Project Management Manager

Tejas Parekh

Phone: Cell# 908-***-**** / Home# 908-***-**** Email: *******@*******.***

Summary of Experience:

• Application Architect / Team Lead / Agile Delivery Manager with a proven track record in delivering enterprise technology solutions for various commercial applications through all the phases of the technology enablement life cycle using agile/project management methodologies across various business domains.

• Technical development experience on various technologies encompassing .NET full stack, PL/SQL, Angular and its related libraries.

• Proven leadership abilities with effective interpersonal and communication skills.

• Experience in working and managing technology teams across various organizational groups spanning across regions.

• Expertise in adoption of Agile Methodologies, Scrum framework, DevOps disciplines using next generation SDLC toolkits.

• Experience working closely with senior leadership in technology and operations to define strategy, target state architecture and roadmaps, technology and product evaluations, architectural governance, presentations for steering committee, managing stakeholder consensus, budgeting, resource estimation, recruitment and staffing.

• Experience in Release Manager role, defining process improvement procedures helping lowering risk with improved software quality.

• Experience in vendor management tasks inclusive of working with external vendors and internal teams and negotiations.

• Experience in IT strategy and management continuous development to refine the strategic planning process.

• Experience in Agile Adoption Transformation working in matrix environment with vertical and horizontal teams. Academics:

• Master of Engineering (Software Engineering), Concordia University, Canada. [2007 – 2008].

• Master’s Certificate in Information Technology Project Management, The George Washington University – School of Business [2010 - 2012].

• Associate Certificate in Information Technology Project Management, The George Washington University – School of Business [2010 - 2011].

• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) (Computer Engineering), University of Mumbai, India. [1995 - 1999]. Certifications:

• Comprehensive Project Management, McGill University School of Continuing Studies, Canada.

• ITIL© Intermediate Certificate in IT Planning, Protection and Optimization.

• ITIL© Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management.

• Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance.

• Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance.

• Scrum Fundamentals Certified, SCRUM study - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile.

• Certificate of Supply Chain Management, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. [2003 - 2004]. Technical Proficiency:

Front End

• Angular, Artifactory

• .NET Framework, WinForms, WPF, C#, .NET Core

• HTML5, CSS, SASS, JSON, JavaScript, XML, REST,

TypeScript

• Micro Frontends.

DevOps

• Git, Jenkins, SonarQube. SourceTree, Perforce

Testing

• BDD, Cucumber, Test Driven Development (TDD)

• Jasmine, Karma, Protractor

Cloud

• Azure

Back End

• Microservices, NPM, Node.js, .NET Services

• Kafka, Spark, Java

Databases

• Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, Teradata, PL/SQL SDLC

• Agile, Project Management, Jira, Scrum

• Design Patterns, SOLID principles

Development Tools

• VS .NET, VS Code, MS Visio, MS Project, IntelliJ, Eclipse.

• Libraries / Tools / 3rd Party Controls

Angular Material, ag-grid, compodoc, TSLint, JSLint, RxJS, Gulp, Infragistics

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Career History:

Morgan Stanley, New York, USA July 2014– Till Date Vice President

(www.morganstanley.com)

Projects:

Controllers Workbench Framework – A Strategic Finance Reporting Framework (Web-Based + Desktop)

• A one-stop-shop strategic reporting GUI platform leveraged all across Finance, supporting various business functions like product control, regulatory, TPRM (3rd Party Risk Management), VMO (Vendor Management Operations), wealth management etc. The legacy existed as a desktop version which is presently been migrated to a strategic web architecture.

• Architected, designed and developed the desktop framework using .NET technology stack.

• Developed various generic business modules like Reporting (standard, customized & ad-hoc), adjustments, sign-off, RFB, Admin etc. along with common core components.

• Upgrading current desktop framework from .NET 4.6.1 version to .NET core.

• Re-writing desktop-based framework to web platform by redesigning and rearchitecting, leveraging Angular and other related libraries and technologies for a target state strategic solution.

• Building workflow capabilities in the web platform leveraging Camunda for business process workflow orchestration.

• Reviewing cloud strategy for the framework by conducting POC using Azure.

• Guiding consumer development teams to build and on-board business applications onto the strategic framework.

Detail Sub-Ledger Program

• The DSL (Detail Subledger), a critical component of the Finance Strategic Architecture, targeted Morgan Stanley's next generation books and records store. It consolidates P&L and risk from trading systems across the firm, supporting risk management, balance sheet substantiation, regulatory reporting and other areas. It encompasses various systems.

• Developed and owned various systems under the program that aides Finance Controllers to do their daily P&L processing.

• Developed various reporting modules such as Balance Sheet, Attribution, Deal linkage, Notionals and others for Financial products such as Fixed Income, Equity, Derivatives, Credits etc.

