Project Manager Technical

Yitta Silkes

Teaneck, NJ ***** • 917-***-**** • ******@******.*** • linkedin.com/in/Yitta-silkes

Dynamic leader delivering business solutions and driving project success through technical expertise and strategic collaboration.

Highly accomplished Senior Technical Project Manager with 20+ years of experience delivering complex, high-impact initiatives across Investment Banking, Private Banking, Consumer Banking, and Corporate sectors. Organized, self-motivated, and results-driven, with expertise in program management, process automation, data-driven solutions, and cross-functional delivery. Proven ability to lead global teams, manage large-scale programs, drive operational excellence, and bridge business and technology priorities to achieve strategic goals. Known for driving high-performance teams, accelerating project delivery timelines, and consistently delivering measurable business value in fast-paced environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Business Analysis • Data Transformation & Integrity • Agile & Waterfall Methodologies • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Process Automation & Improvement • Project Management & Strategic Planning • Testing & Defect Management • Data Integrity & Reconciliation • JIRA • Scrum • Performance Metrics • BDD • Critical & Analytical Thinking • Organization • Communication • Leadership • Decision Making • Self-Motivated

Project Management & Methodologies: Jira, MS Suite, Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, BDD

Database: Sybase, Oracle, Access, DBArtisan, Toad

Programming Languages: Java, J2EE (EJB, Java Servlets, JSPs), XML/XSL, Visual Basic 5, C/C++

Data & Analytics: Informatica, Business Objects, Tableau, Excel, Access, SQL

Testing & Automation Tools: Cucumber, Intellij IDEA

Business Knowledge: Fixed Income, Credit Derivatives, Commodities, Credit and Market Risk, BASEL II, Compliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JP MORGAN CHASE • Jersey City, NJ • 2000 to Present

VP – Technical Project Manager / BA (Payments) • 2021 to Present

Led the modernization and migration of high-impact Payments Systems, aligning business and technology priorities. Oversaw strategic partner integrations and automation initiatives across multiple clearings and regions.

Direct a cross-functional Agile automation team to implement AI-assisted end-to-end testing, leveraging Cucumber and BDD methodology with Java coding support. Personally utilized AI tools to enhance code development, increasing regression test coverage by over 60% and accelerating release cycles across U.S. and international payment flows.

Act as a strategic liaison between business, QA, and development teams, bridging technical and operational priorities to ensure successful delivery across 20+ integrated partner applications.

Design and build JIRA dashboards to drive real-time visibility, decision-making, and operational efficiency across integrated systems.

Develop and launch a Payments training and onboarding program in collaboration with senior leadership, reducing ramp-up time for new hires and improving team productivity globally.

Foster strong working relationships with Product, Infrastructure, and Regulatory teams to ensure that all payment migration deliverables are met on time, with minimal risk and full stakeholder buy-in.

VP – Technical Project Manager (CIB Banking) • 2017 to 2022

Managed data streams and produced a monthly report for critical senior management reporting of Wholesale Payments Technology. Reports included over 15 data sources which includes resourcing, financials and application stability data.

Reduced report prep time through Access/Excel automation; enabled metric development

Consolidated 15+ data streams for monthly tech reporting across resourcing, finance, and system health.

Designed and implemented Tableau reports, providing self-service detailed reporting and new metrics capabilities for Finance and Business Managers (FBM). These enable users to gain more insight and reduced bottleneck of obtaining the data details.

VP – Project Manager (Corporate Compliance) • 2015 to 2017

Analyzed data and prepared reports for the Issue Management process which was presented to the Global Compliance Committee.

Interfaced with multiple stakeholder cross LOBs and Compliance to ensure closure of the regulatory, internal audit, compliance and self-identities issue.

Automated standard team procedures, reducing manual reporting errors and boosting efficiency.

Implemented and automated standard team procedures, integrated shared data to reduce reporting errors.

VP – Project Manager (Language Control Program) • 2013 to 2015

Assisted in rolling out new language policy for CCB business. Tracked key deliverables and created weekly status reports to senior program lead to track program status.

Effectively built relationships with key business leaders to leverage their operational process knowledge, foster alignment which ensured project success.

Led full lifecycle project efforts across Customer Service (Card and Retail) and Collection (Recovery) within the Operational Compliance Language Control Program. Ensured Minimum Standards were met through audit validation.

Navigated successful migration to new vendor services, reducing costs and standardizing operations.

Early Career • 2000 to 2015

Technical PM – Business Analytics - Collateral Management • 2011 to 2013 • Delivered multiple business solutions for Consolidated Statements, allowing users to approve statements faster, filter and search by priority. Worked with senior middle office users to define and document requirements for WSS collateral movements which provided user capability to create Margin Calls. Used JIRA, DB Artisan and SQL.

Technical PM – Private Bank Credit Technology • 2010 to 2011 • Championed Agile project delivery for Private Banking, leading data acquisition, consolidation, and successful rollout of the Strategic Credit Workstation for Fixed Income and Equity Lending. Directed cross-team system and user acceptance testing, and built SQL scripts to drive data validation and reconciliation.

Business Analyst / Project Manager - Credit Risk Management • 2005 to 2010 • Led implementation of multiple position and transaction data supplies for Credit and Finance teams, coordinating across Lines of Business, Credit Middle Office, and downstream consumers. Ensured data alignment, facilitated strategic reconciliations, and maintained full regulatory compliance. Built solutions using Informatica and Oracle.

Business Analyst – Tech Lead Fix Income (SETE) • 2003 to 2005 • Resolved integration issues through analysis and design, performed reconciliations to ensure business approval, and developed business rules using Informatica and SQL. Built expertise in DTC, FED/UST, and MBSCC Fixed Income products.

Application Developer – Credit Derivatives Bond & Loan Origination • 2000 to 2003 • Developed code in enterprise Java to integrate bond basis from high-risk, external bond capture system. Built standard API (XML/HTTP) to allow pricers to retrieve bond basis and credit spread. Analyzed trade lifecycle along with flow of trades between systems, and Improved system reliability more than 200%.

INDUSTRY AFFILIATIONS

WOMEN’S NETWORK PROGRAM (WIN)

Committee Secretary Event Coordinator

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

PROGRAM (ITDP)Mentor

EDUCATION / Certifications

TOURO COLLEGE

Bachelor of Science – Management Information Systems

Studies Abroad (Safed, Israel)

AWS Cloud Certified

AWARDS

Employee Recognition Award (2008)

Recognition Award (2005)

Star Award (2005)

Spot Award (2000)

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