Project Manager Management

Detail oriented, motivated and technically proficient project manager with

over 20 years of experience. Proven manager with strong financial services

knowledge, team-building skills and demonstrated ability to work within

budget and time constraints. Strives to enhance the performance and impact

of the project team. Industry experience includes; real estate, financial

services, (capital markets, front/middle office, banking, investment

banking, fixed income), credit card processing and consumer products.

Selected Project Management Highlights

V Managed the corporate wide migration to Exchange 2010 and Office 2010

from Exchange and Office 2007

V Managed Call Center upgrades that resulted in reduced frequency of down-

time by approx. 20%

V Managed the Phase I migration to MS-Outlook from Lotus Notes for the

DTCC.

V Managed the Circuit Consolidation initiative at BofA that realized an

annual savings of over $1MM.

V Managed the software consolidation project of BofA and ML trading and

reporting applications.

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR June '09 -

Present

Brookfield Properties, Project Manager

NYC

. Project Manager for the Corporate Operations Group. Managed the

enterprise-wide migration to MS-Exchange 2010 and MS-Office 2010

efforts. Upgraded corporate wide video capabilities with MS-Lync and

Polycom, and managed the migration to of SIP trucks to a new provider.

. Responsibilities include: Setting deployment schedules, managing

vendors and technical resources, troubleshooting issues, creating

runbooks, project plans and managing budget. Provide status updates to

senior management.

J. Crew, Project Manager

NYC

. Project Manager for the Infrastructure Group. Projects include;

implementation of new HR system, server and storage installations,

environment upgrades and data center migrations. Program manager for

co-location infrastructure projects and activities. Managed Call Center

infrastructure and network projects, vendor relationship and pipeline

activities. Call Center initiatives reduced down-time by approximately

20%.

. Responsibilities include; managing technical resources, hosting

meetings, tracking budget, creating and managing project plans.

Coordinating with business and vendors on scheduling project and change

management activities. Presenting status to senior management.

Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., Project Manager

NYC

. Project Manager for the Distributed Services Group. Projects include;

migrating to MS-Exchange from Lotus Notes (savings of about $150k in

maintenance), upgrading organization to SharePoint 2010, integrating

an acquired company into DTCC's network/environment. Others include;

managing DR exercises, upgrading SWIFT and the security

recertification, Virtualization, server and storage upgrades and

network enhancements.

. Responsibilities include; project planning (baselines, estimating),

coordinating resources (matrixed), managing budget, working with

vendors, moderating project meetings, authoring project minutes,

tracking milestones/issues/risks. Managed the complete project

lifecycle.

. PMO team member. Assisted with the maintenance of the group's

portfolio of projects. Duties include creating executive dashboards,

financials, budgeting and burn-rates. Presented to senior management.

Bank of America, Project Manager

Jersey City, NJ

. Support the Transaction Hub (THub) infrastructure for the Middle-

Office. Project responsibilities include; managing storage

requirements, server remediations, contingency testing, server builds,

moves and decommissions, data center consolidations and budget

forecasting.

. Team member of THub / ARCTIC consolidation project. Enterprise-wide

effort consolidating two middle/back office systems which will result

in $1.5MM in savings over three years. Responsible for coordinating

server inventories and reallocations, inbound and outbound feed

discovery and managing business side infrastructure efforts.

. Responsible for assisting legacy Merrill Lynch resources navigate the

BofA processes. Functioned as the main point of contact for

issue/process resolution.

BANK OF AMERICA New

York, NY

Vice President / Project Manager

May '07 - March '09

. PMO staff member. Created and maintained PMO spreadsheets, heatmaps

and executive dashboards for presentation to upper management.

Identified project and resource dependencies and conflicts.

. Member of hand-selected team responsible for technology wide expense

consolidation. Managed the analysis of circuit and lab consolidation

efforts. Realized annualized savings of over $1MM. Reported results to

Steering Committee.

. Technical Project Manager for the Capital Markets group. Managed

numerous, simultaneous projects through their complete project

lifecycle. Projects included: application upgrades, virtualization,

consolidation & expansion of infrastructure servers, storage & network

for electronic trading & electronic funds transfer. Responsibilities

included; the management & coordination of business & technical

resources, third party vendors & outsourcers, creation & maintenance

of project plans, milestones & issues, & project budgets.

. Promoted the expansion of the team's use of MS-SharePoint, Wiki

applications and Agile methodologies.

BUSINESS EDGE SOLUTIONS New

York, NY

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Sept. '06 - April '07

. PMO team member for a large financial firm's wealth management group.

Created and managed project plans, interfaced with the business group

and technology teams. Identified and guided resolution to issues and

conflicts that were identified through the various plans. Interacted

with senior management to report findings.

