SUMMARY:

• To achieve superior results by developing business partnership, building a winning team, and employing strong management discipline in a highly matrix environment.
• Strong Program and Project management experience with demonstrated achievements in planning, directing and implementing multiple and concurrent enterprise projects as well as on - going customization, enhancement & operation management.
• Multi years experience in building cross-functional alignment across geographically dispersed IT teams consisting of FTE, onshore/ offshore resources leveraging Waterfall and Agile-Scrum software development lifecycle (SDLC) process methodologies.
• Broad knowledge across development technology stack: Java, J2EE, XML, Weblogic, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM SSIS, Cast Iron, Informatica, Qlikview, Cognos, and SAS combined with strong business judgment to identify and interpret program/project management issues and risks, and ability to resolve or escalate appropriately.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Office including MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, Excel, Power Point, HP Quality Center.
• J2EE, Web Logic, HTML, XML, JServlets, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, Unix, ETL (SSIS, Informatica), Powerbuilder
• SAS, QlikView, Crystal Reports, Microstrategies, Cognos, Tableau, PeopleSoft, Remedy Asset Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Established a product specific baseline and formulated multiple sprints, release schedule, developed and maintained formal project plan utilizing MS Project. Responsible for consolidated reporting to Business and Technology stakeholders on program financial health and progress against sprint deliverables.
• Responsible for partnership with 40+ internal/external IT teams on interface development, enhancements, and maintenance to support newly introduced products. Own solution collaboration and host weekly progress updates meetings with partners commitment follow-ups. Effectively manage financial forecasts, provide ongoing reconciliation of resources allocated across multiple projects, and resolve scheduling conflicts.
• Lead all aspects of program/project delivery according to recently transformed PMO organization uniform standards/procedures and align them with business and technology strategic roadmaps.
• Coordinate the RFP process, including development of evaluation criteria, scope definition, coordination of vendor responses, consolidation of scoring and vendor selection.
• Lead cross-functional organization effort of developing a risk and controls library, based on laws, regulations, industry standards, and common practices applicable to the organization.
• Conduct “as-is” business process, data readiness, and technology solution gap analysis.
• Partner with Professional Service (KPMG) vendor in developing strategic road map, optimizing IT solution footprint and aligning it with Enterprise architectural portfolio strategies.
• Design guiding principle for technology reuse through leveraging of existing services, frameworks and data validation and enrichment processes.
• Established a program governance structure for the organization’s eGRC software solution and leveraged its benefits to complete first Phase of GRC implementation.
• Manage the execution of Proof of Concept as a first phase of the program in developing Enterprise data sharing capabilities in collaboration with Solution Architect and various technology teams.
• Ensure that Information Security, Compliance, and Data Management requirements are fully met.
• Manage all aspects of solution implementation lifecycle for the Enterprise program.

Project Manager

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Led feasibility and gap analysis studies, created presentation for senior management utilizing Power Point and Visio. Coordinated BI tool selection process with QlikView, Cognos, and SAS and aligned technical roadmap to the defined long term strategy and generic standards for data governance.
• Liaised with internal Infrastructure, Middleware, Security, and DBA’s teams on establishing process implementation approach based on established standards and best practices offering.
• Directed creation of key performance indicators (KPI’s) library across multiple Marketing teams, data mapping, metadata, issue root cause analysis, remediation activities, and identified rationalization opportunities.
• Responsible for overall Project initiation (Project Charter, WBS, Business Case, approach, scope, cost, resourcing, planning) with input from cross-functional IT partners. Developed SLAs to ensure data quality, completeness, and timeliness.
• Established a program scope baseline and formulated multiple sprints, developed and maintained formal project plan utilizing MS Project and provided consolidated reporting to senior management and stakeholders on program financial health and progress against sprint deliverables
• Ensured changes to the baseline were managed according to the uniform change control procedures utilizing cross-organizational governance meetings. Assisted business partners to formalize User Acceptance Test (UAT) goals and its understanding by all IT partners. Coordinated defect resolution process during UAT utilizing HP Quality Center.
• Coordinated SAS solution customization and implementation by SAS development team including ambiguities/issues management and resolution. Led issue external and internal IT partners during design, coding, and QA progress.
• Maintained project forecasts/actuals utilizing Clarity and reported financial health to the senior management team.
• Developed broad knowledge across the reporting solution stack: Database, Database schema, ETL, Qlickview, Cognos, SAS, Cast Iron and reporting tool set, experience in segmenting solution / implementation across above layers, data shares and data enrichment via SalesForce.com and PeopleSoft.

