SUMMARY:

• Results focused IT Professional delivering IT Products in the Banking and Financial sector by offering an array of skills in consulting and product innovation
• Product Development - Developing concepts for innovative financial services products based on market research, emerging trends in the industry and predictive data analysis.
• Strategy and Roadmap - Assessing current and future state, defining a roadmap, articulating business value while creating innovative product lines.
• Ability to provide Thought Leadership and develop Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies.
• Experience in Master Data Management (MDM), Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) projects
• Experience with Regulatory frameworks: Volcker, PII, AML, KYC, Basel II, Dodd Frank compliance.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Strategic Planning & Leadership Agile Kanban Portfolio Management tool (Clarity, Planview)
• Program and Portfolio Management MDM, Data Stage, Data Quality Change Management
• ITIL Methodology Misys/Summit/Murex/Calypso Cloud Computing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:

Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Product Manager to implement a core banking product ( Confidential ) for a Banking Conversion.
• Responsible for the strategic development of new features for the Key Product area to drive traffic, revenue growth and profitability for the online products banking channel.
• Evaluate Channel Integration Strategy to build out the capabilities of Wealth Management Products across omni-channel (web, mobile, tablet) with the objective of providing the most broad and accurate Wealth Management Product offerings for customers in the industry.
• Product Manager (Agile projects)
• Develop concepts for innovative financial services products based on market research and emerging/competitive trends in the industry.
• Provide oversight to proof-of-concepts to ensure objectives are aligned with business priorities and Time-To-Launch principles.
• Analyze data to glean insights and translate into business initiatives for new products.
• Work on productizing, packaging, and evaluating products for Go-To-Market
• Own the Short-Term and Long-Term roadmap for features and product prioritization based on Return on Investment and criticality.
• Define and maintain a profitable and competitive product portfolio through the use of modern portfolio analysis tools.
• Defines and analyzes domestic and global markets for existing pricing. Performs business and financial analysis, monitoring and reporting.
• Identifies the customer segments with strongest growth potential, opportunities to innovate, providing additional benefits to the customer and profitability/ROI to the organization.
• Product Owner (Agile Projects)
• Lead a highly collaborative cross-functional global team for developing products using the Scrum methodology.
• Manage lifecycle of product development: requirements evolution, User Interface design, implementation and launch.
• Work closely with cross functional groups in the product planning, marketing, engineering to define product roadmap & positioning.
• Develops detailed product features, requirements and implementation plans. Gathers input to define product concepts. Develops strategy and implementation plans for growth. Oversees implementation of features within area. Accountable for end results of implemented strategies.
• Scrum Master (Agile Projects)
• Drive regular status reporting to C-level executives; manage project staffing, track burn rate, progress, issues, risks. Escalate as necessary and ensure timely decisions. Managed program budget of 25M.
• Adept at untangling problems and driving projects with focus on delivery at each sprint.
• In corporate feedback loops into decision making and future sprints.
• Manage Sprint backlog for a rolling 3 sprints of planned work;
• Cloud Migration:
• Manage a highly technical team to evaluate the adoption, transition and execution strategies of traditionally hosted applications onto Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Oversee a team of conducting technical evaluations of cloud software and recommend appropriate cloud technology options to IT management.
• Risk Assessment:
• Analysis of the IT Landscape and identification of potential risks. Proactively create, communicate and address a comprehensive plan of action for each risk
• Identified, managed and developed risk mitigation plans to ensure tracking to the program delivery dates.
• Strategist/ Analytics
• Focus on driving existing customers through optimization by using trends to determine customer targeted content.
• Experience in content strategy, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to drive digital projects.
• Track and report against a variety of key performance indicators (KPI’s) that demonstrate the effectiveness of strategies used.
• KYC and AML: Worked on Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer acts.

Key Skills: Agile, Scrum, Clarity, JIRA, ALM, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Sharepoint, Risk Management, Microsoft Project, SDLC, Master Data Management MDM, Informatica, ETL, Data Quality Tool DQT, DataStage 11.3, Salesforce integration, Product innovation, Outsourcing, Risk, KYC, AML, Program Management, Documentum D2 CMS

Sr Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed complex business and IT initiatives across Capital Markets, Credit Risk, SBFE, Small Business Lending, Consumer Lending, Retail Credit Reporting.
• Managed the activities associated with the production operations of the Data Warehouse including ETL operations and Job scheduling tools. Achieved key improvements via implementation of service management and application monitoring tools.
• Provided schedule and cost forecasts and performed Risk Based assessments. Captured and tracked program metrics. Managed project budget versus actuals.

