SUMMARY

• Ability to manage application portfolio of diverse technologies. Strong orientation towards product development and integration.
• Solid Experience creating and maintaining Project Management artifacts including Project Charter, Scope, Budget, Risks, Communication plan, Project plan etc.
• Manage a global work force consisting of employees and contractors to maximize skills and flexibility while minimizing costs. Strong leadership skills with proficiency to influence and communicate with diverse stakeholders.
• Proven ability to facilitate dialogue, formulate analysis, conceptualize solution options and prepare project execution approaches
• Exceptional organization, planning and execution skills; demonstrable experience in managing complex application rollouts with pragmatic decision making, including working with IT infrastructure, Operations and commercial software products.
• Experience in cost management, including financial planning, estimating, budgeting and forecasting. Working noledge, experience with vendor and contract negotiation. Ability to quickly build and establish relationships based on trust and integrity.
• Ability to synthesize and articulate complex ideas; intellect curiosity and healthy skepticism.
• Applied noledge of Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban). Solid understanding of agile values/principals. Good skills and noledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness and conflict resolution. Ability to handle ambiguity without losing focus and concentrate on outcomes over processes.

Confidential, New York City

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As part of Global Markets Tech team, involved in migration of Global Markets data consumers applications such as Markets, Operations,
• Enterprise Risk, Capital and Finance from current Trade Repository to a strategic trade and risk consolidation physical (Immutable\bi - temporal) data platform for Confidential .
• The purpose was to deliver a unified Global Markets Data Provisioning Point for Trade attributes, P&L data, valuation data, Risk factors, measures (e.g. Greeks, Slides, Scenarios etc.) and Reference data to enable
• Front office desk risk and Business Intelligence b. Regulatory programs such as UMR, IMM, xVA, Volcker and MiFiD2 c. End-of-day P&L reporting and attribution d. Risk & Enterprise Control Functions including Capital and CCAR, Counterparty Credit Risk and CCRPM, Liquidity, Market Risk, Collateral and Prime Brokerage. This program would ultimately switch 60 consumer systems and over 500 data feeds to the new platform.
• Responsible for leading and managing multiple work streams, concurrently, to switch all Margin calculation engines supporting Derivative’s trades to source data from the new trade repository.
• Managed end-to end delivery, including requirements gathering and prioritization, Stakeholders buy-in and coordination across multiple technology teams to set expectations, deliverables, and objectives.
• Worked with functional leads and front-to-back stakeholders in the development of delivery strategy; ensuring cross projects dependencies, risks and issues were proactively managed.
• Produced flow-charts and end to end process flows, brought Collateral Operations, Technology and Business project sponsors/stakeholders to the table to build complex solutions while balancing competing priorities.
• Led multiple teams with different skill sets, in a matrix management organization towards a unified goal by guiding each team to complete their unique deliverables on time. Managed operational and technical controls to ensure timeliness, completeness, consistency and accuracy of data.

Confidential, New York City

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As part of Market Risk organization managed multiple strategic transformational projects supporting Risk managers, Regulatory Controllers as well as Business Units. Collaborated with senior leadership to drive strategic alignment between stakeholders and IT on strategic and tactical initiatives.
• Defined project scope, identified business requirements, developed project plans and success criteria.
• Assisted Product Owners (Risk managers) to embody the mind-set and behaviors to create and deliver on a compelling user-centric product vision by engaging diverse customer, business, and technology stakeholders. Good understanding of Capital market products, Risk measures/sensitivities.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements and helped Product Owners prepare through multiple levels of planning and road-mapping discussion
• . Evaluated business processes to uncover areas of improvement. Created useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases. Facilitated workshops and discussion sessions with stakeholders (in New York, London, Budapest) to determine acceptable solutions. Managed status reporting, KPIs, issues and risks to the stakeholders.
• Liaised with PMO and internal Audit. Represented the team to senior management, stakeholders and sponsors. Navigated complex release management environments and TEMPeffectively planned and coordinated periodic software releases. Worked with Chapter leads to build communities of practices to establish professional standards. Ensured project adheres to standards and Project Management methodologies; provided coaching to project teams on the use of the methodologies, tools and techniques. Maintained RAID logs, tracking against a plan and status reporting across multiple work streams.

