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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NBCUniversal (Nexient - VP)                                                                                         present

DPIM – Sr. Product Manager      

·         Lead strategic effort within DPIM group to evaluate existing CIAM market space and choose best in class Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solution for NBCUniversal brands.

·         Responsible for buy vs. build analysis for CIAM solution. Developed RFI, performed market research, vendor evaluation as well as technical, functional and financial analysis of the top tier CIAM platforms. Presented evaluation and made recommendation to the executive management.

·         Work closely with NBCUniversal brands to educate them in CIAM, organize vendor demos and help define requirements for a new identity solution.

·         Act as a Product Owner to IDX team supporting homegrown identity solution.

·         Managed Splunk re-architecture project and installation of Diamanti hardware. Responsible for coordination between cross-functional teams and vendor as well as executive management reporting.

Johnson & Johnson – Janssen (Nexient - VP)                                                        2016 - 2017

Janssen Healthcare Innovation (JHI) – Sr. Program Manager      

·         Program Manager for Care4Today digital health platform. Owned and drove the overall roadmap.

Steered, managed and ran the process from accepted proposal to client delivery, meeting technical, spend, quality and timeframe requirements. Integrated across product interfaces and responsible for overall delivery timeline.

·         Program/Project manager for Smart Adhere and Mental Health clinical studies. Drove planning, execution, resources, schedule, financials and scope of the programs/projects. Managed end-to-end project plans for rollouts of Care4Today care modules. Made necessary updates in PMx and Instantis. Actively collaborated with cross-functional teams including AS (Application Services), Product Owners, JHI Solution Leads, Compliance and Quality. Managed dependencies across teams and work streams. Identified and escalated risks and tracks mitigations. Ensured program execution follows the Design Control Process/GxP.

·         Responsible for Care4Today daily newsletter and executive summaries for senior management.

Bank of America                                                                                                               2016

Shared Services and Capabilities Technology – Sr. Agile Program Manager      

·         Led variety of programs including launching new technology products, services, application development, system integration, operation efficiency improvements, process reengineering, and infrastructure upgrades and deployments within Shared Services organization.

·         Responsible for leading several initiatives to on-board multiple applications across the firm on a new testing automation platform using Tosca.

·         Managed a team of Project Managers responsible for on-boarding various business/technology groups on Tosca. Provided test automation resources to perform initial set up, transfer knowledge and kick off test automation.

·         Program Manager for Contract Rationalization initiative. Identified money saving opportunities in the software/hardware contract space across the firm. Worked with vendor management and procurement teams to eliminate/consolidate contracts which resulted in multi million dollar savings annually.

·         Introduced and helped to implement various Agile methodologies to various cross-functional teams.

Citigroup Inc.                                                                                                            2010 - 2015

GTS Payments Technology – Vice President, Sr. Application Dev. Manager, Lead Scrum Master      

·         Managed the implementation of the first fraud detection solution for commercial payments in Citi.  Partnered with business clients, technology partner systems and multiple vendors to plan development, negotiate deliverables and budget work through all stages – from requirements gathering to implementation of the solution and production support.   Direct manager of a global team of 10 resources. Managed several cross-functional teams responsible for program delivery in a matrixed environment.

·         Introduced Agile development practices and led the transition for 3 teams to move from a Waterfall approach to the Scrum methodology. Served as both Coach and Scrum Master to ensure Agile principles were being followed properly. 

·         Responsible for vendor selection, contract negotiations and management of the chosen vendor to support implementation of the fraud detection solution.

·         Defined procedures and communication strategy for program/project execution. Produced various documentation artifacts including executive summaries, strategic roadmaps and program charters as well as Scrum artifacts which included statistical analysis of the Scrum teams productivity and benefits gained from the transition to Agile.

·         Responsible for strategic planning of the next generation Global Payment Processing System in the Low Value Payments area.

·         Defined and implemented Agile best practices to achieve an organized and systematic approach to accomplish the goals and objectives of programs in the Payments Technology area.

·         Member of the TQI (Technology Quality Initiative) committee where, together with other senior managers in Payments Technology, defined the standards for managing risk in the area. Introduced Agile risk management principles to the organization.

Goldman Sachs & Company                                                                                   2003 - 2009

Compliance Technology – Vice President, Sr. Application Development Manager (2008 - 2009)

·         Led a team of 20 resources which developed, supported and maintained the Regulatory Employee Profile Solutions (REPS) application, a global system used to manage employee regulatory data.

·         Prepared program and project budgets and forecasts then made recommendations on how to avoid unnecessary expenses by reorganizing a technical team and introducing changes in the development process. 

