Christopher Arthur Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Ameriprise Wealth Management (AWM) PMO implementing a high valuable / high visibility program, Customer Advisory Relationship (CAR) Program, currently within the Ameriprise managed accounts platform. Scope of the program is to deliver a single advisory agreement and simplified account fee.

San Francisco, California, Us

Wealth and Investment Management (WIM) division of Wells Fargo is undergoing migration of their systems from Legacy T3K to SWP vendor provided platform, one of the largest initiatives in Wealth Management in the entire United States. Program Lead / Sr. Project Manager in Wealth Investment Management (WIM PMO) and Trust Operations (TSG) initiative that supports all Line of Business served by Trust Services.

Toronto, On, Ca

•Responsible for managing scope, schedule and budget of a number of multi-faceted, large, highly visible, and cross-functional Programs that included teams working in diverse geographical locations in US / Canada / Belarus (Europe) and Bangalore (India). •Managed Canadian Legal Portfolio / Products for Carswell (WestLaw Next Canada)•One of the large initiatives was the migration from legacy platform (Web2) to Cobalt Platform (WLNC), completed in 3 phase’s multi-year projects.•Requires collaboration with a variety of business and technology areas that involved multiple global businesses partners and project teams. •Lead my project teams through an iterative (Agile Methodology) approach of delivering the product, conducted iteration planning, release planning; create Project Plan and track tasks, milestones and dependencies.•Rolled out / implemented a new Agile Process for the projects teams for being more successful in Agile methodology•Further, my role required providing Leadership and managing all status metrics (burn downs, velocity, table planning, etc.), Business Case approvals (Funding process)/ projects financials / budget, managing scope and capacity planning to deliver projects within the expected metrics.•Delivered all pertinent information efficiently and effectively to all levels of the organizational hierarchy, had bi-monthly Program review and Finance meetings with Business and IT with the latest status on the deliverables and finances.•Monitor costs, timescales and resources used on active projects, and review actions where these deviate from agreed tolerances with PMO leadership.•Define, document, and execute projects of high risk, complexity and visibility, and actively participating in all phases of the project.•Managed the change control procedure gaining agreement for revisions from the project stakeholders and ensure full impacts of significant changes are understood by project stakeholders.

San Francisco, California, Us

•Project involved implementing the Aravo Software for the Client Proctor and Gamble •Responsible for the overall implementation, budget, resource allocation, timelines/schedule and delivery•Implementation was done in an Agile methodology with 2 week iterations / sprints for our client Proctor and Gamble •Followed all the standard Agile activities like Iteration kickoff / Iteration Check-point / daily stand up/ Demo-Retro for the iterations•Create high level Project plan with client team from requirements gathering to validation to development to create SIT/UAT test plans and roll out•With the help of the Project team to develop a very granular Project line with the timelines, deliverables, deadlines•Communicated constantly our offshore partners (Out-side US) on the requirements and development•Development including integration with the ERP system SAP and middle ware TIBCO•Create Weekly status report and meeting with client for the status/health on the project•Create bi-weekly meeting with project team on status and 1:1 session with the team members

Helsinki, Helsinki, Fi

•Created project plan to lead teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines, tacked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results•Performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system with the new business requirements•Helped the team gather system requirements from various departments through surveys and interviews and later validated them with the Business•Assisted in the development, design and implementation of new relational or multi-dimensional databases, including the analysis of user needs•Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types, tractability relationships and Test plans.•Developed and managed creation of product documentation to communicate features, benefits, positioning and impacts to different audiences and ensured that documentation deliverable s from various groups are produced as needed•Involved in reviewing test plans and test cases and ensuring test cases reflect user needs. Also responsible for conducting user acceptance testing to ensure and verify system is designed according to user needs•Mentoring other less experienced PM’s / BA’s on the team

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

•Worked with the Business owners to understand the high level business needs•Translate these business needs to BA’s and help the team to articulate/develop it to requirements/process flows/use cases/functional specs/wireframes for sign offs•Worked on multiple teams/applications/cross-functional/different work-streams and mentor BA’s•Helped to formalize/finalize/validate requirements/uses cases/test cases with Business Owners and work streams and IT for development•Worked on Waterfall methodology•Developed Use cases/Process flows based on requirements•Helped validate test cases with off-shore testing team and develop test plan and testing/tracking defects/defect resolution

San Francisco, California, Us

•Worked as a Project Manager with in the Wealth Management Division for Performance Reporting Strategy team, was responsible for the Performance Reporting platforms used by Wells Fargo Advisors and First Clearing to communicate with clients on an ongoing basis•Responsible for the reporting of the project status in every phase of the life cycle, conducted status meetings with both the business and IT during the BRD/FSD sign offs, development and testing and implementation phase•Responsible for making Implementations plans and deploy of the new enhanced versions