SR IT Program Manager Resume

SUMMARY

Dynamic IT professional leading technology and system innovation for high - growth organizations
Result-oriented PMP/AGILE certified IT executive with 15+ years expertise in the areas of Digital Transformation, program governance, application development, strategic project planning, risk management, financial domain, investment oversight as well as vendor management and negotiation.
Excellent problem solver who collaborates with Architects, Engineers and DBA’s to alleviate challenging problems while managing million-dollar projects.
Stellar leader who blends well with stakeholders, executives, employees, and offshore teams to achieve company goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

SR IT Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Direct a team of developers, analysts and vendors to onboard 200 APIs on to the state-of-the-art MuleSoft API management platform.
Manage migration of SIS Insurance platform and Thunderhead printing solution from decades old IBM I Series infrastructure to modern cloud hosted SaaS solutions managed by KeyInfo and SmartComm.
Partner with Corporate DB team to streamline and migrate all 80 Confidential Databases from MS SQL 2008 to MS SQL 2019
Lead the Confidential IT and Business Units to move from MS Team Foundation Server and Sharepoint to Atlassian JIRA and Confluence for Bug Tracking and team collaboration.
In-house Agile coach and JIRA / Confluence administrator. Have successfully converted 6 of the 8 development teams from Waterfall to Agile SCRUM and 4 of the 7 Business teams to Kanban.

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

SR. PROGRAM MANAGER

Responsibilities:

Lead I&I Books Optimization Program to automate the publication of customer facing marketing materials for $1.5 Trillion volume American Funds. dis program involves 6 Project Managers and 70 resources in 6 Departments, 8 work streams and vendors including KPMG, Infosys, RIMES and Seismic. It is projected to significantly reduce data and content errors and save Confidential $5M annually.
Responsible for Delivery and modernization of Investment Management Data for all Monthly, Quarterly and Annual marketing materials, Investment returns, Reports and Prospectus for over 100 investment vehicles.
Instituted Agile SCRUM and Kanban to 6 business teams that enhanced their workflow processes and delivery timeline by 25%.
Synchronized the SCRUM schedule, ceremonies, and work-stream tasks of 8 teams on an Agile Release Train (ART) to minimize rework, prevent errors, and slash program timeline by 6 months.

Confidential, Santa Ana, California

SR. PROGRAM MANAGER

Responsibilities:

Orchestrated EMPOWER LOS deployment from inception to completion.
Pioneered a Waterfall-SCRUM hybrid method to furnish key Stearns Digital App components in 8 months as opposed to 15 months projected by the vendor.
Drove the re-platform On-Prem Risk Management and hedging application to the industry standard Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) on AWS.
Governed the existing COGNOS-based reporting framework that produced more TEMPthan 200 reports that drove the company while concurrently leading the accelerated conversion of those reports into real-time dashboards on Microsoft Power BI.
Managed end to end system integration and onboarding of 3 large acquisitions and 12 Joint Venture Partnerships ranging from 50 - 700 employees and monthly mortgage volumes of up to $1 Billion

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

PROGRAM MANAGER II

Responsibilities:

Established Farmer’s Auto 2.5 that instituted innovative pricing and better discounts for good motorists.
Launched Farmers Personal Line services on the East coast that assisted Farmers obtain an increased US market share of 5%.
Headed 3rd party vendors including, REP, monitoring, selection, negotiation, contract processing (SOW) via legal and finance, onboarding, and continuous vendor oversight.