IT Application Development Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed 0.5 M to 1.5M worth of IT development annually across multiple and concurrent enterprise large/medium/small projects as well as on-going customization, enhancement, and integration with other internal systems. Typically managed 1-2 large projects with scheduled deliverables over 8-12 months and few enhancement category projects not larger then 3-5 monthsd.
• Worked with business partners and project stakeholders during new project selection process to set future direction, and prioritize program or solution expansions. Led business case review sessions, planning estimation development, project charter creation and its approval by project owners, stakeholders, IT, and QA partners.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining standard project documentation, project charter and plans (MS Project), agendas, action items lists, deliverables and ensure adherence to company Project Management Standards and software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices including waterfall and Agile.
• Managed geographically disperse IT teams consisting of FTE and onshore/offshore resources. Participated in code reviews/design reviews and actively understand and drive the architecture of product lines. Held accountable that all IT area deliverables are on track on schedule according to project plan and any integration issues with internal/external IT partners had been address accordingly and not impacting project milestones.
• Established working environment to encourage technology silos collaboration to formulate high level design with project team, assisted team to diagnose issues and performed trade-off analysis.
• Managed all stages of pre-production preparation and was responsible for production release management. Organized knowledge transfer to production support team ahead of new project/function installation Provided subject matter expertise during production issue resolution. Conducted project post-mortem evaluations, identified lessons learned, and presented improvements recommendations.
• Provided ongoing reporting to senior management on project financial health and deliverables. Established and governed formal Change Requests review and approval process with participation from business, IT, and QA partners.
• Conducted internal and offshore resource monthly utilization planning budget and forecast using Clarty PPM.
• Established and managed infrastructure support, software development, and quality assurance vendor relationships
• Maintained broad knowledge across application development technology stack: Java, J2EE, XML, Weblogic, Oracle, Informatica, Cobol, DB2.

Assistant Vice President / Technical Lead ITD

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated development and business approval of Request for Proposal.
• Conducted vendor selection and contract negotiation, produced draft of the Service Level Agreement.
• Identified product implementation strategy, project phases, deliverables and milestones.
• Worked with infrastructure services and architectural committee to define appropriate cost-effective environment configuration
• Monitored compliance to in-house project development methodology; established change management procedure
• Organized escalation and notification procedure in the event of service interruption; participated in the risk assessments
• Conducted “as-is” analysis of existing procurement systems (USA, UK. And Asia regions)
• Performed gap analysis and provided existing process re-engineering recommendation
• Assisted internal clients in understanding application implementation and support cost
• Defined historical data conversion requirements and established data transfer methodology
• Escalated implementation related issues and tracked progress of problems through to closure
• Developed consolidated reporting system with single point of entry using uniform web interface
• Negotiated offshore development cost per deliverable item, managed offshore partner activity, and coordinated project deliverables
• Established offshore partner acceptance criteria and developed test monitoring procedure
• Coordinated and integrated internal development team effort with the offshore partner activities
• Organized periodic reports consolidation through evaluation and business justification
• Defined new system requirements and determined critical checkpoints for data validation
• Designed logical and physical data models; created prototype of the graphical user interface
• Managed system implementation, testing, and deployment

Senior Consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Participated in contract negotiation, project critical path analysis, and system development of Purchasing system for a major retail company with an intensive parts, services, and material flow.
• Defined and developed Time Tracking System (TTS) that allows company management to control time utilization of engineering, manufacturing, service, and finance department employee. TTS was also used by project managers and group leaders to complete new project staffing by allocation/reallocation of employee resources.

System Architect

Confidential, Fairfield, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Conducted compatibility analysis and prepared pharmaceutical equipment design. Assessed system behavior under speed, vibration, temperature, and pressure influence utilizing off-the-shelf software packages. Prepared full production line recommendations based on individual module unit testing and technical specification.
• Provided technical support for sales and marketing teams.