SUMMARY

• Hands - on senior IT Manager with 14 years of experience in various aspects of Software Development, Product Delivery and IT Strategy in the financial services
• Proficiency in Program Management, Project Management, Business Analysis, Release Management, Product Management, Business Process Engineering, Quality Assurance and Vendor Management
• Delivered IT solutions in the financial services for Portfolio Management, Trading, Brokerage services, Hedge Fund services, Securities Lending, Structured Finance, and Regulatory and Compliance
• Experience in spearheading, executing and managing global technology transformation and enhancement initiatives
• Proven ability to collaborate with business to establish multiyear product strategy and roadmap
• Demonstrated agility at cost control, meeting aggressive deadlines and exceeding business goals
• Possess a facility for influencing and collaborating with senior management, colleagues, vendors and other stakeholders throughout a large complex organization
• Proficient in requirements analysis, gap analysis, impact analysis and change management
• Possess sound operational knowledge of financial instruments comprising of equities, fixed Income and derivatives
• Proficient at large local and virtual global team leadership, including creating a vision, setting goals and empowering employees to drive performance
• In-depth knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) and experience with process methodologies of waterfall, rational unified process, agile-scrum, six sigma and capability maturity model(CMM)
• An excellent team player with strong analytical, communication, problem solving, decision making and leadership skills
• Extremely flexible in approach, capable of adapting quickly and effectively in dynamic business environments
• Able to bring people together with different specialties, ensuring that they can communicate effectively and facilitate in bridging the gap between the technology teams and the end users

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office: Access, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio and SharePoint

Project Management: Clarity, MS Excel, MS Project Plan

Requirements Management: Blueprint and iRise

Web Technology: J2EE, .NET, Adobe Flex, HTML 5

Platform: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris

Test and Performance Mgt.: HP Enterprise Quality Center, HP ALM, Load Runner, Jira

Database: MySQL, Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server, DB2

Process methodologies: RUP, CMM, Six Sigma, Agile-Scrum, PMI-PMBOK

Languages: HTML, Java, C#, Python, VB, Java Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed Global Transformational program to standardize and enhance effectiveness across multiple lines of business with in the Confidential ’s Consumer Banking space by closely working with CTOs and CQOs, which halped the firm in realizing $12MM save for the year 2014 and increased overall effectiveness in the Project Delivery.
• Contributed as a key player to support one of the largest conversions in the financial history and the development of state of the art Broker Dealer platform called MORCOM with the objective of converting Confidential Investment Services Corp ( Confidential ) $83 Billion in assets from Confidential to Confidential, which included 1.6 MM retail brokerage accounts with over 6.5 MM positions and provided 5000 employees in the Retail branches and middle office with a state of the art Broker Dealer platform.
• Managed Cost Basis Reporting program involving multiple system enhancements, which brought Confidential in compliance with the industry wide cost basis reporting regulations.
• Led and managed complex initiatives that involved setting strategic direction, tactical planning and organizing large teams of senior colleagues with diverse skills set to deliver one of the largest conversion programs in the industry.
• Managed Infrastructure (Hardware, OS and Database Version) upgrade program for Confidential Wealth Management which halped the line of business to be in compliance with the firm’s Software Lifecycle requirements and improve overall system performance.
• Implemented automation of Mutual Fund positions transfer via Accounts Transfer application, which increased accounts transfer settlement efficiency by 75% for Confidential ’s Broker Dealer clients.
• Managed the implementation of “DocuCenter” web application for Broker Dealers to electronically review, approve, index and manage documents by working closely with the operations, technology teams both offshore and onsite and external broker dealer clients, resulting in significant improvement of the document remittance process, offered complete transparency and streamlined the review and approval workflow of Confidential Operations.
• Used clarity tool effectively to manage team allocation, risks, vendor management, project reporting and budget.
• Provided CTO, Senior Management and steering committees with concise and accurate project updates on daily and weekly basis, which provided greater transparency and facilitated risk mitigation.
• Collaborated with Senior Management to define the Target State model for the organization to standardize Consumer Banking IT operations.
• Collaborated with Business, Technology and Release management teams to plan out yearly release dates well in advance which halped in addressing code contention issues and risk mitigation
• Managed and mentored team of BAs, Developers, and QA leads and built partnerships with vendor resources resulting in team effectiveness and productivity and maintained good relationship with external clients, resulting in effective requirements management.
• Managed a team of four developers and implemented a web based centralized reporting layer on top of the HP’s Test Management tool- EQC/ALM, which halped management and technology teams to monitor testing 24/7 and facilitated issues escalation and resolution.
• Performed usage modeling by creating use cases, user interface designs, prototypes, workflows, user stories with MS Office and MS Visio
• Facilitated joint application design (JAD) sessions with Business, Technology and Operations teams, adding in the reliability and the cost effectiveness to the project delivery.
• Facilitated Change Management by proactively performing impact, risk and scope analysis through the project delivery life cycle.
• Helped QA teams in generating Requirement traceability matrix, test strategy and plan and engaged test automation team from the start of the project.
• Collaborated with product managers to generate multiyear strategic roadmap for the technology program, resulting in increased focus in the product development space through out the year.
• Conducted lessons learnt sessions after every release and tracked product usage in production, resulting in overall improvement to the Confidential ’s SDLC process

