Project Management

Nigel Bishop PMP - Project/Portfolio Management Executive

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Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510 Email:ablujp@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Project Management Executive with extensive experience in complex problem

solving, management and communication at a senior level. Proven track

record in successful creation, implementation and management of highly

efficient and effective project/portfolio management practices for multi-

national information technology businesses. Many years' experience in

building and leading teams and developing processes to deliver high quality

product on time and within budget. Demonstrated strong analytical,

strategic planning and product management experience and I am a recognized

subject matter expert for information technology project and portfolio

management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Alliance Bernstein - Vice President, PMO Director

2006 - Current

PMO Director responsible to the head of Global Enterprise Technical

Services (GETS) for project/portfolio quality assurance, provision of

senior management monitoring, reporting and auditing for the bank's $75m

global infrastructure project portfolio.

Some Major Features and Accomplishments from this Role:

Built and implemented a PMO to manage a $75mm + portfolio of projects where

none previously existed;

Built and delivered a comprehensive C level program/portfolio management

reporting structure including dashboards, resource utilization reports and

demand management rosters;

Designed and implemented a complete suite of project/program management

processes supported by documentation and training.

Designed and implemented a project governance process for all GETS

initiatives including integration of SOX/SAS compliance auditing;

Acted as the central point of communication and escalation for management

on portfolio and project level issues. Coordinated all reporting ensuring

quality and uniformity;

Initiated development of a comprehensive strategic roadmap for GETS and

integrated this into the project governance process;

Managed the existing portfolio of projects to GREEN status within 6 months;

Provided oversight, guidance and mentorship to GETS Project Managers

globally;

Personally managed a mission critical datacenter move (no qualified

candidates available) to successful completion for which I won the 2009

REACH Award.

Personally managed the replacement of the global trouble ticketing system

and the implementation of new service desk practices to support the

implementation.

Recently acquired the role of PMO Director reporting to the global Head of

Information Risk Management. Responsible for the provision of senior

management monitoring, reporting, auditing and quality assurance for the

bank's Information Security and Risk division. This multi-year program of

work comprises over 70 high visibility globally impacting projects to

eliminate improper access to business systems and information

(entitlements), to eliminate franchise threatening policy violations and to

manage outstanding compliance management issues, including entitlements

policy, procedures and implementation.

The Bank of NY - Vice President, PMO Director 2004 - 2006

PMO Director heading a group of 5 Senior PMO officers. Responsible to the

CIO for provision of senior management monitoring, reporting, auditing and

quality assurance for the bank's $50m outsourcing project portfolio.

Successfully built and implemented a suite of repeatable and sustainable

program/project management procedures supported by full documentation,

support and training. Successfully rescued an $18mm project that had been

stalled for 6 months. Built and implemented special monitoring and

reporting to ensure that early warning was available to the executives so

that similar situations could not arise.

JP Morgan Chase - Vice President, STIM 2003 - 2004

Senior Technology Infrastructure Manager (STIM) for Global Treasury

reporting to the global CIO of Treasury, responsible for liaison between

the line of business and global technology.

Successfully managed the global XP upgrade and combined comprehensive

hardware refresh and upgrade of all mission critical software. I

represented Global Treasury in the transition of all technology services

from IBM back to in-sourced JPM services.

Deutsche Bank - Vice President, Senior PMO Architect

2002 - 2003

Reporting to the CIO of the Global Asset Management division successfully

designed and implemented a fully functional PMO, including the creation of

fully documented policies and procedures. Designed and implemented a

comprehensive, repeatable and sustainable project portfolio management

process to govern all IT projects.

Managed an application development and business analyst team to implement a

global asset management environment based on Peregrine AssetCenter 4.2.

Rescued this project, which had been unsuccessful for over 18 months.

Managed an application development team to migrate in excess of 200 mission

critical trading and asset management applications (15 major hubs spanning

North America and the Pacific Rim) from Novell Netware to a new Deutsche

Bank NT-Server environment and coupled this with a datacenter consolidation

program.

Morgan Stanley - Vice President, Senior Project Manager 1991 - 2002

Managed a multi-discipline team responsible for redesign and rebuild 36

mission critical desktop market data systems in preparation for a 5000-

person move to new headquarters. Worked closely with the heads of Equity

and Fixed Income trading to optimize the market data environment and

coordinate the migrations/implementations with trading system upgrades and

market events. Managed the design, build and implementation of a state of

the art market data campus environment incorporating fully hardened

BCP/disaster recovery campus functionality.

Managed a multi-discipline team to redesign and replace 30 market data and

Internet firewalls worldwide. Leveraged this project to clean up network

infrastructure by eliminating redundant routes, ACL's,

entitlements/permissions, etc., liaised closely with the heads Equity and

Fixed Income trading to deliver all firewalls into a live trading

environment on time, within budget and with no interruption to service.

Managed a development team to design and implement a new market data

entitlements layer complying with exchange and vendor distribution rules.

Managed efforts between Market Data Security and Application Developers and

Equity and Fixed Income Trading heads to get 200+ trading applications re-

coded, re-linked and redistributed. Managed the implementation of new

entitlements layers including policy and procedure into a live Equity and

Fixed Income trading environment on time, within budget and with no service

interruptions.

Co-managed delivery of data centers, trading floors and supporting

technology for the new global headquarters at 1585 Broadway and 750 Seventh

Avenue NY. Client's representative responsible for project monitoring and

reporting, overseeing designs, construction, testing and commissioning of

the technology environment.

Managed new office openings including trading floor and datacenter builds

in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Mumbai. This role

included site selection, vendor selection, project management, move

management and client representation.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science with Honors in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer

Science, CNAA/University of London

Bachelor of Arts with Honors Business Administration and Mathematics - Open

University

MBA specializing in Strategic Management (On Hold) - Open Business School,

London

Masters in Clinical Social Work - Fordham University

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified - Project Management

Institute

SKILLS

Excellent and very strong verbal and written communicator.

Expert with MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint and

InfoPath

Experience with C++, Pascal, Basic, Unix, SQL

Dual US/UK Citizenship - References Available on Request

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