Stephen Stelly - Senior Project Manager

STEPHEN L STELLY

***** *********** ** ** | Andover, MN 55304 | 763-***-**** | *****.******@*******.***

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging and rewarding career while providing proven information technology management skills. Strong adherence to project management practices with an emphasis on quality within either a waterfall or agile process

SKILLS PROFILE

- Solution based focus – problem solving

- Team oriented focus for success

- Detail focused

- Customer needs focused

- Issue and risk identification and mitigation

- Effective communication skills

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Wells Fargo Bank – Rural Crop Insurance Services – PMO Group

– Senior Project Manager 4/13/2008 — 3/25/2009

Anoka, MN

- Duties included:

Manage Strategic Projects in an Agile Methodology

•Project Scope •Story Identification •Iteration Planning •Story SWAGS •Story Priority Management •Daily Standup Meeting •Iteration Planning •Iteration Retrospective Meetings •Weekly Status Reporting •Reprioritization of Stories as new Stories are identified •Manage Project Budge •Project Closure meetings

Manage core team resources assigned to my projects

Performed interim PMO Manager duties

Attended senior management project status meetings to discuss projects across the company

Wells Fargo Bank – Institutional Brokerage Services (IBS) – PMO Group – Senior Project Manager (Vice President) 5/13/2001 — 4/12/2008

Minneapolis, MN

- Duties Included:

- Manage Tier 1 and Tier 2 projects across IBS. •Evaluate and define project scope. •Manage assigned project resource deliverables and timelines. •Manage multiple projects. •Evaluate and negotiate contracts when external vendors are involved. •Interact with senior management for project status reporting

- Types of Projects Managed:

o Identification and implementation of a preferred CRM solution “SalesLogix” – Project team consisting of internal and external vendor resources (team of 12 to 15)

o Multiple projects for the Public Finance Group including a rewrite of an internal Public Finance application to automate manual reporting processes utilizing internal resources (team of 15)

o Multiple operational projects including a Bank Safekeeping project required to maintain a clear separation of Bank Held Securities with approval by the Trust Group,. This project included data conversions from one firm into this new firm, validation of full functionality of downloads and file transfers, depository reconciliations, operational support of process and procedures, report creation and validations (team of 18 to 25)

o Multiple projects for the Trading Group including: new internal application to monitor CD Trade activity, Bloomberg interface enhancements, trade processing enhancements with Phase3

o Managed multiple Phase3 custom project requests to coordinate requirements gathering, planning, execution, testing and communication of implementation with final validation and signoff

Wells Fargo Bank – Institutional Brokerage Services (IBS) – Manager of Systems Group (Vice President) 5/13/1998 — 5/12/2001

Minneapolis, MN

Began my tenure as the manager of the business analyst team and received a promotion to manager of the IT Group as Vice President. Cultivated a development and support staff consisting of System Engineers / AS/400 development staff / Project Managers / Business Analyst / Database Analyst / Server Application Specialist / Communication Specialist

Within this group we provided system development and support for:

Institutional back office operations group

Institutional trading group

Institutional marketing group

IBS Group (Internet initiatives)

- Duties Included:

•Management of projects within the development staff by working closely with group staff members and with business units requesting these projects to maintain optimal development cycles. •Created and maintaining development procedures for internal AS/400 MidRange System code development. •Created service level agreements with all groups supported ~ Relationship manager for back office vendor system, Phase3. This includes; contract negotiation, service level agreements, problem resolution; evaluation of competency of this vendor system verses their competitors. •Managed vendor system custom team project deliverables and expenditures. •Cultivating business to business relationships.

ADP/SIS Inc. – Product Manager for the Order Management Application 1990 — 1998

Denver, CO

- Hired as a Customer Service Representative •Promoted to Senior Customer Service Representative. •Started and managed INFO Center •Accepted position as Product Manager for the ADP SIS Order Management System

Within these various positions my primary responsibilities included:

•Evaluating customer calls to determine basis of the call and interface with other SIS department’s to satisfy customer needs. •Performing Project Management responsibilities from start to finish for new and existing development initiatives. •Managing timelines and deliverables. •Conducting focus group discussions with the client user base to insure the development direction conformed to the direction outlined by the steering committee. •Working with customers to gain understanding of their business needs and advise of products which are offered by SIS to maximize productivity of their work force. •Writing custom queries on the Tandem system for use by the entire client base. •Assisting on client conversions. •Writing custom queries for conversion team support when not on site.

Lomas Securities USA – Senior Margin Clerk 1985 — 1990

Houston, TX

- Hired as a Margin Clerk. •Promoted to Senior Margin Clerk. •Started and managed Stock Borrow and Loan Department. •Started and maintained ACATS department

Within these various positions my primary responsibilities included:

•Monitoring deficit reports and subsequent preparation of management reports reflecting potential liabilities. •Monitoring all related reports pertaining to both cash and margin accounts and filing extensions as needed. •Approving all payouts and security transfers to all customers •Work stock breaks. Research dividends and reorg. Claims. •Entered DTC and Midwest deliveries and marks. •Worked conversions

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