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Puja Arun

JERSEY CITY,New Jersey

Summary

  • Certified Scrum Master/Project Manager with significant IT experience in PMO initiatives and project management using best industry practice within financial environment.
  • Solid background in managing all aspects of a project including project planning, execution, timing, quality, cost and early identification of potential issues within Agile framework.
  • Well versed in tracking and logging of project risk, expenditure, and budgeting.
  • Strong skills in SharePoint, JIRA, Clarity, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager / PMO

BNY Mellon / Pershing
Jersey City, NJ
10.2018 - Current
  • Application Platform and Services (APS) is a catalyst to BNY Mellon's digitization strategy, focusing on development and delivery of common reusable high-quality services that enable the firm and our partners to deliver customer value.
  • Managing various agile based projects under different programs like Trade Processing System (TPS), Position & Balances and Middle Office Processing (MOPS).
  • Managing all the Reports that provides weekly status to senior management.
  • Initiating projects in PPM and managing Status, Budget, Staffing profile and tasks.
  • Creating and maintaining audit related documentation for different projects under various programs.
  • Manage Change Requests (CR's), Issues and escalations based on the project's priority.
  • Managing SharePoint for all relevant documents related to all projects.
  • Coordinate different project teams from Initiation until closing of the project including Status Reporting presenting to higher managers.
  • Sizing and estimating, resource allocation and resource management for the projects that are small to large in size.
  • (300 hours Order of Magnitude to 5000 OOM).
  • Once the project is released closing out the project in the project management tool with the required guidelines.
  • Maintain the health check of the project by following up on the required documents and expected deliverables expected on the deadlines.
  • Sets and runs effective recurring status meetings with the product, portfolio and delivery managers Tools: SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office, JIRA, PPM.

Scrum Master / Project Analyst / PMO

UBS
, NJ
07.2017 - 08.2018
  • Track the project plan and status reporting of projects executed in the LEM system.
  • Legal Entity Master (LEM) is a centralized reference data management system within UBS used by many division and groups to get centralized market data.
  • Manage all aspects of a project, including project planning, execution, timing, quality, cost and early identification of potential issues.
  • Manage project team staff to ensure efficient use of resources.
  • Ensure that the project follows BCBS principles/standards.
  • As a Scrum Master, run daily stand up calls to get latest updates on the progress of the stories in scope.
  • Proactively ensure delivery of project is on time and within budget.
  • Effectively manage annual budget of $1.3M which resulted in saving $250K for the BCBS group.
  • Worked as a Scrum Master and run daily scrum call among the team and worked on backlog and dependencies.
  • I used JIRA tool to create story for the requirement by Sprint.
  • Facilitate retrospective to improve team dynamics.
  • This role helped me to understand and adapt to the hybrid deliverable of Agile and SDLC.
  • Proactively assist in identifying stakeholders and clients, to evaluate their interest and establish effective communication channels with them while presenting the deck and status report Tools: SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office, JIRA, Tableau.

Project Manager / PMO

RBC Capital
, NY
12.2016 - 04.2017
  • Played a key role in identifying and managing overall costs and budgets for the Fixed Income and Commodities (FIC) group.
  • Participated in various processes of the project life cycle (initiate, plan, monitor and control, implement and close).
  • Created project plan using MS Project in Agile environment, with clear articulation of business outcomes including: desired business outcomes and service level agreements, the metrics to confirm success of those outcomes and the identification of key underlying assumptions, business and technology risks, prerequisite initiatives, required supporting actions and intermediary outcomes.
  • Created a lesson learned deck after release and updated all the documents in SharePoint.
  • Provided PMO support by creating detailed project plans and decks for various projects such as Risk Hub and Raven Retirement.
  • Used Agile methodology to deliver the project, we use JIRA tool to track our stories.
  • Tools: SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office, MIS tool, JIRA, GAP.

PMO Analyst /Scrum Master / Consultant

Credit Suisse
, NY
03.2016 - 09.2016
  • Played a key role supporting controls processes to ensure CRES meets its controls commitments, that operational risk was identified, and remediation was managed.
  • Facilitated and led the regular status and governance meetings, documented and communicated meeting minutes and action items to business managers and stakeholders in Internal Audit, CRO and the SOX team.
  • Worked with Operations, Finance, Risk Management, Legal and Compliance to communicate CRES Risk IT and business needs and ensured key deliverables were on track.
  • Coordinated with risk IT team to obtain the project status and progress and update higher management.
  • Managed the Portfolio of project in an organization and managed project using Agile and play a scrum master role, managed daily stand up call Tools: SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office, CA Clarity, JIRA.

PMO Analyst / Project Manager / Scrum Master

JPMorgan Chase & Co
, NY
01.2015 - 03.2016
  • JPMC mobilized a global Liquidity Risk Infrastructure (LRI) program, a firm-wide, 'mission critical' effort to enhance their liquidity risk management monitoring and reporting capabilities, which included a redesign of the related supporting technology and infrastructure.
  • The LRI program implemented a world class Liquidity Risk Reporting system complying with new Federal and Basel regulations.
  • Served as primary contact for senior management for issues and reports related to 6 different projects.
  • Proactively and effectively managed and provided updates for Project Leadership Team Report (PLT's) to respective levels.
  • Independently led 9 LRI projects taking responsibility for the day-to-day management of the projects such as updating PLT's, managing and resolving any risk and issues, escalating as required to the leadership team.
  • Represented projects when presenting project status / Deck and updates to senior business stakeholders.
  • Worked on ALM's for tracking and managing defects for the multiple projects using Agile and Waterfall.
  • Independently implemented JIRA for core services, represented it to the higher managers and obtained approval for using new tool.
  • This approach benefited Developers, Managers and Business Analysts allowing them to stay focused, deliver maximum results in minimum time and get real time reports.
  • Tools: SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office, CA Clarity, ALM, JIRA.

