SUMMARY:

A Project Management Professional and Certified Scrum Master with over twenty years of progressive experience in the fields of Banking, Finance and Insurance including 7 years of technical project management.

Hands-on Project Manager offering over seven years of proven leadership in handling and directing management initiatives towards identified goals.

CORE COMPETANCIES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Managed multiple order entry application upgrades and responsibilities included

Responsible for 1mmUSD budget

• Managed project teams through the SDLC for timely project completion.
• Facilitated requirements gathering and documentation with product owners.
• Managed project estimation process with development teams.
• Managed all facets of Design, Development and Quality Assurance testing of HTML based web services and mobile applications.
• Managed project schedule using MS Project and Oracle Primavera.
• Facilitated all project team meetings with clear agendas, actions tracking, risks and issues tracking.
• Provided weekly project update presentations to key business stakeholders.
• Generated weekly and monthly project status reports to wider project team.
• Created and enforced a change management process to track scope changes and authorizations.
• Provided project closure insuring proper handoff of new products and services to production support staff.
• Project successfully completed in December 2013.
• Managed delivery of a new 3rd party vendor infrastructure build out to support an accounting system..

Responsible for 250K USD budget

Managed all aspects of the project including budgeting, scheduling, server virtualization installs, web server builds and Windows SQL server installation, vendor risk and resource management and stakeholder reporting. Project successfully completed in Feb 2014.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Responsible for managing software development and large scale data migration and remediation projects where responsibilities included
• Managed projects using both Agile SCRUM and Waterfall methodologies.
• Managed Infrastructure upgrade projects including data center migration and consolidation projects involving HP Blade server, Windows 2003 Server, MS SQL Server, SAN/NAS technologies, VM Ware and LAN/WAN configurations.
• Managed data center migration technical refresh project involving 250 servers and 100 applications including LAN/WAN connectivity and SAN/NAS storage technologies.
• Managed software development projects for delivery of new business requirements for the Thomson Reuters Fixed Income desktop EIKON application
• Managed design, development, testing and implementation of HTML based web services used to deliver market and reference data to users.
• Facilitating requirements gathering and documentation with all stakeholders.
• Running workshops with technical teams to identify solutions for the more complex business requirements.
• Manage project estimation process.
• Manage Quality Assurance teams through the project lifecycle responsible for planning and driving functional and UAT test cycles
• Managing project schedules with MS Project and CA Clarity
• Facilitating Agile meetings i.e. pre-planning, planning, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand ups
• Manage vendors throughout the project lifecycle including SOW reviews and delivery tasks tracking.
• Generate weekly and monthly project status reports.
• Own change management process to control scope changes and authorizations and insure compliance.
• Mentored new PMs to the PMO.
• Use JIRA for product backlog release planning, burn down reports and task definition.
• Facilitate steering committee meeting with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Create deployment playlist and support runbook.
• Also managed these other key infrastructure projects during tenure at Thomson Reuters
• Sybase version upgrades and all patches.
• Windows Server OS upgrades
• Data warehousing migration project on Ab Initio platform Crystal Reports
• FX Options and Derivatives content upgrade projects.
• Data architecture optimizations for improved throughput and time to market for market driven data changes

QA Manager

• Responsible for oversight of all testing and validation activities of the Fixed Income group's applications and release deployments.
• Successfully justified, recruited, trained and managed offshore QA technical team in China.

Confidential

QA Test Analyst

• Managed team of 10 Quality Assurance Analysts.
• Responsible for all tests planning on a data warehouse project.
• Provided test methodologies and approaches to insure data quality.
• Responsible for overseeing all test case execution, also for daily and weekly test execution reporting and all bug reporting and triage

Confidential

Quality Assurance Manager

• Recruited and managed the firm's initial onshore/offshore Software Quality Assurance teams.
• Managed all Quality Assurance testing/verification activities for the company's proprietary J2EE based Bond Market Trading systems before and after IPO.
• The company successfully launched its IPO during tenure as Head of QA which speaks to the outstanding quality and reliability of the trading system's software/hardware at the time of launch.
• Managed Pre and Post IPO Agile software release cycles ranging from daily to weekly.
• Designed and managed a software automation program to support the Agile release cycles.
• Established SLAs for the offshore, outsourced QA team.

Confidential

QA Test Analyst

• CMM SQA role within several Futures Options Technology Groups.
• Insured that groups met CMM Level 2 compliance.

Confidential

QA Test Analyst

Software Tester responsible for Y2K readiness of mission critical financial systems.

Confidential

QA Test Analyst

Software Tester responsible for Y2K readiness.

Confidential

QA Test Analyst

Managed all facets of software testing for deployment of new Data Entry system.

Confidential

QA Tester

• Lead Software Tester on industry leading FOREX Trading system Dealing 3000
• Handled all test planning and design and team management.

Confidential

Software Tester

Testing mission critical systems for the NYSE and AMEX Stock Exchanges.