Senior Project Manager Resume

Title
Senior Project Manager

Primary Skills
Strategic and Tactical Business Planning, PMI Project Management, Agile Project Management and Applications Development

Location
US-IL-Arlington Heights

Posted
Jan-27-09

PMP, MBA


Executive Summary
Senior IT project manager with superior track record of delivering simultaneous large-scale, high-impact projects. Highly focused on achieving strategic corporate goals through technology to capitalize on opportunities while reducing operational costs. Passionate about delivering bottom-line results in all projects. Strong leader with proven areas of expertise in:
* Strategic and Tactical Business Planning
* PMI Project Management, Agile Project Management and Applications Development
* High-Performance Team Collaboration / Rapid Deployments
* Strong Business Partner Relationships / Influencing & Negotiation Skills
* Best Practices / Continuous Innovative Process Improvements
* Managing Cross-Functional Project Teams of Business, Technology and Vendor Professional Services

Technical Skills: Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint & Visio, Word, Excel, WBS ChartPro, SharePoint, SQL, C, Perl, FIX protocol, TCP/IP protocol, Unix


Professional Experience
HARRIS ASSOCIATES LP, Chicago, IL 2007 to 2008
Value investor managing equity, balanced, global and international portfolios with $62 billion in assets under management.
Lead Project Manager
Managed and delivered multiple large-scale strategic projects. Responsible for all project deliverables and phases from project charter, requirements gathering, analysis and design, development, testing, deployment and project tracking. Weekly project status reporting to executive business sponsor, business owners and stakeholders. Significantly improved project deliverable quality, timeliness and overall client satisfaction by mentoring development team on project methodology.
Notable Projects:
* Managed a complex, high-impact trade messaging automation project requiring complete customized implementation life-cycle and coordination across multiple vendors and cross-functional team of 11. Overall process efficiency improvements achieved a 50% reduction in clearing and settlement error and a $543,000 operating cost reduction.
* Initiated three-phased project to convert an overnight process consisting of 160 programs to a job scheduler. Phase involved job standardization, development process improvement requirements, technical specification, build strategy, test plan, execution, deployment, project tracking and reporting.
* Spearheaded an electronic execution expansion initiative implementing a vendor-supplied Execution Management System (EMS) platform and 23 electronic connections across multiple execution platforms reducing commission costs and accelerated global connectivity by 75%.
UBS O'CONNOR LLC, Chicago, IL 1991 to 2006
Single and multi-manager hedge fund with $55 billion in assets under management.
Director, Information Technology (2003-2006)
Defined, managed and delivered total business solutions to key strategic execution initiatives. Responsible for all execution projects, as well as quarterly product enhancements in multiple EMS'. Produced project reporting to CTO, Head of Equities trading, portfolio managers and traders. Strengthened long-term competitive advantage by delivering the best product offerings in proprietary and vendor systems. Increased execution profitability and reduced commission costs by expanding electronic functionality and connectivity access.

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UBS O'CONNOR LLC, Director, Information Technology, (continued)
Notable Projects
* Managed a global, large-scale, high-impact customized integration and deployment of multiple vendor and broker-supplied EMS solutions to 40 portfolio managers and traders to achieve standardization of primary execution platforms across all regions and a reduction of annual support costs of $105K.
* Supervised all global execution projects with full responsibility for the projects' lifecycle. Capable of critically evaluating and prioritizing enhancement requests based on benefit, implementation effort and risk. Managed cross-functional teams made up of business and JAVA development teams to define, prioritize, spec, develop and deliver both long- and short-term projects aligned to corporate objectives.
* Established 48 direct market access, algorithmic trading, sales desk and program trade FIX connections in US, Europe and Asia to reach strategic goal of analyzing and improving electronic trade execution quality, increasing trading efficiencies through algorithms, reducing commission costs by $1.6M and ensuring long-term execution growth and profitability.
Associate Director, Information Technology (2001 - 2003)
Spearheaded replacement of outdated proprietary Order Management System (OMS) to streamlined, highly-functional and cost-effective EMS business solutions. Dramatically improved trading efficiency, increased global access to liquidity, positioned firm for future growth and decreased execution annual expenses by $300K.
Notable Projects
* Investigated and prepared execution system product analysis across 7 top vendor offerings to a review committee of CFO, CTO, Head of Equity trading and portfolio managers which crystallized firm's execution strategy and gained consensus on future execution direction.
* Managed development/support staff of 5 and entire development life-cycle of proprietary OMS. Worked with clients to deploy product enhancements and leverage new trading algorithmic opportunities to maintain client's competitive edge.
Senior Support Analyst, Information Technology (1991 to 2001)
* Defined execution requirement, established and integrated the OMS for launch of hedge fund.
* Directed a complex firm relocation project of software, database and circuit/router installs.
* Managed support and development enhancements of firm's risk analysis system.

CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE, Chicago, IL 1989 to 1991
Senior Software Programmer/Analyst - Data Communications
Programmer/Analyst II - Data Communications

CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS EXCHANGE, Chicago, IL 1984 to 1989
Software Programmer/Analyst - Systems and Communication Development
Senior Applications Programmer/Analyst, Systems Planning and Design
Application Programmer/Analyst, Order Routing System

Education
MBA, Information Resources Management, Illinois Institute of Technology
Computer Science and Programming Courses, Oakton Community College
BFA, Northern Illinois University
Six Sigma Green Belt to be completed by February 2009

Professional Affiliations
Project Management Institute, Technology Leaders Association

Certifications
See above


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