Project Manager

P orzia Sciancalepore

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Project Manager

Decisive, accountable, results-oriented leader with a track record of driving efficiency and

productivity in competitive and challenging client-centric IT environments. A proactive project

management professional recognized throughout career for the ability to track and meet milestones,

lead cross-functional global team members, and implement process improvements. A team leader

and problem solver with proven ability to relate to all members of an organization, motivate staff to

high levels of performance, and forge partnerships to achieve triumphant results. A dynamic, client

focused leader skilled in proactive project management approach and effective collaboration

techniques. Exceptional communicator with technical teams, project stakeholders and executive

management to ensure strategic initiatives meets business and budgetary requirements.

Qualifications Summary

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Over Ten Years Of PM Experience Business Management

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Over Ten Years Of Prior Application Strategic Partnerships

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Development Experience Innovative Thinking

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Two Years Of Technical Management Workload Forecasting

Experience • Leadership Development

• Waterfall and Agile Project Management • Development Platform Consistency

Methodologies

• Efficiency & Productivity Improvements

• Quality Management

• Corporate Vision

• Cross Functional Team Management

• System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Professional Experience

Project Manager Consultant 2013

– Current

Barclays New York,

NY

Leading a two-year project, within Operations and Cross Product Technology, whose

objective is to remediate existing gaps in the trade validation process and implement an

automated work flow to compare trades within asset class, product and currency

guidelines. The gaps were identified by Regulators and Auditors who mandated preventive

controls in the trade booking process to reduce trading exceptions.

• Providing weekly and monthly project status reports and dashboards to upper

management using Microsoft Project and Excel.

• Managing a project team of approximately 15 resources to resolve day-to-day issues

utilizing SDLC methodologies.

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• Responsible for updating the project forecast and collaborating on budgets and

resource allocations.

• Determining project scope and liaising between the business and staff throughout the

project lifecycle.

• Tracking and reporting key milestones, identifying risks/issues and dependencies; ensuring the

objectives are met.

• Hosting and leading weekly team meetings and project status calls.

Project Manager Consultant 2012 -

2013

Citi New York,

NY

In collaboration with the PMO office, managed project initiatives within Global Corporate

Technology for the Retail bank.

• Led various cost savings and optimization initiatives including server virtualization,

CPU reduction and software upgrades.

• Created and managed the team’s consolidated infrastructure book of work.

Consolidated activities of infrastructure, application development and operational

teams across geographical regions. Led weekly status meetings with stakeholders and

management.

• Developed project plans and timelines, reports and associated summaries in Planview. Tracked

and reported key milestones, identified risks, issues, dependences and requisite escalations.

• Collected and documented project artifacts to ensure deliverables meet PMO/PQA requirements

and Citi’s stringent SDLC mandates.

• Collaborated with Information Security to ensure adherence to corporate security constraints.

Project Manager Consultant 2005 – 2006, Employee

2006 - 2011

Morgan Stanley New York,

NY

Managed project initiatives within the Legal and Compliance IT Department; ensured the

smooth transition of deliverables from the planning through the execution phases, while

adhering to the SDLC process, stringent timelines and quality guidelines. Responsibilities

included organizing and directing project meetings, organizing requirements and risk

planning sessions, running regular QA reviews and status calls, managing change

management requests for the bi-weekly application migrations, creating, maintaining and

tracking project status, project timelines, project plans and action logs, lessons learned

and UAT sessions; leveraging both Waterfall and Agile Project Management

methodologies.

As Project Manager, I also took an active role in peer reviews, and performance appraisals.

• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) – Managed deliverables pertaining to bi-weekly

scheduled maintenance releases; working cross-silo with teams located in New

York and India.

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Worked on the Re-architecture project, consolidating the AML solution redesigning it

to a web based application to address the shortcomings of the original SAS system;

main driver was to reduce total cost of ownership including total processing time

and maintenance efforts.

Worked with members across the firm to ensure that the Personally Identifiable

Information Data Project (PII) timeline was delivered ahead of schedule; this high

visibility initiative required considerable cross-silo coordination and monitoring.

• PASAR/Data Warehouse – Ensured that the back-end critical path deliverables,

between the Patriot Act Suspicious Activity Report (PASAR) system and AML were

managed and delivered on time.

