BARRY A. WALL
East Meadow, New York 11554
516-***-**** (Home)
516-***-**** (Cell)
**********@***.***
PROJECT MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES:
. Owned End-to-End project management from project initiation to project
rollout, including
requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation,
and support phases.
* Participated in the analysis and review of all application system
releases to determine potential impact to business applications and
processes.
* Facilitated the identification, review, definition, and communication of
issues and risks to business partners and senior management.
* Partnered with Business Areas and IT Application Managers, to define work
process flows, review new business requests, set project priorities, and
schedule resource utilization.
* Managed vendor relationships with offshore teams and external
consultants.
* Managed project work queues, estimating process, updated project plans,
and communicated project status. Balanced workloads appropriately across
resource pools for maximum throughput and efficiency.
* Maintained defined service level agreements to assure the business users
were provided with information requests in a timely manner.
* Coordinated the regular review of existing processes to identify
potential process improvements and/or productivity gains.
. Developed project plans and execution approaches with defined tasks,
milestones, budgets, and measures of success for each project.
. Participated in all release planning and tollgate review sessions to
provide updates on the health of each assigned project, schedule
management, cost/budget management, issue and risk management, quality
assurance, communications management and procurement management
. Prepared implementation plans (including pilot rollouts), and
participated in all implementation status meetings. Ensured the project
closed effectively through production turnover, documentation, training,
and feedback on project resource performance.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011- Present Project Manager Contractor
Citibank, NA, US Retail, Long Island City, New York
Rainbow USA
. Tax Compliance and Enhanced IRS Reporting Upgrades
. Data Warehouse Advanced Profitability Reporting
. Book of Business Branch Banker Tracking
CBNA Funding
Expanded debit card funding to branches for customer account
opening.
Automated the process, end-to-end, from capturing the funding
instructions, obtaining the authorization, and reconciliation of
funding.
Created Citibank initiated ACH capability for phone and branch
channels.
Extended electronic funding capability to small business through
branches.
Deposited & Return Deposit Images
Enabled the display of images of return deposited items, deposit tickets,
and deposited checks to commercial clients, via CBUSOL.
Branch Check Image
Remote Branch Image Capture aligning with National Check Operations.
2010 - 2011 Project Manager Contractor
Bank of America, Operational Credit Risk, New York, New York
. Managed the Enterprise Stress Testing Project - Market Shock
Evaluations.
. Responsible for the Sybase Upgrade and Conversion.
. Managed the Credit Studio Portfolio Re-engineering Project
2009 - 2010 Project Manager Contractor
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Jersey City, NJ
Responsible for 30 Applications to convert Data Security Entitlements
from Legacy
Smith Barney to Legacy Morgan Stanley platforms.
2008- 2009 Project Manager Contactor
Deutsche Bank Americas, Remote Computing, New York, New York
Managed Blackberry Remote Access upgrade project
1993 - 2008 Project/Development Manager Vice President
J. P. Morgan Chase, Credit Card Services, New York, NY
Selected Accomplishments:
. Reengineered the Risk Management Information Warehouse Extract and
Load process resulting in a cost savings of $250K per year, in addition
to a reduction of 36 hours in data delivery time.
. Designed, developed, implemented, and supported over 100 Co-Brand and
Partner reporting systems, reducing Risk Management reporting time from 1
week to 1 day.
. Managed the design, development, and implementation of a Customer
Profitability Tagging for the Risk Management application system leading
to $20 million increase in cross organization sales.
. Worked closely with a 25 member cross functional team in introducing
a Capability Maturity Model compliant development process which allowed
for outsourcing and off shoring, leading to significant labor cost
savings and risk exposure reductions.
. Directed and coordinated the design, development, implementation, and
support of a Risk Management program for identification of customers,
mailing of external materials, and participation tracking and success.
Effort led to revenue growth averaging 20%.
. Spearheaded a SIX SIGMA driven effort in identifying and executing
opportunities for reducing mainframe operational expenses, and risk
exposure, resulting in cost savings of $2 million for the first calendar
year and $650K for each subsequent year.
. Designed, built, implemented, and supported a Credit Application
processing system affecting 13 million applications while supporting 250
credit risk analyst's requests. Effort reduced processing time of credit
applications from 5 days to 1 day.
. Managed and coordinated the Y2K and Euro currency initiative
including the analysis, conversion, and implementation of 9 systems and
over 300 programs in meeting cost requirements and time frames with zero
defects.
EDUCATION
NY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Old Westbury, NY BA Computer Science