Manager Project

AJ BHAMBHANI PMP, PSM, MS-CIS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajbhambhani Tel: 617-***-**** aczcnt@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR TECHNICAL MANAGER

Expertise in planning and management of large IT projects including execution of project life cycle phases from initiation to closure.

Responsible for successful implementation including scope definition, budget management, project schedule development, resource allocation, risk analysis and prioritization.

Proficient in managing portfolio of strategic applications involving integration of multiple information technologies to deliver business value.

Manage cross-division functional teams, both domestic and offshore development staff, and large-scope projects using Waterfall and Scrum methodologies.

SKILLS

Strategic Planning and Execution

Continuous Integration and Delivery

Waterfall, Agile SDLC practices

Vendor Management and COTS implementation

Infrastructure Management

Stakeholder consensus building

Scrum Master Role

Scope definition and management

Scheduling, Budgeting, Forecast, Variance Analysis

Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Testing / Technical Project Manager 08/2016 to 12/2016

Santander Bank, Anti-Money Laundering, Dorchester, MA

Established oversight, governance of end-to-end testing for all bank related anti-money laundering applications.

Implemented strategic enterprise wide testing methodology, recommended opportunities for improvements.

Collaborated with business and technology partners to oversee testing strategy across all LOBs at bank.

Drove the implementation of automated, stress testing tools to improve quality assurance of app rollouts.

Program level governance and oversight of defect tracking, from recording through remediation.

Senior Project Manager, Enterprise Data Warehousing 09/2015 to 01/2016

Citizens Bank, Cranston, RI

Aligned program, project deliverables with strategic business direction to build BigInsights Enterprise Data Lake.

Planned detailed activities, milestones of all phases of Podium software installation and delivery schedule.

Responsible for forecasting resource demand of cross-functional project teams and training needs.

Planned high and detailed deliverables of data ingestion into enterprise Data Lake from disparate systems.

Managed vendor relations, team RACI, WBS, scope and communicated variances to project sponsors.

Project Consultant, Boston, MA 03/2013 to 07/2015

As independent consultant, led technology planning and development:

For cookware manufacturer, delivered IT vision and roadmap to drive business strategy, evaluation and recommendation of integrated hosting services to strength core competencies and minimize TCO.

For private financing company, conducted analysis, systems design, responsibility over development, managed incremental application rollouts to support sales and improve organizational efficiencies.

Managed, tracked project estimations, monitored and reviewed solutions approach and design, determined project scope, change requests, RAID, constraints and communications to steering committee.

Program Manager 01/2012 to 09/2012

BAIN CAPITAL, Boston, MA

Led planning, execution of enterprise infrastructure initiatives, managed high performing team and vendor relations

Led replacement of over 200 servers across dev, test and production lanes with 6 months window.

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Planned, executed server and app installations including Eze Castle, FactSet and Bloomberg Reuters

Planned and coordinated end year Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery testing.

Improved security, performance by developing monthly patch management process of Server OS.

Vice President, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing 07/2010 to 11/2011

BANK OF AMERICA, Pennington, NY

Managed portfolio of Risk and Compliance applications to meet organizational objectives of Wealth Management business, Responsible for project level resource prioritization and interdependencies. Aligned program and project deliverables with strategic business direction and demonstrated the TCO of these programs.

Gained 20% efficiencies by delivering risk models and alert generation to Financial Advisors in field offices.

Led implementation of >20 risk models in 12 months to reduce exposure >40 million US accounts

Managed 10-15 small to medium concurrent projects with total staff size of 15-20 associates delivering solutions in a quarterly release cycle with a budget of $1.5 million.

Director, Application Services 01/2008 to 01/2010

FIDELITY INVESTEMENTS, Boston, MA

Led the overall planning, organization and execution of technical solutions and managed a team of engineers based in multiple international locations. Provided leadership, strategic vision and management of the production infrastructure and customer support functions. Assessed the current IT landscape and make suggestions for new ways to optimize applications and scale for growth

Managed the development, project oversight of $1.2 million asset and cash flow aggregation application responsible for reducing billing cycle time by 50%.

Managed the design, development and resources of $1.6 million application responsible for the reporting of advisory assets improving organizational efficiencies to market firm’s assets to external vendors.

Introduced automated testing and continuous build and deployment processes reducing build and integrity time and increasing quality of delivery.

Senior Manager, Application Services 01/2006 to 01/2008

FIDELITY INVESTEMENTS, Boston, MA

Managed work deliverables of 5-10 engineering team members in matrixed organization. Managed relationship with external service vendors. Led the team that set standards and guidelines for Informatica and Oracle PL/SQL and implemented a code review process.

Led delivery of electronic content management, for over 1000 clients reducing reporting cycle by over 50%.

Led the production support services for monthly and quarterly client reporting applications.

Created training programs for new development resources reducing ramp-up time by over 90%.

Principal Software Consultant 01/2003 to 01/2006

FIDELITY INVESTEMENTS, Boston, MA

Responsible for managing project lifecycles from inception to close out Managed all aspects of the development and implementation.

Developed API in J2EE environment for Informatica communication with Java backend

Provided technical leadership for the start-up activities for Tier 1 application used for cash and shares activity

Led reporting to combat money laundering (AML), terrorist financing and other threats

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fidelity Investments Technical Architect 1995 - 2003

CSC Consulting Staff Consultant 1994 - 1995

Keane Consulting Senior Programmer Analyst 1992 - 1994

Mass Save, Inc Programmer Analyst / Network Engineer 1991 - 1990

EDUCATION

Certification Program in Internet/Web Development, Northeastern University.

Six Sigma, Yellow Belt Professional

MS in Computer Information Systems, Southern New Hampshire University

oGPA 3.98/4.00 - Awarded Outstanding Student of the Year

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