Project Manager Management

OBJECTIVE

Senior Project Management position utilizing background in Information Technology

QUALIFICATIONS

Over 30 years of progressive experience in the Information Technology industry supporting an array of Business Driven technology solutions across a Company. 18 plus years of experience within the Project Management arena supporting and adhering to Best Practice methodologies. A hands on Project Manager with the knowledge and understanding of working within a PMO Compliant and Regulatory environment interfacing and supervising Business Analysis, Architects. Designers, Developers, BSAs, and QA and UAT Testers in varying expertise from Jr. through Senior levels. Sound knowledge and hands-on experience on Internet/Real-time and Web Applications, Data Warehousing, ETL Datastage, & Java developers, Mapping, Modeling, client server, mainframe technical support, communications, system software. Excellent background in analytical and programming skills with a strong interest in Database and Data Warehouse technologies. A Highly Motivated /Self-starter and team player with Professional attitude. Demonstrates ability to drive projects, work in fast pace environment and quickly adapt to changing direction as the project scope dictates. Project Scope Management, MS Project plan identifying tasks resources, timeline and critical path; contributing to identify, develop and implementing Application/Systems and Hardware. Excellent ability to multitask, work on multiple project, interface with users and Technical staff to define Business requirements and Gap analysis, Business process re-engineering design and implementation skills. Experience in Cross-Functional Environments and Teams; Full System Life cycle experience through all Phases of projects from inception, Charter, feasibility, analysis, gathering and defining Business Rules & Requirements, Design, Build, System Testing, QA testing, User testing, to Installation and Production support. Adaptability to run Agile Development Methodology, Iterative processing, Daily Scrums, Stories, Sprints and Backlog grooming. Strong ability to work with Project Stakeholders, Resource Managers, User Community, and Strong team oriented interpersonal and communication skills, gather Business requirements, interface with Vendors and technical staff to help company integrate to new technologies. Experience in Partnering and managing Global Resources and Stakeholders within different time zones. Experience in utilizing MS Office Suite and Clarity managing project resources, forecasting and budgets. Perform Issue & Risk Management utilizing Risk, Action, Issue logs. Ability to work with establishes Project Management processes and methodologies for the IT community to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards, best practice and meet Customer/Client expectations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BMO Harris – Kforce Consulting

Senior Project Manager – June 2016 to Current

DIS Modernization 2016 -2017 DIS system will have much improved code base that is versatile, efficient, easier to maintain & troubleshoot issues, make & track changes this effort also includes upgrading all test regions with all relevant documentation updated and standardize and POC of new Generic Drive file. The removal of all obsolete jobs, procs, parms, datasets, programs and scheduler entries. All systems that require DIS services will benefit from modernizing the code base, upgrading test system and standardizing documentation. Current budget estimates are approximately $2.4 M.

2016 1098 Tax form Update - Determine scope, requirements, and initial sizing to address new 2016 IRS Regulatory Form 1098 reporting elements in four source applications from Three vendors, plus impacts to tax reporting systems and processes. Scope is to include work requirements for data quality analysis.

2016 Tax Update - The 2016 Regulatory Tax project scope includes implementing 2016 Compliance upgrade (FIS Tax Reporting System) and additional required RSECs (Request for System Enhancement or corrections) for 2016 tax reporting, extracting and balancing all reportable tax amounts and producing all tax forms and electronic files per IRS (Internal Revenue Service) requirements, as well as exception and balancing reports.

HCSC – Blue Cross Blue Shield IL – Collabera Consulting

Project Manager June 2014 – June 2016

TIS Government, Retail Financial and Reporting Portfolios.

Technical Project Manager Manage multiple project involving Data Warehousing & DataLake (Hadoop). Projects involve managing Forecasting, Scope, Requirements, Gap Analysis, Design, Modeling, DDL, Mapping, ETL Datastage & Java Developers, QA, UAT and Performance testing. Full SDLC utilizing Agile & Waterfall methodology. All projects include all Regulatory and Compliance enhancements to conform to the Government specified regulations needed for 2015 and 2016.

oGovernment MAPD Medicare and Medicaid DataLake (Hadoop); Agile & Waterfall methodology.

MOMS Texas & IL Subrogation

MAPD Healthmine Rewards

FEP Pharmacy RX

HRA RSA/CareNet conversation; HRA NM Universal record, HRA RSA Add Doc to Aerial

CBP Community bases Partners

MAPD BCBS Marketplace

MAPD Expansion Reporting

MAPD Expansion Finance

MAPD HEDIS & Over 65

Montana Medicaid

oCustomer Service - Digital Infrastructure

o2014-2015 AppTracker Application several phases – Vantage Application, Fulfillment and Membership Processing.

oEPI – Enterprise Person Information – A a New Strategic Enterprise Approach to Understanding Persons across Roles; provide selected detail for Leads, Prospects, Applicants, Members, Patients, and Addressable Market individuals. A prime function of this project is to see the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. Analytics are also available that utilize the new hierarchy of keys to track a person across roles.

oLatino Customer Experience – Ability to accept Foreign Languages, preferences, written and spoken.

oRetail Defect Remediation – Defect Remediation of various issue impacting their Retail applications.

oInterface Maintenance feeds for BlueStar and BlueChip Applications.

oTemporary ID BIN-PCN - Provide the ability to display BIN, Rx PCN, RX Group, on temporary ID Cards for Group and SHOP Members for all 5 states

oRelease Management activities for all above deployments.