Confidential

Assistant Vice President - PM/BA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the conversion of J P Morgan Securities (JPMS) accounts on MORCOM platform of the Confidential by working with the team of Development managers, QA leads and Business users to offer an enhanced and centralized brokerage solution to the line of business.
• Managed projects associated with Compliance, Client Reporting, and Risk Exposure and Trading enhancements within the Securities Lending space where Confidential offered yield enhancements to institutional domestic and global clients by lending their assets under custody at Confidential and elsewhere to broker and dealers and other financial institutions.
• Managed and delivered projects executed by teams located across different time zones globally, resulting in enhanced resource utilization and overall cost effectiveness.
• Performed requirements analysis, validation and management, which led to client satisfaction.
• Generated effective business case, project charter scope document along with the investment summary and presented to senior management for their approval.
• Provided key focus on sourcing strategy and planning which included headcount tracking and forecasting, outsourcing business initiatives with preferred vendors and relationship management.
• Performed thorough requirements management involving analysis, validation, communication, and halped business analysts to generate business requirement documents, use cases and functional specification.
• Performed Risk Management by establishing correct risk priority, assigning required ownership, setting up mitigation plan and monitoring the progress.
• Chaired Tollgate sessions for the scope, requirements, design, build and QA and ensured active participation of all the required stakeholders including senior management and legal & compliance.
• Worked with the Infrastructure team well in advance to ensure required hardware is set up for the projects as required, effectively reducing delays.
• Ensured productive and efficient usage of HP Enterprise Quality Center and ALM to manage SIT, QA, UAT and Production testing, resulting in improved defects management and issue resolution and engaged and guided Business, Operations and End clients in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Liaised with the business and technology teams to gather requirements and facilitated issue resolution, which resulting in timely delivery of the projects.
• Collaborated with PMO to plan the budget and release dates meeting business expectations.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant at Confidential - PM/BA

Responsibilities:

• Led and Managed migration project of the Sybase based Paloma’s (Hedge Fund) applications suite onto SQL server incorporating new enhancements, resulting in successful onboarding of Paloma’s back office on to the Confidential platform.
• Implemented application enhancements for in house analytical calculation tool, workflow and reporting engine called ORIoN and payment systems a structured finance workflow engine for Fixed Income securities and reports website.
• Generated project estimates, work break down structure and actively managed variances between forecast and actual.
• Led team of BAs to generate Business Requirements and Functional Specification documents and chaired design review sessions with the architect, developers and BAs, resulting in quality product and enhanced client satisfaction.
• Led teams and stakeholders to review SDLC artifacts comprising of Scope, BRDs, FSDs, Design, Test Plan, Test Scripts and Release plan with due diligence, resulting in timely sign offs in compliance with the audit requirements.
• Performed change management with due diligence to ensure any type of change to the baseline is well accounted for with detail impact analysis, increasing project scope quality.
• Managed QA teams and facilitated effective test strategy and test plan generation, resource allocation and defects resolution.
• Trained business and operations teams on the critical applications, which halped in successful UAT.
• Performed impact, gap and scope analysis through the project life cycle, resulting in risk mitigation and effective issue resolution.
• Effectively managed end to end testing with the halp of Enterprise Quality Center (EQC), which halped QA teams to test the applications effectively.
• Managed budget, resources, issues and risks effectively using MS Project Plan and clarity, and improved overall processes and implemented best practice methodologies

Confidential, New Orleans

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained database as part of the ITServices,providing reporting services to the business and the end clients.
• Acted as a liaison between the business team and the technology team.
• Performed requirements analysis, validation, documentation and management.
• Generated thorough Test Plan and Strategy for cross functional and system testing.
• Developed recommendations for process improvement and new system functionality
• Performed unit testing and generated steps for user acceptance testing plans, test cases and test scenarios.

Confidential, New Orleans

Program Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Electronic Thesis & Dissertation (ETD) system by performing requirements elicitation, analyses and management that contributed to worldwide graduate education as it builds a Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (NDLTD) in collaboration with other scholarly institutions.
• Exclusively designed, developed and maintained the website for ETD, which received good feedback from the various head of departments.
• Collaborated with the university’s tech teams and generated system requirements specifications, testing strategy and test plan
• Participated in the data modeling and the Database management.
• Coordinated with different graduate departments for the system test and the implementation.
• Designed and coordinated advertisement campaigns with the various departments, resulting in broader ETD usage
• Conducted web-designing workshops for Confidential Computing Center

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Applied operating system updates, patched and configuration changes.
• Performed routing audits of systems and software.
• Installed and configured new hardware and software and maintained user accounts.
• Assisted users in trouble shooting issues.