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April 09, 2025

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Manuel Moran

IT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

**** ***** **** ******, ******* Creek, Florida, 33073. Mobile: 617-***-**** e-mail: ***********.*******@*****.*** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelmoransrprojectmanager Sr. Project Manager with extense management experience of new project development and BAU operation with different systems in banking industry managing local and overseas teams located in different countries. SUMMARY

Highly accomplished & seasoned IT Senior Project Manager with over 20+ years of diverse industry experience spanning Banking, Manufacturing, Consulting, and Advertising. Successfully led as an Oracle and Big Data Manager for 7 years, excelling in Data Management, ETL definition, and seamless integration of diverse Big Data tools. Proven expertise in implementing Data Quality measures for ensuring the relational integrity of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) systems. Proficient across a wide array of technologies including Solaris, Linux, MacOSX, Hadoop, Mongo, Storm, Spring, Oracle DB, and Toad, adept in formulating robust QA strategies and executing Testing (UAT). Proficient in utilizing PMP & CMMI methodologies for optimized project management, specializing in both agile and waterfall methodologies. Adept at optimizing and automating business processes to drive efficiency and success.

● Overall 20+ years of total IT experience

● IT Project Manager with 15 years of experience specifically in Banking domains (10 yrs. in Mexico, 5 years in the USA) following SDLC

● Strong knowledge of Anti Money Laundering (AML) area in banking industry specifically with Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance-Mantas

● 5 year experience on IT for other industries (Retail, Advertising, Recording Studios, etc) as independent DB developer.

● Effective creation of Project Schedules, timelines and Technical documentation

● 13 years of Change management knowledge on banking IT environment

● Strong experience on infrastructure projects

● Reliable project scope definition and Capacity planning of project s working teams

● Preparation and presentation of weekly status reports and Monthly project tracking meetings

● Worked with legal team and Delivery manager preparing RFP contracts for new projects and/or opportunities, cost estimation and team sizing

● Worked on various integration and technology transformation projects which require extensive co-ordination between various teams including multi-vendor projects

● Knowledge and appliance of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI Level 5) and PMI best practices

● Managed Business Requirement document (BRD) and Functional requirement document (FRD) for identification of functional requirements in testing projects

● Managed Business Integration Profile (BIP), Connectivity sheet and Tech Onboarding questionnaire for integrations to sanctions technology

● KPI definition within project execution to monitor proper pace and quality of the project development/execution

● Manage and timely report of defects, risks & decisions within the project to ensure they are addressed in a timely fashion and are tracked before risks become issues

● Skilled at performing GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis

● Strong working knowledge on MS Office suite including MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power Point, MS Visio, Jira, VSTS

● Strong expertise in Oracle s SQL queries, and JavaScript commands for MongoDB, as well as other database management systems

● Strong expertise in UNIX shell scripting

● Strong expertise on Testing management

● Knowledge and practice of waterfall and agile (scrum) project methodologies

● Strong experience in project management tools like MS-Project for status reporting and project planning and Digite s PROMT for project tracking

Manuel Moran

IT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

3662 Coral tree circle, Coconut Creek, Florida, 33073. Mobile: 617-***-**** e-mail: ***********.*******@*****.*** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelmoransrprojectmanager

● Strong experience with service now

● Excellent analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also a great team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Big Data Hadoop, Mongo, Storm, D3, Drools, Spark, SparkBeyond, Rstudio Programming Languages JavaScript, C, PIG, Python, Shellscripting Web Technologies XML, HTML, Rest, SOAP

Databases SQL, Oracle, MySQL

Operating Systems Windows XP, 7, 10, Solaris 10.X, Linux, MacosX Framework Spring, Rails

IDE TOAD, Rstudio, DBeaver

Scripting Languages HTML, Java Script, bash (shell script), 4th dimension Other Tools WebEx, MS Office, Project, Crystal Report, Jira, Confluence, VSTS, Remedy, Citrix, Service Now, Teams, ServiceNow

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

● Scrum Master certification 2022-2024

● Anti-money Laundering e-campus 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

● Anti-money Laundering seminar 2012, 2013, 2014

● Project Management Workshop, BBVA, 2013.