• The modules were developed using .NET, C#, WPF, .NET Services and other associated technology stack.

• Hands on development for middle-tier services code in Java for support and maintenance along with PL/SQL for queries. Leadership / Management / Strategy

• Leads governance integration efforts by matrix managing agile technology teams (on-site, offsite, vendor) through all the phases of the SDLC life cycle along with mentoring by providing technical guidance.

• Acting as an Agile & DevOps lead for all involved projects conducting all scrum ceremonies for the development following with DevOps principles.

• Technical Product Owner – defining framework & system components, features, functions, services etc for construction.

• Evaluating various tools and technologies by conducting POCs for system construction.

• Inner Sourcing – Evaluating developed components within the firm meeting the needs for reuse avoiding duplication.

• Providing on-going production outages and development support, coordinating change management, code & design review for quality as per defined governance standards.

• Acting as a Release Manager/Technical Project Manager for timely releases. Defined various improvement processes and procedures for future release standardization lowering risk and improved quality.

• Liaising with Firm’s global business partners in understanding business and service requirements and translating them into project design for development and implementation of systems and frameworks.

• Working with various inter as well as intra division teams (QA, Production Management, Strategic Operations, other upstream/downstream business, testing etc.) for front-to-back functional system implementations.

• Responsible for driving focus and prioritization within the IT organization through establishing strategic planning and governance principles and processes.

• Participate in continual review alignment of existing IT strategy with business strategy and enhance the overall approach/framework to more effectively bring the groups together. Oversee the application development strategy.

• Leading core governance team defining code governance policies, principles and processes to be followed across division.

• Meet regularly with Senior IT Project Managers, IT Directors, to review the financial status and strategies for IT projects.

• Dealing with vendor firms for staffing and product sourcing needs. Managing vendor teams for respective deliveries.

• Contributing towards agile adoption transformation to achieve greater cross-enterprise consistency and enable improved horizontal management.

Additional Office Duties

• Involved in Firm’s mentoring programs, training committees, and served as a mobility advisor for the Finance IT.

• Active member of the recruitment team (lateral + campus), representing the Firm at career fairs and other lateral Page 3 of 4

recruitment events assisting in resume screening, interviewing, firm branding and others.

• Presenting Finance IT frameworks and business applications in NY during Firm’s Global Tech Expo (2014-2019).

• Partnering with various university students for term projects to deliver technology business value for the firm as a part of their curriculum [University: Cornell, Rutgers, Stevens]. Technical Environment: Angular, .NET Framework, WinForms, WPF, C#, .NET Core, .NET Services, HTML5, JSON, JavaScript, TypeScript, SASS, CSS, XML, REST, Artifactory, NPM, Node.js, Gulp, RxJS, Kafka, Spark, DB2, Teradata, Jira, Jenkins, TDD, BDD, Cucumber, Jasmine, Karma, Protractor, Visual Studio.NET, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Azure, Camunda. Morgan Stanley, Montreal, Canada May 2008 – June 2014 Vice President Jan 2013 – June 2014

Associate May 2008 – Dec 2012

(www.morganstanley.com)

• Designed and developed P&L suite of reporting applications and framework using .NET technology stack with object- oriented paradigm.

• Continually upgrading the technology stack with the latest .NET framework version to leverage new capabilities.

• Leveraged in-house ETL tool to source up-stream data into the warehouse, leveraged for reporting.

• Managed local & global teams (full-time & consultants) with day-to-day product ownership of the firm’s P&L systems and teams. Encompassed tasks like budgeting, prioritization, resourcing, estimation, location strategy, compensation, escalation, project management, analysis and delivery, etc.

• Mentored development teams, providing technical guidance to junior developers and interns.

• Acted as a Scrum Master and IT Product Owner liaising with development team and business users prioritizing and

• delivering business functionalities. Also managed global agile teams with sprint ceremonies for managing deliverables.

• Provided level 3 support during production outages liaising with level 1 and level 2 support teams with on call rotation.

• Liaised with management to coordinate process improvement activities and constant status updates.

• Performed project management tasks by maintaining and updating project plans by taking status from various development teams and communicating to the management.

• Performed release management for all the outgoing software components. Acted as a facilitator by serving as a liaison between different business units for smooth and timely delivery of the product with highest quality. Created and implemented process improvements for code release management.

• Managed software change management process for prioritizing issue fixes and new development requests liaising with business and development teams.

Additional Office Duties as Vice President:

• Served on the Montreal Management Committee, which defined the mission and goals of the office IT department, developed strategies to achieve the goals and directs the activities of the office ensuring it is run efficiently.

• Served as a member of the Montreal Operating Committee responsible for executing policies and directives, and ensuring the smooth functioning of the office IT department on all day to day operational matters.

