Risk Management Project Manager

GREGORY A. SOLOMON, MBA

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Relevant Skills and Competencies

Experienced Senior Business/Operations Analyst, to include full lifecycle Business Requirements Management

Experienced in Process Improvement, Organizational Change Management, and Business Transformation programs—to include initial Strategy Development

Direct management of assigned and dotted-line technical and business analysis resources

Developed and maintained data visualizations that served to educate, inform, and engage business partners

Communication Plan development and project life-cycle management, including Issue and Risk management

Detailed process mapping of defined to-be business processes, including identification of value add versus non-value add (VA/NVA) process steps

Consulted to Retail Banking companies to define and benchmark process performance metrics

Trained and performed in both Agile and Waterfall SDLCs

Program and large-project scope and financial Project Management; project budgets in excess of $30MM

Professional Experiences

Kent State University (01/13/2020—Present)

Adjunct Instructor: Integrated Business Policy and Strategy

Organize and deliver course learnings (via live and online delivered lectures) aimed to teach strategic business Learning Objectives and principles to Senior and graduating Kent State University students

Initiate interactive activities that further the subject matter understanding process, and work to create a positive learning environment during virtual learning delivery

Responsible for all grading exercises (exams, homeworks, online discussions, and written papers)

PNC Bank, Cleveland, OH (02/2006—10/2014 & 01/20—07/2022)

Sr. Investment Analyst / Continuous Improvement Engineer / Sr. Technical Project Manager / Six Sigma Back Belt

Utilized data analysis tool (Tableau) to provide detailed analytical expertise and research to Product Managers, Senior Management, Investment Strategy, and the Derivatives Strategy Group

Worked with Agile team on the development of technologies and processes to expand the Indirect Auto Lending process for the bank. In addition, leading efforts to define repeatable business processes for the expansion of Indirect Auto Lending to other out-of-market states

Worked with both Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regulators toward the certification of Basel II / Basel III capital calculation and management reporting processes for the PNC Securitization asset class.

Led project efforts to improve the loan decisioning process for the National City Corporation Private Client group. Worked with loan underwriting group to eliminate non-value-add process steps—led to a 60% cycle time reduction.

Developed and delivered training detailing Business Analyst’s usage of Six Sigma (Green Belt) and Continuous Improvement tools on technology delivery and process improvement projects.

Bank of New York Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA (04/2017—12/2017)

Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsible for the elicitation and documentation of business requirements, from Line of Business users and subject matter experts, towards the development of financial risk analysis reports and measurements.

Assisted in the operational roll out of all developed tools and processes to support the reporting process to Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) Regulators in support of the combined banks holdings and loan portfolios.

Conducted data mining, data modeling, statistical analysis, business intelligence gathering, trending and benchmarking for current data lots used to produce FFIEC Regulatory Reports for the enterprise.

Medtronic, Integrated Health Solutions, Cleveland, OH (01/2017—03/2017)

Project Manager

Co-developed and maintained overall program plan and individual project dashboards, including individual project plans, project status reports, risk assessment documentation, stakeholder maps, and estimated costs-benefits analysis.

Conducted process mapping and complex data analytics, in support of project planning, decision making, and execution efforts.

Co-led individual work streams to document and make improvements within the overall business process for the operation of heart-catheterization and electrophysiology labs.

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Professional Experiences (cont)

Forest City Realty Trust, Cleveland, OH (03/2016—11/2016)

Program Project Manager

Worked to define new Project Management Office (PMO) structure for the management, governance, and reporting of internally led project and technology implementation initiatives.

Participated in the development of a management reporting metrics and visual dashboards to continually track and report on the health of key enterprise initiatives and included projects.

FirstMerit Bank, Akron, OH (08/2015—02/2016)

Senior Project Manager

Led organization efforts to implement Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution, and supporting business processes, for the Commercial Loan provisioning process.

Assisted in the definition and writing of Project Management Procedures concerning “Planning and Communicating through Microsoft Project” and “Cost Benefit Analysis Documentation and Reporting”.

Hyland Software Incorporated, Westlake, OH (10/ 2014 – 07/2015)

Senior Project Manager

Responsible for planning and coordinating internal and client projects team members toward the definition and implementation of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies and supporting processes.

Led the facilitation and coordination of client meetings, including project plan development, staffing decisions, and project approach strategy creation.

Independent Consultant, New York, NY (09/2003—01/2006)

Participated in the development of a business case to support the implementation of pre-employment criminal screening utilizing electronic fingerprint technologies. Facilitated cross-departmental requirement elicitation meetings. (National City Corporation, Cleveland, OH)

Worked jointly with CGEY consultant team to gather and document detailed business requirements for the configuration and implementation of Siebel’s 7.5 CRM application (Key Bank, Cleveland, OH);

Developed and implemented tools to deliver operating and reporting controls for a regional telecommunication company. Additionally, identified opportunities to improve service levels and lower operating costs (Bell South, New Orleans, LA)

Headstrong, New York, NY (09/2000 to 09/2002)

Managing Consultant

Led client and consultant project teams through the implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Force Automation project implementation initiatives.

Managed resource allocation across multiple projects, including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future resource availability.

Served as office Subject Matter Expert (SME) on issues of Organizational Change Management and Business Process Reengineering during technology development and implementation projects.

Facilitated executive level steering committee meetings that sought to develop an Organizational Change Management program to ensure successful end-user acceptance of newly implemented Sales Force Automation (SFA) technologies.

Education & Professional Development

Case Western Reserve University, MBA, Strategic Management, Cleveland, OH,

Brown University, BA, Organization Behavior & Management, Providence, RI

National City Corporation, Six Sigma Black Belt, Cleveland, OH

PNC Financial Services, Certified Financial Analyst Investment Fundamentals (Pending), Cleveland, OH

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