SUMMARY:

• Senior IT Project Management, Program, PMO, Delivery Professional with extensive and accomplished experience on top tier Insurance, Financial Services companies delivering technology program/project/delivery management of web, application development, data systems, and infrastructure projects. Worked and Managed Big 4 Solution firms.
• Demonstrated ability in leading projects teams for Target Operating Model, Change Management, Business Systems, Systems Integration, QA, Data Warehousing, PMO, and Project Portfolio that drive business value and support Business strategic objectives.
• Strong project management skills with experience in organizing, prioritizing, planning, and executing projects from definition through implementation, involving internal external resources and third - party contractors.
• Planned and reported project financial statistics including Capex and Opex expenses.
• Effective high-performance management results of projects schedule, risk management, issues remediation and satisfaction of stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and supervise projects as well as bridge the gap between technical and non-technical personnel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Project Portfolio Management
• SDLC Methodologies
• Agile Scrum
• Resource Onboarding
• Compliance Regulatory
• Budget Planning & Mgmt
• Big 4 Experience
• Vendor/Procurement Mgmt
• Change Management
• QA & QC Methodologies
• Test Automation
• IT Roadmap Evaluation and Design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York NY

Sr. Enterprise Project Manager

Tools: Project Server, ALM, JIRA, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Footprints, PDCL, Guidewire, Insurity, Rapidsure, Microsoft Office

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project/program management leadership of application development of Underwriting Workbench Platform surpassing $4.7MM Labor and Non-Labor spend; 24 technical resources; 4 vendor relationships. Manage submission flow; enable underwriters, Data integration and usability enhancements. Design and implement efficiencies surrounding Ratings/Quoting/Issuing, Renewal and Endorsements. Oversaw consultants from E&Y, Guidewire FirstBest UMS. Directed ACORD Forms, OFAC, Producer consolidations, Visual Compliance, On Base transformation enhancements.
• Managed Data integration from Insurity PDC/Sapiens Rapidsure feed to the Tokio Data warehouse (TED) and access to Risk Management System for Data Analytics and predictive modeling; 12 technical resources.
• Directed Infrastructure initiatives of Compliant transfer MFT WebMethods and Storage cloud platform for secure multimedia transfer and access. Software AG Active Transfer, Caringo, Dell EMC. 15 technical resources; 2 Vendors management.
• Accountable for executing projects that enable realization of business and TMNAS IT strategic objectives and tactical business plan goals. Within P&C insurance experiences with Claims and/or Underwriting.
• Responsible for partnering with the project owner/sponsor and all stakeholders to create and implement appropriate and cost efficient solutions based on business objectives.
• Identified project's business value; ongoing monitoring of value attainment within the project lifecycle and development of realization tracking method.
• Led responsibilities for a matrixed team on large sized projects up to $5MM for an Underwriting Workbench directing E&Y and First Best Guidewire systems Integrators across three release phases.
• Built strong relationships with business and technology leaders. Understands business area opportunities and challenges, process or system impacts to all related business or systems areas when implementing recommended solution to obtain business objectives.
• Initiated and ensured project management and methodologies are followed and change management procedures and supporting tools are used in executing all projects as appropriate.
• Managed deliverable estimation process, resource allocation and efficient utilization; negotiates resource conflicts with other project managers or resources managers as appropriate. Escalated to appropriate IT Leadership as necessary.
• Managed business process improvement and/or software development or system implementation projects.
• Communicated technical issues, impact, and risk mitigation strategies in business terminology that can be communicated to and understood by non-technical.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Tools: HP PPM, Project Server, HP QC, Confluence, SharePoint, Business Objects, JIRA, MS Project Professional Pro, Qlikview

• Initiate Planned and Managed the overall project plan, create programmer governance documentation, provide status reporting, liase with developers, testers, BAs, and Program Management on the delivery of projects encompassing 42 resources and budget of 8.5 million GBP.
• Solicited, Engaged and Managed Vendor workplans of Bloomberg, Ipreo, Charles River, InvestEdge Clearwater Capco to ensure scope work project milestones of the work streams are being delivered to plan.
• Managed 65 project builds assigned to Barclays and Pershing to ensure planned milestone schedule or delivered and remediate common issues affecting project build progress.
• Led system applications teams in the migration of the Banks’ brokerage system to the next generation Pershing platform to support Portal, Compliance Account Management, and Trading for Investment Relationship Clients.
• Directed resource management, RAID and RAG tracking tools to provide project status periodic project visibility to management.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Sr. Delivery Project Manager

Tools: PLC, SharePoint, MS Project, Cognos, HP ALM, QC, J2EE, Confluence, QTP Clarity, JIRA, CollabNet, Jive

• Planned and scheduled projects to drive efficiencies in Test Execution and improve testing outcomes through the automation of frequently tested applications in the Trading application domain.
• Led the project teams to transform Trading and other financial services applications to the target application transformation and testing processes up to 60 applications active; 110 applications in scope
• Managed the design and implementation of sustainable test automation methodology and framework.
• Planned the reduction of strategic test vendors across Application Services from 15 to 4 vendors
• Managed the off shore vendor resources in the enablement of more efficient and controlled testing and software release cycle through On demand test Environments.

Confidential, New York NY

Sr. Program / Project / PMO Manager - Global Wealth Management Technology 

Tools; HP PPM, Project Server, HP QC, SharePoint, Business Objects, JIRA, MS Project Professional Pro

• Led system applications teams to create the project execution to meet business and IT objectives. This strategy positioned the team to support delivery in Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid project methodologies.
• Built and managed world-class teams cross geographically that seek to identify solutions that help the Business Risk, Lending Analytic and Mortgage groups to shape the organization.
• Partnered with the IT relationship managers, vendors and key business stakeholders to promote project scoping, estimation, measurement and contingency planning to ensure that these multi-year, multi-function efforts are coordinated with other IT and Business Initiatives

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Sr. Enterprise Project Manager - Retail Brokerage Technology

Tools: PLC, SharePoint, MS Project, MS. Net, Cognos, Informatica, SAP

• As a Project Manager Consultant within the Retail Sales organization, I was responsible and accountable for leading medium to large scale projects through the Project Lifecycle, I provide enterprise management for project related activities in CRM Salesforce.com, internet applications and integrated database systems initiatives.

Confidential, Paramus, NJ

Sr. Project Management

• Planned and controlled Salesforce.com Rollout to Adecco Business Units for Leads, Activities, Marketing, Account Plans, Opportunity Management, for Enterprise Customers
• Planned and executed full SDLC; design, development, testing & rollout of training, communication and support of the staffing HR Finance ERP system Front End and Back End - Ajility system & Peoplesoft Oracle to 1,800 users across 110 offices in North America.

Confidential, New York, NY

Enterprise BA Project Manager - Information Technology 

• Effectively planned for RFP of HR (Employee, Benefits, Recruiting); Oracle, Microsoft, Lawson, PSA (Project Accounting, Project Management and Time); Oracle, MS, CRM (Marketing, Sales, and Customer Care); Oracle, MS SAP and Finance (GL, AP, AR); Solomon, Oracle, Microsoft functions to presentation and decision making by the Steering committee headed by the CEO.
• Designed Content Management integration for HR and CRM specifications