Confidential, New York City

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT organization in the area of Financial Risk and analytics for Confidential ’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) department.
• Led all aspects of a portfolio of multiple risk management initiatives from inception to delivery including project initiation, planning, execution, control and closure.
• This entailed business case, business analysis, program management, project plan, RAID log, senior stakeholder communication as well as legal/compliance and audit management.
• Key projects included, a.Solvency II Economic Capital Model, a VaR based stochastic modelling solution to evaluate Credit Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk and Catastrophic Risk in order to establish risk-based methodologies for calculating regulatory capital b.
• Earnings at Risk project, a critical risk system to capture earnings volatility on Confidential ’s investments portfolio (of approximately $300bn) mainly due to Market Risk c. Asset Liability Management Analytics, reporting of liquidity risk mainly due to change in Interest Rates.
• Worked with multi-functional teams to define, estimate and document the overall scope of projects as well as resource needs. Responsible for analyzing present-state, developing alternative future-state approaches and facilitating implementation. Served as primary contact to senior department managers within a highly matrixed environment.
• Managed relationships with third party vendors, contractors, and other appropriate partners.
• Managed project governance processes including documentation and reporting, tollgate reviews and signoff. Supported all aspects of IT Financial Management including budget and forecasting, annual financial planning and reporting for IT resources, projects and services; including hardware and software.
• Produced monthly financial review/analysis reports for the enterprise risk program with supporting qualitative commentary on financial variance.

Confidential, New York City

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of multiple transformational projects supporting Finance, Asset Management, Fund Accounting and Revenue Forecasting business functions. Led design, development and implementation of projects to support middle/back office functions with interfaces to portfolio trading/accounting systems, account opening systems and security master.
• Built and maintained project execution plan/charter, including approach, scope, schedule ( tasks, duration, work effort and dependencies), budget, planning assumptions, risks, team structuring and resource allocations.
• Developed and implemented multi-year technology strategy, translated strategies into project plans, developed shared vision and commitment, implemented best practices while managing costs and risks. Produced and disseminated the appropriate project and program reporting for financial oversight and analysis.
• Facilitated integration of division and enterprise business units by creating Corporate Systems technical architecture. Received two distinct awards for excellence from the COO and CIO of AllianceBernstein. Published multiple white papers on process improvements through technology transformation programs.
• Served as integral active member of the Corporate Operations & Systems offshore leadership team, developing strategy and execution plans for support activities across business operations and technology by developing and enhancing captive globally. Good noledge of Series7 fundamentals and operational aspect of wealth management business.

Confidential, New York City

Co-founder

Responsibilities:

• Confidential .com was conceived by the perceived need to provide a global, neutral, fluid and dynamic industry-to-industry electronic trading place for B2B Surplus and Surplus Capacity.
• It provided comprehensive industrial classification and various trading formats viz. Standard Auction, Classifieds, RFQ and Reverse Auctions etc.
• As a co-founder, lead the B2B market analysis, strategy, business plan and was instrumental in developing business model, the Integrated Tangential i2i (IT-i2i) model. Responsible for leading product planning, development and business operation; played a pivotal role in conceiving and driving product and branding strategy for the company to lead into next generation of e-commerce.

Confidential, New York City

Technical Lead Febuary

Responsibilities:

• As a part of Financial Systems team, led multi-year global Implementation of Oracle ERP suite and development of proprietary financial applications.
• Managed re-engineering of current Confidential processes, replacing with custom financial applications developed primarily using Oracle tools and technologies to reduce complexity, errors and significantly reduce cost and increase efficiency. Developed strong partnership with stakeholders viz.
• Finance, Accounting, Corporate Tax and Treasury departments to provide proactive technical solutions to TEMPeffectively meet business objectives. Created data load scripts and custom packages in PL/SQL .

Technical Skills

SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Data load Scripts, PostgreSQL, Qlik Sense/View, Python, SQL Navigator and Impact Analyzer, Toad, Oracle ERP, IBM Cognos, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Visual Basic/Object Oriented Programming, UML, MS Project, MS Office, MS Access.