Oksana Kinker, MBA

New York, NY, *****

Phone: 914-***-**** E-mail: acfmv3@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER PROFILE

I am a multi-faceted resourceful professional with extensive experience in project management, strategy, planning, business operations, risk

management, and PMO. I have 15+ years of experience in IT services, financial technology, financial, media, healthcare, healthcare devices,

apparel, and manufacturing industries. I supported globally financial, sales and business development, product management, PMO, business

operation, IT and other business units.

BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Business Skill: strong leadership, project management, strategic planning, technical, business, and data analysis, PMO,

risk management, financial and operational analysis, business requirements analysis, technical specification, vendor

management, negotiation, SWOT Analysis, process modeling, cost reduction, negotiation, strategic management.

• Technical Skill: SQL Server 2008, Cognos8, Excel, SAP Ariba (Procurement, Legal Contracts), Serena/Purchase Requisition, Oracle

Financial, Content Management System (CMS), Visio, Excel, Access, CGS Ligal-Rights/Enterprise Financial, Agile and Water Fall

methodologies, Relational Data Management System Methodology (RDBMS), SDLC, Servers P2P, P2V, V2V, J2EE, data mapping,

Citrix v10 cloud portal, Outlook Web, firewalls, Learning Management (LMS), Performance Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Project Manager - Strategy and Business Operations - Consultant 2013 – June 2014

McGraw Hill Financial - S&P Capital IQ - New York, NY

• Standardized business processes, identified risks, strategic planning, and operation process improvement.

• Identified $1.5 M cost reduction for IT budget, led team, managed resources, budget, and schedule, used SDLC, Agile.

• Led process to identify hardware, software, network, cost for services cancelation and modification, negotiation with vendors.

• Managed program and project deliverables, status reports, road map; performed reporting and data consolidation.

• Implemented improvements, governance, cost reduction for Data Center Closure, Vendor Management, Capital Expenses

budgeting, Purchase Requisition, Accounts Payable.

Implemented Employees’ data consolidation for global business used SQL Server, Excel, LDAP, Serena.

• Recognized opportunity and centralized procurement process globally.

Led reporting data repository within Data Warehouse; performed planning, tracked progress, quality control, data analysis.

• Reviewed and improved vendors’ services and contracts (HP, Cognizant, Wipro, CDS Global, Cogent, EPAM, and others).

• Collaborated with stakeholders, PMO, Operations, Data Management, Architecture, Legal, developers, analysts.

• Reviewed Master Legal agreements, SOW, service agreements, invoices, negotiated and modified contracts.

Relationship Manager/ PMO Project Manager - Consultant 2011 to 2013

AMC Networks/New York-Presbyterian Hospital - New York, NY

• Provided short and long term strategic solutions, identified technology procedure to govern and standardize processes.

• Built and maintained IT Portfolio process and governance, strategy to transfer corporate applications into new platform.

• Led program to move operation applications to Citrix v10 cloud portal platform, prepared Master plan, road map,

verified smoke test, UAT, schedule, PMO approval, collaborated with consultants, business analyst, stakeholders.

• Standardized procedure to consolidate processes and eliminated duplication (Content Management and Legal Rights).

• Initiated project to increase operating efficiency improvement, centralized reporting data repository for Data Warehouse.

• Led program and projects, budget, resources allocation and cost, quality control, performance, training, and planning.

• Prepared Master project plan, exiting strategy plan, managed risk, progress and gaps.

• Enhanced metrics to measure productivity and eliminate data and process duplication for HRIS, using Excel, SQL Server.

• Conducted communication with stakeholders, IT operations, contractors, business community, vendors, legal department.

• Reviewed SOW, contracts, vendors’ proposals, use cases, business and technical specification.

GA Research Analyst for Financial Department 2010 to 2012

Fordham University Graduate School of Business - New York, NY

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• Conducted financial and statistical analysis for Financial Department.

• Researched and analyzed historical financial data of global financial corporations.

• Created various financial reports, budget, cost analysis and capital budgeting analysis, and risk analysis.