JPMChase Chicago IL,

Project Manager AVP CIB Nov 2008 - April 2014

Corporate Investment Banking Internet Portfolio – Worked within PMO participating in ER (Enterprise Release) Cycles and transitioning to Agile Methodology incorporating Off Cycle and Enterprise Release Processes. All project follow the PMO Best Practices and Audit validation processes.

oCCAP - Chase Customer Access System – Investment Banking Trader System. FX Trader System including Global interface with Stakeholders and Resources within New York, London and India,

oCOL – Cash Online Money transfer; Cash Management, Wires, ARP and ACH electronic bill payments.

oMSTA, Migration System Tracking Tool across several LOBs. Customize each application to accommodate different Business Requirements for each LOB and Migrating application. (Agile Methodology Process)

Host to Host Enterprise Release, Operational Tools – Production Support Monitoring Application Dashboard enhancements integrated with a H2H Tech End of Life project.

H2H custom transmissions- Custom file Transmissions and Interfaces by requested Clients; including global Stakeholders and resources in Brazil, Mexico and India.

Commercial Card Applications including Commercial Lending Projects - Legacy Maintenance Releases including AML- Anti Money Laundering utilizing (SDLC) full Software Development Life Cycle of projects following JPMChase PDF Methodology; including monitoring Budget constraints and Project Status to Management.

Commercial Card Infrastructure and Stability across Legacy, IA, PNET3 and GSA Platforms; Including Production and Non-production environments. Cross Impact across platforms with New Application projects, Application Releases, BAU project work and Production Support.

Release Management activities within all platforms within above Commercial Card and H2H towers.

Ajilon Consulting, Rosemont, IL Oct 2004-Oct 2008

ABN AMRO LaSalle Bank - Project Manager II

PMO & PPM - Program Project Manager interface, Commercial Cash Management and Payments Department. Responsible for the successful completion of the newly formed PMO (SDLC) full Software Development Life Cycle of projects following ABN AMRO’s Map Methodology, including monitoring Budget constraints and Project status to Management. Vendor packages include Fraud Image Detection with Digital Interrogation Positive Payee System, $2,500,000 budget. Know Your Client Project working with Compliance Stakeholders from Capital Markets, Commercial & Specialty Banking and Global Securities and Trust Services (GSTS) spearheading the integration of an automated solution for 1) Client identification and verification and 2) Risk assessment. Automation of the client identification/verification and risk assessment allows ABN AMRO to be fully compliant with BSA regulations, AML regulations and CAAML Policies.

Additional Responsibilities:

Positive Pay with Payee Phase I, Phase II - Digital Check Scanning and Interrogation of Payee Fraud Detection System.

Know Your Client Project (KYC) – Automated manual ‘Know Your Client’ Risk assessment process.

CIP – Customer Identification Program; Compliant with BSA- Bank Secrecy Act, AML- Anti Money Laundering and CAAML-Client Acceptance and Anti-Money Laundering Policy

SuperMICR GateWay - Increase capacity of transferring receive ICLs- Image Cash Letters, from Vector Image Exchange to SuperMICR through the use of SuperMICR Gateway product from TriSyn.

Electronic bank payments ACH Control disbursements, electronic bill payments

All Cash Management, ARP and ACH projects include General Ledger feeds, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable processing through Quality Assurance and UAT testing and sign off.

Web Application Firewall

CyberArk Password Reset

DST- Daylight Savings Time Changes

ACH Debt Transaction Warehousing project.

EPIC- Project Management, Time Management and Reporting System.

Commercial Cards Optimization.

ACH, ARP & EDI Enhancement & Implementations.

CNA INSURANCE, Chicago, IL Nov 2001- Sept 2003

CNA is an insurance holding company with several subsidiaries.

Project Manager

Responsible for the supervision of a team of I.T. employees and several consultants while managing production support of mainframe, including full SDLC.

Led the Financial Interface team of the Under Writing Entry System, to identify the root cause of defects,

Analyze and Applying correct Business rules and requirements to reduce transaction errors.

Active member of the Defect Management Team charged to create a standardized defect process flow across the Technology Operations Group (TOG) and the Business as a whole. This allowed individual departments within TOG to communicate using the same terminology, process, and consistency across the business. It also influenced a coordination of work flow and processes within the Business and Help Desk software being reviewed.

Member of the Facility Management Team responsible for coordinating the office moves of over 150 employees.

Goldman Sachs/First Options of Chicago, Chicago, IL July 1987 - Nov 2001

Goldman Sachs/FOC firm that clears Stock, Options, Bonds and Futures trades for professional traders, with offices in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco.

