SUMMARY

• Over eight years of experience in PMO/Project Management/Business Analysis with a proven ability to articulate business values and facilitate the creation of technical solutions to bring them to fruition.
• Strong experience in financial services industry.
• Strong experience managing multi - million dollar budgets.
• Experienced in Agile Methodology, SDLC and PLC methodology.
• Strong experience in MS Project (VBA,custom fields), Excel (macros, VBA, vlookup, pivot tables) and Visio Skills.
• Strong project management skills including planning, scheduling, forecasting and budgeting with experience in resource allocation, etc.
• Excellent Training skills, facilitation, power point presentations, maintaining performance metrics, devising training documentation and communicating to users.
• Demonstrated capacity to learn new technologies rapidly with no formal training.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Created data mapping documents for mapping from PPM tool to Clarity PPM
• Developed SRS and SDS documents
• Developed Data Mapping documents
• Developed business rules for migrating data from existing PPM tool to Clarity
• Tracked financials,milestones, risks, issues, EAC,OPEX,CAPEX, Variances,Actuals, Estimate, forecasts,project health for the entire project portfolio
• Consolidated status reports from over 150 project’s into a single portfolio level report for CIO’s and senior management
• Developed VBA macros for data extracting and manipulating data from multiple projects
• Prepared and distributed communication materials
• Trained, coached and mentored project and programme managers in relation to methodologies, delivery processes and best practices
• Created VBA macros to consolidate financial forecasts across all projects within Enterprise PMO
• Ensured accuracy of financial reporting and monitored actuals to budget
• Developed macros, pivot tables to analyze data for multiple project portfolio’s
• Supported PMO lead in managing a budget of 200 million dollar
• Created Steering committee decks
• Supported PMO manager in tracking portfolio level budgets, financials.
• Supported EPMO in policy changes, governance and auditing activities

Environment: Excel 2010/2003,Powerpoint, Primavera, Sharepoint, Word,VBA,Clarity

Project Manager

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Performed enhancements to Excel based PPM which was being used as an enterprise standard for US and Canada technology group.
• Conducted meetings with PM’s to obtain project statuses and progress
• Performed financial analysis and variance analysis on a portfolio of projects
• Developed metrics and KPI’s for tracking project performance
• Reviewed project plans and documents
• Created metrics to analyse project change request data across multiple group project portoflios
• Tracked financials,milestones, risks, issues, EAC,OPEX,CAPEX, Variances,Actuals, Estimate, forecasts,project health for over 60 projects
• Developed powepoint reports on program status
• Created financial dashboard to assisted project and potfolio managers in quarterly forecasting of CAPEX and OPEX
• Created gantt chats and dashboards to track performance,burn rate and variance
• Automated reconciliation of resource hours and names as per primavera saving PM’s considerable time and manual effort
• Acted as point of contact for all Retail and Commercial technology PM’s
• Developed VBA macros for consolidating data from multiple projects for reporting
• Supported program manager in managing a budget of over 70 million dollars
• Developed reports tracking program financials, risks, issues and status
• Provided training to PM’s on project methodologies and PPM tools
• Developed macros, pivot tables to analyze data for multiple project portfolio’s
• Developed Ad-hoc reports for program manager

Environment: Excel 2010/2003, Powerpoint, Primavera, Sharepoint, Word,VBA

Project Manager

Confidential, Whippany, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked on horizontal focus program areas including Infrastucture, Release and deployment, IdentityandAccess Management, Audit/Compliance.
• Supported Infrastructure and Release manager in managing infrastructure and release activities for a portfolio of 50 applications.
• Held meetings with Application development managers and project managers on status and project updates
• Managed change requests
• Consolidate individual project status reports into weekly status reporting dec
• Created Excel (macros,vlookups,pivot tables) based reports for release KPI metrics.
• Managed Hardware requests for infrastructure team
• Maintained master data of Servers and Datacenters
• Created reports consolidating data from over 50 applications
• Prepared ITSM’s and maintained log of scheduled releases.
• Created Steering committee decks
• Assisted in capacity planning activities and prepared headroom recertification reports
• Managed onboarding of applications to Identity and Access Management systems
• Ensured compliance to audit and IT governance requirements.
• Maintained hardware and maintenance cost estimates.
• Worked with multiple application development managers (exec-directors) and over 40 applications
• Assisted infrastructure and delivery manager in coordinating release, audit/compliance and infrastructure activities within the Investment banking division.
• Worked with DBA’s, System Analysts, QA’s, Project managers and application development managers
• Prepared powerpoint based monthly management deck
• Created Excel(pivot tables, vlookups,formulas,VBA) based Scorecards and SLA reports
• Created Senior Executive Briefing Pack by mining relevant data points from various systems
• Managed documents using SharePoint

Environment: MS Project 2010, Excel 2010, SharePoint, IIQ, IBID,Geneva,SAN,NAS, Linux,VMWARE,AIX, IBID, Sybase,Oracle,Pyramid, Windows 7, ITSM, HP Quality Release

