Alex Sim Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York

New York, New York

• Oversee and drive the decommission of 150+ legacy applications across Corporate Bank Technology (formerly Global Transaction Banking Technology), reporting to Divisional CIO on progress and financial saves progress and forecast. Benefits include cost savings of millions of euros per year and simplification of complex architecture landscape• Assist application teams in decommissioning applications by coordinating the required activities to cover regulatory, data, and legal requirements, ensuring smooth and issue-free retirement of applications, platforms, infrastructure, and other assets• Drive the collection of information regarding application decommissions for quarterly financial review of software impairment in a portfolio of 650+ apps and assist in the reconciliation of capitalization/amortization changes. Input including, but not limited to, decommission timelines, nature of application and source code decommission, funding source, and application customization category• Track and drive the remediation of operational risk created by an undisclosed number of third-party mandated applications’ incorrect lifecycle status• Drive various global projects and teams by organizing meetings and stand-ups, tracking and driving actions, and prioritizing topics pertinent to strategy and Book of Work(s)• Organize group-wide, global webcasts and town halls for an organization of 3800+ staff, being responsible for end-to-end logistics and communication with speakers/presenters• Reconcile multiple application inventory management tools to ensure uniformity and correctness of data• Manage portfolio of 650+ applications and assist application owners and teams to maintain high quality of inventory details including bank and group functions, organizational ownership, lifecycle and investment statuses, and IT contacts

New York, Ny

• Completed training in project management, business analysis, and various professional and IT skills, particularly Unix, SQL, ITIL, Excel VBA, and APM to assist and drive delivery of project goals at client sites.

Weehawken, Nj

• Assisted project and programme leads in driving global initiatives to standardize code development and deployment by creating and presenting centralized build chains as an E2E service, leading to remediation of risk, reduction in cost, and creation of clarity across the code development process• Created project plans based on Agile and Waterfall methodologies, roadmaps, and status reports for various initiatives under IT4IT to illustrate the benefits, significance, timelines, and various aspects of initiatives in IT4IT• Drove UBS-internal SDLC project compliance procedures for several projects, documenting various architecture, test, and release-related artefacts for traceability and audit-related purposes• Provided PMO support for a DevOps team based in London managing sprints, chairing daily scrum meetings, weekly Governance Committee meetings, biweekly sprint meetings, and monthly Roadmap review meetings.• Produced daily scrum reports for IT4IT management and monthly change reports for the London DevOps team manager which is used for reporting to IT4IT and upper management• Became fluent in MS Excel and JIRA, and highly familiarized with Confluence, SharePoint, DocWeb, and other tools used for project management• Projects include OPERA Build Chain Remediation Project, SDLC Release Checker (release compliance checking software) and integration with request ticketing system SNOW and GSNOW, Metadata for Repository Collection Project (repository change tracking software), and Project Orange (application/tool consolidation)

Greater New York City Area

• Hired and trained new employees and assisted in coordination of staff to facilitate work and improve efficiency• Assisted management in an active manner to help improve business by initiating conversations and eventually implementation of ideas to accomplish such. E.g., a clear and concrete checklist of tasks for employees to perform during shifts and regular meetings to create a forum to disperse information and express concerns as a group• Managed the relationship between management and staff to improve employee performance and satisfaction• Tracked inventory on a daily basis and ensured items were used and displayed in a FIFO manner

Burlington, Ma

• Managed cashiers to combat areas of low performance and high discontent, primarily by reassignment of registers and succinct yet comprehensive explanations of job importance and related business practices• Bridged the gap between staff and management with social and language skills (Spanish and Korean) to effectively assist in the management of the store• Corrected shelf-database price discrepancies, and updated database on a weekly basis• Created comprehensive user guide for business critical Wavelink barcode scanner and label printer to combat almost complete lack of user knowledge of the tool, ensuring preservation and accessibility of proper device use

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Activities and Societies: NYU Generasian

High School

Activities and Societies: Film Club