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Greater Boston

Project Portfolio Management (PPM)• Project Planning & Execution• Portfolio & Project Governance• Budget & Fiscal Oversight• Risk Management & Compliance

Provided project management services across the development lifecycle for concurrent engagements with annual funding of $3-5 million. Documentation to support the project life cycle: project charter, plans, RACI matrix, budget forecasting, tracking and actuals, status reporting, meeting minutes, monitoring, and tracking to resolution for action items, risk / issue logs, software deployment planning, and closure.• Collaborated with Business, Product Offering, Information Technology and Vendor (when applicable) global telecommuting teams to assess and document current, interim, and future state requirements to build clearly defined project objectives, scope, and deliverables directive.• Interfaced directly and maintained an indirect line of command with the application’s technical owner, Development manager, and code compliance, and Quality Assurance manager, resulting in a secure interface and compliance with corporate infrastructure standards.• Maintained continuous engagement through weekly status and ad hoc strategic meetings with stakeholders in order to guide adherence to established task completion deadlines.• Evaluated resource project spends weekly in order to maintain budget guidance of +/- 5%, avert overage, and deliver results to project stakeholders.• Oversaw and negotiated change requests to project scope quantifying time and financial costs in order to ensure all stakeholders were aware of and approved any impact to established deadlines and budget.• Supervised planning preparedness reviews for software release and post implementation support.• Facilitated recurring executive steering committee meetings to communicate prepared written project status.• Guided hundreds of successful project executions as defined by time and budget parameters.• Cultivated successful, long-standing partnerships with clients, vendors, internal operations, and IT teams globally.• Over 10 years’ experience working remotely and in flexible office environments.

In support of the Senior Project Manager coordinated and implemented standardized program / project planning and collected weekly updates across all projects. Prepared a summation of project plan statuses to generate management reports for status reporting, risk monitoring, issue tracking, budget forecasting and tracking. Expansion of responsibilities resulting in a promotion occurred upon consistently exceeding standards and proven ability to perform independently of direct oversight.Project Management Portfolio:• Exchange Traded Funds Global Platform• Global Trade Delivery Platform• Global Reconciliation Platform• Messaging Exchange and Transformation• SWIFT Network Custody and Accounting Messaging• Regulatory Agency and Industry specific mandatory changes• Client specific change requests• Application level oversight• Vendor intermediary

First employment upon completion of undergraduate studies in a diverse collection of roles including Mutual Fund Accountant, Client Service Representative, Fund Accounting Manager, Internal Auditor, Mergers and Acquisitions Integration Manager and Technology Conversion and Implementation Manager.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics And Sociology