SUMMARY

• Five years of experience in Project Management, Process development and Program Management in the Financial Services vertical
• Experience creating Project management processes and Project Management Office(PMO) from scratch.
• Knowledge of Banking and Capital markets, Healthcare, Affordable housing, Fund management and Portfolio Management
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of finance concepts like NPV analysis, Financial Statements, IRR, Analysis
• Experience in SDLC methodologies including Waterfall, Agile Methodology and Extreme Programming
• Experience in requirement gathering and requirement management in cross functional projects
• Expertise in business and systems documentation, use case analysis and change management
• Expertise in conducting SWOT/GOSPA sessions with senior management and executive teams
• In - depth experience in Database management projects and Financial projects
• Persuasive and professional communication skills
• Proven leadership and project management skills
• Creative person with ability to extrapolate essential information with a rapid learning curve
• Extensive cross national and cross cultural experience with good people skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Cobol, CICS, JCL, VB,C, C++,Java, SQL and RDBMS

Modeling Tools: Visio

Project Management Tools: MS Project, SharePoint, Cognos

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Access

Testing Tools: Loadrunner, FTT

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows 7, NT, 2000, XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Director of Project Management & New Partnership development

Responsibilities:

• Created the Project Management Office (PMO),project management process and best practices.
• Product managed the Creation of the Continuum fund and modeled the Student Housing fund and Entrepreneurship fund. Hybrid funds offered to Foundation and Philanthropic investors.
• Created Strategic partnership with Boston Financial, and Enterprise Community Partners which lead to operating capital funding of $ 450,000 (Boston Financial)
• Created the “Good Crowd” - Platform for integrating the financial, social and research needs of good doers.
• Pitched the project to Xprize Foundation and Council on Foundation and have got their financial and technical assistance to help build this project.
• Created the Entrepreneurship Continuum fund. Presented at the White House and to the executives of Nixon Peabody.
• Project managed the creation and implementation of Better Tomorrows. A 125 person non-profit helping affordable housing developers in community development.
• Assisted in the Hiring of the Executive Director and Board Members.
• Represented the company at the Council on Foundation - Community foundation conference, Nextgen: Charity Conference, Council on Foundation - Annual conference.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Managed Salesforce CRM implementation and Database management project
• Developed and executed strategies for lead generation, sales, pricing and all other matters related to revenue generation
• Pitched the product to 648 executives in 60 days and obtained LOI to invest from 300 foundations.
• Lead internal teams from multiple departments (Sales, marketing, finance and technology) to pursue key prospects
• Interviewed and Hired team members for the competitive intelligence team
• Assisted the CEO and the Executive team in forming of a new venture & merger with West Coast Asset Management.
• Assisted the Business Development team with sales processes and lead generation from my personal network and creating new connections.

Confidential

MBA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed Market Research and Business Intelligence
• Competitive Analysis for various key products for marketing advantage and product differentiation
• Cost Analysis and optimization of current business model
• Market Intelligence on core SAS product
• Worked with developers and assisted in optimizing the databases.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Group project managed 16 web development projects
• Worked with clients to define and optimize the user experience of the product.
• Coordinated and ensured successful project completion with the development team in India and Russia
• Project Managed the development and integration of “Social Loop” account
• Created Sales training material and managed the sales team for “Leap Social”
• Created and executed social media marketing campaigns; strong expertise in community building and viral marketing
• Organized and lead networking event - Boise Icebreakers

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Disaster Recovery Representative (DRR) for banking and capital market vertical; primary contact person and decision maker responsible for 72 software engineers working for Confidential
• Led a team of five engineers to develop software features that improved product positioning in new strategic markets
• Retained strategic customer that led to multi-million dollar sale by developing an efficient algorithm that reduced product’s processing time
• Created project management software that improved manager’s performance and simplified project maintenance
• Software development engineer for the collections and recovery department of Confidential and Confidential