RODNEY MINDEN

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Project Management Professional

A multifaceted career with an extensive track record of innovation and success

Accomplished project/program manager with extensive experience in spearheading the delivery of large transformation programs. Broad knowledge of Waterfall/Agile methodology. Work closely with clients and management to prioritize activities, achieve objectives, translate business requirements, and deliver multi-million-dollar projects, meet schedule and budget targets. Assist clients in achieving maximum benefit from their investment through research and technology implementation. Align technology and business to generate cost-effective solutions to support company goals.

Core Competencies:

Development / Infrastructure/BAU

Stakeholder Management

Budget/Risk/Schedule Management

SOWs, RFPs

Regulatory – FATCA, Basel

Change Management / Staging, Systems Launch / Implementation

Fixed income, loan, private wealth, real estate, federal government, mutual funds

SQL, ETL, Informatica, Jira. Confluence, Service Now, AWS/Azure infrastructure

Waterfall/Agile Methodologies

Team Leadership and Training, Performance Reviews / Mentoring

Executive Communications / Presentations / Steering Committees

Financial Services / Insurance Industries

Cloud migration and infrastructure build

Data migration, loading, and analytics

Data mapping, structure, security master, data warehouses, master data, pricing, valuation, transaction, accounting

Creating business process models, use case models, and context diagrams.

Professional Experience

Canada Life

Project Manager, 02/2023 – present

Assigned to the Federal Government of Canada program for implementing the Health Care program, transitioning it from Sun Life.

Project manager for the Security Gap Remediation project. Tasked with closing the gaps for access reviews, role-based access, and password length and rotation for the July 1st, 2023 implementation date for over 50 applications. Developed a Jira board to log the gaps as Epics and Stories and the associated applications as sub-tasks and worked closely with application owners and their teams.

Activities included daily standups, status reporting, risk and issue management, and interaction with senior management and program/project team members.

Started work on the Federal Government of Canada program for implementing the Dental Care program, transitioning it from Sun Life on July 2, 2023. Assigned tasks were similar to the items listed above for the Health Care plan.

Wellington-Altus Private Wealth

Project Manager, 08/2022 – 12/2022

The project built and implemented an Enterprise Data Analytics Platform with an AWS and MS Azure infrastructure base in five months. Components include AWS Redshift/S3/Glue, Lambda, Cognito, and MS Power BI.

The team worked closely with Softchoice to build the Azure Infrastructure and Power BI and with Apocela to develop the Private link to O365 and Power BI.

Responsible for the planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation, and reporting of the project.

Managed and monitored project tasks and controls during project planning and delivery activities to ensure the scope, time, quality, and budget.

Responsible for developing and maintaining the project plan, Agile JIRA board, and project communication tools and used Confluence, Jira, Office 365, MS Project, and MS Teams.

Led the Agile team through Scrum ceremonies and related activities to plan, capture, and meet sprint deliverables; maintained the JIRA board; and provided appropriate reporting metrics and status.

BMO

Project Manager, 01/2022 – 07/2022

The program includes quarterly and off-releases combining multiple business and technical projects. These projects include the development of front-end and back-end changes and cloud migrations for IBM MQ and Web applications.

Managed and monitored project tasks and controls during project planning and delivery activities to ensure on-time and quality goals were met within the scope and budget.

Responsible for developing and maintaining the project plan, Agile JIRA board, and project communication tools and used Confluence, Jira, Office 365, MS Project, and MS Teams.

Led the Agile team through Scrum ceremonies and related activities to plan, capture, and meet sprint deliverables; maintained the JIRA board; and provided appropriate reporting metrics and status.

TEACUP TECH SYSTEMS

Project Manager, 04/2021 – 12/31/2021

The program included quarterly scheduled releases combining multiple business and technical projects, with an annual budget of $2M. These projects include the development of integrating systems and MAAX technical enhancements.

Responsible for project initiation, requirement gathering, development, system and UAT testing, implementation, and warranty support

Responsible for developing and maintaining the project plan, Agile JIRA board, and project communication tools; led the Agile team through Scrum ceremonies and related activities to plan, capture, and meet sprint deliverables; maintained the JIRA board and provided appropriate reporting metrics and status.

EQUITABLE BANK

Project Manager (Contract), 02/2019 – 04/2021

Allocated to the Basel III project for Finance, implementing the OSFI Capital Adequacy Requirements for Credit Risk for the Internal Ratings-Based Approach.

Worked with vendor Wolters Kluwer for database, both front and back design and implementation. Worked closely with Accounting and Risk Modelling to develop capital, market, and operational risk models.

Coordinate completion of required project governance documents/artifacts to meet corporate guidelines.

