SUMMARY

• PMI® certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) with over 10 years experience in Project/Program Management and Business Analysis with large financial firms.
• Seasoned professional with extensive experience in Risk and Compliance area within the financial world
• Proficient in employing various SDLC models mainly Agile (Scrum), Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Waterfall methodologies, UML (Use case Diagrams, Activity, Sequence and Class Diagrams) and best practices for software development.
• Created Business requirements, Functional specifications and led the formulation of business rules, gap analysis, milestones and use cases.
• Responsible for project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in large financial companies.
• Excels at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Proficient in strategy planning, systems analysis, troubleshooting, quality control, forecasting, scheduling and planning and tracking of results.
• Excellent knowledge with Business Intelligence tools like Business Objects.
• Strong presentation and team building skills. Worked extensively with onshore/offshore model with onsite teams including USA and UK IT team.
• Competent liaison between management, clients and, personnel.
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: HP Project & Portfolio Management Tool, JIRA, IBM Rational Team Concert, SharePoint, MS Office Suite 2011 including MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
Languages: UML, PL/SQL and HTML.
Testing Tools:, Mercury (HP) QuickTestPro, Quality Center, Load Runner, Test Director
Reporting: Business Objects XI Suite, Oracle Business Intelligence, Crystal Reports 8.x
Database tools: Erwin, TOAD, SQL Explorer
Databases: Oracle (11g) and SQL Server 2012.
Other: Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator
Application Development Suites/Tools: FTP, SFTP, TalenD, FileNet, Putty.
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX
Products: Mantas, Flexcube.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

• Agile (Scrum, XP), RUP
• Client Interactions
• Project and Resource Planning
• Design and Architecture
• Requirements gathering
• Interpersonal Skills
• Risk Management
• Communication Management
• Quality Improvements
• Buy vs. Build Decisions
• Vendor Management
• Strategic Planning & Analysis

EDUCATION
Masters of Science in Computer Science
Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics Engineering

WORK EXPERIENCE

Role Project Manager / Business Analyst
Objective PM / lead business analyst for End-to-End Anti Money Laundering (AML) transaction reconciliation program, which is a regulatory commitment to the US Department of Treasury Office of Comptroller for Currency (OCC), that provides additional confidence in the completeness of data being monitored for AML through the implementation of various controls. The program automates, operationalizes and extends the one time effort of baseline reconciliation into a regular process. The Program lays out governance and ongoing roles and responsibilities for business, operation and technology. The program includes 243 Products Processors and monitoring of transactions worth $100 billion per annum. Project management tasks included managing the complete execution of NAM, EMEA and ASPAC region implementations, which include 81% of all the dollar volumes and 29% of overall Product Processor (PP’s) volumes.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the end-to-end delivery of implementation for each Product Processors. Coordinated the technology deliverables with internal and external partners, spanning across the various part of firm including Business, Product, Operations, Legal and Compliance.
• Created project definition, defined scope, gathered requirements, obtained work and cost estimates to define the project budget, set up project timeline, engaged vendors and internal resources required to design, implement, test and deploy the application.
• Performed gap analysis on AML business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements.
• Participates in different areas of the AML program such as information in SAR report, KYC audits, OOC audits etc.
• Maintain a working knowledge of and ensure adherence to the applicable, federal and state laws, regulations and guidance, including those related to anti-money laundering (i.e. Bank Secrecy Act, US PATRIOT Act, etc.).
• Monitored and generated weekly and monthly reports on Project activities, outlining and consolidating information about trends and for necessary changes & improvement activities.
• Interfaced with business users/sponsors to prepare and maintain Functional Requirements Document (FRD). Also created test cases and test scripts based on the various business rules implemented.
• Designated “ScrumMaster” to ensure complete adherence to corporate processes as well as working closely with development teams and stakeholders to ensure all requirements are met.
• Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.
• Updated System Change Request (SCR) forms for PMO Approvals. Tracked version control changes via SVM.
• Maintained the Project management decks and ensured adherence to Project Plans including schedule.
• Designated SME for ensuring adherence to project management standards outlined by the PMBOK® and Agile methodology (Scrum), on which the company’s SDLC was based.

Confidential, Oracle, SharePoint, Autosys, MS Office 2007 including Project and Visio

Role Program Manager
Objective Drive the Programs from PMO perspective. Some of the Programs were

• As per the directive by OCC it was mandated that the Production and DR servers cannot be located anywhere in 100 mile proximity of each other. This required all the existing servers to move from London Datacenter to Frankfurt Datacenter.
• HNI clients wanted customizations on their statements and on their payroll methods.
• Implementation of certain Citi products in Nordics Region.

