SUMMARY PROFILE:

• A versatile, results - oriented self-starter with strong project/program management abilities supported by a strong technology/operations background in the Banking, Brokerage(Capital Markets, Equities, Fixed Income, Futures, Market Data) and Financial Services industry.
• Have led or worked through all phases of the project development life cycle including scope management, quality assurance, cost control, risk mitigation, procurement/vendor management and Quality Assurance (QA) verification/validation activities.
• Versatility in project sizes range from small pre-IPO companies through Fortune 500 firms (500k - 30mm project budgets).
• Have led projects in infrastructure, application development, web development, data warehousing, identity & access management and multi-platform integration environments Specialties include implementation, operational/gap analysis, process re-engineering, process & productivity improvement, change management, trading systems, compliance/regulatory, infrastructure deployment & remediation, PMO, testing and project deployment. These experiences include utilizing SDLC, Agile, ITIL, BPR, Six Sigma Tools, BPM, Planview and Clarity along with PMI/PMP principles and methodologies. Six Sigma Green Belt and PMP certified.

SKILL:

Project Management: Implementation, integration, migration, deployment development of systems, processes, solutions and websites

Business Analysis: Operational Analysis, Process Flow/Mapping, GAP Analysis, Metric Development, Methodology Development and Creation, Working Sessions, Presentation of Findings and Meeting Management

Project Methodologies: PMI, Agile, SLDC, RUP and MSF

Business Analysis Tools: Six Sigma and BPR

Database: Data Modeling and Database Design

Software Skills: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office Suite - Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access

Identity & Access Management Provisioning, De: provisioning, Privileged Access & Access Control

Hardware Skills: TCP/IP, Application Mapping, Infrastructure planning & deployment, routing, data center placement.

Languages/technologies: Java, Java Script, J2EE, SQL, Powerbuilder, 4GL, WebLogic, Sun, Oracle, SQL, Perl, XML, FpML, Windows Platforms, UNIX, Citrix, Netware, SharePoint, Visual Studio and HTML

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

New York

Senior Project Manager/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading a Financial Crimes (FinCEN) implementation of forthcoming CDD rule across entire CIT Bank enterprise which includes system, process and operational changes to ensure Federal compliance of the new rule prior to taking effect.
• Performed a current state analysis of enterprise wide audit finding of records retention schedule, policies and procedures to identify both gaps and opportunities to unify processes across entire organization at CIT Bank.
• Lead CCAR development project to create 20 custom regulatory reports for CIT Bank.
• Project managed a complex current state analysis of the UBS Asset Management system to document an array of interfaces to lead to a design & implementation of a new Asset Management system through reduction of interfaces and dependent applications
• Lead multiple Information Security projects for Royal Bank of Scotland to address audit flags identified by a FINRA audit
• Lead Proof of Concept study to assess a development effort to design new recordkeeping system to merge into sister company trust platform
• Lead a team of Business Analyst and architects to identify, document create requirements for new recordkeeping system
• Performed feasibility analysis of results of a Proof of Concept study to determine if a new system could be developed

Iselin, NJ

Senior Project Manager/Program Manager

• Lead implementation of Data Loss Prevention system to satisfy both compliance and audit flags and federal requirements. Effort involved requirements gathering for both development and configuration work to be executed
• Lead effort to implement an SEI software solution to create a more efficiently data stream & data feeds from core-company to newly formed trust company and bank. The solution will enable better actuarial reporting capabilities, data access and dashboard metrics. This is included defining requirements for both development & configuration work
• Managed multiple cross-functional teams across various geographical locations to deliver enterprise software project, infrastructure build-out of SQL 2014 upgrade and related infrastructure projects to support overall enterprise implementation of global reporting dashboard

New York, New York

Senior Project Manager

• Lead a global current state gap analysis for a corporate wide compliance program across entire IT organization identifying both process and technology gaps for Identity & Access Control
• Held over 200 meetings and interviews to identify over 100 gaps globally within the Access Control space of overall global IT organization
• Documented gaps and developed remediation strategies to fully resolve mitigate and/or accepted risk to be in Federal compliance
• Prepared with senior IT management business case detailing remediation strategies and risk mitigation plan to implement overall strategy and plan to satisfy Federal compliance

New York, New York

Senior Project/Program Manager

• Project managed large scale development upgrade, deployment and implementation of a Wealth Management market data system to external clients. Involved rapid requirements via Agile, development efforts, integration, managing cross-functional teams and external client implementation
• Project managed enterprise wide replication initiative across 6 strategic datacenters to enable real time live replication of SAN& NAS environments that will significantly increase capacity, availability and throughput speed. Project will become standard across entire organization as well as a significant dependency for other strategic programs and project. Project consists of implementing new circuits, frames and all necessary components to enable a live ‘failover’ capability
• Managed multiple storage refresh projects across multiple datacenters at an enterprise level. Projects consist of implementing new storage arrays, decommissioning legacy arrays and remediating the entire host across all products that utilize the SAN and NAS environments by datacenter
• Project managed a datacenter move and expansion. This involves moving 2 data centers to two (2) new locations as well as expanding the number of overall servers that support a Wealth Management system

New York, New York

Consulting Manager

• Project managed a large scale implementation of SunGard’s Omni system and suite of products for external client (Benefits/Actuarial Consulting Firm). The complexity of the inter-related projects involved managing the customized development of the core system and converting retirement plans and participants to the new system through a multi-project phased approach.
• Project managed the deployment and implementation of a front-end broker workstation (Equities & Fixed Income) application for Wells Fargo Bank within their Wealth Management group. This involved managing a team of application developers, testers and system engineers through the testing, pilot and parallel phases through going live with that application. This effort entailed working with the client’s project team as well as managing the software development team and then project managing the two organization teams to successful completion.
• Developed and created proposals for potential engagements.
• Identified new business opportunities and seek out expanded resource opportunities

