Gyorgyi Zombori
Sr. Project Manager
New York, NY
**************@*****.*** - 917-***-****
PMI and ITIL certified Project Management Professional with experience in PMO environments at top Wall Street Financial Services firms. Demonstrated expertise in project integration, scope, cost, time, risk, resource and change management. Experienced in IT project cost budgeting, vendor/carrier management, contract administration and project reporting.
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sr. Project Manager
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA - New York, NY - October 2015 to April 2017 Within a PMO organization managed the migration planning, design and execution phases of a large enterprise-wide Data Center Migration Program for the Capital Markets business.
• Responsible for managing all aspects of the relocation of mission critical applications, servers, storage, database and external connectivity.
• Performed infrastructure discovery and application dependency analysis and liaised with cross-functional teams to develop a migration strategy.
• Identified, analyzed and managed project risks, issues and dependencies and developed risk mitigation strategies.
• Grouped applications into target bundles, developed detailed wave migration plans and schedules; coordinated pre-migration, migration day and post migration activities. Sr. Project Manager
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO - New York, NY - December 2013 to September 2015 Served as lead project manager in GTI Service Delivery Program Management Organization. Successfully implemented several complex global infrastructure projects.
• Utilizing knowledge of data center operations and networking technologies for LAN and WAN architectures, completed several data center infrastructure consolidations and upgrades.
• Managed various global teams to complete a global firewall infrastructure upgrade program. Coordinated the installation of next generation firewalls with intrusion prevention and detection capabilities.
• Lead the migration of critical business systems from an End-of-Life platform to MS Server 2008R2.
• Prepared all project documentation including project initiation documents, detailed project plans, project budget and change control documentation. Developed various reports, and produced executive-level presentations.
• Served as liaison between project sponsors and geographically distributed and culturally diverse technical teams.
Technical Project Manager
DEUTSCHE BANK AG - New York, NY - June 2009 to December 2013 Within a centralized Project Management Office managed projects from initiation to closing, ensuring deliverables were on schedule, and within scope, cost and quality constraints.
• Managed the implementation of a complex Global Security Remediation Project as per Network Regulatory Compliance requirements.
• Successfully executed the build-out of diverse 10GB ultra low latency (ULL) connectivity between metropolitan area data centers and several colocation facilities for Deutsche Bank's proprietary high frequency trading platform providing connectivity to various electronic exchanges, market data providers and clients.
• Developed best practice policies/cost metrics for PMO framework for all domestic/international client connectivity engagements, to align technical effort and expertise with line of business management and business objectives.
• Led the build-out of Deutsche Bank's first eco-efficient data center, reducing IT carbon footprint.
• Successfully implemented several cost-saving initiatives such as large carrier circuit upgrade, consolidation, migration and decommissioning projects.
• Acted as primary liaison between network implementation team, client internal groups, external customers, global colocation providers, carriers and other vendors. IT Global Services Project Manager
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC - New York, NY - January 2007 to March 2009 Within a PMO environment developed RFP's, evaluated vendor proposals and coordinated multiple geographically distributed project teams and vendors.
• Led all aspects of the relocation and consolidation of several business units based on Next Generation Networking.
• Planned and implemented medium to large scale data, voice, A/V and video surveillance solutions. GTI Project Manager
THOMSON REUTERS - New York, NY - June 2004 to January 2007 Developed comprehensive scope, cost, risk, and resource management plans within a PMO environment. Provided vendor bid analysis, cost estimating, budgeting and control.
• Managed the migration and consolidation of NYC data center to new facility in NJ, without interrupting service delivery for revenue-generating business groups.
• Provided requirement gathering and comprehensive feasibility studies including SWOT and ROI analysis for high availability network and system consolidations.
• Implemented global call center strategy to enable "follow the sun" client services, setting up call centers in Asia and Europe, utilizing Genesys VOIP technology. Technical Project Manager
MORGAN STANLEY & CO - New York, NY - February 2003 to May 2004 Managed a network upgrade project for 500+ US domestic retail branch locations serving 24,000 users, replacing aging network infrastructure with dual independent optical backbones based on SONET technology. Network Operations Engineer
GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO - New York, NY - June 2000 to January 2003 Provided level II. support for Network Operations team, which managed data and voice technologies for LAN and global office networks by resolving a wide variety of LAN/WAN connectivity, performance and security problems. Supported BGP, OSPF, EIGRP networks, administered Checkpoint, Cisco PIX firewalls and Foundry load balancers.
Sr. Systems Engineer
MORGAN STANLEY & CO - New York, NY - October 1995 to June 2000 Managed technical staff for several projects including market data and trading applications evaluation and implementation.
Installed, configured, and administered Citrix, MS SMS, and MS IIS and supported a wide array of Windows based, trading, market data, and proprietary applications. EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management Technical University of Budapest
SKILLS
TRADING (9 years), VOICE (4 years), CITRIX (4 years), NETWORKING (4 years), CHECKPOINT (2 years) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS
Data/Voice Communications: Cisco, Checkpoint, Palo Alto Networks, Arista, Juniper, F5, Nortel, Avaya, Siemens, ADVA.
Technologies: Ethernet, DWDM, MPLS, VoIP, Wireless Networking, SAN/NAS, EMC. Operating Systems/Programming Languages: Windows, UNIX/Linux, Citrix, VMware, Active Directory, Trading and Market Data applications, HTML & JavaScript.
Network Management: HP OpenView, CiscoWorks, Netscout, nGenius, Lucent VitalNet. Productivity Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access), MS Visio, MS Project, CA Clarity PPM, ServiceNow, Remedy.