Project/Program Manager
Resume:
Barry M. Levine
Plainview, NY 11803 Cell 631-***-****
*************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Highly strategic project/program manager with over fifteen years work experience driving large-scale business and technical program implementations. Ability to deliver on business management integration activities across businesses and functional lines. Directed with various internal departments, external vendors, stakeholders, and team members to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget. Process driven and skilled at managing effective, geographically dispersed teams.
IHS Markit (formerly Vista One Solutions, CoreOne Technologies, Netik and Correctnet)
July 2011- November 2016
Director of Business Management (Program Manager) Hauppauge, NY
Developed Cost Model on $11M business and broke cost down by person, product and technology. Created Business Case Justification for product that included cost benefit analysis, timelines, market landscape and risk analysis which was used to make executive decisions.
Integral part of the RFP process- which converted over $5M in sales and implementations for over major global banks and asset management firms.
Directly accountable for over 350k in cost savings with sunset of redundant vendors during integration
Led, managed and was responsible for fully integrating 100+ users both onshore and offshore from legacy company- activities including: implement JIRA ticketing system, invoice and billing process, new desktop equipment, email, organized team structure- formalize reporting lines, training, reporting, mentor program, data center consolidation, office moves and sunset of legacy time reporting system.
Implemented agile JIRA workflow process for support and infrastructure teams and assisted in developing SCRUM team methodology for development and product teams including meetings around sprint and backlog planning, retrospectives, scrum calls as well as metrics to track velocity, backlogs and bugs.
Managed Salesforce pipeline opportunities, activities, probability, revenue forecasts and contract terms for account management and senior management. Created weekly executive presentation for account management strategic discussions.
Reconciled contracts within finance group SAP system and business Salesforce to better manager accounts receivable (AR) client invoice process and client renewals and terminations. Authorized to sign off on account payable (AP) invoices and ensure correct allocation was used across business lines.
Coordinated with other departments to improve standards and processes, discussed and recommended service improvements to streamline processes.
Established and designed client surveys and analyzed results with action plans for account managers.
Streamlined and led weekly management calls with department heads on critical business needs, status reports on utilization, financial dashboard, client RAG status and prepared monthly Key Risk Indicators (KRI).
Program/Project Manager Hauppauge, NY
Executed and managed multimillion-dollar strategic enterprise implementations across multiple integrated platforms while aligning client business requirements with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and cost savings. Clients included: JP Morgan, BNY Mellon, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Scotia Bank.
Directed teams of project managers, technical developers, business analysts, quality assurance and operational teams globally on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were delivered on time, on budget and with the desired results.
Provided leadership, defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
Provided strategy and vision for account management activities which included: SDLC gate meetings, weekly timesheets, project budgets, forecasting, billing and monthly client steering committees.
Well-developed communications and presentation skills in highly visible roles - risk and issue management and escalation, negotiation, reporting and proposal presentations to senior project partners, stakeholders, Steering/Funding Committees and senior executives.
Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in highly stressful situations to resolve concerns and improve efficiency.
Skilled in building excellent rapport with clients and team members. Able to see the big picture, delegate effectively, coach, mentor and motivate team to achieve accountability for assigned work.
Newview July 2008- July 2011
Project/Program Manager Hauppauge, NY
Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple supply chain management software implementation projects directed toward strategic business objectives.
Led a team of configuration engineers, technology subject matter experts and offshore programmers (development and QA teams) to define scope, tracking resourcing requirements.
Directed project activities, continuous alignment of project scope, managed risk mitigation, change control processes and communicated status to senior management to all stakeholders.
Detica September 2007- June 2008
Senior Management Consultant New York, NY
Responsible for reviewing the structure and process of the Governments Securities sub-ledger system within Merrill Lynch. Identified improvements and implemented changes to streamline processes. Defined current state analysis and developed both tactical and strategic solutions for reducing the manual effort required by the Finance team at month-end to address system and process deficiencies.
HSBC December 2004- August 2007
Senior Business Analyst- Assistant Vice President New York, NY
Test Manager
Responsible for managing testing cycles for global Hedge Fund Accounting system (Advent Geneva) and delivering new functionality across the systems; handled monthly production releases. Managed the UAT defect management process during testing cycles; coordinated UAT by creating test strategies, plans, summaries, documented issues and communicated to the vendor
Senior Business Analyst
Partnered with Project Manager and team members to develop documentation, gathering and compiling of data and statistics; created BRD documents which included design workflow process
Education:
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus- MBA in Finance Summer 1999
University at Albany- Bachelor of Arts May 1996
Software, Methodologies & Applications:
JIRA, Advent Geneva, Mercury Quality Center, Equitrak-Private Equity, TLM- Transaction Lifecycle Management, ClickTime, Salesforce, OmniPlan, AWD, MS Visio and MS Project, NASD licenses (expired): Series, 7, 63, and 6, SCRUM, Agile and Waterfall Methodologies; ITIL Standards; Completed 35 hours of Project Management education
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