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Christopher m. Smith

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

 

Extensive Project Management skills, systems/process re-engineering, design, development, and systems implementation experience in Matrix environments using Waterfall and Agile Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies. Develop project charters, project scope, project objectives and project plans to ensure that implementations/changes are delivered on-time, within scope and on budget.  Comprehensive problem solving abilities through analyzing business requirements/needs, managing budgets and managing software development efforts. Proven leadership, technical and communication skills that have consistently lead to successful project implementations.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Contract Consulting Assignments

 

Bank of America (Apex Systems), Pennington, NJ                                               March 2017 – Current

Project Delivery & Portfolio Reporting                                                                         

Project Manager Consultant

·         Project Manager of the Wealth Management and Consumer Banking systems projects that provide enhancements and required auditing improvements to Siebel CRM, Wealth Management and Schedule Transfers banking applications. Lead and facilitate the project implementations, execution and communication activities for key projects.

·         Responsible for providing senior management/business project status reporting, manage project financials (Actuals vs Forecast), manage Statement of Work (SOW) & change management, project plan management, release planning and testing management for multiple work streams.

·         Lead and drive comprehensive planning, implementation and adoption across business, technology, operations and support groups. Manage, identify and track project risks, issues and dependencies across initiatives to ensure project successes.

 

 

Johnson and Johnson (Insight Global), Somerville, NJ                            August 2016 – December 2016      

Ethicon – Information Technology                                                                       (Project Direction Change)

Project Manager Consultant

·         Project Manager of the Wound Closure Resource Center project that would improve the customer experience by optimizing the website design, improve the mobile experience and product search capabilities.

·         Responsible for facilitating the project plan, requirement gathering effort, BRD documentation and project analysis activities.

·         Managed and distributed weekly management dashboards and project status updates information to several business sponsors, senior managers and the steering committee groups.

·         Planned, coordinated and consolidated project activities and requirements between the Marketing, Digital Marketing, VANTAGE, Web Channel and IT groups to improve the suture product catalogue experience.

 

 

Prudential Insurance Company (Atlantic Partners), Newark, NJ                      January 2016 – July 2016      

Enterprise Financial Management – PMO                                                                     (Budgeting Issues)

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

·         Project Manager of the Capital Markets Hedging (derivatives) project that created a new hedging strategy using economic, accounting and capital markets investments for hedging simulation in asset-liability management models.

·         Responsible for developing and managing the project plans and facilitating work streams project meetings. Manage the business requirements gathering, analysis and BRD documentation effort while identifying the project issues, risks dependencies.

·         Provide weekly project status updates and management dashboards information for several work streams to sponsor groups including business sponsors, senior managers and the steering committee group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TIAA (TEK Systems), Iselin, NJ                                                           January 2015 – December 2015

Institutional Retirement Technology                                                                           (Budgeting Issues)

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

·         Project Manager of the Agile Fund Lineup Change project that automates the process of managing customer retirement 403b institutional plan/fund allocation changes for new and existing funds. The automation will provide the platform to consolidate fund information from 3^rd party vendors, simplify pricing, provide auditing capabilities and reduce cycle time.

·         Responsible for creating and managing the project plan, project financials and the SDLC activities through the customized Agile cycles. Manage the business requirement analysis, BRD documentation, UAT and secured all BRD sponsor approvals.

·         Provide weekly project status and financials overview to sponsors, senior managers and steering committee meetings detailing project deliverables, plan execution and issues/risks mitigation.

 

 

Credit Suisse (Princeton Information), New York, NY                                    May 2014 – October 2014

CFO Program Services – PMO                                                                                  (Project Direction Change)

Program Manager Consultant

·         Program Manager of the Alternative Net Capital (ANC), Backtesting, and Kickouts work streams that provided Credit Suisse the ability to reduce the bank capital requirements to satisfy several international regulatory authorities (SEC, PRA, FINMA).

·         Managed the development work streams through all the SDLC cycles working between the IT, finance and risks groups managing the programs schedule, risks, issues and dependencies.

·         Provided weekly program status stakeholder meetings and produce the management status reports for the Steering Committee, Management Committee, business and development teams regarding the program deliverables, plan, execution, defects and issues/risks.

