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PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

Dynamic Project Management Professional with achievements in delivering Technology and Business solutions to the Financial Services industry. Adept at building relationships with the decision makers of lines of business, exchanges, vendors, consulting firms, third-party content providers and software development organizations. History of successfully increasing production while decreasing costs through high-profile technical and innovative business initiatives, employing process improvements and a diligent and consistent management methodology. Proven master of analysis with abilities to critically evaluate complex business processes and respond to rapidly changing requirements and regulatory environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Vendor Management: VMO, RFI/RFP, Commercials, SLA, Statements of Work, Cost Analysis, Governance, Negotiation, Contracts, Offshore Management, Ariba
  • Project Management: Project Portfolios, Project Audit and Compliance, Budget and P L, Risk Management, SDLC Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, PMO, PMP Trained, Dashboards, MS Office, MS Project, Project Workbench, Visio, SharePoint, Confluence, Jira, Clarity, Change Control
  • Service Delivery Management: Real-time market data delivery systems, EOD pricing and analytics, infrastructure deployment, server deployments, client and server application development, SAAS deployments and client onboarding, new platform rollouts and upgrades, intra and inter vendor software migrations/displacements.
  • Market Data Platforms: Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg BVAL, IDC, S P, RMDS, TREP, Wombat, Managed BPipe, BVAL, TOMS, KOBRA, Eikon, DACS, MDM, FITS, Maxit
  • Business Analysis and Product Development: System Requirements, Technical Specifications, Platform Design and Architecture, Application Development, User Interfaces, Workflow, QA/UAT, Deployment, Help Desk, SQL, Visual Basic
  • Business Development: Business Planning, Process Modeling, BPR, Budget and P L, Staff Development and Financing, Business Intelligence, ROI/TCO
  • Business Continuity: Disaster Recovery, System Fail-over and Fall-back Strategies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Program Manager

Managing the deployment of multiple Sungard cost basis clients to the Scivantage platform, Maxit. Business Analysis, Vendor Management, Dashboard and Tracker ownership, forecasting and program execution PM tools utilized include: Project Online, SharePoint, Confluence, Jira, Gliffy and MS Suite. Agile methodology utilized for development, deployment and UAT

Confidential

Project Manager

Managing the Bloomberg Displacement project for AMRS region. Project scope is to reduce the number of Bloomberg terminals and where applicable replace with Thomson Reuters Eikon. Development of BRD and Gap analysis. Waterfall methodology utilized for development and UAT. PM tools utilized include MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint.

Confidential

PMO Deployment Programme Manager

Managing multiple client-focused deployment streams involving the decommission of legacy desktop applications Bridge and XTRA and migration to the TREP/Eikon trading platform. Development of BRD, FRD and Gap analysis. Waterfall approach utilized for development and UAT.

Confidential

Enterprise Critical Vendor Manager

  • Aggregate book of work 200MM total Negotiated and closed multiple 5MM deals
  • End-to-end Vendor Relationship owner for High Risk and Enterprise Critical Market Data vendors including Bloomberg, IDC, and S P
  • Represented Market Data for Audit, Compliance and OPS Risk regulatory and other governance programs and deliverables
  • Delivery of Vendor Quality Control Planning including Risk Management and Business Continuity planning

Senior Service Delivery Manager

  • Led multiple project streams including: Business Requirements, Vendor Relations, Q/A, Development, Engineering, UAT and Market Data Provisioning
  • Program level planning, project leadership, change and issue control, board reporting and escalations
  • Technical project lead and technical design consultant for TREP deployments

Program Manager, Technical Deployment Manager

  • Global deployment of a Reuters RMDS system, including KOBRA 3000 Xtra workstations, supporting GPCi, the bank's international private client financial advisors 25 global branches, 1200 financial advisors
  • Amaranth Advisors/Hedge Fund, Management Consultant
  • Led team of analysts implementing the Market Data Inventory Control System FITS . Introduced workflow and other quality measures increasing efficiency of MD Provisioning team by 70
  • Dreamhouse Remodeling Corporation, Owner/Operator
  • Manager of family-owned re-construction business. Increased revenues over 200 in two years
  • Vendor relations and partnerships with interior designers and specialty contractors
  • CheckFree Investment Svcs, Vice President of Technology, Head/Market Data
  • Staff of 35 15 MM IT budget. Engineering, Q/A, PMO, Market Data Ops, VMO
  • Implementation of numerous technology advances supporting the operations of securities pricing and mainstay portfolio application, Security APL
  • Real-time MD system elevating service availability to 100 and eliminating data content issues
  • Automation of a fundamental information platform including corporate actions and capital adjustment processing. A fault-tolerant Securities Master Reference database Oracle supporting multiple vendors, feeds and asset classes, client preference and audit including usage analysis and vendor royalty reporting.
  • Integrated an enterprise-wide project and resource control system utilizing MS Project Server which minimized staff augmentation requirements by 40 while improving project estimations by 25
  • Securities Industry Automation Corporation, Managing Director
  • Development manager for the AMEX's Equity/Option Market Data CTS/CQS/OPRA and Price Collector ticker plant real-time market data systems
  • New ticker plant and TCP/IP interfaces with NMS delivering the highest quality market data and eliminating delays. Directed Y2K remediation across multiple technology platforms
  • Previously, Project Manager for Morgan Stanley deploying EMU solutions, Director for Telerate/Dow Jones/Bridge delivering Fixed Income broker and trading applications and Product Manager for FD Consulting architecting and developing MD ticker plants, distributed delivery platforms and desktop applications.

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