Project Manager Sales

ADELE CHESLER

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732-***-**** *******@*******.***

SUMMARY - What Can I Do for you?

Project Manager with a technical background, experienced in all stages

of software development life cycle, from analysis through

implementation in the financial services and consumer goods

industries. Strengths include excellent teamwork, collaboration with

colleagues from different functional areas, adapting easily under

highly demanding, fast-paced, constantly changing business

environments, managing multiple projects simultaneously, highly

organized and consistently demonstrating responsiveness to client

needs and schedule and budget constraints.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Experienced with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office Suite,

application development using SQL, DB2, COBOL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MORGAN STANLEY, Jersey City, NJ 1996-2013

Project Manager (2009-2013)

Coordinated and managed conversion activities for merger of Morgan

Stanley and Smith Barney for multiple Retirement applications to

facilitate integration of Smith Barney accounts and Financial Advisors

into Morgan Stanley platform, managed several new projects, including

marketing name change of firm and Retirement and Unit Investment Trust

projects designed to increase efficiency of Financial Advisors

. Identified stakeholders, scheduled and facilitated meetings,

prepared meeting agendas and minutes, wrote business requirement

documents with business, conducted Business Requirements Document

reviews, assisted IT group to develop Functional Requirements

Documents, and assisted business group to develop test plans

. Prepared and managed project plans, timelines, deliverables, issues

and risks, external dependencies, tracked issues and risks

. Led project status meetings with business group and IT group,

coordinated QA and User Acceptance Testing, reported weekly statuses

to management and business

Business Analyst (2008)

Developed Functional Requirements Documents, identified software

requirements, coordinated QA and User Acceptance Testing, created and

maintained project plans and test plans

. Assisted in development of extending application to clients in

Zurich for Alternate Investment trading application for high net

worth clients in Europe, Asia, and North America, which was

implemented in production

. Collaborated with business and development groups and third party

vendors to deliver regulatory and maintenance projects, to achieve

the most advantageous price for clients and automate processes that

reduced data entry work by traders for Unit Investment Trust trading

and order entry system

Senior Programmer Analyst (1996-2008)

Maintained and supported trading and Financial Advisor applications

. Revised application, adding new features of system for on-line

trading, improving tools and capabilities for Financial Advisors for

proprietary Choice application

. Revamped Unit Investment Trust trading and order entry application,

adding new features to screens and reports, allowing for streamlined

system to increase efficiency of traders, developed regulatory

projects, researched and solved problems, and interacted with third

party vendors

( Created and maintained intranet pages for CHOICE and Unit

Investment Trust applications utilized by Financial Advisors using

HTML and ASP

ADELE CHESLER

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732-***-**** *******@*******.***

LOEWS CORPORATION, New York, NY 1988-1996

Systems Analyst for Lorillard Tobacco

Wrote specifications and test plans, coded, maintained and

supported sales and marketing systems, and supervised programmers,

researched problems and recommended methods to help satisfy business

user's requirements, developed user training, designed sales reports

( Created data models and data flow diagrams, normalized new

database tables

. Analyzed and created logical design for new Media application

implemented into production

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Marketing and Management, Stern School of

Business, New York University, New York

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Exploring Project Management, In Search of Excellent Requirements,

Writing Quality Requirements

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)

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