● Use cases (UML) Workshop, BBVA, 2013

● Oracle Mantas Training Course 2010

Education

University/College: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) Engineering Faculty (Undergraduate) Major : Computer Engineering, 1993-1998

Highschool: Instituto Don Bosco 1987-1990

Mayor : Physics-Mathematics

Work authorization: TN Visa Holder

Manuel Moran

IT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Employer: Apex Systems Apr '24 - To date

Position: Technical Consultant

Account Name: Santander Bank, Boston, MA

Projects:Aggregators 2, Acxiom API

Working close to Internal manager and project manager to provide technical advise (document creation) and support (technical and architectonic analysis) to implement the aggregators 2 project which includes the integration of 3rd party provider and 4th party vendors into Santander’s credit offer process Support to maintain PRE and PRO environments up and running for Acxiom API Employer: Virtusa Corporation Jun '22 - Nov '23

Position: Project Manager

Account Name: CITI, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Projects:Citiscreening (Cx/Tx on-line & Batch)

Integration Manager for LATAM region to assist in transactional and client data integration into Sanctions screening technology (Citiscreeniong application) from different LATAM countries (Colombia, Chile, Jamaica among others) to enable screening for sanctions reporting. Coordination of activities for BIP creation from business and approval from ICRM, Follow-up on Mapping/DEV, SIT, UAT and PVT phases of the project from Citiscreening side and coordinate CS tech teams until go-live keeping all project documentation accurate and updated following SDLC implementing

Employer: Robert Half Jan ‘22 - Mar ’22

Position: Project Manager

Account Name: Santander Bank, Dorchester, MA

Projects: Terraform, UiPath, Project Blue, PACM-PEX, Speech Analytics, Electronic Records Provide Infrastructure management and configuration support (Cyberark, monitoring, control-m, etc) for the infrastructure required for new projects

Assist the business to upgrade/downgrade their Windows systems in pre-environments to match the requirements from their applications

Helping the application team to get the proper support from the networking, OS, WAS/WEB, DB, security and/or any other technical team required to fit the bank’s requirements for systems in the network Enable proper network communication from US/Mexico access through firewall rules modifications Employer: CCM Consulting Feb ‘20 - Dec ’21

Position: Technical Project Manager

Manuel Moran

IT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Projects: Hardening & Compliance, Re-hostings & In-place upgrades, NW devices replacement Managing a team of specialists under client’s obsolescence team achieving 6% of obsolescence in all client’s assets during my tenure fulfill 3 main work streams: Database Hardening and compliance - Address the compliance status of databases on 3 different technologies

(DB2, ORACLE & SQL) on a recurrent basis and report to upper management, along with the execution of the hardening scripts on the identified non-compliant databases Database In-place upgrades, re-hosting and decommissioning – Identify obsolete database versions in 5 different database technologies (DB2, ORACLE, SQL, POSTGRES & MONGODB) and follow-up with business and technical teams to apply the appropriate strategy to remove the obsolescence Network devices replacement - Follow-up on back office switches replacement and track access point replacement in data centers and back office managing 500k & 800k budgets Employer: Corus Consulting Apr ’19 – Dec ’19

Position: Project Manager

Account Name: Santander Bank, Dorchester, MA

Projects: Clickfox, Acxiom, SparkBeyond, Argus

Leading a team of vendors as Project Manager for Big Data and Infra projects shown below: ClickFox - Integration of CRM DataStream to deliver CRM information to Clickfox vendor for off-site processing while providing BAU support for data streams already in production (Lynx, Care and IVR). Project included sourcing of 2 CRM files, informatica ETL and SFTP to vendor. Acxiom - Deployment of the SAS extractors to deliver information for external vendor processing. Project included sourcing of 7 data streams from SAS to generate 7 files and FTP to vendor SparkBeyond - Build and configure the full architecture to integrate 2 RStudio servers with 1 SparkBeyond server using https communication under a Citrix layer authenticated against company’s Active directory. Project included implementation of user NAS and 2 FTP to push information securely into the architecture for UAT and PROD complying with SLDC from proof of concept into a full production rollout Argus – Enable a direct communication channel from Vendor to Madrid using company’s secure communication transport (SFTP). Recovering of missing files that occur sporadically. Employer Infosys Technologies CDMX Aug ’15 – Mar ‘19 Position: Program/Project Manager

