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South Brunswick Township, NJ, US

New York, NY, US

• The primary responsibilities included spearheading the agile transformation of programs / projects in the Global infrastructure, enterprise monitoring, multi-cloud observability domains encompassing on-prem,AWS, GCP.
• Adoption of cloud based AIOPs driven Moogsoft event monitoring system
• Implementation of on-prem/cloud based SignalFx and Cribl observability/performance monitoring
• Implementation of container monitoring via Sysdig
• Migration of ServiceNow request/ incident /change management tickets to Jira Kanban boards
• Managing Splunk based system/application/synthetic logging projects on on-prem / cloud platforms Other managed tasks:

New York, New York, US

• Program/project Management of AWS Cloud / Hybrid (environment readiness solutions for Wealth Management applications; Tools used - JIRA, Smartsheet, Confluence, Lucid Chart,MS Teams, ITSM, Azure AD
• Managed a team of Business Analysts to review and validate completion of tasks by Infrastructure, monitoring, application and cross-functional teams; Evidence collected was analyzed for security, data governance.
• Tracked Cloud migration projects to transform legacy solutions to Cloud native implementations.
• Involved in infrastructure task validation (Installation/setup, Security review, Data Privacy (SOC1/SOC2), High availability, Resiliency, Alerts & Monitoring, Application Performance, Data retention, Data privacy.
• Coordinated client Blue-Green/Canary releases with App owners. Apps included cloud portals, FA client experience, Insurance, Trading, Tax, corporate actions and many other sub capabilities.
• Production readiness of AWS Cloud platform and Security (Security groups, encryption WAF policies, Route 53, AWS shield, VPC network ACLs) on client delivered applications.

New York, New York, US

Citigroup - CTO Program/project lifecycle management of corporate Compliance technology and regulatory applications, and Finance and Risk technology applications; Functional tasks include costing, budgeting, risk assessment and risk mitigation, monitoring financials, regulatory and strategic compliance, client relationship, vendor contract management on.

Charlotte, NC, US

Project Management consultant - Managed the integration team program on cutover activates for merger of Prime Bokerage and other Merril Lynch portals to baml.com.

New York, NY, US

• Program / Project Manager; Worked for the Technology Integration PMO responsible for program management of merger related IT projects. The accomplishments / responsibilities included:
• Develop and maintain priority list of programs/projects reflecting the Target Operation Model (for Brokerage); the final list included 338 integration programs/Projects that reflected legacy, above parity, conversion.
• Drive work-stream integration conversion efforts (Data migration, Application Lift & Shift, Infrastructure enhancement)
• Develop and maintain Program/Project plans, WBS, resource utilization plans, Project Risk identification, tracking and evolve mitigation strategies; Project issue tracking and resolution.

New York, New York, US

IT Program/Project Manager:Managed Program/Project and PMO activities for Global Wealth Management – Shared Services Group. Responsibilities included monitoring and control of Program/project work-plans, developing schedules/ standards and templates, Change and Release Management, Program/project closure activities, Resource budgeting and resource.

San Francisco, California, US

• Senior project Manager - Responsibilities included:
• Preparing project proposal and project cost estimation on large IT infrastructure projects.
• Vendor negotiation and obtaining approval from investment committee through predefined approval lifecycle.
• Presenting the final proposal in CTO chaired work sessions.

New York, NY, US

• Technology Program Manager: (Consultant from IBM Global Services/CSC at JP Morgan from September 2003 – July 2005)Involved in the program / project management of Networking, IT infrastructure and IT application.
• Program/project management
• Development of project proposals; Scope review and verification
• Project planning, estimation and costing
• Allocation, scheduling, monitoring and optimization of resource deployment
• Project execution and milestone tracking

London, GB

• Project Manager Consulting:
• Managed project teams and implemented customer application hosting solutions from inception to production including client interaction and related vendor management;
• Coordinated activities to obtain Suntone certification on infrastructure service delivery,OSS and BSS
• Coordinated PMO activities for Hosting solutions;Developed business and technical requirement specifications for hosting projects; Managed development and testing of prototypes of application hosting solutions
• Developed and implemented Change Management and Release Management procedures
• Participated in the development of SLA for client application hosting