Vadim Ovchinnikov

917-***-****

Staten Island, NY acyea9@r.postjobfree.com

Astute, solutions-driven IT Program/Project Manager with over 18

years of success driving $MM large-scale, multi-tiered

financial management and process improvement initiatives for

leading organizations; such as the Credit Suisse, Bank of

America and the New York Stock Exchange. Broad strengths in

strategic/tactical planning, project execution, portfolio

management, PMO support, business process reengineering,

problem resolution, teambuilding, adaptability, and cost

savings.

PROFESSIONAL

SUMMARY Versatile leader with "big picture" vision and a keen ability

to stay on top of all project details. Consistent success in

resolving technical issues, reducing costs, streamlining

operations and enhancing profit performance.

. Consensus builder who works with business leaders,

technical teams and vendors to effectively prioritize

activities and achieve defined objectives. Excellent

ability to translate business needs into technical

solutions.

. Innovative, tenacious problem solver, devising system

solutions that fully support the bottom line and long-

range goals. Catalyst for continuous improvement who

readily adapts to evolving business and technology

challenges.

KEY Project and Program Oversight, PMO Strategic Planning, WBS

COMPETENCIES Project Management & Reporting Team Leadership &

Mentoring

Client Relationship Management Enterprise Delivery &

Compliance

Process Automation & Reengineering Upgrade & New Feature

Integration

Vendor & Offshore Management Troubleshooting & Issue

Resolution

Organizational Change Management Inventory

Control/Logistics

PROFESSIONAL Credit Suisse, New York, NY 2013 - 2016

EXPERIENCE AMER RDO and Hosting Services Program Manager/Project Manager

Program Manager for Regional Data Operations Hosting

Services supporting Online Storage Life Cycle Management

program for Americas region. Focused on more efficient and

less expensive operations and regulatory compliance of the

production storage systems.

Key Accomplishments:

. Maintained reliability and production stability of

storage systems by supporting storage Life Cycle

Management eliminated risk of running old Legacy

platforms and improved long-term optimization for

efficiency. Managed strategy to find the best

investments of the resultant savings.

. Delivered regional storage platform consolidation to a

newer EMC storage system resulting in $2.2MM savings to

overall Business in AMER region, lowered maintenance by

20% quarterly. Consolidation effort included over 600

servers with 1.3 PB of data migrated to a new VMAX3

storage platform

. Managing implementation of Hitachi flash storage

technology in multiple Credit Suisse Datacenters

allowing to solve for the growing pressure points around

cost, operational performance, and response time.

Project resulted in cost avoidance of $1MM (around 35%)

with thin provisioning and quality-of-service controls

. Conducted weekly meetings with Program, Customer,

Project and Procurement teams to identify areas of

potential cost reductions. Achieved a 15% labor cost

savings when SLA's were revised with the agreement of

internal enterprise teams.

. Built reputation for seamlessly guiding projects by

preparing detailed project plans, project/portfolio

budgets and build-outs for the project teams; also

managed implementations, testing, production releases,

timelines and deliverables within required PMO

standards. Keys to success included taking a systematic

approach to problem solving, building cooperation with

customers and teams, and making delivery to business as

transparent as possible and simplifying management

methodology.

Bank of America, New York, NY 2012 -

2013

Reference Data Program Manager

Program Manager for Reference Data, providing a single

united System of Record for party and account data for all

of Global Markets. Facilitating rapid, cost effective

compliance with evolving regulations.

. Advocated system unification and removal of

segmentations that had a real material cost to the firm

in terms of duplicate work, inconsistent data and rules

. Managed infrastructure utilization to reduce complexity

in terms of management by having fewer, simpler

components for common configuration and program regional

availability

Key Accomplishments:

. Achived 700K in cost avoidance by eliminating redundant

third-party data feeds and extras

. Implemented Informatica MDM that resulted in an one-time

savings of $4.5 million in its IT capital expense budget

by replacing an antiquated system; an annual savings of

around $2 million due to the reduction in the number of

failed trades that had to be fixed manually

Bank of America, New York, NY 2006 -

2012

Sr. Tech Project Manager/Portfolio Team Manager

Fulfill dual pivotal roles as end-to-end Technical Project

Manager and Portfolio Team Manager for multiple businesses,

encompassing GWIM, GET, Risks, Deposit Operations, Fixed

Income, ETT and Global Market & Research Technology. Preside

over 6 concurrent projects in addition to managing a team of

7 Project Managers. Direct and cross-train functional teams

(7 direct reports and up to 15 resources per project) in day-

to-day processes and all aspects of corporate structure, PMO

and Information Security.

