutions
• Managed multiple smaller projects directed towards the implementation of web based SAP applications
• Gathered requirements for Ecommerce modules into use cases and QA test cases
• Monitored delivery of SAP financial modules and managed processes by escalating issues and variances to Project Management office and Share point 2007
• Led QA team established project requirements, priorities
• Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives, via feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all stakeholders
• Managed and tested throughout the SDLC prioritizing and logging defects
• Performed end-to-end system and product integration tests through each phase of the SDLC across multiple business area platforms that included ecommerce, client server and web application platform