Project Manager Management

Edward J. Yurewicz

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Methuen, Massachusetts 01844

Email: *********@***.*** Home: 978-***-**** Cell: 978-***-****

SUMMARY:

To obtain a position within a fast paced, growing and challenging organization which will

allow me to utilize and expand my experience in the following areas: Technology Project

Management, SDLC, Waterfall, Six Sigma, DMAIC, Business Continuity, Risk

Management, Compliance and Bank Operations. Clarity NIKU, HP Quality Center and

Sharepoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Bank of America, AVP, Banking Center Technology Aug-2007 – Dec-2009

May-2006 – Aug-2007

Consultant (Sapphire Technologies)

• AVP, Technology Project Team Manager

• Project Manager for more than 40 Banking Center application initiatives.

• Managed Global technology Project teams in a large cross-functional environment, utilizing

onshore and offshore resources.

• Coordinated and Facilitated Virtual, Online and in person team meetings and documented

Progress, Tasks, Issues and Action items for resolution in the meeting minutes..

• Managed initiative timelines to ensure on time and on budget delivery.

• Reported initiative Status, Milestone progress, issues, defect resolution, and all other project

deliverables to Senior Management and the Integrated Release PMO Team.

• Managed and Tracked Project financials - estimates and actual hours charged to identify and

resolve variances.

• Conducted triage meetings for defect resolution during all phases of testing ensuring a

successful defect free implementation.

• Escalated severe issues to Senior Management when necessary.

• Presented initiative Handover Takeover details to Production Support in preparation for

implementation and post implementation tracking during the warranty period.

• Utilized Sharepoint functionality for meeting facilitation, project deliverables, tasks and

action item resolution.

• Maintained various Project Documentation Repositories for all deliverables.

Fleet Boston Financial Group Jun-1991 – Sep-2005

• Officer, Manager of Risk, Compliance and Business Continuity

Account Services Administration Division, departments included:

• Item Processing, Check, Deposit Support, Exception Processing, Statement Rendering, ACH,

Electronic Banking Operations, Branch Operations Services, CD/IRA, Print Operations.

• Matrix Managed Business Unit Risk managers for projects related to Merger, Business

Resumption Plans, Risk Assessment, Compliance Programs and Business Impact Analysis.

• Monitored and reviewed the timely resolution of Aging General Ledger Items and Operating

Loss Control efforts by division Risk Managers.

• Developed the operational aspects of the Internal Control Database.

• Division coordinator/liaison for all merger/integration activities.

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Fleet Boston Financial Group (continued)

• Operations Officer, Project Manager

Project Management Office

• Member of the Bank Operations Project Management Methodology roll out team.

• Assisted in the development of Project Management CD for PC based training.

• Managed hardware/software purchase and installation for new PMO locations.

• Successfully managed Records Retention Reduction project, resulting in annual savings of

over $100,000.

• Operations Officer, Senior Project Analyst

• Liaison between programmers and end users.

• Consistent success adding and creating functionality to mainframe and PC applications.

• Identified the system needs of managers for various mergers and consolidations.

• Merger related duties included: Due Diligence review, Consolidation, Integration, Readiness

Assessment and Senior Management Checkpoint Status Teams.

• Participated in numerous Facilities space optimization projects.

• Directed installation of new Imaging Department - hardware, software, facilities etc.

• Business Continuity Manager

• Developed training materials and conducted training sessions for Business Continuity and

Recovery plan creation, as well as relocation, tabletop and call tree testing exercises.

• Facilitated, planned and tested recovery exercises at offsite recovery locations.

• Coordinated migration of legacy Business Continuity Plans to merger end-state plans.

• Technology Project Analyst

• International Letters of Credit, Documentary Collections

• Led conversions/installations for various releases of the AMS Letter of Credit and

Documentary Collection Processing systems.

• Extensive experience designing and testing mainframe interfaces to other applications

Including, AFS, S.W.I.F.T., Telex, Fedwire, DDA, General Ledger and reporting extracts.

• Provided automated solutions for Trade Services Operations manual functions.

• Broad experience as a liaison between programmers and end users.

• Developed job aids and operational procedures to conduct system training for users.

Bank of New England Sep-1983 – Jun-1991

• Bank Operations Officer, System Analyst and Operations Supervisory Positions

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Creative/conceptual thinker.

• Highly productive, quickly convert conceptual ideas to action.

• Self-managed, adaptable and versatile.

• Strong interpersonal skills, team player.

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EDUCATION: Salem State College, Business Administration

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