Lead strategic projects ranging from $1M - $2.5M in budget, spanning multiple business lines.. Collaborate across VMO, project sponsors, business and technology teams to develop project scope, objectives, and timelines, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.Direct and coach project team members through program planning and execution. Develop and communicate progress to senior leadership, leveraging project metrics, reporting, tools and dashboards.Define and implement risk mitigation procedures to minimize operation and financial impacts.

Partnered with PMO, Security Risk Leads and Sponsor to implement governance controls and project framework for post-merger integration of ~600 applications. Successfully navigated organizational silos to foster trust, build relationships and transparency across multiple work streams.Developed communication strategies to educate stakeholders and align project teams with strategic objectives. Established and managed reporting cadences, providing clear progress updates to Steering Committee.

Directed technology workstream for strategic client onboarding initiative. Drove planning and execution across 5 product development teams to define full-scale workstream plans and delivery schedules.Championed continuous improvement with technology readiness program. Led plan development, exaction and measurement, reducing production incidents by 60% within two weeks of launch.Communicated weekly with senior leadership on program roadmap, status updates, areas of risk and paths to green.Partnered with product, business and client teams to define and deliver post-production roadmaps and KPIs.

Led cross-functional teams through planning, execution and closing of development and operational enhancement projects. Facilitated retrospectives to identify and implement process improvements. Drove retention effort for a strategic client generating a client savings of $1M in operational costs.Spearheaded technology-wide readiness framework for 7 strategic events, improving operational efficiency across multiple divisions. Leveraged framework one of the largest account rebalances on the Fidelity platform, processing 2.2M orders over three days.Delivered $1M initiative to support revenue generation and operational enhancements. Streamlined quality assurance process for vendor integrated deliverables achieving a 25% reduction in production issues.