Brian Romano Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Product manager for API Banking and vendor connectivity solutions at Pacific Western Bank, which was acquired by Banc of California.Launched PWB Direct APIs for client and fintech consumption. Implemented bank-wide API procedures for API standardization, common components, and release process.Released the PWB API Developer Portal to assist business and.

United States

• Product owner for 2 Scrum teams
• Delivered and rolled out Tamarac External API solutions
• Tamarac owner of external APIs, SSO, 3rd party integrations, and Tamarac user, household and client operations
• Collaborated with clients, potential clients, strategic technology partners, and internal teams to identify and define robust, scalable, repeatable integration solutions using Open ENV technology
• Implement API solutions with Tamarac consumers to ensure they are implementing an efficient solution using available best practices; establish and attend regular meetings calls to answer questions about the.
• Support clients and prospects, attend meetings representing Open ENV, produce standard solution presentations, demo scripts, and other tools for strategic partnerships

Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States

• Account opening product owner for a 10 person Scrum squad
• Development, maintenance and configuration account opening work for over 150 institutional broker dealers
• Merged a Kanban team to the Scrum team, and eventually converted to Scrumban to utilize the benefits of both methodologies.
• Utilized concepts such as servant leadership and continuous improvement to reduce scope change, increase velocity, and increase happiness measurements.
• Implemented a business unit work request utility that allows both external and internal business partners to add stories directly to Jira backlogs. Convinced other team of the value, and collaborated to implement for.
• Prioritized squad work, balancing both direct client request and development needs across the business unit.

Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States

• Manage Integration Services Deployment team
• Responsible for implementing Single Sign-On, API and Inbound File Processing integrations with institutional clients, and third party vendors.- Project manage client, vendor and internal business and technology teams..
• Increased annual deployment output by 23% and 33% for 2016 and 2017, while maintaining flat staffing levels.
• Amid staff reductions in 2017, increased deployment productivity per person by 19%
• Implemented an organizational wide metrics program to monitor active and completed work, as well as tracking deployment requests in the pipeline.- Formulated optimal workload, request wait time, duration benchmarks..
• Publish weekly Deployment dashboard to Relationship Management and Client Experience teams.- Facilitate weekly meeting to review client needs, prioritize requests and manage queue wait times.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Manage National Financial User Acceptance team
• Responsible for department resource planning and schedule estimates to ensure end-to-end test case coverage.
• Developed and implemented a support model for client workstream testing.- Collaborated with client and implementation test management to share internal and external project and testing practices, and tailored the.
• Lead UAT testing for various brokerage projects, both front end and back end.
• Architect test strategies, test plans, and test cases in the area of early defect detection and prevention.
• Create test cases and ensure traceability to business requirements and functional specifications.

• Business point of contact for technology teams for areas including web and desktop applications, internal administration applications, and the mainframe.
• Project Sponsor for technology projects - Secured funding for project, and ensured that it remained on budget and on time- Provided business and systems requirements- Guided product design and scope to ensure.
• Provided project management for projects from proposal through post implementation- Coordinated and planned projects and manage complex IT programs- Engaged senior management and clients on the project scope, cost and.
• Engaged clients to discuss functional and technical updates to the applications.
• Worked across teams to document processes and standards
• Security approver for internal user access to production trading systems

• Managed 2 U.S. based teams, with a total headcount of 15 employees. Perform performance reviews, matrix project resource, and promote career development.
• Responsible for 11 fulltime offshore resources and 18 offshore professional resources.
• Own multiple subsystems of the web platform. Responsible for performing technical sizing estimates, as well as maintaining functional quality and developing subject matter expertise for each subsystem. Served as QA’s.
• Participate in offshore resource management. At a department level, work with on-shore coordinator to ensure all project teams are communicating and working together effectively. Manage offshore resources to promote.
• Responsible for jointly managing the ongoing monthly releases, for functional efficiencies and technical risks.
• Voting member of Release Control Board.

• Lead QA testing in various Active Trader Pro (ATP), fidelity.com, and Streetscape projects. Managed testing resources, and responsible for test case coverage, resource and schedule estimating, and maintaining the QA.
• Provide Module, Integration, System, Functional, and Acceptance Testing- Architect test strategies, test plans, and test cases in the area of early defect detection and prevention- Participate in defect prevention.
• Account Records point of contact for automation of manual test cases. Create fidelity.com test scripts using Quick Test Pro.
• Lead Process Improvement initiatives for creating project status reports and for impact analysis

• Provide Component, Integration, System, and Functional Testing for RealTime for Marketing product- Produce test plans, test cases, and test scripts for testing of the user interface- Create test cases and scripts to.
• Create and execute automated test scripts using WinRunner for regression testing of the user interface

• QA Lead Engineer on both Business-to-Business and Business-to-Customer eCommerce projects
• Provide Module, Integration, System, and Functional Testing- Architect test strategies, test plans, and test cases in the area of early defect detection and prevention- Participate in defect prevention practices during.
• Formed and lead Granitar’s Software Quality Community
• Created a centralized Quality Assurance Testware Library

• FILI QA Project Lead on various projects
• Provide Module, Integration, System, Functional, and Acceptance Testing - Architect test strategies, test plans, and test cases in the area of early defect detection and prevention - Participate in defect prevention.
• Established a quality metrics program to allow for quantifiable measurement of application readiness
• Created a formalized Risk Assessment Program to detect both technical and business risks early in the software development process. QA Engineers, Software Developers, and any subject matter experts all participate
• Coded and tested a template driven insurance policy assembly system