GREGORY A. SOLOMON 216-***-****

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Professional Profile

Talented and accomplished Senior Project Manager currently seeking opportunities to lead in the delivery of heightened Business Process Improvement, Organization Strategy, Technology Implementation, and Program Management efforts. Extensive skills and experiences in the successful delivery of complex technology implementation, process improvement, data analysis and reporting, strategy development, and operational improvement initiatives.

Skills and Competencies

Requirements Management; Elicitation and through Quality Assurance

Training design, development, and delivery

Communication plan development and delivery

Risk management and remediation

Data analysis and management

Executive presentation development and delivery

Consultative work to align delivery strategy and project management goals

Project plan development and management

Analytical and statistical analysis

Organizational Change Management design and development

Trained and performed in both Agile and Waterfall SDLCs

Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) trained

Professional Experiences

Bank of New York Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA (April 2017 Present)

Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager

Working with team to gather, analyze, document, and validate business requirements for the build out of business processes and reporting tools to address the Financial Risk Reporting business process.

Managing identification of company-wide data reporting needs for the production and delivery of FFIEC FR Y-14Q and 14M Regulatory Risk reports.

Leading efforts to identify, manage, and document data lineage, data validation, and data governance for data elements and applicable source systems involved in the specified FFIEC reports.

Working with company technology teams to facilitate Subject Matter Expert (SME) quality assurance testing and system validation efforts for the newly defined and delivered systemic reporting process and associated deliverables.

Responsible for the elicitation and documentation of business requirements, from m Line of Business users and subject matter experts, towards the development of financial risk analysis reports and measurements.

Assisting in the operational roll out of all developed tools and processes to support the reporting process to Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) Regulators in support of the combined banks holdings and loan portfolios.

Conducting data mining, data modeling, statistical analysis, business intelligence gathering, trending and benchmarking for current data lots used to produce FFIEC Regulatory Reports for the enterprise.

Working with data analyst responsible for the development of detailed data mining and mapping efforts in support of the implementation of a BI system that will be used to support the FFIEC Regulatory Reporting process.

Medtronic, Integrated Health Solutions, Cleveland, OH (January 2017 March 2017)

Project Manager

Worked with Medtronic Business Partners and MBS Strategy Consultants to execute process improvement programs, in collaboration with Medtronic and UH, to operate the heart-catheterization and electrophysiology labs.

Co-developed and maintained overall program plan and individual project dashboards, including individual project plans, project status reports, risk assessment documentation, stakeholder maps, and estimated costs-benefits analysis.

Conducted process mapping and complex data analytics, in support of project planning, decision making, and execution efforts.

Co-led individual work streams to document and make improvements within the overall business process for the operation of heart-catheterization and electrophysiology labs.

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Professional Experiences (cont)

Forest City Realty Trust, Cleveland, OH (March 2016 November 2016)

Program Project Manager

Managed assigned programs and projects ranging from business transformation and process reengineering to system development, upgrades and enhancements.

Participated in efforts to define new structure for the management, governance, and reporting of project initiatives. Worked between the IT Project Management Office (PMO) and Operations departments to determine project management, reporting, stakeholder management, and executive report-out requirements.

Oversaw quality assurance (QA) efforts to test and validate system functionality following the implementation of SAP SPS 14 patching.

Participated in the development of a management reporting metrics and visual dashboards to continually track and report on the health of key enterprise initiatives and included projects.

FirstMerit Bank, Akron, OH (August 2015 February 2016)

Senior Project Manager

Responsible for planning, organizing, scheduling, and controlling overall project activities, including budget and resources, to achieve performance, dollar and time objectives for a given scope of work.

Led organization efforts to implement Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution, and supporting business processes, for the Commercial Loan provisioning process.

Assisted in the definition and writing of Project Manager Procedures concerning “Planning and Communicating through Microsoft Project” and “Cost Benefit Analysis Documentation and Reporting.

Hyland Software Incorporated, Westlake, OH (October 2014 – July 2015)

Senior Project Manager

Responsible for driving solution definition, resource allocation and project direction, team building, budget control, non-conformity resolution, and overall risk management for the implementation of custom software development lifecycle (SDLC) projects.

Held responsibility for planning and coordinating internal and client projects team members toward the definition and implementation of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies and supporting processes.

Led the facilitation and coordination of client meetings, including project plan development, staffing decisions, and project approach strategy creation.

PNC Bank, Cleveland, OH (February 2006 October 2014)

Senior Technical Project Manager / Continuous Improvement Engineer / Six Sigma Black Belt

Worked between multiple Lines of Businesses (LOBs), including both System Development and Business Capability teams, towards the development and implementation of technology and organization change initiatives.

Managed efforts to define and develop Oracle based Economic Capital reporting engine. Leading a team of both Line of Business and on-shore / off-shore technology resources toward the development of technologies and business processes to support the systemic calculation of enterprise-wide Economic Capital numbers.

Led all project efforts to improve the loan decisioning process for the National City Corporation Private Client group. Worked extensively with the loan underwriting to conduct detailed data analysis and eliminate non-value-add process steps. Net effect of effort was a 60% cycle time reduction.

Led efforts, with Corporate & Institutional Banking management team, to identify and implement opportunities for improving the Capital Reserve Management process for the combined PNC/NCC organization.

Held responsibility for the development and implementation of Securitization portfolio dashboard that sought to report out on the total value of assets under management for the bank’s Securitization asset class portfolio.

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Professional Experiences (cont)

Headstrong, New York, NY (September 2000 to September 2002)

Managing Consultant

Served as a member of Headstrong’s New York, NY management team. Managed multiple teams of Business and System Analysts in the development and delivery of technology solution initiatives.

Led client and consultant project teams through the implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Force Automation project implementation initiatives.

Responsible for the direct management of both technical and business analyst resources during the execution of technology implementation and business process improvement initiatives.

Education

Brown University, BA, Organization Behavior & Management, Providence, RI

Case Western Reserve University, MBA, Strategic Management, Cleveland, OH,

Professional Membership / Activities

The City Mission, Board Member (Past Governance Committee Chair)

National Black MBA Association (member)

City of Twinsburg Capital Improvements Board (member)

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