Account Name: CITI Projects: AML, API Factory, Mexico City, Mexico Account Name: PEPSICO Project : Technology transformation, Mexico City, Mexico Account Name: BIMBO Project : SOA layer creation, Mexico City, Mexico Managed pools of from 10 to 14 resources in different positions for different clients with different setups and from different industries:

Manuel Moran

IT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

3662 Coral tree circle, Coconut Creek, Florida, 33073. Mobile: 617-***-**** e-mail: ***********.*******@*****.*** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelmoransrprojectmanager CITI - Project start-up in the AML area, managing 6 national and 4 foreign resources, all on site, for data testing of Mantas and Actimize datastreams as part of SDLC process. Mapping mantas Datastructure with Actimize Datastructure

Start-up of the API Factory project for the API test to be integrated into the microservices architecture, managing 4 local resources and 2 offshore resources. PEPSI - Testing Manager for the first phase of the technological transformation project that would replace conventional hand-held with an application in a cell phone for product distributors and integrating it with the Salesforce application and legacy systems, executing everything in agile methodology. This position required interacting with Salesforce ecosystem (Marketing cloud and Sales) BIMBO - QA manager for the creation of the communication layer between the legacy systems and the new WMS (Logis) building SOA services under the Agile methodology, and coordinating the activities of 10 offshore and 4 local resources in addition to the follow-up with the development team. Employer: BBVA Engineering Jan ’11 – Jul ’15

Position: Regional Design and Developement Manager (Intern), Mexico City, Mexico Project: Assist Implementation and BIG Data project creation Leading a team of 8 resources over 3+ years coordinating the implementation of ASSIST system for Houston agency, while continue leading daily production operation and support for Mantas Mexico & Latam Keeping the T-3 SLA to avoid late delivery fines with the regulator applying Big Data technology and architecture for Anti-Money laundering detection in an SaaS fashion Using Mongo, I ve created a function that simulates Oracle s JOIN function, as in Mongo it doesn’t exist. The process asks for a string, which is used as argument to search for a specific customer in the customer s collection, from there, it takes customer’s number to search into the customer’s account collection, and from there, it takes all the accounts related to the customer and searches for all the movement on the cash collection. It becomes an easy process for the user, the user’s process is entering the customer’s name and the system returns all cash movements done in all his/hers accounts. Participated creating a (batch) process using Hadoop that triggered an alert when a customer s data meets some specific criteria. This means that a large customer file is processed using Hadoop map-reduce capabilities. After the process finished it delivered a small and manageable set of alerts to the business optimizing the currently existing mainframe process from 2.5 to 1.4 hours and reducing MIPS Collaborated on a solution that integrated different technologies to identify customers trying to use bank s infrastructure to do money laundering activities, on-line using rabbit mq, rest and oracle for persisting data in a Mongo DB complementing it with the following technologies: Linux, Hadoop, PIG Latin, Storm, Drools Employer: BBVA Bancomer Mexico May ’09 – Dec’10

Position: Design&Development PM (Intern), Mexico City, Mexico Project: MANTAS

Leading Anti-Money laundering technology activities in front of a team of 8 specialists to manage the operation of the following applications/projects:

Mantas for México and LATAM implementations (big scale behavior detection system) daily ingestion and alert generation along with production support reducing the delivery time from 15 to 3 days delay avoiding Manuel Moran

IT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

PBC data gathering and processing for Mantas ingestion of a daily 1.5 Tb file with QA analysis following SDLC to reduce the volume of unloaded records into the behavioral detection system DMC and ASSIST small scale behavior detection system (international implementation) Mantas Achievements:

