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New York, Ny, Us

Tarrytown, New York, Us

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

Fort Washington, Pa, Us

Princeton, Nj, Us

Technical Project Leader serving in a critical role managing the end to end testing and capabilities assessment of several Operational Trials and the Post Implementation launch of large scale solutions such as K-12, SAT and other Standardized and Contextual test delivery requirements, results processing to include scoring and reporting requirements. Successfully managed several Strategic Initiatives that improved and consolidated our scoring capabilities. Oversaw and lead accountable teams such as; IT, Functional teams, Process Owners, Quality and Executive Management during Product launches of all scoring and reporting efforts.

Technical Lead in a critical role to deliver a set of strategic initiatives and manage the SDLC cycle of Programs migrating from Legacy customized scoring applications to an Enterprise Scoring Engine. • Successfully delivered $24MM IT transformational internal and external client facing project.• Partnering with the Educational Program Management, Functional and Technical IT teams to manage the delivery of projects from the concept through the final implementation. • Collaborated with internal application teams including Architects, Managers and Advisors to assure validation, quality and delivery of application functionality, and traceability back to business requirements.• Developed detailed technical application delivery requirements and migration plans to identify interface specifications, work break down structures and cost estimates. • Facilitated the gathering of technical requirements and developed plan to successfully complete Operational Trial.• Managed Quality Engineering to meet SIPOC (Systems, Input, Processes, Output and Controls) requirements.

Houston, Texas, Us

External client facing role which required the application of project management discipline including; leading project status meetings, creation of status reports, and communications to all levels of management. Created, managed and maintained project requirements, schedules, scope control-integrity throughout the project lifecycle. Documented and managed all project related risks, issues and action items across all functional and development work streams.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Led enterprise level portfolio resource demand data mining effort to support portfolio resource demand analytics/diagramming to support data modeling efforts for each business area at the initiative/project level. • Partnered with business-functional leaders, to identify portfolio project impacts and calibrate each impact to a business resource demand metric through an iterative staged process that promoted a consistent approach for portfolio resource demand management across all business areas.• Engineered and maintained a resource demand data model and framework to support strategic portfolio analytics to illustrate the resource demand to each business area at the project level. The data model enabled the capability to forecast and plan overall vendor and resource demand across a “rolling” portfolio schedule at the project detail level.

Established the Project Management Office to include internal best practices, when implementing hardware and accounting software solutions. Client facing Project Manager whose responsibilities included managing and coordinating external resource – vendor negotiations, budgets and delivery.• Evaluated the IT Technology and security controls for Small – Mid Businesses to determine their efficiency and effectiveness.• Developed client’s overall functional requirements, which included diagramming systemic changes utilizing diagramming and data modeling. Provided Risk Analysis to Senior Management to identify project pitfalls and created inclusions for the projects.• Planned, performed and documented audits findings according to AICPA standards to objectively create SAS 70 reports.• Identified gaps with Business Owner control processes which included the re-engineering of those processes when required.

Montpelier, Vt, Us

Registered Financial Representative, Equity Services, Inc.

Developed and managed external and internal eCommerce and payment processing initiatives to increase efficiences and product revenues.

The Treasury department Sr. Technical Business Liason and Project Manager on all internal and external corporate initiatives. Responsibilities included applying ongoing risk analysis and cash management principles for short and long term investment solution

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Technical Lead Implementation Manager supporting different payment and distribution channels and banking products. Responsibilities included business and functional requirements definition and the project management of the implementations.