• Prepared business and strategic plans to support Fordham Entrepreneur Competition.

• Nominated as a top finalist to present Business Plan for start-up company at Fordham Women in Business Case Competition.

Project Manager

Covidien Inc. - Norwalk, CT 2008 to 2010

• Led full life cycle implementation of Learning Management System (LMS) for domestic and EMEA business units.

• Supported global Healthcare product development units, including Medical and Surgical devices.

• Reduced operating expenses by 30% annually by developing strategy to deploy CBT data and eliminate 3rd party vendors.

• Validated Master agreement, SOW, cost of projects, resources, service forms, negotiated with vendors.

• Identified market opportunity for sale force and performed statistic reports, evaluated public healthcare and internal sales data.

• Saved 20% annually in rating expenses by creating strategies to consolidate data globally, used SQL Server, Excel, Oracle.

• Proposed and implemented process to build firewall for external user to access internal applications.

• Led technical processes, collaborated with stakeholders, and operational departments, performed business and system analysis.

• Prepared status reports, project plans, communication plan, risk analysis report, expense and budget report.

• Created business and functional specification, specs for consolidation and data migration procedure, gap analysis.

• Improved process and synchronized financial data in Cognos for sales operational and revenue reports.

PMO Project Manager - Consultant 2005 to 2008

Westchester County/The Barden Corporation/Time Warner Inc. - New York

• Architectured and monitored implementation of Bearing Life Cycle application on J2EE platform, using SDLC and Agile.

• Developed project plan, implementation stages, allocated budget and resources, identified risk, centralized process.

• Led initiatives across multiple business units, consultants, stakeholders, management, and negotiated contracts.

• Identified and performed metrics to measure operations and financial progress, including revenue, products, and customers.

• Provided consultation to stakeholders on applying technology to reduce risk and increase business opportunities.

• Identified risks and gaps in processes, implemented strategies to increase performance efficiency.

• Created Master and communication plans, diagnosed problems and provided solutions, performed data and risk analysis.

• Coordinated functional changes across risk technology, led tests, created business requirements and test plan.

Business System Analyst 1999 to 2005

Jones Apparel Group Inc. (Nine West Group) - White Plains, NY

• Led team and supported conversion of wholesale and retail application to new platform.

• Reduced operating expenses by 25% annually by collaborating with offshore teams and global business units.

• Supported database and applications backup, data center closure, performed coding, unit, system, and parallel tests.

• Provided technical support, data modeling, business risk and gap analysis, created project plans, and conducted training.

• Compared, researched various data for financial and marketing business users; provided data modeling and business analysis.

• Performed gap analysis, crated project plans, conduced training for new product.

Dance Teacher and Choreographer 1993 to 1996

School of Olympic Ice Skating Training - Odessa, Ukraine

• Instructed dance skating pairs for Olympic and World competition (trained Elena Grushina and Ruslan Gorchakov, who won

the 2006 Olympic Bronze medal).

EDUCATION

• MBA, Finance and Management – Concentration in Operational and Strategic Management

Fordham University, Graduate School of Business - New York, NY 2009 to 2013

Courses: Decision Management, Investment and Corporate Finance, Financial Analysis and Strategy, Managerial Accounting,

Financial Accounting, Information Technology Management, Industry Strategy and Analysis, Operations Management.

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• BFA, Performing Art – Choreographer and Dance Teacher

State University of Performing Art - St. Petersburg, Russia

• ASA Institute of Business and Computer Technology - New York

Business and Technology courses: Mainframe, CICS, DB2, COBOL II, Business Management

• Learning Tree International Inc. - New York

Business and Technology courses: SQL Server, Microsoft Project, Oracle, Cristal Report, J2EE, Microsoft Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Member of Fordham Women in Business, Entrepreneur Society, Financial Society at Fordham University.

• Volunteer in Marketing and Networking Committee, Healthcare Businesswoman’s Global Association (HBA).

• Volunteer Leader of Networking Committee; Member of Educational and Development Committee at Covidien Inc.

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