Responsibilities

• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business objectives.
• Liable for actively engaging in the transitioning of new deals/mandates into the technology initiatives via Technology Program Office. This required in-depth understanding the key business requirements from various stakeholders and then translating it into specific technology deliverables.
• Define and initiate projects, and assign Project Managers to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.
• Proactively managed risks and issues to ensure successfully project delivery.
• Developed communication plans with internal and external partners including work stream leads and ensure that the relevant information is passed to all the stakeholders in timely manner using appropriate communication channels.
• Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current programs, future opportunities and client issues.

Technologies: MS Office Suite comprising of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS project, MS Visio

Role - Business Analyst / Project Manager / QA and BO Lead

• Designated subject matter expert with regard to project management techniques and system/software development lifecycle strategies within the scope of multiple business functions/areas.
• Performed gap analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements.
• Review the design of controls and operational effectiveness of processes inFlexcube
• Assisted implementation of various Flex modules i.e. GL, Nostro Reconciliation, FX / Wire Transfer /MM / Derivatives.
• Liaised with business and functional owner during risk engineering and high-level review sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines and standards
• Managed the “Developer Pool” for CAI. Includes managing resources, effort estimates, cost estimates, resources allocation on various projects and setting priorities for them.
• Define test plans and test cases and ensure that these test cases are exhaustive and comprehensive and utilized Quality Center for directing, tracking and outlining needs during a project SDLC.
• Responsible for leading a team of 10 members for the migration effort of the reports from existing BO 6.5 framework to a more organized and advanced BO XI framework and also converting the reports from free hand SQL to universe based for GWM Loans.
• Responsible for managing automated test tool QTPand executed test scripts, test cases and data sets on the basis of product, client requirements and business/technical documents.
• Interacted and discussed with client on decommissioning/merging reports to increase efficiency and reduce the overall number of reports for Loans module of Flexcube in NA region.

Technologies: MS Office Suite, Business Objects XIR2, TOAD, QTP and QC v 9.0

Role Business Continuity Process officer

• Work with various internal partners for network separation activity, due to corporate acquisition, and for Business Continuity Process (BCP).
• Provide regular updates to the team about the status of network separation activity.
• Coordinate and schedule tests to check on various applications being loaded in the VDI.
• Assigned as COB coordinator for GTS group and hence was responsible for proactively managing the test of all disaster related scenarios in a mock environment.
• Active member of EAC (Employee Activity Council) to coordinate/arrange for various in house events.

Confidential, Washington D.C,June 2005 Aug 2006

Role Business / Data Analyst
Objective Database for Private Label Securities: Involved in designing and implementing database for Private Label Securities. This database helped the business to analyze and generate monthly Risk report.

Responsibilities

• Analyzed the business needs of the project and then depending on those needs drafted a Scope plan, Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document.
• Organized and conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with different group of users. Together, we explored options, weight approaches and made decisions on which data and which decision support applications would be most beneficial
• Designed and translated complex business model to data models, and from logical data model to physical data model.
• Developed the DFD and ER Diagram using Microsoft Visio.
• Wrote PL/SQL Scripts to capture data from different data sources and gather them in one central database.
• Also developed scripts to read the data from a common delimiter file and put in the database.
• Worked with both upstream (Source system) and downstream (end-user) teams to understand and document requirements and data/functionality solution for INTEX.
• Involved in testing of the Bondwatch application.

Technologies Oracle 9.i, Microsoft Visio, Business Objects , MS Access, MS Excel, Test Director, Rational Rose.

Confidential,Princeton, NJ,Aug 2003 Dec 2004

Role Business Analyst/ Technical Lead
Objective Developed an equity trading application UI for program trading desk. This allowed traders to execute Basket of trade with a single click. Focused on the client FIX interface, market access via DOT and NYFIX, real time monitoring and reporting

Responsibilities

• Analyzed the business problem, suggested the to-be requirements, and created process model.
• Worked as a team member/lead with 15 developers to implement the requirements.
• Design consisted of constructing ER diagrams, State Transition diagrams and Data Flow diagrams, preparation of software requirement specification and software design document.
• Worked on identification and documentation of relationship statements.
• Generated end of day reports for the administrator/trader to review.
• User training, documentation and implementation support to clients was also provided.

Technologies ERWin, SQL Server 2000, MS Office Suite

Confidential,India,Jan 2002 Jul 2003

Role Data modeler

Responsibilities

• Analyze Business Requirements, design logicaldatamodels and systems functions and present to business/stake holders
• Ensured adherence to various corporate processes/procedures to ensure complete adherence to audit requirements.
• Identified entities, relationships, modeled 1:1 and M:M relationships of Data Modeling.
• Assist the lead BA in various discussion groups meeting by ensuring to capture correct discussion points.
• Ensured adherence to schedule by means of timely follow-up.
• Schedule and facilitate daily check point and status meeting for the projects