Project Manager Operational Risk

MILIND THOSAR MS, MBA Page *

MILIND THOSAR

New Jersey

732-***-**** (cell) ~ ******.*.******@*****.***

QUALIFICATIONS

Program Management ~ Banking & Financial Services ~ Managed large teams in Onsite/Offshore Model ~ Client centric ~ Entrepreneurial spirit

Client-focused Program/Project Manager incl. experience in Credit, Market & Operational Risk - record of success taking ownership of global IT projects and delivering results. Mindset to constantly endeavor to do things better, faster, cheaper with Client success at the center. Adept in Agile methodology, Strategic and Tactical leader, able to strike consensus with Business, Product Owners, Scrum masters and Agile teams.

Being quite Technical, able to understand, and prioritize complexity, across the full lifecycle of high impact changes. Knowledge and experience with Regulatory Reporting, CCAR and DFAST. Rich banking experience gained working at

Deutsche Bank

Morgan Stanley

Citibank

Federal Reserve Bank of New York,

Domain: Credit, Market & Operational Risk, Consent Order, Payment Systems, Trading, Regulatory reporting, Consumer Lending (Auto/Student Loans), Retail banking, Capital markets, Credit cards, Funds transfer. Solid track record motivating, empowering, and retaining teams; championed and established structured processes and methodologies.

Certification: PMP, Scrum Master

Methodology: Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NTT DATA Services Client: Citibank Jan 22 – Present Program Manager on Consent Order Project

Transformation of manual Partner Credit card business, totaling over $ 6B to a low-code platform, eliminating all manual intervention.

Data capabilities initiative to standardize and enforce the Data Operating model across Institutional and Retail LoBs

Initiatives to align Bank processes with Regulatory Reforms like CCAR and DFAST

LTIMindtree Jan 20- Jan 22

Client: BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS

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Senior Project Manager: Wealth Management Platform

Areas: Trading, Regulatory Control, Security Settlements, Security Transaction processing, Insurance & Annuities, Corporate Actions – Proxy.

Manage multiple projects: Requirements’ reviews, Execution, Metrics prep & maintenance, extensive deliverable reviews with customer, Root cause Analysis

Managed Automation platform for Trade confirms

Equities, Options

DEUTSCHE BANK 2017-2019

VP – Credit, Operational Risk - Corporate Investment Banking

Made the Operational Risk area fully compliant to Fed Regulations by working very closely with Business

Automated 80% of Regression

Learnt and used State of the art Data Science tools: Alteryx and RapidMiner

Standardized project management processes, incl. steering meetings & stakeholder reporting.

Knowledgeable in CCAR – Credit, Market and Operational Risk

Capacity planning, tracking and periodic Reporting to all stakeholders

MORGAN STANLEY, New York 2012- 2016

VP – Credit, Market and Operational Risk and Regulatory Reporting

Initiated use of Jenkins for Continuous Integration

Established close relationship with all stakeholders (Dev, Business, UAT and Ops) in just 2 months and nurtured it

Automation: Saved 70% of effort

Thought Leadership: Implemented Industry best practices including traceability from Requirements to Scripts. Standardized ALM 11 for Requirements, Defects

Working with Business, enhanced team’s domain knowledge to become the Go-to team for UAT and Dev

Delivery of Global Regulatory (Fed, FINRA etc.) applications

Simultaneously managed projects in AGILE and Waterfall model

Ensured escalations were minimum and stakeholders were alerted & constantly informed about status and mitigation.

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, New Jersey 2009-2012 Program Manager

• Helped build CoE (Centre of Excellence) at Citibank

• Oracle Core Banking Solution implementation

North America.

Involved migrating of 40,000 corporate accounts from Legacy mainframe. Migration Tests automated using Selenium

Brazil

Involved Conversion and Systems Integration

Program Manager JP Morgan Chase

• Overall Manager of projects in the Retail Financial Services portfolio of JP Morgan Chase - Student/Auto Loans, Home Lending, Credit cards

• Standardized practices, metrics gathering and Reporting across all Retail LoBs

• Motivated and led the team to get to the next maturity level.

DELOITTE Princeton, New Jersey 2007-2009

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Manager

• Manage project to replace company’s legacy audit platform with a .NET 3.5-based content driven application for 50,000+ global auditors.

• Partner with business groups to define and assess requirements.

• Participate in requirements reviews, qualify requirements, prepare plans and strategies

• Enabled early identification of defects and delivered cost savings by spearheading formal processes.

• Generated 20% savings, $100,000 annually, through improved processes and 30% faster execution time, worth

$50,000 annually, through automation.

SAPIENT, Jersey City, New Jersey 2005-2007

Project Manager & Consultant, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Ran full project lifecycle and team for client’s mission-critical Securities and Funds Transfer Project,

• Executed project for client’s customer base of 200 foreign central banks transacting billions of dollars daily.

• Project planning, business requirements analysis, strategy design, script development and execution, status reporting, risk analysis, and stakeholder relations.

• Coordinated defect fixes, releases, and deployment with teams.

• Advised bank leadership in steering committee meetings, serving as a subject matter expert on SWIFT messaging, funds transfer, and securities processing.

ORACLE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, New York, New York 2001-2005 Engagement Manager, Global Funds Transfer for Citibank within GTS

• Helped client standardize the funds transfer system and create an entirely global platform connecting all major payment clearing systems in Europe, Asia, and N. America.

• Led the System Integration/implementation effort of 2 COTS products - Viveo’s STP and FundTech’s Global PayPlus.

• Achieved project success for scope, timeline, quality and cost with a flawless migration to the new system launched in London.

SWIFT - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication 1993-2001 Dev & Systems Integration Manager

• Directed Development and systems integration team with 15 people for the company providing the backbone for international funds transfer.

• Coordinated initiatives for File Transfer, CMM, European Currency Unit (ECU) and EDI.

• Facilitated project planning, script writing, execution, verification, validation, metrics, and root cause analysis.

• Produced uptime and network availability of 99.92% for network handling millions of interbank messages daily.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA

Master of Business Administration in Finance, Operations Research JBIMS, MUMBAI, INDIA

Bachelor of Science in Electronics VISVESVARAYA REGIONAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, INDIA CERTIFICATION

PMP (since 2005)

Scrum Master

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodology: Waterfall SDLC, AGILE;

Data Science: Alteryx, Rapid Miner

Software: MS Office, Visio, ALM 12, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint Languages: C, Java, Python;

Project Management: MS Project; Database: MS Access, MS SQL, Oracle; Operating Systems: Linux, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Aix

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