SUMMARY

Experienced People Motivator, Leader and Project Manager, delivering high profile projects via Agile and Waterfall methodologies for project stakeholders on time and within budget.

PROFICIENCIES:

AML/OFAC/KYC

Regulatory Compliance

Risk Mitigation Reporting

Project Management Disciplines

Budget Resource Planning

Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint

Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint

Project Charter and Scope

Meeting Minutes

Daily Tracking of all Issues & Resolutions

Status Reporting

Presentations at all levels, including C-Suite

Microsoft Suite-Project, Excel, Word

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RAYMOND JAMES, ST PETERSBURG, FL 10/2015 – 07/2016

PROJECT MANGER

Managed $5.1 million budget consisting of 50 IT professional resources.

Responsible for resource allocations and resource time reporting.

Budget reporting with Sr. IT VP monthly.

Managed financial performance project creating client reports via Oracle database.

Reverse engineered project with high profile status.

Managed AML project to feed financial trx’s (ACH payments) to Mantas application pattern recognition.

Met weekly with Sr. VP (AML officer) to discuss project deliverables and risk. Coordinated daily meetings, produced meeting minutes, status & risk/mitigation reports.

LIVE monthly executive reporting and presentations regarding project activities, deliverables using timelines / Gantt charts.

Strategic Agile planning to ensure deadlines met.

STATE STREET, BOSTON, MA 04/2015 – 10/2015

MANAGER, CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Tracked & reported production application deployments for entire corporation worldwide.

Managed server build requests for applications teams. Eliminated escalations management.

Managed server patching for UNIX, ORACLE, WINDOWS, SQL in all environments.

Liaison for infrastructure and business development teams.

LIVE monthly executive status reporting.

Presented LIVE bi-weekly statuses to business development and infrastructure teams regarding progress for improvements.

AML and KYC reporting responsibilities.

Ensured risk mitigation planning incorporated in all coordinated activities.

WEDBUSH SECURITIES, NYC/LOS ANGELES 08/2013 – 12/2014

PROJECT MANAGER

Head of PMO, implemented disciplines in support of project management.

Conducted meetings with FINRA concerning AML/KYC for new accounts coming to Wedbush.

Liaison w/sales department for new client regarding expectations for project deliverables.

Managed back office conversion of Lightspeed Securities to Phase3 on HP/Tandem.

Managed network implementation of DS3 to support real time FIX trade messaging.

Implemented back office operational procedures in support of securities processing.

Managed requirements for FINRA regarding go live documents and test results.

Managed BCP and supported hands on testing.

Live monthly executive status reporting for all project activities past and future.

Managed team of business analysts and IT specialist’s onsite and remote.

CREDIT AGRICOLE, NYC/NJ 04/2007 – 04/2013

PROJECT MANAGER

Managed Business Continuity Planning in support of internal & external testing.

Managed testing, changes, incidents & resolutions for back office trading application.

Managed professional services projects for back office reconciliation teams.

Managed AML/KYC projects for back office trading.

Applied prioritization management to ensure most high focus on firms most important projects.

Managed invoice reconciliation for all vendors and agencies (saved firm over $200k).

Hands on tester for all financial trading transactions via BT Radianz, SWIFT & MQ upgrades.

INVESTORS BANK & TRUST, BOSTON, MA 04/2006 – 04/2007

DIRECTOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Managed 3 senior project managers responsible for business requirements & test plans.

Managed conversions of new business, custodian’s positions and cash transactions.

Managed mutual fund reconciliations to feed TLM reconciliation application.

SUNGARD SECURITIES PROCESSING, BURLINGTON, MA 11/1990 – 03/2006

PROJECT MANAGER/DIRECTOR

Director Product Development (SDLC) managed 45+ technical & business professionals (on/offshore).

Executive reporting for all development projects.

Liaison with sales department for potential clients.

Responsible for creation of new UI for all clients to access Phase3 back office trading application.

Director Information Technology responsible for 24*7 support and improvements.

Project Manager responsible for Phase3 application implementations.

Project Manager Managed successful Y2K project. Managed $500k budget.

Data Center Manger, managed 25 people responsible for data center operations.

BCP Manger responsible for disaster recovery coordination w/clients, vendors & agencies.

Quality Assurance Manager. Managed team responsible for testing via WinRunner.

Software Release Manager. Hands on software deployments using RMS version control on HP/Tandem.

Technical Support Analyst on HP/Tandem. Reduced nightly escalations by 95%.

References supplied upon request.

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