Personal and Commercial Lines Led a diverse team of Business Analysts and Developers located; off-shore, on strategic initiatives. Participated in implementations and negotiations of Software vendor tools upgrade, conducted business JAD sessions. Implemented process improvement methodology managing Work Request database deliverables: deadlines, resources and budget allocation.PMO Uplift initiatives - Spearheaded CMMi Level 3 wave across application development, vendor management, SOX/Compliance, business stakeholders for the Marine line of business. Led Steering weekly committee meetings, obtained agreements and sign-off on every milestone, facilitated efforts on business cases and IT test scripts, consolidated project plans, issues, application performance metrics, coordinated 'lessons learned' sessions, reported delivery status and timelines.Managed work effort on systems transition from AZFF to AGCS organizations within Allianz. In charge of application development deployments that were leveraged by business critical needs on a release based schedule in concurrence with 3rd party off-shore counterparts. Applied agile software development methodology using the waterfall SDLC model.Adhere to SOX/Compliance controls and walkthroughs, issues and risk management, report progress to FFIC management and underwriters on systems implementation requirements and controls.

Managed Equity and Fixed Income teams on the knowledge transfer implementation for technology operations support efforts. Led Mind Mapping (Mind Manager 5.0) SME's sessions and documentation walkthroughs. Engaged senior management in defining and implementing project scope and created projects plans. Facilitated project integration and process improvement activities, implemented SDLC consistencies and created metrics for resource/time allocation. Created detailed project taxonomy baseline utilizing Share Point, outlined business and technology deliverables as well as reporting status and escalating issues.

Reference Data)PMO - Tracked and reported business issues and application changes; facilitated multiple work streams project communication and presentations to all management levels for the Global and Regional Governance Steering Committees.Implemented process reengineering governance structure and best practices toolset to improve overall management of technology projects and issues resolution/escalation in support of the firm's initiatives. Led a team of application developers and business analysts on creation of reference data operating Model for UK GL Financial Applications deployment. Received 2005 Service Star Award. Responsible for implementation, gathering business requirements, project planning and tracking of the Global Financial transformation strategy for international and domestic deployments, budget tracking, included documenting offshore SLA requirements.

Managed linguists for individual client projects, coordinated translating efforts, editors and proofreaders. Streamlined operations expenditure and resource activities, increased annual gross income by 28%.

Brokerage - International Private Client Sales and Service Group, Investment Banking and Brokerage SystemsCoordinated walkthroughs, presentations and provided compliance evidence to the internal SOX control, corporate audit and regional management teams. Successfully initiated and implemented Compliance 1028 web based system application for International Investment Bank and Brokerage encompassing all products to efficiently automate system and operation processes.

Managed teams on software customization for current and potential clients in credit cards and auto-loan sectors of the US. Worked with contracted offshore (Bogotá, Colombia) software development and built relationships with software/hardware product partners. Participated in: Product Marketing, Defining Project Scope, Developing Project Plan, CMM module, SDLC methodology, matrix, user requirements, gap analysis, benchmarking, data conversion, data modeling, proposals, evaluate and guide the client and product partners in best practices, managing quality customer service and product development/customization.

FinancialsProject Support Services (PSS/PMO), Park Avenue Securities: Provided active and ongoing support to Park Avenue Securities project managers and customer representatives on Broker/Dealer related application development projects utilizing SDLC. Contact Management, Portfolio Management, Performance Measurement, Order Entry, Compliance and Back Office. Created new application development project standards and outlined new procedures and guidelines. Maintained score cards, project tracking reviews for the CIO and IT management on SDLC compliance.The Church Pension Fund (Not-for-profit

Managed diverse team of technology and business professionals on deployment of property and casualty 3rd party vendor customized system. Gathered business requirements, financial reporting, led discussion forums related to migration and conversion. Contributed to the vendor software contract and code negotiations and documented best practices. Designed, developed, implemented and trained on the new systems. Created proposals and developed internal statistics based on demographics, skill assessments, vendor and product evaluated reports for product approval.

Streamlined the Year End Summary (YES) process that extracted credit card account transactions for the calendar year based on marketing requirements segments. Performed business analysis, tested coding, created documentation for a 3rd party vendor (FDR) conversion.

Streamlined the Year End Summary (YES) process that extracted credit card account transactions for the calendar year based on marketing requirements segments. Performed business analysis, tested coding, created documentation for a 3rd party vendor (FDR) conversion.

Provided interpreting and translation services in Russian/English languages. Received on the job training of business operation and contributed to the strategic business and technology goals.