Project Manager Sales

Avedis Ohannessian

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IT Project Manager

Distinguished 12-year career analyzing, defining and leading the full life

cycle design and delivery of value-driven technology solutions for HSBC USA

and BNP Paribas. Skilled in guiding teams in the high-quality and on time

delivery of new systems and system enhancements to increase Straight

Through Processing between front, middle and back office operations.

Strength in partnering with business, teams, leadership and vendors to

identify needs, define requirements, enhance processes, and drive

automation, integration, migration and centralization initiatives across

highly transactional environments.

Extensive expertise and knowledge of all aspects of Middle and Back Office

operational processes, from initial capture of trades through allocation,

confirmation matching, reconciliation, exception processing and execution.

Natural team leader with proven ability to motivate, energize and achieve

success. Expert communicator recognized for ability to forge relationships

and build consensus. Fluent in Arabic, Armenian, Turkish and Greek.

Core Competencies

Systems Development Life Business Process Analysis Technical Teams & End-User

Cycle (SDLC) & Design Training

Technical & Business Feasibility, Risk & Cost Business, Team & Partner

Specifications Analysis Relations

Full Trade Cycle Analysis Project Planning & PMO Best Practices &

Certified ScrumMaster CSM Management Standards

Issue & Change Management

Professional Experience

Investance Americas Inc. - New York, NY 02/2010 to 02/2012

Consultant for BNP Paribas - Project Manager IT

Worked closely with members of Global Settlements and Fund accounting

business units to produce project documentation including formal proposals

and schedules, business requirements, functional specifications, project

plans and test cases and plans.

Collaborated with development teams and evaluated end user computing

requirements as part of feasibility study.

Worked closely with technical team members to translate business

requirements into systems requirements.

Worked with business partners and systems personnel to identify new

business workflow or change current processes to enhance their

effectiveness and create best practice imposed by the internal audit.

Communicated system changes and processes to appropriate personnel,

documenting any processes as necessary.

Communicated discrepancies determined in testing to impacted areas and

monitored resolution.

Designed and tested systems and/or system changes accurately to insure

system efficiency, integrity, productivity and maintainability.

Set appropriate goals and priorities that coordinated with the business

areas and other organizational units and resources.

Worked independently and proactively raising issues at the appropriate

level of urgency. Worked cross teams to provide integration where necessary

to other systems and departments.

Designed, developed and implemented new reconciliations using intelliMatch

and SQL scripts using CMMI, ITIL methodology.

Supported and maintained business continuity for existing reconciliations

in line with Service Level Agreements.

HSBC U.S.A. - New York, NY 10/2000 to 11/2009

ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT / PROJECT MANAGER - CROSS PRODUCTS IT

Dedicated 9-year career automating and centralizing middle and back-office

operations to strengthen the reconciliation, confirmation, exception and

processing of Foreign Exchange, Money Market, FX Options, Derivatives,

Previous Metals, and Securities.

Started as a Business Analyst and progressed to AVP Project Manager.

Originally recruited to oversee the enhancement and support of highly

transactional IntelliMatch, IntelliTracs, PerfectMatch and Payment

Processing Systems (PPS) to increase Straight Through Processing (STP)

across highly complex environments. Advanced to standardize processes and

systems supporting settlement and confirmation operations globally for all

trading products. Based upon success, promoted and given complete P&L

accountable for 4 key systems supporting global reconciliation,

confirmation and settlement operations. Collaborated with business users,

leadership and teams to evaluate needs and implement value-driven

solutions. Planned, tracked and monitored all aspects of multi-million

projects, comprised of up to 120 resources. Defined overall project scope,

budgets, deliverables and resources. Collaborated with PMO and Change

Management Organizations to ensure on-time deployment of solutions and

changes, and resolution of issues.

Successes & Solutions:

. Chosen for strategic global 3-year initiative to build a centralized

global Trade Confirmation Platform for FX and Money Market leveraging

IntelliMatch, PerfectMatch and IntelliTracs systems, increasing overall

trade volume for Hong Kong, London and New York hubs by 100% and Emerging

Markets Dubai and China by 150% within 3 years. Project managed the on-

time and within delivery of multiple, simultaneous infrastructure

deployment, system rollout and customization, data conversion, process

standardization, user training, and system integration efforts across 40

sites.