. Produced Party/Client Management requirements documents and project

plans for a financial institution's legal entity/Basel II program

implementation. Included; business requirements, swimlanes, process

flows, and Use Cases. Project plan included phases of the PMP

framework.

RANDOM WALK COMPUTING (acquired by ACCENTURE, July 2006) New

York, NY

Senior Business Analyst - PMO

April '06 - July '06

. Commenced the creation of project management standards, metrics and

tools for the dissemination to all projects within the firm.

Introduced structured Agile methodology to various application

development teams.

. Created various front-office systems proposals for presentation to

financial services firms. Participated in meetings with clients and

presented to upper management.

JPMORGANCHASE / PINNACLE ALLIANCE - CSC New York, NY

Vice President 2000 - April 2006

Program Management Office

. Analyzed, budgeted, forecasted labor and reported of projects by

creating projections, project and management summaries. Chaired weekly

meeting on project/budget/labor status and projected labor/budget

needs.

. Provided accurate and timely merger information to internals clients.

Reviewed established processes and recommended changes to ensure

integrity of data. Coordinated with business and technical groups

managing end-to-end processes, create reports, schedules, chaired

meetings, and led a transition team.

Project Manager - Chase CAS Group & Chase Card Services

. Managed numerous Network projects through their complete lifecycle.

Projects include; security server, HR web upgrades, network

infrastructure for credit card authorizations, corporate purchasing

system upgrade and server consolidations. Coordinated between

business, technology and vendors. Created-maintained project plans,

budget, reporting, vendor, resource & issue management.

. Managed the analysis, procurement, installation, and testing of Card

Services network upgrade. Procured resources, coordinated network

analysis, initiated-tracked circuit and equipment purchases, created

and maintained plan and issues list, chaired status meetings and

followed up on open items.

COMPUTER SCIENCES CORP. (CSC) MANAGEMENT CONSULTING GROUP NYC, NY

Senior Consultant / Project Manager

1999 - 2000

eCommerce

. For a 'Dot com', identified business functions, created business

process documents, selected and oversaw creative design firm and

managed in-house developers and client. Created and maintained project

budget and schedule.

. For a retail supplier, lead the technical assessment of Internet

vendors for B2B alliances. Created and presented reports to senior

management, managed and coordinated creation of design standards

between technology, marketing and other business units.

. Developed an organization's first web-enabled, membership dues site.

Managed the creation of a web site where dues and other financial

actions are securely transacted. Responsibilities; verified functional

requirements, created project plans, coordinated with 3rd party vendors

and consulting firms, executed test plans, managed client

relationships, status reporting and the project budget.

ERNST & YOUNG LLP - Management Consulting Practice

New York, NY

Manager 1993 -

1999

Project Manager - Financial Services

. eCommerce Startup. Evaluated and recommended components for an

organization's web site. Built project plans, managed resource

allocation, and responsible for budget.

. Credit Card Merchant Processor. Created data warehouse application

from multiple corporate systems for senior management reporting.

Responsibilities included; managing business analysts and development

team in geographically dispersed locations, reporting status to senior

management, presenting to steering committee and managing overall

project budget, resources and timelines.

Project Manager - management system for a large credit card transactional

organization

Assistant Program Manager - large scale self-regulated financial exchanges

Business Analyst - Y2K for sales and trading departments of a Municipal

Bond organization

Project Leader - IPO application for a large global investment bank

Database Developer - global bank and utility organization

Addition experience and references furnished on request

EDUCATION

M.B.A. - Finance Hofstra University, NY B.A. - Psychology SUNY at Stony

Brook, NY

SKILLS:

Methodologies: PMI-PMP, Agile, ITIL, CSC's Catalyst Project Management,

E&Y's RAD Environment, Navigator Project Management,

SDLC

Productivity Applications: MS-Office Suite, MS-Project, Visio,

SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Clarity, PPM

Web Technologies: Wiki, HTML, JAVA, XML

Languages & Databases: SQL, Oracle, Sybase

OS/Middleware/Other: VMWare, Citrix, Active Directory, MS-Windows

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CSC/UC at Irvine: Certificate of Project Management, with focus on

PMI/PMP framework

Oracle: Entity-Relationship Modeling, Database Administration, Database

Tuning,

E&Y/NYU SCE: Advanced Topics and Trends in the Financial Services

Industry

NYU SCE: Introduction to E-commerce

E&Y: Accelerated Systems Development, Project Management

with Navigator

Principles and Case Studies in E-Commerce

CSC: Catalyst Project Management, Network Architecture, E-

Commerce Technical

Architecture, The Business of Wall Street, Intro to

Six Sigma

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Mario Wilkowski

1920 Helen Court

Merrick, NY 11566

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