Summary

Experienced Senior Project Manager Professional with extensive background managing projects for Financial Service institutions. Successfully implemented both proprietary, and out of the box trading software. Managed several global Information Security upgrades and maintenance. Successfully managed Merger & Acquisition projects. Exceptional leadership and communication skills. Strategic thinker, with a successful track record of tactical project plan execution. An outstanding history of client relationship building and client management.

Core Competencies

Leadership & Performance

Project/Program Management

Managed both Waterfall & Agile SDLCs

Excellent Project Documentation & Communication Skills

Client Relationship Building & Management Stakeholder Management

Risk Identification and Mitigation

Mergers & Acquisitions

Revenue Generation

Operations Management

Information Security

Performance Metrics

Process Improvement

Research and Analysis

Financial Planning

Equity and Option Trading

Technology

Semantic Bluecoat Proxy Server Secure Web Gateway

F5 Load Balancing

(WAF) Web Access Firewall

McAfee RME

Trip Wire/IP 360

Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Visio

MS SharePoint

JIRA

Clarity/Open Workbench

HP Quality Center

Remedy Change Management

Charles River IMS

Ibbotson/Morningstar EnCorr Portfolio Forecasting Institutional Software

Blackrock Aladdin

Certifications & Training

Self-Study CISSP Certification Training 1/18 - Current

CSM Certified Scrum Master 12/14 #00372980 Scrum Alliance, 11/2014

Advanced Project Management Training, 9/2014

Six Sigma/Lean Green Belt - Chicago Deming Society, 10/2006

ITIL Foundations Certification – MicroTrain, 3/2007

PMP Certified 4/07 #462017 – MicroTrain, 4/2007

CompTIA Project + Training – MicroTrain, 2/2007

Key Accomplishments

Project Management & Leadership

AJ Gallagher - Successfully managed and led a portfolio of 7 concurrent Information Security projects by effectively communicating with senior management and driving project tasks to completion to maintain project timelines. Reported weekly status and created metrics. Led and managed status meetings.

BMO Harris - Was asked to take ownership of and proactively lead and manage an effort to decommission “at risk” websites that were acquired as part of an earlier M&A. After several prior attempts failed during the prior 12-month period, our team completed the decommissioning task in less than 3 weeks. This resulted in accolades from several Directors and senior level executives commending our teams’ efforts and specifically my leadership and management skills. Led, managed, and drove, critical bank wide Information Security project. The goal was to reduce and if possible, eliminate all personal email traffic and data from entering and leaving the bank via the Blue Coat proxy server. Created metrics and reported Status updates to Senior Management. Resulted in an 81% reduction of personal email transmissions and a 77% reduction of data transmissions via personal email. Led and managed status meetings.

Operations Management

Invesco PowerShares - Analyzed current process and created new process for handling trading exceptions and trade reconciliations for Operations Group. Resolved process flaws by sending midday and EOD CRD trade execution files via Swift messaging, which resulted in a 30% reduction of next day exceptions and reconciliations thereby saving time and cost for firm. (Invesco PowerShares) Developed business requirements to automate ETF basket creation processes and calculate NAVs for PowerShares Equity, Fixed Income, Buy/Write, International and UCITS ETFs.

Process Improvement

Invesco PowerShares - Successfully analyzed and resolved risks in development processes by removing redundancies and correcting synchronization times of environments, which reduced development time to production, from months to weeks, resulting in over $100,000 of project cost reduction. (Invesco PowerShares) Led, designed and developed detailed exception request process flow. Successfully designed and created workflow and process flow diagrams and supporting documentation.

Client Development & Management:

CBOE - Increased client base by 250% during tenure as Floor Manager of Equity Execution firm on CBOE by serving clients with integrity and providing excellent executions and service. Increased production levels by 550% during tenure by building strong and lasting client relationships. Successfully managed several CBOE Trading desks that specialized in arbitrage and NYSE Equity executions to hedge equity option positions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CISSP Certification Training - Self Study 1/18- Current

Studying, monitoring, and assessing progress of practice exams in preparation for CISSP certification exam in 2019

AJ GALLAGHER (Contract)

Senior Information Security Project Manager 1/17 - 9/17

Managed 7 concurrent IT Global Information Security Projects.