Key Skills: Credit Risk Management, SDLC, Data Warehouse, Small Business Financial Exchange (SBFE), Clarity PPM, Vendor, IT, PMO, Resource Planning & Optimization, Budgeting, Forecasting

Sr Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the CRM engagement for Confidential Shop your Way Rewards Points program. Engagement included program management, project management and requirements documentation for the data and CRM platform.
• Developed customer loyalty recommendations for Shop Your Way. Defined business needs for behavioral data capture and reporting. Designed and executed a strategy leading to measurable results via remarketing using the Loyalty program: Shop Your Way
• Created opportunities to accelerate growth and increase revenue for SWY. Directed the brand integration effort with a new company. Managed digital marketing, increasing page views among remarketing targets.

Key Skills: Clarity PPM, Sharepoint, Vendor Management

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Risk Assessment and Mitigation strategies as they relate to department and organizational risk.
• Provide management and technology consulting services. Worked with the Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) to create and endorse the Project, Program and Portfolio Investment Management (3PIM) Strategic Roadmap. Ensured that all projects follow SDLC.
• Led System-wide initiatives related to Risk Management. Monitored the potential impact of strategic, operational and reputational risk. Influenced Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) direction and policy.
• Service Level Reporting: Managed the maintenance of SLA’s and OLA’s. Ensured that the Standard Service Offering (SSO) and the operational workflow meet compliance needs.

Key Skills: Clarity PPM, Sharepoint, Enterprise Risk Management.

Sr Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the end to end project lifecycle of web based applications Confidential and Misys CMS confirmation Matching Systems thereby reducing the on-boarding time of new clients to 6 weeks from 3 months resulting in a cost savings of $90,000 per client
• Managed multiple projects within the CCP program with a program budget equal to $8 Million over a 2 year period.
• Solid working knowledge of Confidential Derivatives. Managed application to track the Confidential Derivatives confirmation matching workflow and produce electronic confirmation documents across multiple asset classes.
• Managed initiative related to Confidential (Options Clearing Corporation) Participating Escrow Bank Agreement: To transfer collateral requirements related to US Equity Options electronically to the Confidential via the Confidential .

Key Skills: Derivatives, Misys Summit 5.4, Calypso, Murex, ITIL, ServiceNow, Remedy, Sharepoint, SWIFT MT 305 and MT 306, MarkIT, Numerix, SuperDerivatives, Microsoft Project, ITIL, SDLC, Sharepoint, Agile, Equities, Derivatives, Remedy, Cloud-based computing, Colline, Collateral Management, Process Improvement, Outsourcing, Risk Management, Program Management, Software Development. Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Interest Rate Swaps (IRS), Misys Summit, CCP, Markit Wire, SEF, Dodd Frank, Numerix, Super Derivatives

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led cross functional project teams in the implementation of the Loyalty Rewards Program. Produced executive reports on assigned projects to keep management apprised of project status, major issues, scope changes, resource changes and milestone achievement.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed diverse team of over 40 to deliver the e-commerce website
• Adopted the Agile methodology and Scrum for faster delivery.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Tasks included: project planning, risk management and reporting, status reporting, issue management, escalation procedures, and functional specification management.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Lead in the Advantage Trading Platform team to develop interest rate derivatives trading platform, called Advantage.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the delivery of banking applications like PAC, OFAC and WorldCheck while working with cross functional team of Directors and VP’s.

Key Skills: J2EE, JMS, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, IBM Websphere.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed a project for the data import and export of travel-related inventory obtained from leading Travel Sites like Orbitz, Travelocity, Expedia, Galileo, Apollo.
• Developed modules to support process-redesign efforts resulting in a 37 percent reduction in application issues.

Key Skills: J2EE, EJB 2.0, JMS, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, IBM Websphere, UML, JBuilder, Struts, Oracle 8i.