New York, New York

Project/Program Manager

• Program Manager for Security Gap Remediation infrastructure program for JP Morgan Chase within the Chase Home Financial group (6+ million dollar program). Goal was a security remediation of over 700 servers across all platforms
• Projects also included Sarbanes-Oxley infrastructure compliance efforts to ensure infrastructure environment was properly built out to meet Sarbanes-Oxley regulations
• Managed a Disaster Recovery project to move production servers into a disaster recovery location
• Projects are located in multiple geographical locations
• Managed 5 project teams and resources across all locations (globally).
• Projects involved inventory and identification and upgrading to company wide security standards, Sarbanes-Oxley regulation standards, full hardware and software upgrades and remediation
• Projects include datacenter moves and pre & post migration strategies.
• Building of test labs and testing of Disaster Recovery backup systems.
• Responsible for budgets and allocation of project funds
• Responsible for interfacing between the line of business (customer), the internal support group and overall parent organization
• Project Manager for imaging projects for JP Morgan Chase within the Private Banking Group to successful completion
• Project Manager for merger related SAP projects to migrate existing MIS applications from heritage JPMC/BankOne General Ledger system to a new General Ledger system for the combined company. This is a part of a global wide initiative to migrate entire company’s financial applications and reporting systems onto single SAP platform for the entire newly merged bank
• Partner with the Finance Business Merger Integration technology group to assist in planning, organizing and controlling/coordinating actions, issues, resources and priorities across multiple competing projects and stakeholders
• Strategize with our technology stakeholders, resource teams and line of business partners to develop solutions related to impacts that cross-impact our projects and resource needs to ensure timely completion of projects and to maximize resources.
• Work with testing teams to ensure that testing regions/segments and equipment are available and to minimize resource and project impacts

Jersey City, New Jersey

Program Manager

• Responsible for all production system projects including releases, upgrades and deployments as it relates to trading/broking/equity/fixed income/futures applications, as well as managing the budgets for each project (budgets range from 50K to 5 million)
• Responsible for leading web and application development projects
• Responsible for all process improvement, design and re-engineering as it relates to IT Development and Operations business as usual
• Manage staff, resources and budget as it relates to both internal and external projects
• Responsible for overseeing virtual PMO to ensure dashboard management of all related projects to overall program
• Responsible for performance evaluation of development and support staff of 7.
• Responsible for liaison relationship between Development and the business as it relates to all current and future project initiatives

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Project Manager/Management Consultant

• Project managed Bank of America’s Chicago Private Bank Conversion to convert Chicago Private Bank accounts to Illinois standard DDA platform. This included developing the project scope, business requirements, project plan and operational, functional and technical design. Coordinated testing activities to include planning, test script creation, SIT/UAT and dress rehearsal cycle execution.
• Successfully analyzed internal operation of Blum Capital identifying inefficient internal processes, unbalanced workloads and large gaps in capacity, which would ultimately enable the organization to operate more efficiently and cost effectively.
• Successfully streamlined implementation process for a Citigroup financial product. This entailed operational analysis of current state environment, GAP analysis of desired state environment and the productivity improvement design of all new processes.
• Project managed a conversion of Bank of America’s California corporate and correspondent bank accounts to the Bank of America IDS West platform. Coordinated, developed and tested changes to Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Day 1 and Day 2 item processing applications.
• Managed Project Office (PMO) for a major initiative for Bank of America with 5 sub-projects through full project life cycle. This entailed coordinating and facilitating meetings and presentations and overall change management process. Issue tracking, status reporting and management reporting for project sponsors. Coordinating testing events and documenting processes and lessons learned.

Wayne, NJ

Senior Management Consultant/Project Manager

• Project managed the design of a “Management of Information Systems” database for the Nationsbank/Barnett bank merger to measure, maintain and manage data and progress of a merger of two financial institutions. Linked database with project website to allow tracking from any location. This enabled the successful implementation and timely completion of a critical component of major bank merger.
• Project managed the development and management of a nationwide project execution and system support team providing client support for 40 Bank of America proof centers, LAN/WAN servers and 300+ desktop users.
• Project managed the integration of the merger of Barnett Bank and Nationsbank’s Item processing areas. This entailed developing the project scope, project plan and implementation. This involved managing 5 project teams with 5 sub-project plans, tracking project success, issue resolution, budget and time control as well as weekly management reporting.
• Facilitated full-scale operational analysis which resulted in re-engineering/re-organizing entire Invesco’s Defined Contribution operation, which resulted in a 25% productivity improvement and greater client satisfaction. This ultimately reduced overtime by 1.75 million dollars per year
• Conducted Intranet web training for Bank of America during their merger with NationsBank. This was for the purpose of utilizing a shared website for the primary tool of record during the transition. The training included both transition team members as well members from the operations area. The result was an efficient method of nationwide communication and resource sharing. The training enabled individuals to effectively manage his or hers segment of the transition in real time

New York, NY

Client Services Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed day-to-day administration and record keeping of eight qualified retirement plans, in both daily and periodic environments. In addition, maintained client relationship by providing consulting advice on both operational & regulatory standards and procedures.
• Performed client relationship management duties for assigned clients, which included conducting client employee education meetings, writing client processes and procedures to ensure timeliness and accuracy within all regulatory standards.

Confidential

Stamford, CT

Consultant/Plan Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible managing 4 clients (including one Fortune 500), involving both written and telephone correspondence with regard to providing complete service of consulting and administrative needs.
• This included preparing monthly, quarterly and annual valuation reports, performing reconciliations and processing contributions and distributions as well creating both internal and client documentation along with compliance requirements.