Assisted in developing business and functional requirements, mandate documents, and test strategy/plans.

Managed the sub-project to build the Azure Cloud infrastructure for the T24 Core Banking migration.

Worked with vendors Temenos, Central 1, and Deloitte to address the Azure build, file input/outputs, and network/firewall configurations.

Led the Agile team through Scrum ceremonies and related activities to plan, capture, and meet sprint deliverables; maintained the JIRA board; and provided appropriate reporting metrics and status.

OXFORD PROPERTIES GROUP

Project Manager, 08/2017 – 01/2019

Primary projects included migrating from Windows 7/Office2010 to Windows 10/Office ProPlus (Office 365) for over 2000 users and from Exchange On-Premises to Exchange Online for over 3000 mailboxes.

Additional projects included OxConnect Lightning software upgrade to Salesforce, the Disaster Recovery for 12 applications, and the JD Edwards POC, migrating from an AS400 to a Windows platform.

Responsible for the planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation, and reporting of the project.

Managed and monitored project tasks and controls during project planning and delivery activities to ensure on-time and quality goals were met within the scope and budget.

WHITE CLARKE GROUP

Project Manager, 09/2016 – 08/2017

Spearheaded full lifecycle deployment of loan originations and servicing software project, designed to provide the ability to book, adjudicate, and manage loans from start to finish.

Responsible for the planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation, and reporting of the project.

Led the Agile team through Scrum ceremonies and related activities to plan, capture, and meet sprint deliverables; maintained the JIRA board; and provided appropriate reporting metrics and status.

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL DATA SERVICES

Project Manager, 08/2014 – 09/2016

Project manager for the FATCA portfolio, including the 2015 and 2016 FATCA reporting projects, for FATCA reporting for Canadian and International clients.

Responsible for the planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation, and reporting of the project.

Worked to identify bank, mutual funds, brokerage accounts, segregated fund contracts, and certain annuity and insurance contracts held outside the US. Experience with the investments domain and understanding the stakeholders' needs across the front, middle, and back offices to ensure that solutions were aligned with the business needs.

Resolved multiple challenges, including late international requirements, with specific timelines for the CRA, IRS, and HMRC and strict timelines for development and testing.

Fulfilled contracts from 2011 to 2014 with

MANULIFE, TDBFG, MANULIFE, MUNICH REINSURANCE, SUN LIFE GLOBAL INVESTMENTS,

INSURANCE SYSTEM INC.

TDBFG

Manager/Project Manager, 04/2002 – 01/2011

I managed up to 10 concurrent projects with budgets of> $50K and < $3M for development and infrastructure projects.

CIAM (Enterprise Customer Identity Authentication Management project for Web Banking/Broker and Insurance LOBs) that implemented new SOA, MQ, and ESB infrastructure, multiple servers, and software upgrade projects, including migration to new SAN components,

NT Migration (100+ Server migrations from Windows NT to Windows 2000),

Credit Systems Adjudication (Implementing a new system (Laser) replacing Personal Lending System for Mortgages, Personal and Auto Loans, and Credit Cards. The project involved migrating to FICO applications, including Capstone and in-house Creditlink applications.

Support and development projects of business applications for

TD Wealth/Internet

Credit Adjudication/Indirect Lending

Corporate and Strategic Sourcing.

Planning, estimating, and budgeting of resources, hardware, software, and ongoing support

SDLC documentation included proposals, charters, PDD, test and deployment plans, project statuses, and lessons learned.

Communicated with developers, infrastructure, project and program managers, and business users to develop and deploy project solutions, including hardware and software deployments.

Fulfilled full-time and contract roles from 1981 with:

Financial – CIBC, BMO, RBC, National Trust, ING, Mackenzie Financial

Insurance – Transamerica, Empire Life, Norwich Union, D S Peart, and Associates

Energy - Imperial Oil, Consumers Gas

Others – Wardair, Coca-Cola Beverages, Roche, OMA, Marks & Spencer. HBC

Education and Credentials

French Level 1, UofT, September 2023

Introduction to Python, Waterloo, July 2022

Business Writing, UofT, April 2022

PMP Certification – PMI, July 2006-2010, Recertified, July 2019

CSM Certification, Knowledge Hut - August 2019

Project Risk Management Master Class - PMI, June 2015

ITIL Foundations v3 – LCS, March 2012

TD internal courses, including:

Win-Win Negotiations

Speaking Effectively from One to One Thousand

Project Estimating and Project Change Management

Motivating Project Players

Managing Project Integration

Managing Project Quality

Managing Project Risk

PMP Preparation

Honeywell Institute, Business/Systems Analysis Diploma, August – December 1980

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