Project Manager (1998-2001)

Responsible for supervising and training IT Employees while managing production support of mainframe and new development of Client Server systems. All projects include SDLC, Full Software Development Life Cycle experience through all Phases of projects from inception through Production support. QA testing to Installation and production support. Working with the User Community, gather Business requirements, and interface with Vendors and technical staff. MMCS Market Maker Clearing System - Clearance and Execution of Stock, Option and Futures Trades Securities Leading, consisting of Trade Entry, Client Accounts, Nightly Batch processing, Risk, Margins, Interest System, GL, AP, AR, nightly Confirm, Status and back office reports, etc

Analyzed Equity Check Writer and Seatlease Systems regarding direct deposit procedure, which significantly expedited check writing system.

Business Analysis and Implementation of Converting client server system to laser printers, and incorporated creation of MICR line and assigned new check numbers.

Plots or Risk Analysis systems calculating the derivatives on a percentage move with in the market

”Analyzed data integrity problems between the mainframe and Sybase database, which expedited production processing and improved data accuracy.

Developed Proof-of-Concept Project, which took current fat client application and began to create multi tier platform in PowerBuilder Application using its EA Server.

Analyzed the Account Structure Expansion project and using, CICS, Sybase, DB2, VSAM and COBOL II, which increased internal accounts from three to ten characters.

Expanded Customer Bucket truncation issues throughout the Market Marker Clearing System (MMCS) which accurately reported client data and risk volatility.

Modified MMCS to process new JBO account, creating margin relief for FOC/OCC with cost savings of $1-2 million.

Modified MMCS, which combined FOC and LIT into one firm to provide capital relief of $1 million.

Senior Programmer Analyst (1993-1998)

Business analysis, define user requirements, designed and developed platform utilizing PowerBuilder/Sybase, which decreased staffing and duplicate data entry by over 25%.

Converted embedded code to SQL stored procedures to create thinner client; Sybase, Stored Procedures/scripts running under UNIX.

Moved from outdated PC platform to client server integrating it with both cash adjustment systems, which eliminated hiring consultants and improved reporting by 25%.

Structurally developed first phase of decimalization project, changing/converting fractions to decimals for future use throughout the MMCS.

Responsible for production support of mainframe and client server system.

Programmer Analyst (1987-1992)

Responsible for support, maintenance and enhancements of online and batch systems.

Played major roles in design, development, testing, coding and implementation of several large-scale projects. Supervised several programmers and/or consultants.

Instrumental in coding and installing online COBOL DB2/CICS and batch processing to allow reallocation of resources, automated adjustments and rebates, and improving accuracy of commissions activities and data integrity. Provided daily maintenance of client positions due to reorganization, stock splits and tender offers as well as troubleshooting and maintenance of market maker clearing and focus systems.

THE BALCOR COMPANY, Skokie, IL 1985-1987

The Balcor Company is a real estate investment company. Balcor organizes funds consisting of limited partnerships ranging from real estate, large apartment complexes, shopping centers, sports franchises and property management to movie studios. Responsible for providing daily troubleshooting and maintenance of investment processing system, property management system, rental income and maintenance fees.

NORTH AMERICAN INSURANCE FOR LIFE AND HEALTH, Chicago, IL 1982-1985

Held progressive positions from Computer Operator, Technical Support and Programmer.

Computer Skills Hardware/Software: DataLake (Hadoop), Data Warehousing HDMI, ODS, ADW, TDW, EDW, Teradata, DDL, ETL Datastage, MDM, Jave, BigMemeoryGo!, eXtraSheet, HP Quality Center ALM, Clarity CA Tools, SDM,PPM, ACI, NDM, Vurtual servers, CheckFree SMS/ARP, Fiserv/ImageSoft – FraudGuard, TriSyn-SuperMICR, LexisNexis - InstantIDã, CSI –Data Warehousing, PowerBuilder, CV&- Image Archive, Sybase, Oracle, WebSphere, OOA, OOD, Crystal Reports, MS Office Suites, PRF, TCPIP, IBM 3090 MVS/XA, JES2, ISPF, COBOL, ASM, FOCUS, CICS, SQL, DB2, UNIX,QMF, SDSF, FILEAID, Visio, PANAVALET, CA1, TMS, $AVER, JHS, TSO/E, IOF, TPX, ARBITER, CA-NETMAN, APCDOC, CA-7, CA-11, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, VSAM, INTEREST, BMS-GT,NDM, BDT, MS Project, Primavera Team Play, Artemis.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Agile Methodology/Scrum Master Training

Project Management

PCI Global Inc. Project Management IT Foundations

Project Management IT

American Management Association Information Systems Project Management

Greenbrier & Russel:

OO Design / Project Management

PowerBuilder Intro / Design / ADV

Platinum Technologies:

Introduction to DB2

DB2/SQL Application Programming

DB2 Database Design and Application Programming

CICS Programming Command Level

A.A. Science, Moraine Valley College, Palos Hills, IL

Major- Computer Science, Minor- Business Admin

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