• Infrastructure - Organized migration review calls, represented project changes

during the weekly operations status meetings and initiated/helped manage the

change control requests for the AML and OFAC projects.

• Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) – Managed plans and assisted with

maintenance initiatives, adding structure to the infrastructure releases, including

batch service upgrades and SOAP service enhancements.

• Employee Trading Warehouse – Led the year long initiative supporting 3X volume

testing in preparation for the Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney merger. This project

required coordinating work between multiple teams residing in London, New York

and Hungary.

I worked with members of the London team in managing deliverables pertaining to

the re-write of the existing Outside Business Interest system, complying with the

latest firm standards with respect to security, archiving, data masking and data

migration procedures.

Project Manager/Team Lead/Application Developer 1998 – 2005

Marsh, Inc. New York, NY / Hoboken,

NJ

Project Manager (2000 - 2005)

Responsible for managing all development efforts related to Marsh’s data enrichment tool, Trillium

Software. Created process improvements by maximizing and leveraging software resources,

spearheaded issue resolution and vendor negotiations.

A chief responsibility included the enforcement of company compliance procedures in accordance

with change management activities. I vigorously collaborated with auditors to ensure compliance of

all development efforts within my realm. Managed technical teams throughout application

implementations and software upgrades, liaised with business, technical and infrastructure teams,

served as central point of contact for all downstream systems. Forged cross team collaboration,

project risk analysis, and provided identification/recommendations to ensure deliverables exceeded

expectations. Developed and managed spreadsheets indicating scheduled development, and testing

environment activity and related timelines.

TEAM LEAD (1999 - 2000)

Lead a team responsible for the full development lifecycle relating to the Central Repository

System, Global Tracking System and Directory Services of client and contact information. Lead a

development team comprised of 5 developers specializing in Java and Oracle, 3 developers utilizing

Oracle, Sybase and SQL Scripts, 6 VB application developers, and 12 specializing in C, UNIX and

Oracle. Responsibilities included project planning, employee development, and managing

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stakeholder communication. I served as a key player in the company-wide implementation and

testing of Microsoft Word template updates. Researched and reported on issues identified by

company subsidiaries; conducted disaster recovery exercises, and spearheaded required remediation

PROGRAMMER ANALYST (1998 - 1999)

I was the lead programmer analyst for the Global Broking System. Responsibilities included

performance improvement, new functionality implementation, and bug fixes. The development

environment consisted of C, UNIX and Oracle. Throughout my tenure, I delivered increased

stability, and enhanced client satisfaction by improving performance and delivery of necessary

functionality on a timely basis.

Programmer Analyst/Team Lead 1991-1998

AT&T Morristown, NJ/Somerset,

NJ

PROGRAMMER ANALYST / TEAM LEAD (1997 - 1998)

Maintained existing application and implemented new code; using batch and C programming. I led

a team of developers within the Financial Information System Department in full maintenance

lifecycle.

PROGRAMMER ANALYST, 900 SYSTEM (1995 - 1997)

We delivered round-the-clock on-site/off-site support services worldwide within the AT&T 900

System. We provided support of existing application code and implementation of new functionality

utilizing C, UNIX and Oracle SQL.

PROGRAMMER ANALYST/TEAM LEAD, 800 SYSTEM (1991 - 1995)

We delivered round-the-clock support services worldwide within the AT&T 800 System

Department. I led a team of five developers and provided hands-on development implementation

utilizing COBOL and JCL.

Junior Programmer/Analyst 1987-1991

Bell Labs Short Hills,

NJ

JUNIOR PROGRAMMER / ANALYST – PAYROLL SYSTEMS

Served as junior programmer in the Payroll Systems Department, maintained existing code and

developed new payroll applications and report generations in COBOL and JCL programming

environment, oversaw payroll check processing and provided 24/7 on-site/off-site production

support activity.

Education

BS - SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS / COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

Minor: Business Systems and Business Management

Saint Peter’s College, Jersey City, NJ

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Te c h n i c a l P r o f i c i e n c i e s

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase

Languages: C

Applications: JIRA, MS-OFFICE, MS-PROJECT, MQ, VISIO, MS-SharePoint, Planview

Platforms: Windows, UNIX, LINUX

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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