Product Version upgrade (from 4.0.3 to 5.7.2)

Creation of Corporate Layouts for ingestion into Mantas Latest version (used internationally) Identifiy and resolve production issues (Informatica and Oracle DB) Design, development and implementation of a separate system for user authentications for Mantas System. Design, development and implementation of a separate system used to monitor Mantas components Control-m modification to stabilize Mantas daily productive process Integration of new transactions and productive scenarios in Mantas (Mexico, Peru and Chile) Integration of new risk segments to the productive scenarios in Mexico Installation of Mantas system for Chile

AML Production maintenance for 4 countries (México, Chile, Peru and Colombia) achieving T-1 delivery Design, development and implementation of data input with QA process for Mantas system from Host Identification of productive issues (QA for behavior detection) Employer: Hildebrando CDMX Apr ’08 – May ’09

Position: Design and Development Specialist, Mexico City, Mexico Project: Support for Oracle Mantas daily production for Mexico and LATAM Execution of proper Mantas jobs to identify different timeframe money-laundering behaviors (Daily, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly) across bank's transactions searching to comply with SLAs for AML department Employer: NPM de Mexico CDMX Sep ’07 – Mar ’08

Position: DB Consultant, Mexico City, Mexico

Project: Database development and improvement

Designed, developed, and modified modules within a customized database system built on 4th Dimension DB for a prominent clothing manufacturing enterprise. Modules encompassed pivotal functionalities such as production management, daily attendance tracking, and precise payroll computation. Employer: SPIRA Mexico CDMX Mar ‘07 – Jun’ 07

Position: Crystal Reports developer, Mexico City, Mexico Project: Report design for management board

Crafted and built comprehensive reports employing the Crystal Reports tool, while refining Oracle queries to enhance speed and efficiency in data retrieval and presentation. Employer: Ogilvy & Mather, CDMX Mar ‘06 – Feb’ 07

Position: Development Leader, Mexico City, Mexico

Project: Systems maintenance

Manuel Moran

IT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

3662 Coral tree circle, Coconut Creek, Florida, 33073. Mobile: 617-***-**** e-mail: ***********.*******@*****.*** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelmoransrprojectmanager Performed maintenance, integration, and administration of diverse systems essential for internal company operations within the IT domain. Managed core applications and interfacing systems, applying expertise in systems architecture and roadmap implementation to streamline organizational functionalities. Employer: Samsung SDS Mexico Sep ‘02 – Feb’ 05

Position: Autoline Consultant, Mexico City, Mexico Project: Adapt Autoline DMS to Mexican Market

Autoline, a Dealer Management System (DMS), catered to daily car dealership operations, encompassing Marketing, Service, Inventory, and Accounting modules. Predominantly utilized in Europe and maintained by a Korean team, the project aimed to tailor the Autoline system for the Mexican market, particularly for Daimler-Chrysler dealerships. In this initiative managing a 2 external resource team for Marketing module performing:

● Oversaw the Marketing-CRM module

● Initiated and managed Help Desk activities

● Executed on-site system installation and implementation of the MK module achieving 60+ installations around the country

● Provided 1st and 2nd level Help Desk support

● Managed VPN for version control between the UK and Korea. Employer: Independent DB developer Sep ‘98 – Jan’ 02 Position: DB Developer, Mexico City, Mexico

Project: Multiple Customers and Industries

Building integral DB systems to help manage small companies information from different industries like:

● Manufacturing: Developed an integrated ERP solution for a flexible packaging company, streamlining material calculations for product manufacturing, inventory management, and accounting.

● Advertising: Designed a system for managing campaigns, utilizing automatic fax delivery for streamlined operations.

● Recording Studios: Engineered and integrated an ERP system to oversee the administrative functions of a studio recording company, optimizing management processes.

● Managed a team of developers to build an integrated ERP for different industries (Hospitals, Airports, Retail Businesses)

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