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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Detroit, Mi, Us

New York, New York, Us

Senior Program Manager, formerly B2R Finance, leading strategic initiative of complex product and technology integration for a start-up financial arm of Blackstone, to include: developing new PMO, vendor negotiations, contract agreements, providing and requesting proposals and estimates for services, and software design. Hire, lead, mentor, and developed technology team of scrum masters and tech leads from entry-level to senior contributor to manage technology projects to develop new software (Java, .Net, SalesForce) on new architecture platform with cloud storage capabilities (AWS), designing new mobile app, and integration solutions in Agile environment. Created PMO with governance routines, establishing tollgate processes, artifact repository. Prepared RFP, evaluated responses, selected and managed multi-year implementation of Global Plus COTS software, and product manager for IT. Formed strong partnership with colleagues, staff, and executives, vendors within Sales, marketing, operations, and finance.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Senior Project Manager/Consumer Strategy Lead for several strategic projects in small business (SB) and capital markets. Managed diverse onshore/offshore team of system analysts, developers, and testers with requirement gathering, design documentation, QA testing, and development (SQL, SAS, C#, .Net, XML, SAP and Java) in various phases of multiple projects. Facilitated daily status meetings in Agile/Waterfall environment; managed resource assignments; hired, mentored, delivered annual team reviews; managed communications and handled issue escalation. Traveled to various BAC sites for JAD sessions to analyze current technology and recommend technological insight/changes; managed project pipelines and delivered weekly updates to manager while facilitating weekly team status meetings to allow members to share their updates. Projects include managing new relationship linking process (CRM) to connect small business customers to their consumer and wealth management accounts for $5 million cost savings; implement automation process that alert lenders when SB customers submit simultaneous applications for credit card and lines/loans products $1 million cost savings; implement AML enhancements to comply with regulatory requirements for existing SB underwriting system; implement process to convert manual reports to automation for daily UW production teams $1 million cost savings. Create BI reports (MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Excel) for monthly executive reporting. Led the integration of multiple systems, COTS and MCOTS, as well as on-site SDLC and database creation.

San Francisco, California, Us

Senior Technical Manager responsible for managing technical projects for multiple data repositories for Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) team, to include managing project implementation pipeline for systems changes, responsible to ensure all project documentations were completed, approved, and stored; facilitated weekly status meetings with all system leads, development and testing teams, and support personnel. During bank merger with Wachovia, managed projects to migrate existing enterprise system data to new Teradata environment to include presenting strategies to ensure seamless process, creating project plans, timeline, WBS, and assign resources; coordinate with test lead, systems analysts, technical/development team to assign roles, responsibilities, and expectation in regards to issues/process escalation to leadership.

Senior Technical Project Lead responsible for managing $1million project scope and strategy to connect bank branches' existing ARGO technology to new web-based system to securely email loan documents to attorneys, title companies, and other banking centers. Led team that included on-shore/off-shore technical members adhering to a stringent project timeline to convert over 500 Word documents to PDFs, developing web tool from scratch and implementing on existing infrastructure, managing roll-out to bank's footprint locations. Responsibilities included facilitating status meetings, establishing and managing schedule, and assigning tasks.

San Francisco, California, Us

Senior Technical Project Manager brought into lead $15 million enterprise implementation of new mortgage processing system in five locations. Traveled extensively as the on-site technical leader for Jacksonville, FL implementation team. My responsibilities included monitoring issues during implementation roll-out, leading efforts to resolve break-fix issues; establishing and managing enhancements project pipeline; assigning resources to resolve implementation issues; lead daily team meeting; managing budget; presenting possible resolutions when project issues occur. When issues resulted in creating new projects, I was responsible for managing user acceptance testing (UAT). During UAT, my duties included creating and managing test plans, assigning resource roles and responsibilities, monitor and maintaining test documentation, and provide full updates to implementation teams, stakeholders and lines of business (LOB).

Amsterdam, Nl

Performed duties as required to manage project initiatives such as design/development functions for online loan application, ensuring UAT completed prior to implementation, conducted JAD sessions to gather requirements for system enhancements and provide gap analysis for process improvements of the mortgage origination software by insuring that all assigned projects were completed in accordance with prescribed methodologies, within time frame and defined budget constraints. Developed database proficiency while creating data models from conceptual model to logical design to physical implementation.