Project Manager

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Prepared weekly / monthly status reports.
• Designed MS Excel based reporting tool which was used for for weekly PMO and monthly GM and CIO reporting .
• Interviewed stakeholders, SME’s to create business requirements document
• Supported project manager in managing the project and ensured compliance with PLC methodology
• Verified and processed invoices for hardware / software purchases and consultants
• Tracked project SPI on a weekly basis for PMO reporting
• Managed timesheets using project server.
• Managed budgets, forecasts, resource allocations
• Managed milestones, project issues and risks in project server
• Created and maintained project WBS
• Managed project tasks and documentation in SharePoint Server 2007
• Provided PMO with explanation for variance between budget and forecast
• Created forecast of expenses for future semesters
• Created filters, graphical indicators, formulas in MS Project 2010 for efficient management of project WBS.
• Approved timesheets in project server.
• Processed invoices, tracked and created budgets, estimate to complete and man-month variances
• Forecasted project expenses for each semester and created estimates for change requests.

Environment: MS Project 2010, Project Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2007, MS Outlook 2010, Oracle FAH, Informatica, AIX, PL/SQL

Project Manager

Confidential, Fort Washington, PA

Responsibilities:

• Reported on project risks and prepared risk management template
• Managed multiple offshore development teams
• Escalated issues to delivery managers and senior management
• Identified change requests and provided cost and effort estimates for implementing new requirements using MS Excel
• Prepared project budgets, forecasts and tracked actuals
• Gathered client requirements and prepared business requirements documents
• Prepared weekly status reports using MS Powerpoint and delivered weekly presentation to business stakeholders on weekly development status
• Managed budgets, estimates, forecasts, resource allocations
• Managed multiple projects and teams simultaneously
• Prepared project schedules using MS Project 2007
• Scheduled daily meetings with clients and development teams
• Managed change management process and multiple projects simultaneously
• Managed teams consisting of business analysts, quality analyst, developers, architects, vendors.
• Facilitated daily meetings with offshore development team and business stakeholders
• Managed business requirements for integration with ecommerce applications and external websites.
• Identified project’s staffing requirements and assisted in selecting team members
• Reviewed SLA’s, SOW’s, data mapping document, solution architecture document
• Reviewed User Stories, Wireframes, Mockups,

Environment: MS Project 2007, Flash, MS PowerPoint, Teamforge, Balsamiq, MS SQL, My SQL, Drupal, PhP, Jmeter, Java Script, Webex, JSON, Web 2.0, JBoss, HTML, CSS

Project Manager

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Managed offshore development teams
• Ensured project was completed within predetermined timeframe and budget
• Prepared SOP’s and work breakdown structures
• Prepared project plans, project budgets, estimates and forecasts
• Prepared and distributed daily project updates to required business sponsors, project team and management to ensure project is set to be delivered on time and in budget.
• Distributed minutes of meeting document, and followed up on action items and assignments
• Used SharePoint for collaboration and document management
• Prepared action items for team meetings, risk logs and issue logs
• Delegated tasks to team members and ensured delivery within time and budget constraints
• Prepared project initiation documents and MS PowerPoint presentations
• Manage business sponsors expectations to ensure delivery of solutions.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Coordinate all project activities in accordance with established project scope, schedules and budgets
• Identified project staffing requirements and assisted in selecting team members
• Collaborate in definingprojectgoals and timelines with senior management and business partners
• Prepared risk management template and reported on daily risk status

Environment: Microsoft Project,MS Powerpoint,Objective C, Microsoft Visio, Sharepoint, Asp.NET Jquery, Java, Javascript, Quality Center, Apple IOS

Business Analyst

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and distributed minutes of meeting document amount team members and business stakeholders
• Conducted user interviews, gathered Requirements, analyzed the Requirements and managed changes.
• Escalated issues to IT managers and senior executives.
• Conducted JAD sessions to gather requirements.
• Interfaced with the client as part of the Requirements Engineering team to finalize the project scope.
• Conducted interviews with SME’s and business stakeholders to document business requirements
• Worked with QA teams for regression, smoke, unit and system testing
• Assisted in creating test scenarios and test cases
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Prepared presentations and project status reports using MS Powerpoint
• Used SharePoint for collaboration and document management
• Prepared action items for team meetings, risk logs and issue logs
• Delegated tasks to team members and ensured delivery within time and budget constraints
• Prepared project initiation documents and MS PowerPoint presentations
• Manage business sponsors expectations to ensure delivery of solutions.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.

Environment: MS Powerpoint, Microsoft Visio, EMC Documentum, MS Project Server, TestDirector, LoadRunner, Quality Center

Business Analyst

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with the client as part of the Requirements Engineering team to finalize the project scope.
• Conducted interviews with SME’s and business stakeholders to document business requirements
• Worked with QA teams for regression, smoke, unit and system testing
• Assisted in creating test scenarios and test cases
• Gathereds requirements for Equities, trading, credit, rates, Futures and Options
• Created business requirements documents, functional requirements document saqnd requirement tracelibilty matrices
• Liased between technical teams and business stakeholders
• Created process flow diagrams, business model diagrams and use cases in visio
• Created ad - hoc reports for project manager
• Assisted in issue resolution and root cause analysis
• Asssited in GAP analysis