OBJECTIVE:

Execute and deliver projects as a Project Manager ensuring high quality, on - time, and on-budget deliverables, leveraging my banking domain knowledge and technical competence with effective risk management, escalations, and executive communications.

SUMMARY:

• Seasoned professional specializing in delivering projects in the financial services domain with over 20 years of experience in diverse capacities including Technical Delivery Lead, ScrumMaster and Solutions Architect.
• 2 years of Project management experience executing critical, high-value banking initiatives using both Agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Scrum Alliance’s Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) with over 5 years of experience delivering IT projects using Agile processes and tools.
• Experienced in Vendor management - managing vendor contracts for Fixed-Price as well as Time & Material, ensuring accountability for a timely delivery.
• Excellent communication skills and adept at interaction with diverse groups - Business Partners, Executives, PMO, Technologists and Vendors.
• Banking domain specialist with 10 years of experience in the financial sector with specialization in Mobile and Cash Management solutions for Commercial Banking.
• Adept at requirements gathering, story grooming, backlog management, sprint planning and feature prioritization using tools like Rally, JIRA.
• Over 5 years of Management experience, managing global teams in USA, Singapore and India delivering quality solutions.
• Results oriented and have a proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Excellent technical competence serving as IT Solutions Architect with over 8 years of experience architecting/implementing solutions using Java technologies.
• Experienced in interfacing with Enterprise Architecture/Infrastructure and Enterprise security teams to design compliant solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Concord, CA

VP, ScrumMaster & Technical Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• ScrumMaster for Confidential Mobile Agile Release train managing 4 cross functional Agile teams with 30+ team members.
• Led multiple teams as ScrumMaster responsible for release/iteration/capacity planning, risk management and schedule tracking.
• Served as the face/voice of the team in Executive Steering committees for status reporting, escalation, and bi-weekly showcases to Product and Technology Executives.
• Served as a Technical Delivery Lead working with business partners, development/testing teams, infrastructure partners, Release Management and vendors and responsible for delivery of several releases of Confidential Mobile product on Apple, Android and Web platforms.
• Worked closely with business partners and UX partners to identify/prioritize the product features based on VOC and translate them to Agile Features/Stories in Rally.
• Study the regulatory needs of different countries with the business partners in the region and provide solutions for compliance in the Product.
• Liaison to the Global Information Security group coordinating security assessments like Ethical hack, source code scans for the Product.
• Championed the infrastructure upgrade of the platform (hardware/software) to remediate the use of Non-Permitted Technology by partnering with the infrastructure team.
• Liaison to the Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure that Confidential Mobile product is in compliance with Security and Architecture standards.
• Was chosen to showcase the Confidential Mobile product at multiple roadshows, Expos and conventions with attendance from Market Analysts and Confidential Executives.
• Recipient of multiple Platinum and Silver awards for leading the Confidential Mobile team for successful launch of the Product.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consultant for Confidential /CashEdge, responsible for requirement analysis, design, and development of a SaaS aggregation solution primarily using REST Web services that enables Financial Advisors to access their client’s aggregated financial data from other external applications.
• Confidential /CashEdge provides SaaS solutions for money movement and aggregation services to the brokerage and wealth management industry.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served as Technical Lead responsible for managing the overall project delivery for the Service Schedule Portal, Automated Crew Callout System and Outage Management System
• Acted as technical liaison to vendors - ORACLE SPL and ARCOS - Duke Energy’s Outage Management systems.
• Facilitated Requirements analysis, estimation, resource planning and customization of the vendor product.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

VP, Senior Strategic Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Technical Architect in the design and successful deployment of several Web based banking portals (TriSail, Compliance Tracking System) used by the Commercial Real Estate Lending division of Confidential .
• Provide technical leadership to the development team to ensure delivery of services in alignment with the architectural roadmap.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Architect

Responsibilities:

• Served as the Technical Architect for the CRM Upgrade/Migration project involving data migration of existing Youcentric CRM data to the Confidential 5 CRM application using Confidential Migration tool.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led the development team in design and delivery of a wireless CRM application.
• Served as Project coordinator responsible for planning, estimation, delivery and management of the project.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed support and maintenance of the Trade Entry System (TES) module which is an application designed for trade entry.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design and development of a JavaBean framework for Jsales - a CRM/Sales force automation application.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the development of the Bank Guarantees module which manages the day-to-day operations of Bank Guarantees issued to customers by Confidential bank.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed a financial accounting system using client-server technologies.