 

Bank of America (Marchon Partners), Pennington, NJ                                        May 2013 – April 2014

Core Technology Solutions (CTS) – PMO                                                                         (Budgeting Issues)

Project Manager Consultant

·         Project Manager of the Agile Tech M development project that manages all the bank’s projects thru the SDLC life cycle. The system provides senior management with a vehicle to track all the CTS projects status from inception to production release identifying on target and at risk projects based on budget and schedule factors.

·         Responsible for managing the project plan, systems integration planning/testing, facilitating UAT testing, defect and enhancement management, lead development and business team requirements/design sessions, communications planning/execution, pilot adoption and full adoption planning and execution activities.

·         Provided stakeholder meetings to senior managers, business and development teams regarding the project plan/status, execution, defects and issues/risk mitigation for the Service Delivery Management Workspace, Project Management Dashboard and Engineering Workspace projects. Manage the escalation and resolution process of the project issues/risks to eliminate and minimize potential project delays.

 

 

Citigroup (Open Systems), Warren, NJ                                                          October 2011 – April 2013

Enterprise Risk & Basel Technology Services                                                            (Vendor Consolidation)

Project Manager Consultant

·         Responsible for leading the UAT Test Management team using offshore resources for testing the financial impact of system changes that affect the Basel, Risk Weighted Assets (RWA), GAAP, Banking Book and Trading Book products.

·         Facilitated requirement and design review sessions with business groups and technical teams for BRD and FRD documentation validation check points.

·         Managed the UAT testing effort that implemented, tracked system changes, data feed changes, project deliverables and project status.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Full Time Assignments – Direct Employee

 

Citigroup, Warren, NJ                                                                                     June 2005 – August 2011

Global Transaction Services

Project Manager / Sr. Analyst (AVP)

·         Responsible for leading 3 offshore teams that comprised of a total of 13 members – Project Managers, Test Leads, QA Analysts for the Global Trade Information Management System (TRIMS) re-engineering effort from PowerBuilder to Java. The TRIMS system managed Letters of Credit products globally for import and exporting companies.

·         Provided resource planning and determined resource utilization based on deliverables, project funding and project timelines. Developed, reviewed/approved project plans, and UAT testing strategies for system enhancements and new development.

 

Citigroup, Warren, NJ

Markets and Banking

Project Manager / Sr. Business Analyst (AVP)

·         Managed the implementation of the SunGard Stream Futures GMI system by creating/managing the project plan, identifying/managing the issues/risks, provided the project status and communication to senior leadership.

·         Responsible for leading development and testing teams using onshore and offshore resources through SIT & UAT testing environments.

·         Responsible for gathering business requirements and documenting the BRD/FRD. Led the development and testing teams using onshore and offshore resources through SIT & UAT testing environments.

·         Provided BAU support for the Corporate Actions Group.

 

Citigroup, Harrison, NY                                                                                                                      

CitiCapital Technology Data Warehouse Group

Data Analyst

·         Responsible for managing business intelligence onsite & offshore developers, project plans, negotiating project deliverables and timelines with various groups that includes: senior management, business clients and database teams for the leasing products business.

·         Responsible for managing the project plan, gathering business requirements and functional requirements. Managed the UAT testing effort and defect tracking management.

 

 

Interpublic Group (Draft Subsidiary), New York, NY                                     January 2005 – April 2005

Project Manager

·         Details will be provided upon request -

 

Merck & CO., Whitehouse Station, NJ                                                             March 1996 – April 2004

Project Manager / Sr. Analyst

·         Details will be provided upon request -

 

Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ                                                May 1988 – March 1996

Sales and Logistics Company

Senior Programmer/Analyst 

·         Details will be provided upon request -

 

 

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

 

Software:    Java, PowerBuilder, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Rational Team Concert, JIRA, Clarity PPM, PMx,  SQL, Siebel CRM,

     MS Project, ClearCase, ClearQuest, TeamTrack, SharePoint, Crystal Reports, COBOL, Team Foundation Server

 

EDUCATION

 

Bachelors of Arts, Mathematics, Hampton University, Hampton, VA