Project Manager Management

Nikiesha London-Sylvester

Owner LDNS Consulting LLC, Senior Business/Data Analyst & Project Manager

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Summary

Highly qualified Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager with extensive experience managing the analysis,

definition and implementation of technologically-based business initiatives in the financial services industry

including Investment Banking, Broker/Dealer and Vendor services. Expertise in fixed-income and derivative

trade processing life-cycle (trade capture through settlements), business and systems analysis, requirements

gathering/translation, test management, use cases/user stories, managing customer expectations and

coordinating and prioritizing efforts between development, testing and deliverables. Versatile professional who

is able to quickly grasp the “big picture” while retaining the ability to drill down to detail level on key issues.

Strong communicator who easily interfaces with high-profile stakeholders; utilizing a complementary blend of

business, administrative and technical abilities that have proven very effective in achieving desired goals.

Additional areas of expertise include:

*Project Management & Tracking *Test Planning & Execution*Management of Cross-Functional

Teams*Workflow Process Analysis *Change Control Management *Team Building & Mentoring

*Data & Systems Analysis *Risk & Communication Planning *Client/Staff Training

*Software Development Lifecycle *Iterative and Agile Methodologies *User Training

Experience

Compliance Change Management BA Consultant at Barclays

October 2012 - April 2013 (7 months)

Primarily responsible for the compliance issue tracking system controlling change management for all

enhancements, testing and application deployment

Test Manager Consultant at Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

November 2011 - April 2012 (6 months)

Contracted to lead the System Integration and User Acceptance Testing efforts for the Front to Back Office

derivative (IRS, CFD, ETD) project. Also functioned as a Business Analyst to document the reporting

requirements which included producing multiple iterations of various sample reports (i.e. design documents)

to the stakeholders for approval and subsequent submission to development. Created QA and UAT test

strategies, scenarios and test scripts. Coordinated resources for regression and UAT testing and Implemented

a change management process that included analysis, management and reporting of defects,

Program manager consultant at JP Morgan

March 2011 - November 2011 (9 months)

Brought in to create consistent project governance, processes and reporting and provide guidance to work

stream leads. Additionally, supported the managing director by assuming role of program manager to

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facilitate weekly Project Working Group meetings; produce implementation approach, timelines and go-live

strategies; Monitoring program costs monthly by comparing actual vs. forecast raising any issues or changes

to the Project Managers; Monitoring inter-project dependencies relating to resource conflicts, systems

capabilities and milestone changes on any external projects that impacted the program.

Project Manager Consultant at Deutsche Bank

March 2010 - December 2010 (10 months)

Worked directly with Regulatory Finance, Compliance, and other relevant stakeholders to elicit, formally

document and present business requirements, develop user procedures, process documentation and training

materials to ensure smooth transition of the daily Regulatory reporting operating processes to the offshore

teams. Created Business Process Management diagrams and high level work flows diagrams as well as

identifying and defining risks involved of not performing the functionality correctly.

Project Manager at GlobeOp Financial Services

March 2007 - April 2009 (2 years 2 months)

Worked on projects to define and translate the needs of users, obtain backing of business and technical

sponsors, documenting and maintaining tasks in MS Project. Utilized the full project management life cycle

as well as the Software Development Life Cycle to support all projects. As a Trainer, was responsible for

project roll-out to organization's employees (i.e. training) and external clients using Web-ex application as

well as client visits

1 recommendation available upon request

Quality Control Analyst at Standard & Poor's

January 2006 - November 2006 (11 months)

Worked on projects to identify the needs of the users and translating these into functional requirements. As

Project lead on a Multi-Million dollar project that revamped the Mutual Fund & End of Day Pricing

application to provide an frontal view into the system and to accept client inquiries via a web-based interface

for ease of accessibility by both internal and external users. In addition, was project lead on a new Platform

that consolidated all products within S&P Securities Services in user friendly formats for clients

Assistant Manager Vendor Relations at Standard & Poor's

January 2002 - December 2005 (4 years)

Managed a staff of six persons with regards to portfolio maintenance, preparation and delivery of Evaluation

Pricing reports and files for over 700 Domestic and International Fixed income, equity, mutual fund and

statement accounts for a variety of clients in the national and international arena

Skills & Expertise

Vendor Management

Project Management

Business Operations

Communications Management

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User Acceptance Testing

Business Analysis

Change Management

Systems Analysis

Data Analysis

Securities

Fixed Income

Education

DeVry College of New York's Keller Graduate School of Management

MS, Information Systems Management, 2008 - 2010

DeVry College of New York's Keller Graduate School of Management

MBA, Project Management, 2007 - 2009

New York University

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Anthropology, French & Linguistics, 1994 - 1999

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Nikiesha London-Sylvester

Owner LDNS Consulting LLC, Senior Business/Data Analyst & Project Manager

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1 person has recommended Nikiesha

"I have had the pleasure of working closely with Nikiesha since the past few years on different projects. She

is a thorough professional and totally dedicated to her job. Nikiesha has a proven ability to develop and

closely monitor projects that have been assigned to her. Her priority is always to work towards identifying the

needs of Business Users as well as of Clients and playing an integral role in building a strong and robust

application. Overall, she has the ability to drive any project right from inception till the implementation stage

and beyond. Her knowledge, passion and perseverance makes her an asset for any organisaton. She is a

wonderful person at heart and jovial by nature, which adds to the spirits of the team."

Francis Saldanha, Director, GlobeOp Financial Services, managed Nikiesha indirectly at GlobeOp

Financial Services

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