. Entrusted with leading high visibility and impact

initiatives for New York Stock Exchange environments,

overseeing and controlling costs, dates and resources.

. Used Six Sigma's DMAIC process to effectively manage the

design/implementation of audit-related projects with

strict monetary and timeline constraints in a fast-

paced, high-pressure environment.

. Maintained daily communications between Finance,

Business, Program Owners and Senior Management on

upcoming pipeline efforts to plan/staff projects,

enabling significant savings within each initiative.

Key Accomplishments:

. Supplied leadership and oversight to 7 to 10 Technology

Project Managers (direct reports) and controlled a

$5.2MM budget for Global Equities and Electronic Trading

Technology, with an average number of 32 medium & high-

complexity projects quarterly. Projects included GET RAM

App, GET RAM DB, GET FlowRisk, InstaQuote and ARCA

Session migration to SFTI.

. Orchestrated migration of Bank of America Specialists to

a newly designed Datacenter in Mahwah, NJ, upgraded to a

NextGen M3 servers family that reduced the time delay

for orders and increased trading market revenue by 50%.

Met challenge of aggressive NYSE timelines by leading

the project team and external vendors in working nights

and weekends. Reduced overhead $800K annually by moving

the Specialists to this multicast solution. Recognized

by the Bank and NYSE SLT's for disciplined management of

project and completion within NYSE timelines.

. Saved an estimated $300K in hosting charges by utilizing

VMWare and IIS technology to consolidate the

infrastructure footprint of 250+ servers.

. Reduced time to delivery 20% by improving PMO

methodologies to minimize latency within project

deliverables. Improvements entailed removing tollgate

reviews and simplifying WBS for BAU projects, improving

the engagement process for all project resources and

removing redundant paperwork from project phases.

. Exceeded expectations by delivering all projects on time

and to the customer's satisfaction. Added significant

value by introducing project management tools, removing

roadblocks by advocating the highest technology

standards and cutting costs by moving to virtual

platforms and saving on hosting charges.

NYSE/SIAC, New York, NY 2001 - 2006

Project Manager/Trading Floor Engineer (Consultant) 5 years

Expert resource engaged to develop and execute complete

technology solutions for the New York Stock Exchange Trading

Floor. Oversaw project budgets, key milestones, assigned

resources, implementations and testing within NYSE

Operations Management requirements.

Provided a high level interface to over 25 staff, including

the NYSE Senior Management Team, Project Architects,

contractors and vendors. Defined project

tools/methodologies, including waterfall and agile

approaches, depending on project specifics and client goals.

Key Accomplishments:

. Planned and built 2 highly secure and complex network

environments, ITPN2 and ServiceNET, that supported all

the financial firms that traded on the NYSE floor.

. Proposed and led upgrade of common cabling plant for

Integrated Technology Plan Network (ITPN); added

redundancy to the existing star-topology and ensured

completion of project ahead of schedule.

. Championed, designed and successfully installed

Bloomberg/CNN feeds at the Post Center Cores, improving

trading data flow and increasing executed trades.

. Designed and guided relocation of NYSE Posts to

accommodate more trading spaces within post area, as

well as provisioning of newer technologies for the

traders. Recognized by the NYSE SLT's for smooth

relocation; project was implemented over a weekend after

2 months of careful planning.

. Built/installed new telecommunication closets to support

NYSE production networks and wireless data systems,

improving redundancy and disaster recovery.

. Reliably met all NYSE project "by the next business

morning" deadlines, ensuring no interruption to trading

for all the parties on the floor.

PRIOR Ove Arup & Partners (ARUP), Project Manager/Project Engineer

EXPERIENCE Key Accomplishments:

. As Lead Designer/Engineer and Project Manager, directed

teams from multiple vendors in $2.4B JFK Airport

Terminal 4 infrastructure reconstruction. Saved over

$1MM in project costs and successfully completed this

huge initiative.

EDUCATION New York City Tech College, Brooklyn, NY

B.S., Computer Drafting and Design Technology (1996)

Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications, Odessa,

Ukraine

M.S., Information Technology and Telecommunications, 1992

Telecommunications and Technology College, Kishinev, Moldova

B.S., Information Technology, 1986

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