Anthony R Forrester Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for• Supporting the New York City Financial Information Services Agency (FISA) in the design, development and implementation of a structure process, including project tracking and reporting as part of the Project Management Office (PMO).• Project Manager and Project Lead role with responsibility for developing project plans and reporting progress on projects for a full system development life cycle implementation.• Successfully managed the SDLC and deployment of Financial Management Accounting System upgrade project for the City of New York.• Project Management responsibility for the PMO TLC initiative, including engagement with the Team Leads assigned in reviewing their new responsibilities and processes. • Lead the team on the identification and rationalization of Project Metrics for the FISA PMO.• Responsible for the Document Management and standardization policy for the FISA PMO.• Lead and participate in project planning, project risk identification, risk mitigation and project scope creep management.

Project Manager providing Consulting in the design, development and implementation of a structure PMO process, including project tracking and reporting for clients in the New York City region.

- Aligning Business Systems with strategic objectives; - Conduct Information Security Seminars; - Reviewing IT systems, - Performing Information Security Audit; - Conducting vulnerability assessment; - Establishing Information Security policies

• Part of an executive committee with responsibility for conceptualizing and establishing the PMO at the East Caribbean Financial Holding Co. • Project Management functions; leading a team of IT professionals and Business Systems Analysts.• The PMO had responsibility for the execution of 17 critical corporate IT projects with an estimated budget of $5.4 million.

Responsible for:-• The development and deployment of strategic IT initiatives in support of the long term vision of the ECFH group.• The creation and enforcement of IT Security policies in compliance with established industry standards.• The Project Management functions; leading a team of IT professionals and Business Systems Analysts.• Supervising and developing staff capabilities through training, challenging opportunities and effective management of performance.• The creation of strategic and operational IT budget guidelines.• The management of a technologically diverse network which included platforms such as Windows NT/2000/2003, OS2, Exchange 5.5/2000, IIS 4.0/2000/2003, SQL 2000, IVR Systems, Banking Systems, Checkpoint Firewall, Cisco Firewall, routing protocols, ATM, FDDI, Frame Relay, T1/E1, Fast/Gigabit Ethernet, IPSEC, SSL-VPN, and TCP/IP.• Managing the Product Development activities, providing essential guidance in planning, budgeting and milestone control.

Mba, Business Administration

Bsc, Management Studies, Information Systems