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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston

• The Baupost Group is one of the largest hedge funds globally, managing over $20B in assets under management (AUM). As part of the Business Support group, I deliver strategic products and solutions across the firm to.
• Team Leadership: Provide daily management, oversight, and mentoring for a team of high-performing and experienced direct reports.
• Project Leadership: Lead project management and business analysis for the Private Investments, HR, Admin Services, and Infrastructure teams.
• Strategic Planning: Conduct quarterly strategic planning, project prioritization, and resource allocation to ensure successful project delivery.
• Execution and Delivery: Create and manage project plans, leading cross-functional teams to execute and deliver on those plans.
• Risk and Issue Management: Oversee risks, action items, issues, and decisions for all projects, escalating to senior management as necessary.

• Responsible for project management and business analysis for all projects and applications related to Public Investments, Trading, HR, Compliance, and Corporate Accounting.
• Managed the implementation and delivery of SAP Concur to streamline the corporate expense reimbursement process.
• Delivered multiple middle office system enhancements to streamline reporting and workflow for the Compliance team.
• Led the build of a custom Outlook add-in to enable tracking and reporting of meetings with public officials and executives.
• Managed the implementation and rollout of the firm’s VMWare remote access solution to reduce IT maintenance costs.
• Led an HR project to synchronize employee contact data from the HR system to contact lists in Outlook and mobile devices.

Greater Boston Area

• Product Manager for the multi-year $12M rewrite of a proprietary Portfolio Order Management and Trading System used by the High Yield and Emerging Markets Businesses to manage $125B in leveraged company assets.
• Led product roadmap development and annual delivery team planning to set priorities and objectives.
• Managed product backlogs and facilitated quarterly release planning, bi-weekly sprint planning, and weekly backlog grooming.
• Coordinated, prioritized, and communicated business requirements across a highly matrixed technology organization consisting of seven scrum teams located in North America, Ireland, and India.
• Led all business user engagement including requirements meetings, design reviews, product demos, UAT, and end-user training.
• Attended regular steering committee meetings to review project status with the CIO and other senior technology leads.

Greater Boston Area

• Project Manager and lead business and systems analyst responsible for implementation of several multi-million dollar software development initiatives in support of the High Yield investment team. Roles and.
• Managed project management, business analysis, and development activities for two direct reports.
• Migrated approximately 100 Crystal Reports sourced from SQL Server to WebFOCUS reports sourced from Oracle.
• Delivered over 25 tactical report projects per year including reports for senior business heads and the board of directors.Product Manager - High Yield Research Applications & Fund Launches
• Led the end-to-end SDLC process for a new High Yield workspace application built on Envision.NET and Oracle.
• Led the migration of legacy High Yield research applications to next-gen research applications shared across departments.

Greater Boston Area

• Responsible for project management and business analysis leadership, best practices, and deliverables.
• Project lead for the industry mandated NASDAQ and Options Symbology initiatives. Coordinated overall program management and analysis involving 100+ stakeholders across 6 Fidelity companies and 70 brokerage applications.
• Managed key SDLC artifacts including objectives, scope, requirements, risks, and dependencies.
• Facilitated working sessions across multiple departments to elicit functional and non-functional requirements.
• Managed change requests and performed requirements traceability to control costs and enhance quality assurance.

Greater Boston Area

• Managed an Agile initiative to replace a client-server enterprise application with a next-generation, three-tier web-based solution built on.NET. Served as onsite client relationship manager for a 35-member offshore.
• Managed project plans, issues, risks, and change control.
• Conducted stakeholder interviews, documented business requirements, and reviewed monthly sprint deliverables.
• Documented functional and non-functional requirements and technical specifications for the offshore team.

Greater Boston Area

• Managed the Portfolio Investment Management System (PIMS) for North America supporting Fixed Income & Equity Portfolios.
• Managed project plans, issues, risks, change control, and delivery for several quarterly releases of PIMS.
• Led analysis and quality assurance for a strategic data warehousing project using Eagle PACE to consolidate firm-wide portfolio & security data. Efforts reduced data redundancy and established a global hub for.
• Delivered reporting and data integration specifications for the Asia Pacific region during a major accounting system consolidation. Efforts enabled the bank to recognize significant operational cost savings.

Greater Boston Area

• I/T SpecialistI/T Specialist with IBM’s Boston Center for e-business Innovation. The Innovation Center focuses on unifying strategy, design and technology to deliver lasting business value to clients and their.
• Staples: Ported the B2B website from Net.Commerce 3.1 to WebSphere Commerce Business Edition 5.4
• Fidelity Investments: Developed a new Global Pricing Workstation to calculate daily NAV for Fidelity Mutual Funds.
• BostonCoach: Developed a web-based limousine locator system using GPS and geographical mapping technology.
• Traveler’s Insurance: Streamlined annuities processing with a new annuity workstation built with Java Swing.
• L.L.Bean: Developed an online search component into the existing e-commerce site leveraging Net.Commerce.