Project Manager Management

SUMMARY: Creative, motivated leader offering ** + years of Information

Technology,

** + years of Project Management and Program Management

experience. Self-starter recognized for strong interpersonal,

project-management, and technical skills, with an outlook beyond

the obstacles approach to problem solving. Desire to find a

permanent position for long-term employment.

EXPERIENCE:

09/2010-12/10 STANDARD AND POOR'S, NEW YORK

Project Manager (Consultant)

Manage all aspect of project life cycle to facilitate successful

delivery of large scale multiple projects. Provide project

leadership, work direction, and feedback.

Estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the

successful completion of each project.

Establish and monitor project plans and track actual progress

against planned project performance, analyze variances and risk.

Work with project team to ensure all business requirements are met

while maintaining control of the projects.

Manage day-to-day project activities, such as issue tracking and

risk mitigation, facilitating project team meetings with various

groups and preparing/delivering status reports.

Communicate and report status to executives, global business

partners and all other stakeholders.

Monitor costs, timescales and resources required; and taking

action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensure that

deliverables are implemented within these criteria.

Manage the change control procedure obtaining agreement for

revisions to the project from project stakeholders.

Confer with project staff to provide technical advice and resolve

issues.

12/2009-09/2010 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, JERSEY CITY

Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsible for leading the Project management of software

development efforts for multiple projects simultaneously.

Managed the systems project life cycle: initiating the project,

defining and managing scope, estimating projects, planning

strategies, tracking of risks and action items establishing

milestones and schedules, maintaining the project plan, monitoring

team member activities, and managing the project budget.

Accountable for project delivery.

Ran daily "stand up" meetings with core team and daily

communication with business partners.

Partnered with the Product Managers, Stakeholders, and Project

Managers to document the product's vision & scope then translate

that vision into an actionable project plan in accordance with

SDLC.

Fostered teamwork/motivation of collaboration with business

partners and a distributed project team.

Represented team in requirements and technical reviews,

responsible for key internal relationships.

Closely monitored dependencies across the organization. Worked on

daily basis with software development staff. Adhered to IT

processes for issue/problem identification, escalation and

resolution. Monitored product performance.

Actively involved in managing Production support activities, using

a fast paced "Agile" development process that works very closely

with business partners and related technology teams.

10/2000-04/2009 CITIGROUP, NEW YORK

Project Manager (VP)

Owned, lead, and managed multimillion global projects using SDLC

lifecycle to overall success. Special focus on Agile

methodologies, including agile modeling.

Oversaw numerous technically-complex projects that are highly

visible simultaneously. Ensured compliance to Firm's project

management standards.

Experienced managing up to 15 developers, locally and offshore, on

multiple projects at any given time. Monitored employee's

performance, provided feedback, coordinated training and ensured

that project vision and plans are communicated to the team.

Acted as a liaison for the communication of specific business

requirements between the stakeholders and developers.

Maintained and track project risks and issues, managed risk

mitigation plans, escalated in a timely manner, communicated to

appropriate parties, and drive to resolution.

Established and monitored project requirements, priorities and

deadlines. Identified problems/issues and developed or managed

resolution. Ensured quality and timeliness of project results.

Relationship building, communication, coordination and management

of work stream SMEs and BAs.

Analyzed user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate

processing or to improve existing computer systems. Conducted and

analyzed business and information technology processes and

prepared essential groundwork. Evaluated business requirements for

enterprise business applications integration and service

activation, while delivering new or modified software systems

enhancements and/or integration solutions.

Arranged and assisted with user acceptance testing, quality

assurance testing and parallel testing as needed.

Developed project budget, tracked actual against forecasted and

remains within department guidelines for variance.

Involved in systems design such as UI and relational database

structure.

Experienced with financial data feed and processing from Reuters

and Bloomberg.

Managed projects for Equity Research and Fixed Income division,

where Documentum (Document Management System) was meant to be used

by various business units to store versions of different type of

documents.

Prepared complex and status reports on a regular basis concerning

overall plans, activities, and performance levels for submission

to the Senior Management. Developed and delivered progress

reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.

Managed multiple projects within client/server, UNIX, WINTEL and

WEB based environments, e-commerce applications, using the

following technologies: MS Project, MS Word (VBA), MS Excel (VBA),

XML, RIXML, HTML, Visio, MS PowerPoint, Planview, Java, Perl, C,

C++, VB, .NET, Sybase, SQL Server and other

languages/platforms/databases.

12/1998-10/2000 BLITZ SYSTEMS, INC. NEW YORK

Technical Project Leader

Responsible for working with the clients during project

requirements, gathering and managing them through the complete

Software Development Lifecycle.

Designed and developed the Equity Research Publishing Automation

Systems (RPAS), which linked document publishing process with

information resources to automate the creation of complete and

often complex publications. RPAS was a universal application that

engaged the production and publication of documents that require a

consistent and recognizable format using Visual Basic, VBA

interface and based on SQL Server 7.0, Oracle databases. Automated

distribution of electronic documents using electronic mail, fax,

and electronic service providers such as Multex, FirstCall,

I\B\E\S Trapeze, and others.

Designed and implemented Compliance check system for Equity

Research application, which automatically scanned the document

against prohibited phrases and words.

Worked with the QA/Product Maintenance Manager, TI and other

technology organizations to ensure the success of the project.

01/1996-12/1998 CONTACT K.C., INC., NEW YORK

Programmer/Analyst

Designed, developed and implemented on-line Letter-of-Credit

application that eliminated manual work, increased reliability and

reduced cost of processing. The system had SWIFT and fax/telex

interfaces (Visual Basic, SWIFT, SQL Server, Crystal Reports.)

Designed system that was intended to cover the work of Trade

Assets Department in all aspects related to issuing, negotiation

and reimbursement of Letter of Credit (Documentary Credit).

Participated in database design.

EDUCATION:

2008 INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING, INC.

PMI certification course

1992 TECHNICAL CAREER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK.

Certificate of Completion the Electronics and Computers Technology

Course

1989

LVOV INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE, UKRAINE

BS Electronic and Computers Engineering Technology

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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