Created and documented exception processes and process flow diagrams for Information Security Projects.

Managed Semantic, (Blue Coat Proxy SG), Secure Web Gateway server upgrade and implementation of blocking policy in US and UK.

Managed 3 McAfee (RME) Removable Media Encryption projects for 2 US divisions, and all of India.

Managed Trip Wire (IP 360) Global Vulnerability Scanning for all AJG devices.

Managed (WAF) Web Access Firewall Project F5 Implementation and Policy Mapping.

Managed Gigamon Project in UK (Data Aggregator) connectivity and configuration of Verba

Direct manager of Penetration Testing teams; responsible for direct oversight of progress and issues

NEUBERGER BERMAN (Contract) 9/16-11/16

Business Analyst

Created Institutional Trade Flow diagrams illustrating the flow of trades from the OMS, where order was initiated, i.e., (Aladdin, CRD, Bloomberg), to internal applications, to message queues, and then to the accounting system.

Created Trade Message diagrams to illustrate message queues and Acks and Nacks for trades.

Created complex mapping tables using XML tags from trades in Blackrock Aladdin and mapping to Neuberger Berman friendly names for the following products: Swaps, IRS, TRS, OTC, CDS, CFD, and XCurrency trading products.

Participated in daily standups and reported status on assigned user stories.

BMO Harris (Multiple Contract Engagements) 11/07-1//08, 9/11-8/12, 9/15-3/16

Senior Information Security Project Manager

Information Security Project Manager Liaison for 3 major divestiture projects.

Led weekly project status meetings and created dashboards. Reported status to GITRM Director and provided feedback and signoffs back to Technical and Business leads.

Led, managed, and drove, critical bank wide Information Security project. The goal was to reduce and if possible, eliminate all personal email traffic and data from entering and leaving the bank via the Blue Coat proxy server. Resulted in an 81%.reduction of personal email transmissions and a 77% reduction of data transmissions via personal email.

Led, designed and developed detailed exception request process.

Designed and created workflow diagrams and supporting documentation.

Created, monitored, and maintained an exception request webmail box and resolved user requests, based on exception criteria and signoff from GITRM Executive.

Analyzed ownership of bank URLs based on LOB to determine which sites should be slated for penetration testing.

Analyzed ownership of technical and business applications for Book of Record Project.

Led, managed and drove successful effort to decommission an at risk website in a period of 2 weeks, after multiple attempts failed in the prior 9 month period. This resulted in accolades from several Directors and high level executives commending my leadership and management skills.

HCSC (Contract) 2014

Project Coordinator

Managed HCSCs first Affordable Care Act implementation in Agile SDLC

DISCOVER (Contract) 2014

Project Consultant

Proprietary Software Upgrade

EXELON (Contract) 2013

Project Manager

Managed 7 client work streams to meet compliance deadline for MP II NERC CIP

BMO (Contract) 2011-2012

Project Manager

Managed M&I bank Merger and Acquisition

NORTHERN TRUST (Contract) 2010

Business Analyst/PM

Removed Fixed Income products from Charles River application and remapped Fixed Income products to Blackrock’s Aladdin software.

INVESCO POWERSHARES (Contract to Hire) 2008 - 2009

Project Manager, Business Analyst, Operations Analyst, QA Analyst

Managed first North American implementations of Charles River for ETFs

SUNGARD SYSTEMS (Contract) 2007

PM/Business Analyst

Managed Phase 1 software upgrade to meet new OCC’s pilot portfolio margining regulations.

CALAMOS INVESTMENTS 2005 - 2006

QA Analyst

Led, managed and executed QA process for full SDLC of proprietary software upgrade.

TRADING TECHNOLOGIES (Contract) 2004

Business Analyst/SQE/C++ QA Lead for X_Trader Release.

Established QA best practices for full SDLC of X_Trader.

IBBOTSON ASSOCIATES 2000 - 2003

QA Lead Agile

Managed staff of 4 through full software development life cycle in Agile SDLC environment for new releases of EnCorr Portfolio Management and Portfolio Analysis software.

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