Project Manager

Barclays Capital
, NY
03.2014 - 12.2015
  • Collaborated with Barclays Capital Horizon PMO with 2 Project Managers, Project Coordinators and Business Process Consultants for various project initiatives and tracking.
  • Created all the relevant documents related to projects (Meeting Minutes, Status Report, RAID Log, Action and Decision Log, Project Plan).
  • Created RAID Log for 4 projects (Tools Development, Disk Space Management, Autosys & Max Run Alarm, Release).
  • Tool: SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office, CA Clarity, Agile.

Project Manager

Western Union Financial Services
Montvale, NJ
08.2013 - 12.2013
  • Worked in PMO office for Project Initiation, Change Control Management and Project Resource Management.
  • Provided a process for resource allocation and capacity management.

Project Manager/ PMO Analyst

Galaxy Associates
Jersey City, NJ
02.2012 - 07.2013
  • Worked as PMO Analyst to plan, manage and track different project streams for IT development projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
  • Single point of contact responsible for articulating the requirements to Developers, Quality Assurance Testers, Operations and managing development team.
  • Managed day-to-day project activities and coordinated tasks with other teams.
  • Managed projects for HealthCare and Financial clients.
  • Managed off shore development team.

PMO Analyst/Project Manager / Consultant

American Express Inc
, Florida
01.2009 - 01.2012
  • Provided PMO support for various application projects of AMEX on Midrange.
  • Delivered PMO tracking for over 250 projects.
  • Forecasted budgets and targets and tracked costs in SDLC Clarity.
  • Proactively managed changes in project scope, identified potential crises, and devised contingency plans.
  • Validated the ETC's and creating the revised cost plans and submittals for approval.
  • Developed project plan for tracking 200 projects using various tools such as Clarity.
  • Ensured the cost plan was approved and the planned costs and funding page (a.k.a.
  • The Budget page) are updated properly to avoid erroneous variances.

Project Manager/ PMO Analyst/ Consultant

Johnson and Johnson
01.2008 - 12.2009
  • The Global Human Resource Transformation (GHRT) is a prestigious program that aims to transform Human Resource activities within J&J by centralizing HR applications across worldwide operating companies and outsourcing it to Convergys.
  • Managed and implemented various enterprise level projects.
  • Delivered training for various healthcare best practices.
  • Tracked risks and milestones for various projects and updated higher management with status calls.

Developer / Team Member / Consultant

Applied Materials, AMAT
San Francisco, CA
01.2007 - 12.2007
  • Drove enhancements / maintenance of the i2 DF product used for Order Management and Order Fulfillment and reported to the Project Manager on progress and status of the current issues.

Education

Prince 2 Certification - undefined

2019

Scrum Master CertifiedCompleted Agile Scrum Master Training - undefined

2017

PMI Certified - undefined

2013

NSE's Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM) (Beginners Module) - undefined

2008

Master's - Computer Science

Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University
2006

Skills

  • Agile, Prince 2
  • Aims, Processes
  • Analyst, Progress
  • Approach, Project management
  • APS, Project Leadership
  • Budgets, Project planning
  • Budget, Project plans
  • Business Process, Quality
  • Closing, Quality Assurance
  • Commodities, RAID
  • CA, Real time
  • Clients, Reporting
  • Data management, Requirement
  • Delivery, Risk Management
  • Documentation, Scrum
  • Estimating, SDLC
  • Senior management, Service level agreements
  • Finance, Staffing
  • Financial, Stories
  • Fixed Income, Strategy
  • Hub, Tableau
  • Human Resource, TPS
  • HR
  • Internal Audit
  • Leadership
  • Legal
  • Legal and Compliance
  • Managing
  • Market
  • Max
  • Meetings
  • MS Office
  • Office
  • MS Project
  • SharePoint
  • MIS
  • Enterprise
  • Order Management
  • Page
  • Presenting
  • Advanced problem solving
  • Project planning and development
  • Timeline management
  • Business process re-engineering
  • Multi-site operations

Timeline

Project Manager / PMO

BNY Mellon / Pershing
10.2018 - Current

Scrum Master / Project Analyst / PMO

UBS
07.2017 - 08.2018

Project Manager / PMO

RBC Capital
12.2016 - 04.2017

PMO Analyst /Scrum Master / Consultant

Credit Suisse
03.2016 - 09.2016

PMO Analyst / Project Manager / Scrum Master

JPMorgan Chase & Co
01.2015 - 03.2016

Project Manager

Barclays Capital
03.2014 - 12.2015

Project Manager

Western Union Financial Services
08.2013 - 12.2013

Project Manager/ PMO Analyst

Galaxy Associates
02.2012 - 07.2013

PMO Analyst/Project Manager / Consultant

American Express Inc
01.2009 - 01.2012

Project Manager/ PMO Analyst/ Consultant

Johnson and Johnson
01.2008 - 12.2009

Developer / Team Member / Consultant

Applied Materials, AMAT
01.2007 - 12.2007

Prince 2 Certification - undefined

Scrum Master CertifiedCompleted Agile Scrum Master Training - undefined

PMI Certified - undefined

NSE's Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM) (Beginners Module) - undefined

Master's - Computer Science

Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University

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