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3 World Financial Center

Project Manager for Global Arbitrage Trading - GTS

Fort Lee, Nj

Managed key relationships with major clients as part of implementing multiple technology initiatives throughout the year. Leveraged Agile approach to Change Request Management, Deployment Management, and Project Budget Management to ensure planned deliverables are on time, on scope and within budget. • Responsible for efficiently coordinating release delivery related activities across various groups (DEV, SA, QA, etc) and provide direction to all groups regarding deliverables, solicit conflicts or issues, and provide mitigation steps.• Managed the project plan lifecycle, including building business requirements, creating build notes and submitting to customer for deployment approval, and implementing technical standards for projects, systems and applications to ensure enterprise wide quality and efficient software construction.• Actively managed the releases and teams by hosting project status meetings and provided output in the form of project status reports. Held daily stand up meetings with clients to share status of releases and manage budget and resource capacity. • Effectively collaborated with global teams with systems analysts, business analysts, developers, and quality assurance, to minimize idle time of execution by managing geographical time zones to mitigate any risks and issues that could impact delivery. • Maintained the relationship with the clients to ensure deliverables are scoped accurately, and delivery schedule is on time. Managed (or reset as necessary) client expectations quickly, and preempt escalations where possible

Jersey City, Nj

Managed key technology partnerships with the business to execute large-scale global programs that empower Equities Front Office Sales and Trading desks with cutting edge technology solutions. Formulated a long-term strategic vision, and short-term tactical approaches for product innovation. Allocated talent and financial resources to ensure that projects were completed within committed time, budget, and aligned with strategic objectives. • Delivered end to end program/project management of multiple applications using Agile Methodology across the program trading platform, including governance models, along with all documentation to meet PM requirements. • Managed retirement progress of existing application that supported program trading, which will result in a significant savings for the firm in 2013. • Managed the resource budgets for geographically diverse development team of 50+ resources. • Actively identified and managed inter-dependencies and risks during the planning, developing and deployment phases to ensure timely delivery of projects.

Jersey City, Nj

Collaborated with various project areas to coordinate inter-dependencies and resolve issues regarding Zeus Common Components. Liaised with key stakeholders to gather and define requirements for the project reporting tools, while improving business processes. Acted as a liaison between Software Quality team and business units to advise an effective and efficient approach to achieve the project objectives.• Successfully retired the legacy platform for order management Zeus Order Services (ZOS) resulting in a significant reduction of the team’s footprint in 2012• Monitored and reported status on critical business progress and issues to the Project Manager(s) via weekly, monthly and quarterly reports to minimize risks, resulting in 95% of projects delivered on time, on scope and under budget. • Created and maintained Wiki/SharePoint for Zeus Common Components resulting in a centralized repository of information as well as improved communication amongst the global teams in Equities business, and technology. • Liaised with business units to gather and define requirements for the following systems: Project Tracking System (PTS) and Software Development Life Cycle Workspace (SDLCW) for the required documentation in order to be in compliance with the PM regulations.

Warren, Nj

Maintained constant guidance for technical staff to address design considerations and issues as warranted. Specialized in “Iwatch” and “Protegrity”, both programs designed for database security. Became an integral part of support for “Patrol” within the integration team.• Researched multiple vendor product offerings with BMC Inc. for various GDMG database products and provided the team with recommendations/findings, which enabled executive management to chose the appropriate monitoring system for the database group. • Designed and developed release plans, to schedule and implement software and configurations to roll out “Patrol” to the multiple users over several months. Collaborated with Corporate Training department and BMC Inc. to provide advanced training courses to educate employees about “Patrol”.• Developed, implemented, and maintained specialized runtime diagnostics reporting to efficiently enable all DBA’s to utilize for purposes of debugging, performance tuning, issue resolution and evaluation of “Patrol” portal performance and to support administrative reporting processes. • Effectively managed the licensing distribution and utilization for “DBArtisan”.• Created and maintained user-guides, and help-guides for troubleshooting purposes for “Patrol”, resulting in a more efficient and streamlined process of proving support to the teams.

Hackensack, Nj

Responsible for development of new homes & continued maintenance of rental properties