Highlights:

Skills:Project manager

Vice President, Technology project management 01/20/2014 - current
JP Morgan Chase, Jersey City, NJ United States
Industry: Financial services
Domain: Oversight and control technology: The oversight and control group at JP Morgan chase is responsible for regulatory compliance of change management programs. My team builds and supports the New Business Initiative Approval suite of applications that manage approvals, audit trails, documentation and reporting of any new business initiatives that the various lines of business need to launch in the market.
Team Size and budget – Ongoing strategic project scheduled for 2 years with a $2.5M budget and team size of 20. Additionally $1M for tactical support and maintenance projects with a 10 person team Responsibilities •Strategic release planning, resource loading, client communications. timeline management and delivery oversight •Assess business implications for each project phase and monitor progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets •Implementation and maintenance of a production support team for everyday issue management and resolution •Manage BAs to articulate project goals and scope, translate business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instill shared accountability for achieving project milestones. •Provide project status updates and weekly score card reporting about all programs within Control Systems Technology •Compile clarity reports for various types of management reporting like budgets, resource forecasts, accrued expenses for various projects, operate and production support reports and overall RAG ratings •Resolve project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs •Client relationship management with senior stakeholders across various lines of business •Compile and prioritize enhancements to the tactical system and requirements for the strategic system •Engage various vendors via RFP process and provide inputs for vendor selection and negotiation about engagement models •Ensure that all internal JPMC standards for knowledge management are met by overseeing quality delivery of various artifacts like business case, project plan, BRD, FRD, user stories, test plan documents, technology design document •Part of the SDLC toll gate committee that decides the templates, implements best practices and reviews artifacts across all projects for project lifecycle management within the departments--
Senior principal consultant 01/24/2008 - 01/20/2014
NTT DATA (Goldman Sachs ADM), Jersey city, NJ United States
Industry: Financial services
Domain: Compensation accounting’ and ‘Equity compensation’ technology: These departments are responsible for employee stock plan administration, general ledger accounting (USGAAP and IFRS) of employee compensation/associated tax expense and preparation of pertinent financial reports. Team Size and budget – 20 person team with recurring budget of approximately 2 million. The budgets for one time projects varied from $350k to $1.5M
Responsibilities as senior principal consultant and principal consultant • Manage development teams, BA teams for multiple major projects throughout SDLCs • Capacity Planning, budget planning, timeline/schedule management, release planning for multiple projects • Prioritize and manage support efforts and new development projects based on severity, business need, bottom line, and impact on internal and external customers • Performance and career management for team members in NTT DATA that reported into me • Project planning and resource management for development and support activities. • Defining and ensuring adherence to delivery and quality processes for the project. • Change Management, coordinating project status meetings, managing customer expectations and escalations • Assist NTT DATA senior management to explore new business opportunities, prepare business proposals and RFP responses. Some RFP responses that I worked on for large bids are: • Content management system for swap data repository • Credit limit monitoring system • Enhancements to VAR calculation engine for market risk • Treasury management system Responsibilities as senior consultant BA: • Elicit, prioritize, manage, document and testing business requirements • Produce BA and PM documentation deliverables for each part of the SDLC like business requirement documents, functional specifications, use cases, traceability matrix, project charter, project plan, risk matrix, user stories, effort dashboard test plan and test cases • Oversee holistic functional architecture, determine testing strategy and perform knowledge management for all strategic and tactical initiatives--