. Contributed to key initiative to consolidate regional general ledger hubs

into a single integrated global hub, One HSBC. Led team in enhancing

IntelliMatch system to enable the transmission of general ledger data to

centralized system.

. Led all efforts of internal team and vendor to redesign existing and

create new matching rules enforcing real-time SSI updates within

reconciliation system, enabling the on-time matching and delivery of

correct payments to intermediaries and counter-parties. Solution

automated previous manual business processes to enable Straight Through

Processing (STP), increasing productivity by 75%.

. Established a Follow-The-Sun Support structure for Settlement Support

systems. Recruited and trained resources throughout Asia, Brazil and

India on mission-critical application protocols and procedures, including

SOX compliance and change controls. Principal Global Contact for

Confirmation, Reconciliation and Investigation systems.

. Evaluated, recommended and oversaw the deployment of IntelliStor and ADP'

s PostEdge document archiving and retrieval systems to enable Derivatives

and Securities businesses to meet SEC and SOX regulations.

TOSHIBA AMERICA CONSUMER PRODUCTS, INC. - Totowa, NJ 03/1998 to 10/2000

PROJECT LEADER

Brought on to project manage the migration of mission-critical Purchasing

Sales Inventory Forecasting System from a distributed to client-server

architecture to increase accuracy of projections. Liaised between business

and development team to capture requirements for multi-phase initiative.

Accountable for overall success of assigned projects, from initial

definition of specifications through architectural design, development,

testing, implementation, training and problem resolution. Collaborated with

Deloitte & Touch to gather information on systems for auditing.

Successes & Solutions:

. Pivotal role in redesigning and rolling out new Purchasing Sales

Inventory Forecasting System leveraging Visual Basic and MS SQL Server

technologies, reducing overproduction by 78% across portfolio of

products.

. Oversaw the initial design and integration of web front system to legacy

AS/400 system utilizing J-Walk software, enabling users to access core

data while streamlining data entry validation and error catching.

. Trained and mentored internal development team on client-server

architecture, increasing overall technical competency and on-time

delivery of system.

. Designed and delivered training to end-users across the enterprise on new

system, resulting in reducing warehouse inventory levels and associated

costs within the facilities.

** Additional Experience **

LONG BEACH ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION - Paramus, NJ 11/1997 to 03/1998

LEAD PROGRAMMER ANALYST / CONSULTANT

. Led the full life cycle design of financial application for the Auditing

Department to enhance the detection of loan processing errors; and a new

repo system to automate the tracking of delinquencies and customer

demographics based on data provided by credit bureaus.

TELECOM SERVICES LTD / TSL-BRITE - Parsippany, NJ 03/1996 to 11/1997

SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST / CONSULTANT

. Retained to assist in enhancing Client Billing Verification system to

reduce client billing and sales commission issues while providing senior

management with a means to track sales productivity and client analytics.

Authored user documentation, created training documents, and trained

development team and end-users.

UNITED PARCEL SERVICES - Mahwah, NJ 05/1993 to 03/1996

PROGRAMMER ANALYST

. Collaborated in developing new and enhancing existing custom and third-

party software to meet business needs. Created technical specifications,

custom reports, and training documents.

Education & Credentials

FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY - Teaneck, NJ

Master of Science in Management Information Systems (2000) (GPA 3.73)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (1993) Honors Program (3.38 Cum

GPR)

Technology Proficiency & Leadership

MS Office Suite, MS Project, VISIO, Crystal Reports, Business Objects,

Cognos, Citrix & Lotus Notes Tools

IntelliMatch, IntelliTracs, IMATE, ReconPlus, IntelliStor & PerfectMatch

Systems

MB Gateway, StorQM, Clarity, JIRA, Remedy, Control M, Clear Choice, Clear

Quest & Quality Center Software

MS-SQL Database; VBScript, HTML, SWIFT, FIX, MS Windows Operating Systems

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