Project Manager Management
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Lee Rowell
Email: ********@**********.***
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City: Irving
State: TX
Zip: 75063
Country: USA
Phone: 469-***-****
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I am looking for a job in Project Management in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
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Lee Rowell
8605 Old Oak Drive
Irving, TX 75063
Professional Summary
* Accomplished Professional with a comprehensive background in Business Management, Information Technology, Project Management, Program Management, and Vendor Management.
* Extensive experience in large Mergers and Acquisitions.
* 12+ years experience working with various project methodologies including PMP, Waterfall, and Agile.
* 10+ years experience of analysis, management and implementation of Financial/Accounting Systems from a Business, Functional, and Technical perspective.
* 10+ years experience working with various types of collateralized/non-collateralized banking products including: Mortgages, Auto, Home Equity, Asset Based Lending, Leasing, Dealer Floor Plan, Credit Cards, Wealth Management Accounts, etc.
* 5+ years experience in Six Sigma methodology.
* 15+ years experience in managing teams of various sizes up to 18
* Extensive Banking experience includes Commercial, Consumer, Dealer Financial, Leasing, Asset Based Lending, Wealth and Investment Management, Private Banking and Business Banking.
* Ability to independently manage multiple activities at different locations (internationally) and organize work to meet deadlines.
* Extensive Experience working in Strategic Planning with various Lines of Business and Technology. This includes creating and implementing short and long term strategies through projects. Project prioritization, tracking, and reporting was a key piece of this.
* Application Experience includes: AFS, ALS, ACBS, Shaw, Xpress, Paralender, BOSS, Morgan System, HomeBuilder, HoMes, Stuckey, Oracle, Rally, Test Director, Optika, iRepo, DriveFax, MySupervisor, CAM, AutoIMS, Campaign Manager, Call Quality Manager, ACTION, SQL, etc.
Professional Experience
Santander Consumer USA Inc.
Delivery Manager, PMP, Servicing Division
January 2011 - Present
* Responsible for managing 7 Agile Teams and 2 Waterfall Teams. This includes the management of 16 Developers, 8 QA resources, 4 PM's, 4 BA's, and 40 Offshore resources.
* Programs include company-wide Accounting, Servicing Applications, Correspondence, Marketing & Servicing Campaign Management, Call Quality Management, Titles Management, BK Tools, AutoIMS, and Servicing Incident Management.
* My team builds, maintains, and improves applications used by our Business Partners to drive growth and improve processes. Responsible for delivery of all projects within Servicing.
* Also responsible for developing training materials for OffShore and OnShore resources. Created all training materials for 3 new applications: CM, CQM, and EIC.
Bank of America
Service Delivery Manager, VP, PMP, Global Corporate & Investment Banking
June 2010 - January 2011 (8 months)
* Responsible for managing Strategic Planning for the GCIB Organization - including Commercial Lending, Business Banking, Global Wealth and Investment Management, Asset Lending, Dealer Financial Services, Commercial Real Estate, and Private Banking.
* This position worked directly with Business and IT to form a cohesive Strategic Plan - short and long term.
* Responsible for creating and presenting Strategic Plans to Executive Management.
* Also responsible for measuring progress against the Strategic Plan - including projects, base support, and total dollars spent.
* Completed projects to measure the performance against Business needs of multiple Loan Accounting Systems and ultimately choose the system to be used in the future. This includes work on a Proof of Concept.
* Also responsible for creating a consolidated view of all technology accomplishments throughout 2010 and delivering this presentation to Business Executives.
Bank of America
Team Manager, VP, PMP, Global Corporate & Investment Banking Technology
2004 - June 2010 (6 years)
* Team Manager for Business/Systems Analysts and Project Managers for the GCIB IT.
* Responsible for hiring and managing associates as well as contractors/consultants.
* Responsible for working with the Lines of Business to establish project priorities and report progress against those priorities.
* Also responsible for allocating resources to projects and tracking allocation and burn rate for projects.
* Responsible for leading initial onsite analysis of the Merrill Lynch portfolios and leading conversion activities.
* Also responsible for Lead Roles in the following Mergers: Fleet Boston to BAC, US Trust to BAC, LaSalle Bank to BAC, AFS West to AFS East, and SouthTrust Bank to Wachovia Bank.
* Used expert communication and leadership skills to establish a common understanding of project timelines, milestones, and expectations on delivery.
* Responsible for motivating and building collaborative teams who were dedicated to project delivery. Also worked in collaboration with external business partners, internal business area experts, business analysts and software development teams.
* Responsible for analyzing the feasibility of a centralized testing team and implementing the team - including all procedures and process flows between teams.
* Responsible for implementing the use of Test Director (Mercury Quality Center) for use in major projects.
* Also responsible for Change Management responsibilities for multiple Lines of Business including Commercial Real Estate.
* Led the efforts around Sarbanes Oxley related updates resulting in the successful achievement of SOX requirements by September 2005.
* Worked with Corporate Security Group to re-work access levels and roles within the AFS System.
* Also responsible for leading a variety of software development projects including an Escrow Module for the AFS System.
SouthTrust Bank
Project Manager, Commercial Banking Technology
2004 - 2004 (less than a year)
* Worked as a Project Manager on Development and Conversion Projects.
* Acted as lead project manager for conversion of Letters of Credit from Morgan System to AFS System.
* Responsible for obtaining/documenting Business Requirements, Design Documents, Communications Plans, Deployment Plans, and Project Plans.
* Worked as sole point of contact for specific Lines of Business within the organization.
* Extensive experience testing a Beta version of the Budget Tracking module for the AFS Vendor.
* Department closed through acquisition by Wachovia.
AmSouth Bank
Business Analyst, Commercial Banking Technology & Operations
2000 - 2003 (3 years)
* Responsible for leading a team of approximately 12 associates in the Paid Out Loans area. Responsibilities included perfection/release of liens on collateral.
* Formally trained in all Commercial/Business Banking Loan Documentation.
* Lead a project to re-engineer the Paid Out process in order to gain efficiency.
* Worked closely with Paralenders and Loan Officers to resolve issues on Loans and Loan Documentation.
* Also responsible for issuing exceptions to Loan Officers when loan documentation was completed incorrectly.
* Also formally trained in Banking/Finance procedures including GL process flows.
Education
Bank of America Six Sigma Education, Black Belt, 2010
Project Management Institute, PMP, 2007
Bank of America Six Sigma Education, Green Belt, 2006
Project Management Institute, CAPM, 2005
Evangel University, B.S. Psychology, 1997
New Horizons, SQL Certification, 2012
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