• Involved in Firm’s mentoring programs, training committees, and served as a mobility advisor for the Finance IT.

• Served as a member of the recruitment team (lateral + campus), representing the Firm at career fairs and other lateral recruitment events assisting in resume screening, interviewing, branding etc.

• Presented Finance IT frameworks and business applications in Montreal during Firm’s Global Tech Expo event in 2013. Technical Environment: .NET, WPF, WCF, Perforce, WinForms, C#, Sybase, DB2, Teradata, Jira, MS Project, Jira, Jenkins. Compuware Corporation, Montreal, Canada July 2005 – April 2008 Systems Designer / Developer – Distributed

(www.compuware.com)

Client: Morgan Stanley

• Designed and developed Profit & Loss (P&L) suite of reporting applications working in a global team environment.

• Enhanced and monitored the legacy P&L systems for meeting the continuous ongoing business requirements.

• Migrated the existing systems suite to .NET platform along with developing various new modules (Admin tool, Signoff, Adjustments, Deal Linkage, WebPublish, Reports) for the integration with a Finance data warehousing system.

• Worked without any supervision and was responsible for user interface application releases and support. Technical Environment: .NET Framework, C#, WinForms, VB 6.0, Sybase, DB2, COM+, Perforce, Unix, Windows, Visual Studio .NET., VMS.

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Nexgenix (India) Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India May 2003 – May 2005 Systems Executive / Senior Systems Executive

(Sole subsidary of Nexgenix Inc, Irvine, California, USA – www.nexvisionix.com). Clients: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. in the United Kingdom (England & Wales) and United States of America.

• Managed and represented off shore development team in a customer liaison role for application deployment.

• Team leadership responsibilities included design and resource estimation, requirements gathering, task allocation and project status tracking.

• Designed, developed and implemented short term supply chain planning retail applications along with providing direct end-user support.

• Accountable for gathering end user sign-off assisting in client testability preparing entire deployment plans.

• Member of a product platform (IX – Intelligent Exchange) business intelligence solutions development team. The product targeted the retail domain helping clients plan for short-term supply chain. Some of the modules targeted merchandising, marketing and operations intelligence in the retail space. Technical Environment: VB 6.0, ASP, Oracle 9i, COM+, VSS, ADO, VB .NET, VS .NET, ADO .NET, C#, Oracle 10g

(Portal / Application Server / Database), JSP, Oracle JDeveloper, MS Project. Affarastrategerna Think Tech Technologies (P) Ltd. [A3TL], Mumbai, India May 2001 – May 2003 Project Engineer / Project Leader

(Parent company - Affarasstrategerna, Sweden – www.a3tl.com). Clients: Magana Flowers Ltd, Kenya; Kiliflora Ltd, Kenya/Tanzania; Mount Elgon Ltd, Kenya; Brookhouse School, Kenya; East African Growers, Kenya; SafariCom, Kenya; Tata International Ltd, India

• Managed and represented development teams to implement the customized ERP solutions at time sensitive client sites in Africa (Kenya and Tanzania) with constant client interactions and providing direct end-user support.

• Team leadership responsibilities for managing development and it’s all related activities.

• Developed various ERP modules like Personnel, Purchase, Stores, Accounts etc.

• Overlooking the work of a 3rd party vendor hired for developing software components and customized modules for code quality and timely delivery.

Technical Environment: VB 6.0, Oracle 8.1.7, COM/DCOM, COM+, VSS, MTS, Seagate Crystal Report 8.0, ADO. Bereit Web Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India June 1999 – May 2001 Software Engineer

Clients: Multiple

• Developed customized applications for the jewelry industry such as price estimation, catalog digitization and consumer kiosk software. Interaction with customers and technical teams for all SDLC phases along with deployment and support. Technical Environment: VB 6.0, MS Access, SQL Server 2000/7.0, COM/DCOM, Data Report, HTML, VBA, MS Word, MS Excel, ADO, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Interdev 6.0, IIS, DreamWeaver 3.0, HTML, Front Page. Ace Computers, Mumbai, India [Part-Time] July 1999 – May 2000 Technical Trainer

• Worked as a part-time instructor teaching computing fundamental, basic client-server theory along with OS, Microsoft Office and basic programming languages to students of diverse backgrounds. Keywords: Application Architect, Team Lead, Agile, DevOps, Finance, Retail, Vendor Management, Project Management, Release Management, Agile Delivery Manager, Agile Delivery Lead, Agile Transformation, Client relations, IT Strategy, Inner Sourcing, Governance, Angular, .NET, .NET Core, WPF, C#, Kafka, Azure, Spark, HTML5, Git, Jenkins, Jira, VS .Net, VS Code, PL/SQL, TDD, BDD, SDLC, Servant-Leader, Project Delivery, Client relations. References: Furnished upon request.

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