Project Manager

Raj Deb

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Professional Profile and Career Objective

Versatile, results driven, customer focused financial services technology leader, with over 12 years

of Canadian IT experience in all aspects of Information Systems and Technology, Solutions

Delivery, and Project Management.

a) Working as a Technical Project Manager on a large multi-million dollar Trading application in

the bank, on the Capital markets area, serving equities and Securities Trading, serving the

traders real time. Involved from Project initiation, design, construction, implementation and

Support. Running on J2ee platform on Unix. Hands on experience with full Project Life Cycle,

overseeing Resource Management, Project Charter,Plans, Metrics. Align with other Corporate

Initiatives and managed cross project dependencies, developing detailed project work plans

and schedules, And establish and implement best project practices. Strictly following

SDLC(Agile:Scrum) and PMLC

b) Hands on Project Management experience with large scale projects Infrastructure and

Application projects,in the bank for example: FATCA, Email conversion to Kofax, Infrastructure

Migration of servers, databases, upgrade of user desktops from Windows 6 and XP to 8.1, on front,Mid

and Backoffice segment, to name a few.

Seeking a role as a Senior IT Technical Project Manager:Development/Infrastructure to facilitate,

support and provide strategic leadership to team members and business partners, in the

successful delivery and support of applications..

Areas of expertise:

• • Financial/Banking/Capital markes/Wealth

Leadership and process( all aspects

of ITIL v3.0 methodology), SDLC and Management experience

P MLC

• Full Systems Development Lifecycle,

• Program & Project

Application Delivery and Implementation

Management(Waterfall,Agile: Scrum)

• Large scale Application

• Strong in managing multiple projects

Development(Java,J2EE)

simultaneously in a fast-paced matrixed

Strong SDLC experience.

environment

• Excel,Powerpoint,MS Sharepoint,Visio,MS

Project,Documentation, UML • Client relationship management skills,

• Vendor and Contract Management,

work independently with minimal direction

Infrastructure Technologies:

Servers,networks,,desktop,hardware

• Project Management : 8+ yrs : Prime Brokerage/FX/Trading/Wealth management /Retail

Banking applications

• Post production support- : 8+ yrs. :

• People Management – 8+ yrs. with teams up to 20 in size (onshore + offshore)

• Business Stakeholder Relationship Management/Team coaching and Mentoring– 8+ yrs.

• Hands on, roll up the sleeves Project Technical Manager,with strong technical,analytical and

troubleshooting skills

Professional Experience

CIBC, Global Operations Technology : March 2006 – Feb23rd, 2015

Senior IT Technical Project/Application Manager

• OTIS Project: J oined CIBC in 2006 as a Technical Team lead subsequently promoted to

Senior Manager responsible for leading a team of over 20 people, with the core responsibility to

provide support and enhancement of multiple medium sized projects on the enterprise wide J2EE

application platform, a massive 200+ million dollar project serving Front/Middle and Backoffice

users in the bank

Key Achievements: Below are a few illustrated

Projects: TLM (Trade LifeCycle Manager) : Jan 2011 to Current

A multi-million dollar CIBC project called T L M that serves as a Trade workflow engine, a high volume

complex trading application, from Trade initiation to Settlement and book of records. Worked as a Project

Lead with 12 developers, working on core Java Multithreading techniques, and core J2ee(EJB,

J MS,Spring, IBM MQ) .

• Partner with clients to understand their business needs as well as identify and prioritize

their project requirements.

• Facilitate effective team meetings: stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and demos.

• Work with the Product Owner and the Project team to develop and manage a project

backlog.

• Manage sprint backlog and key project elements,risks, scope, budgets and schedules.

• Liaise between the client and the Delivery team to ensure user stories/acceptance

criteria is clearly defined, understood, and implemented successfully.

• Synthesizes info into concise, action items, write software requirements, user stories,

user cases etc.

• Uncover and remove team impediments which prevent the team from achieving their

shared goal.Tracks projects against delivery

• This project saved the bank almost 30% in cost reduction in terms of manual work

needed by backoffice users to monitor the lifecycle of a trade manually on Broadridge,

C DS, Euroclear and GLOSS systems

Project FATCA : June 2013 to Aug. 2014

A bank regulatory project with extremely tight deadlines that needed to be met as the product

Was destined for Production on Aug 2014 to meet the Canadian Banking regulatory needs.

Was involved as a technical PM with about 12 developers working round the clock to gather

requirements from Business partners and other lines of Business, namely Wealth and Retail M.

