SUMMARY

• A PMP and ITIL certified project and program manager with strong knowledge of financial and insurance systems
• Experienced with overseeing full Project Life Cycle Development (SDLC) and implementing or upgrading concurrent multiple systems. These projects included both Web Based and Mainframe technology.
• Skilled project manager, with hiring, supervisory, budget, and user and vendor management experience.
• Specializing in designing and implementing enhancements to business processes and the associated technical systems that lower costs, minimize risk, expand system availability, and improve workflow.
• I have experience developing new applications as well as updating/upgrading existing applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined, managed and executed all project/implementation/delivery processes, plans and deliverables with the customer and FJA internal teams within established deadlines and budget parameters.
• Developed and managed resource plans, estimates, change controls, budgets and forecasts with the customer and for internal reporting purposes.
• Developed and submitted Statementsof Work and Change Controls for internal review before submission and negotiation with the client.
• Accurately maintained a monthly analysis to budget against actual for the overall Statement of Work and each resource type within the Statement of Work.
• Developed action plans with the Development, Business, Modeling and QA Leads to manage and address the aged defect backlog in JIRA.
• Developed and maintained a register of project risks and include risk status, triggers and mitigation plans on the status reports.
• Provided feedback to teams and organization to help identify and facilitate process improvements.
• Established and maintained daily project scrum meetings and, as necessary but at a minimum of 1x/month, full project team meetings.
• Responsible for keeping all Project artifacts updated and available.
• Within established deadlines, accurately managed resource planning activities, reports, etc.
• No direct supervisory duties, though management of projects includes directing project related activities of the project team members.

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain project plans using Microsoft Project
• Daily interface with technical (on and off shore) resources, BA and SME resources, Facilitators, and Business Support Analysts, make project level decisions, manage the team leads and the day to day activities
• Identify project Risk and mitigate said risk
• Manage and report project progress to ESI and GalaxE senior management
• Coordinate project meetings with all project stakeholders
• Responsible for scheduling of resources, daily, weekly, and monthly status reporting.
• Prioritization of issue management, working directly with Account Managers.

Confidential, NY

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Delegated production support and enhancement assignments, interacted with business partners (both internal and external) to define and document requirements and to ensure project specifications were complete and goals met.
• Responsible for all aspects of projects; setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of projects.
• Prepared reports for upper management regarding status of projects and generated performance metrics. Provided staff and vendor training as required in both the application and business functions.
• Migrated support function to India, outsourcing production support and development to India - based consulting resources.
• Managed multiple new business conversions, including customized reports, feeds, and data conversions.
• Acted as liaison between file transfer group and external clients for major file transfer conversion project.
• Managed time tracking in PPM system for 50+ member group, tracking variances and producing monthly analytical reports.
• Functioned as Information Security Officer for group.
• Coordinated disaster recovery testing and documentation for internal systems.
• Supported daily trading of Mutual funds

Confidential, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with business to create and execute test plans and scripts for financial system migrations and enhancements.
• Designed and built Access database for daily transactions so selected reports could be generated without Mainframe interaction.
• Eliminated all printed output on the AMEX trading floor by designing, coding, and implementing a client server - based reporting system. Annual cost savings of over 1.2 million.
• Redesigned Post Trade processing systems, consolidating and streamlining the workflows.
• Managed System Acceptance testing phase of IDCE (Inter Day Comparison Equities Trading) implementation.
• Performed the quality assurance testing as part of the Straight Through Processing project that replaced FTP file transfers with IBM MQ series and CICS software.
• Performed and supervised stress testing for all major system enhancements.
• Primary contact for external clients during testing/implementation of Equities comparison trading system.

Confidential, New York, NY

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of process flows and software design, including analysis of business requirements, specification writing, coding, staff scheduling, and task prioritization.
• Recruited and mentored staff and consultants, interfaced with business partners, and worked closely with senior level business and technical leaders.
• Restructured development team, reducing headcount by 40% while improving quality and quantity of output.
• Created multiple Access and Visual Basic data editing subsystems, reducing transaction errors up to 60%.
• Redesigned job streams and added additional batch and on-line edits to increase system availability, reduce daily run times, and decrease production abends.
• Consolidated over 40 different Accounts Payable systems into one system resulting in millions of dollars in annual savings.
• Successfully designed, tested, and implemented Year 2000 upgrades to all GEAC Financial systems. Utilized creative incentives and scheduling techniques to complete the project in 25% less time and with 30% fewer staff than estimated.
• Collaborated on development and implementation of an Alternative Workplace Strategy, including standards for hardware, software, furniture, and connectivity.