Julie Marie

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Summary

A seasoned technology leader with expertise in building high-performance applications and teams that

drive organizational growth and success. Extensive experience in managing the development and

delivery of complex software systems, defining and implementing target architecture strategies and delivering

cost-effective technology solutions to the stakeholders leveraging a global delivery model

Has strong team-building and collaboration skills and expert at leading cross-functional and matrix

teams in a rapidly changing business environment. Effective communicator with senior business,

operations and technology management and able to drive decisions, especially in tough and often

conflicting project priorities. Has good process acumen with experience in handling projects using Agile

(SCRUM), Iterative and Waterfall methodologies.

With 25 years of experience, worked in various capacities starting my career as a software engineer

to the current leadership position of Principal Program Manager (20 years) for large-scale, multi-year programs, driving IT strategies and roadmaps and managing key client relationships.

Most recent significant accomplishments:

●Program Project Manager for the development and successful rollout of Broker-Dealer Clearance products, which service 165+ institutional clients including all 24 Primary Broker-Dealers, with an average daily transaction value of around $15 Trillion. This led to an annual revenue increase for the bank by approximately $98 Million. With responsibilities for Portfolio Management and P&L Management including budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and engagement management.

●Great at bringing people together from different functions to work towards a common goal.

●Change agent in Agile transformation. Diversity and inclusion leader and advocate.

●Leading cross-functional initiatives, developing action plans, establishing milestones, and providing status updates.

●Managing and communicating key timelines and deliverables to execute strategic initiatives.

●Drive requirement sessions, scope and impact assessment, and develop project communication schedules.

●Analyzing and managing project risk and developing risk mitigation plans.

●Overseeing the portfolio of projects to ensure they are being executed at full potential,

●Defining and managing Autonomous Network and Analytics roadmap in line with strategic vision and priorities

●Mastery in Agile or Waterfall Project Management methods that may include Scrum, Kanban, and/or Scaled Agile.

Core Competencies

Scrum: Backlog Management: Agile Team Coaching: Stakeholder Engagement: Strategic Thinking: Portfolio Management: Business Planning: Value-Added Leadership: Global Delivery Management: Change Management: Implementation Management: Cross-Functional Supervision Program/Project Management: Analytical Thinking: Leadership & Problem Solving: KYC Client Review: Product Management: Project Development:

P&L Ownership Team Building and Mentoring

Education and Certifications

• PSM - Professional Scrum Master - Scrum.org - 2023

• Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance - 2015

• Six Sigma Green Belt - BNY Mellon - 2014

• Project Management Professional – certified by Project Management Institute (PMI) - 2009

• B.S. Information Systems - Northern Illinois University

Professional Experience

BNY Mellon New York - February 2019 to present

Working as Program/InProject Manager and Scrum Master at Clearance and Collateral Technology Group of BNY Mellon. Responsible for the development, rollout and maintenance of a new Clearance and Settlement platform for US Treasury and Mortgage securities. This platform is currently used by all the primary broker-dealers and is a unique offering industry-wide.

Key responsibilities include:

●Partner with business and operations stakeholders to map the business objectives and recommend technology solutions.

●Manage large technology programs through initiation, planning, execution and closing stages.

●Work with individual PMs and Scrum teams for daily stand-ups, preparation of release and sprint plans, reviews and retrospectives.

●Ensuring alignment and communication across divisions, including variance reporting, budget risks, opportunities, timing, and savings.

●Conduct projects SOX compliance to streamline control.

●Perform program and project financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis.

●Assess and manage risk and dependencies within and across the program throughout its lifecycle.

●Scrum Master to cross-functional team to keep the teams organized on the projects they’ve agreed to to prioritize and eliminate impediments for the team.

●Ensure the deliverables are produced to the approved scope, schedule, cost and quality.

●Manage project and program metrics.

●Work with business leads and documentation team to create BrainSharks tutorials to help with client intro to new application features and enhancements.

BNY Mellon New York - 2016 to 2019

Program/Project Infrastructure Manager to proactively manage risk-related infrastructure to proactively work with applications teams to identify and address applications’ risk exposure, and end-of-life software is addressed promptly.

●Ensure application vulnerabilities in regards to coding and access control are addressed on time reducing BNY exposure to bad actors’ access.

●Remediation of applications storage systems migration from end-of-life storage grid platform

●Work with application teams to identify application gaps in security both internal and external and address them in a timely manner.

●Worked with applications teams and clients to manage data-center rotation.

BNY Mellon - 2012 to 2016

Implementation Manager - Client onboarding for the Enhanced Platform of the Clearance application.

●Work with client’s services representatives to schedule client visits to demo the application platform.

●Work with development teams to ensure the client's configuration is configured in the team environments.

●Created the Clearance User Manuals to help clients navigate the new platform.

●Created BrainShark tutorials to help improve the clients’ boarding experiences, which today are still being accessed.

●Prior to clients, go-live ensures all data conversion, accounts, feeds and user access is reviewed with clients to ensure conversion weekend and go-live are faultless.

BNY Mellon June 2008 to March 2012

Requirements Manager/Project/Program Manager

Manage and oversee the end-to-end application requirements management activities such as reporting, planning, issue/risk identification and tracking, scope management, estimation, client management, and other program/project documentation preparation for efforts of high business complexity (involving multiple systems interfaces that are highly visible to the organization)

●Secure, lead, and motivate the internal and external resources required to deliver the program.

●Establishes program’s governance (e.g., sponsors, approvers, stakeholders) and milestones.

●Gathered requirements, determined scope, developed functional specifications, and reviewed technical specifications for adherence to business requirements; developed test scripts; conducted extensive user acceptance testing including automated testing

●Acquired strong technical skills and knowledge of multi-currency systems

●Use interpersonal skills to serve as a liaison between clients and functional groups (product owners, business, operation teams, etc.) to ensure delivery of programs/projects on time, within budget, and to specification to achieve business objectives.

●Define and manage the life cycle from initiation through to project closure. Manage and resolve risks, issues, and dependencies.

●Define functional specifications for the development of core, front end, and middleware including XML messages and APIs.

●Use excellent communication skills to report frequently to clients and the required executive level through steering committees and clients of Program/Project status and progress.

2004 to 2008 Merrill Lynch - Wealth Management Project Manager

Tools knowledge:

JIRA - Confluence - SharePoint - MS Project, Visio, MS Office utilities - Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) - Clarity - MS Project - SQL Query

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