• Capture and track program metrics and perform analysis. Manage project scope by

assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk.

• Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them. Clarify,

identify, and track requirements and issues,remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and

escalate to immediate manager where required.

• Manage project closure initiatives, such as client satisfaction survey and closure analysis.

Document and archive project activities, deliverables, tools and findings for future projects.

• Maintaining excellent relationship with the vendors in terms of obtaining continuous upgrades to

their products, influencing them to execute enchancements and bug fixes.

• Have analytical skills to solve complex problems, interpret operational needs, identify creative

solutions and develop new strategies and procedures.

• Direct development teams in the areas of scheduling, technical direction, future planning and

standard development practices.

• Give Directions to development teams in the areas of scheduling, technical direction, future

planning and standard development practices.

Project: Email Migration Ugrade: June2012 to Oct 2013

A large J2EE /XML project where the email server was getting Migrated from Adlib product to Kofax

email connector product, impacting all lines of Business. Was involved hands-on with the Business analysts,

Core Business stakholders, Users, development team, Architect and Infrastructure team to develop a robust

plan for the smooth migration of the email functionality from Adlib to Kofax tool

• Manage daily activities, issue resolution, and communication across project execution teams in

order to deliver projects on-time, on-budget.

• Manage maintenance activities to meet systems availability, stability, and performance targets

• Develop maintenance skills in staff so that group maturity and knowledge increases

• Sustain support policies, processes, and skills so that support objectives are met or exceeded

Key technologies used:

Languages: Java, J2EE framework, EJ B, J MS

Databases: Oracle 10g, Sybase, MS SQL server, mySQL

Scripting: Strong SQL scripting experience, knows to tune complex queries in Production, to

remove any performance bottlenecks, knows how to pinpoint performance issues( by triaging

statspacks, oracle explain plan and AWR reports)and ultimately tuning them to eliminate user

slowness issues in Production

Unix scripting, Python, L AN, WAN knowledge and troubleshooting skills

Operating systems: Unix (Solaris 10), SAN Storage, Veritas

Servers: Oracle Weblogic 10, Window

Enterprise workflow frameworks: Oracle Weblogic Integration tool (WLI), Activity workflow

Framework, MS SharePoint

Scheduling/Monitoring Tools:Informatica 9.0, Autosys Job scheduler, TIDAL

CGI Group Inc : Feb 1998 – March 2006

Technical Team Lead(J2EE projects)

With over 30,000 professionals, CGI is one of the largest independent information technology services

f irms in North America, providing a full range of IT services, including consulting, systems integration,

and the management of business and IT functions.

Worked on a large number of projects, the most significant leading a team of support members and

developers to support and manage two critical order management systems in BELL Canada called

Ordermax and EBCCS..

Key Projects:

• Feb 98 to Dec 99: Worked on the Y2 Millenium project, as a C++ developer making changes to

the existing code base and applications running on C++ and Windows NT platform, so that they

can be fail-safe when the Millenium bug hits.

o Tools used: C/C++, Windows NT, Visual C++, Visual Sourcesafe

• Jan 2000 till June 2002: Worked on a major initiative of BCE, called Bell World application,

which was deployed on all the Bell stores across Canada. Was involved a Visual Basic

Programmer, using Microsoft COM and DCOM tools

o Tools used: MS Visual Basic 6, COM, DCOM, MS Sql server, NT server

• Aug 2002 to Aug 2004: Worked as a J2EE developer on a major Bell Canada project called

eBCCS, which was developed to serve as a backbone “order processing system” for all Bell

Canada customers.

o Tools used: Java, J MS, JSP, Vitria Messaging layer and Java mainframe connectors to

connect to the BE LL Mainframe

• Sept 2004 to Feb 2006: Promoted to Team Lead to manage and lead a team that developed and

supported a major Bell product called OrderMax. Partnered with IB M consultants on Bell

premises, and on Agile methodologies with the Business analysts,

Tools used: Java, Struts, Servlets, JSP, J2EE, J MS, X M L, Oracle9, Agile, Java Connector services

Education and Professional Development

Bachelors Degree – Bachelor of Engineering, Jadavpur University, India

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Certificate of Project Management Essentials – Learning Tree International, Toronto, planning to

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complete PMP in 6 months

Professional Affiliations / Certifications

• Project Management Essentials (PMP)

• Oracle Weblogic SOA

References available upon request

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