·         Responsible for negotiation and communication between technical teams and business users.

·         Created technical proposals related to the regulatory requirements for the new GS Bank including the implementation of a Required Absence policy.

·         Influenced and later managed the re-engineering effort for Outside Accounts, a major surveillance point in monitoring employee account activity outside the firm, by introducing additional quality controls.

·         Coordinated production promotion changes for the email surveillance system upgrades. 

Client Tax Technology – Vice President, Project/Application Manager, Scrum Master (2005 - 2008)

·         Managed the day-to-day activities for 8 developers and was responsible for client service requests, tax withholding and reporting processing and raising critical issues to senior management.

·         Produced status reports and worked closely with the business users to define a technology strategy to increase automation of manual tasks which involved extensive business analysis and negotiating deliverables for multiple phases.

·         Coordinated the year-end tax compliance season and was the central point of contact for all tasks associated with tax form production and mailing to clients as well as filing with the IRS, various states and foreign tax authorities.

·         Project manager for the IRP system enhancements that were developed by the Bangalore team. The system was initially built to utilize a third party transaction processing service.  Led the internal processing conversion initiative that streamlined the workflow and resulted in an annual cost savings of approximately 100K.

·         Led the Sedona application development team and was responsible for technical direction and detailed planning for the project. Sedona was the strategic tax platform that centralized all client tax calculations and provided a robust system to easily deal with new tax law changes while scaling to handle increases in transaction volumes received via real time messaging.

·         Pioneer within Operations Technology with the first introduction of Agile methodology for project development.  Scrum Master for two development teams working on the next generation Client Tax platform.  Educated and mentored teams on Agile and Scrum principles including training on self-organization.  Conducted Sprint planning meetings, oversaw daily Scrum meetings, organized Sprint demos as well as retrospective meetings.  Worked closely with product owners to ensure business requirements were well-defined and understood.  Created executive reports to demonstrate process and team productivity improvements.

·         Actively participated in recruiting by interviewing candidates within Operations Technology.

Corporate Tax Technology – Sr. Consultant (Keane) (2003 - 2005)

·         Designed/developed an application for State Composite Tax Elections for all GS Employee Funds to determine state tax liabilities which then fed into the K-1 processing for the funds.

·         Liaised with the CorpTax vendor for application support for GS Affiliate returns for the firm.

·         Interfaced with the Controllers department to automate data feeds and produce reports.

·         Developed Sybase stored procedures and Java classes according to the business requirements.

Headstrong                                                                                                                2000 - 2003

Bank of New York – Consultant (2002 - 2003)

·         Member of the team responsible for developing an initial project prototype and configuring the Siebel 7.0 application. Responsible for project management, design and development of the interfaces for the Siebel implementation project. Managed a team of 3 junior developers.

JP Morgan Chase – Consultant (2002)

·         Responsibilities included analyzing the existing application functionality, clarifying the business needs, identifying problem areas within the application, and helped the application development team fix existing problems and develop new functionality. 

·         Developed JSPs, Java Beans and Servlets for an MVC project.

Goldman Sachs & Company – Consultant (2001 - 2002)

·         Lead Java programmer responsible for the design and development of a Java messaging switch to create interoperability between Siebel, legacy systems and the GS Portal.

JP Morgan Chase – Consultant (2000 - 2001)

·         Responsible for the development of the Asset & Mortgage Backed Securities web site.

·         Developed JSPs, Java Beans and Servlets according to the business requirements.

Saturn Co. (Ukraine) – Software Specialist                                                            1995 - 1997

·         Responsible for the design, development and maintenance of a Microsoft Access database which was used as a contact management and reporting tool.

EDUCATION

·         Bramson ORT Technical College – Computer Science                                                1998 - 2000

·         Donetsk Polytechnic University – Mathematics                                                           1994 - 1997

                                          CERTIFICATIONS / AFFILIATIONS

·         Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

·         Sun Microsystems Java 2 Certified Programmer

·         Oracle - Siebel Certified Consultant/Business Analyst

·         IBM Certified Specialist – IBM WebSphere Application Server

·         Member of the Women Council in Citigroup

·         Member of the Women in Technology Recruiting Committee at Goldman Sachs

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Java, J2EE technologies, JavaScript, Sybase, DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, Visual Basic, .NET, WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Siebel eBusiness Applications, UML, Visio, MS Project, MS Power Point, MS Excel, Visual Source Safe, CVS, design patterns, Struts, Tiles, UNIX shell scripting, Orchestria, Actimize Fraud Detection Solutions, Tricentis Tosca, PMx, Instantis, CIAM, Rally