SUMMARY:

• A Senior Project Manager who holds PMP and Scrum Master Certification with 15+ years of expertise managing multimillion Agile and Waterfall based projects within the financial industry
• Adept at handling domestic and global projects, Cloud Computing (SaaS), Data Governance (DG/MDM) as well as Data Modeling and Transformation among others with budget between $3M up to $20M
• Well versed in handling and working hand in hand with onshore and offshore project members (QAs, BAs, Developers, etc.) located in India and Europe, etc. in delivering projects on time and on budget
• Proficient in using different PM tools such as HP QC and MS Project for project planning, resource/vendor management, budgeting, defects and time tracking, etc.
• Extensive experience in UML, metadata, system reliability and testing, risk management, DW/ETL, data modeling and transformation, business analysis, stakeholder analysis, application and database design.
• Sound knowledge with retail and core banking, credit and market risks, brokerage, mortgage and syndicated loans, US treasury securities and buybacks, monetary aggregates, DTCC operations, derivatives, FOMC activity, economic indicators analysis, HR support, IS audit, legal banking/trading regulations and reporting (CCAR/DFAST, KYC), labor and funds management applications and legal regulations, CRM systems and SalesForce

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROJECT METHODOLOGIES (SDLC/STLC): Waterfall, Incremental/Spiral Waterfall, Agile (iterative RUP; adaptive Scrum), Extreme (XP), Lean, RAD, DevOps, V - model, TDD/BDD, IBM BPM

OS AND DATABASES: UNIX, Linux, Windows, Oracle, MySQL, DB2 UDB, Fame, IMS

LANGUAGES, TOOLS AND PRODUCTS: UML 2.x, HP QC, HP PPM, Collibra, IBM Business Glossary, Oracle Asset Management (eAM), IBM MQ, JIRA, CollabNet TeamForge, MS Office, SharePoint, SalesForce, SQL, JavaScript, XML, JSON, FIX protocol, Perl (DBI, CGI), LDAP, ColdFusion, UNIX scripts, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, ERwin, TOAD, FTP/SSH, COBOL, CICS, C, PL/1, JCL, CLIST

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked on project practices and standards enhancement with budget ranging from $10-$15M in order to help with stories maintenance, development and deployment in a hybrid waterfall-agile environment in regulatory function
• Managed team members to execute project deliverables. Used MS Project and proprietary software management tool and JIRA for defect management and user stories

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with teams in London. Managed data governance, DW re-design, metadata definition and support, validation rules engine development, logical data design for a large re-architecture initiative in DTCC with at least $25M budget and have used Agile methodology
• Used HP PPM and MS Project Manager for resource and vendor management among others

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed development, testing and deployment of the system based on SaaS cloud to supports jobs assignments, work data entrance, statistical analysis, member eligibility verification, asset management, $2B fund allocation and investments, claims, benefits, payroll and accounting.
• Managed budget ranging up to $6M, relationships between the client, major Union, and the software vendor, for requirements processing (RFP, SOW), development, integration, enhancement, and acceptance testing for building Labor-Funds-Legal system
• Suggested and developed the call center and maintenance database and innovative strategy for quick issue resolutions
• Initiated, developed and implemented data governance and quality standards which enhanced client experience
• Used CollabNet tools and MS Project as project management tool. Followed Agile methodology

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and delivered computerized courses on project management and business analysis. Managed projects with $3M-$4M budget
• Worked as a liaison with Project Management Institute (PMI) to introduce new PMP exam preparation classes under PMI registration and auditing system
• Used MS Project as project management tool and JIRA defect management and user stories collection
• Waterfall and Agile

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in a Bank-wide finance and business transformation initiative based on Agile methodology with $10M-$12M budget
• Was responsible for Oracle Financial Services Data Warehouse, E-Business Suite (EBS), Basel Regulatory Reporting Package implementation, had success in eliminating project progress obstacles.
• Managed Onshore and offshore teams in Europe and Israel and utilized MS Project for project management

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for project management of loans remediation program phase implementation. The phase goal was to migrate Americas and EMEA loans data and processes from the existing sub ledger to the detailed accounting ledger in order to provide business users with enhanced Books and Records solution to accommodate Syndications, Sub-parts, Granular Discounts
• Managed offshore located in UK and India and use Agile methodology for the projects with budget of between $5-$7M

Applications Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Played active role in a multi-year strategic initiative to consolidate and enhance retail banking system by creating single servicing platform for clients - Rainbow Global Initiative that covers North America, Europe, Middle East and Latin America with a budget of $100-$200M
• Worked within virtual team in several US cities and off-shore to manage construction, testing and production deployment of the new system.
• Used HP PPM, HP QC, MS Project for resource/vendor management, scheduling and budgeting etc.
• Successfully translated SOW from high level design into construction plans
• Validated plan tasks, identified and resolved dependencies across development groups
• Worked with development leads to resolve development issues, test and fix defects
• Coordinated delivery activity and resolved many production issues

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported several Bank departments, developed several mission-critical applications with up to $6M budget for IT Projects based on Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Introduced, designed and implemented several innovative systems and approaches to dramatically increase customer satisfaction and systems reliability. Developed and was solely responsible for data exchange between Federal Reserve and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Board of Governors (BOG), for Basel and BCBS/FSB support.
• Was responsible for IT audit, data governance, master and reference data to support data exchange system and run-charts generation for several key divisions of FRS and BIS
• Initiated, designed and developed project and asset management information system (PMIS). The system saved 75% of employee and management time in project governance
• Introduced, designed and implemented Wiki integration with global bank data exchange system. The system inserts URLs to Wiki pages into dynamically generated messages, saved more than 30% in application support effort.
• Designed, managed and implemented FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) CRM system, which saved more than 30% time of the senior management in cycle preparation.
• Designed and developed data warehouse to store US economy information for more than 100 years of data, developed ETL processes and application layer for the business users.
• Were instrumental and introduced implementation ideas for CMMI department appraisal efforts, QA and internal audit processes. CMM level 3 maturity was achieved.
• Directed and coordinated projects involving migration of several applications
• Managed complete domestic and international data information exchange system re-design and development, as well as development an automatic system of collecting publications order information from Oracle, XML conversion and posting to remote sites.