Managed the merger of two large financial institutions, setting direction for the go forward company and the initiatives to success.
* Managed seven mainframe and mid-range merger integration initiatives with a team of 40+ staff resulting in clear, concise playbooks for our go forward direction.
* Managed a portfolio budget of $9.3MM within 0.94% of forecast.
* Built and managed a team of 35+ resources comprised of project managers, technicians, analysts, SMEs, and line of business partners and users.
* Directed core team sessions, identifying scope as well as building the financial business case and supporting materials to complete the target operating model for the go forward merged company.
* Interviewed, hired, and managed 5 project managers and 3 business analysts to work with a multitude of SMEs while bridging the gap between the engineers and the users.
* Mentored and trained legacy Wachovia peers to the new tools and processes holding multiple training sessions. Coached and mentored junior PMs throughout the merger.
* Received Success Awards for the lowest forecast-to-actual variances and for leadership and accountability.
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* All projects within the merger program experienced zero severity 1, 2 or 3 outages from the onset.
* Consistently mitigated operational risk through testing, readiness reviews, conflict assessment and process reviews.
* Managed the ongoing communications and decommissioning team of 15 legacy Wachovia applications and their migration to surviving Wells Fargo applications. Negotiated a change to the application decommissioning playbook that resulted in financial savings $500K per application being decommissioned.
* Selected to absorb additional responsibility as a result of department efficiencies.
* Met formally with sponsor, their directs, SMEs and PMs weekly to cover status, issues, risks and upcoming events, and informally as required ensuring the sponsor always had current data and was prepared for all situations.
* Successfully managed an Advanced Peer to Peer Network Security Team in the rollout of SNA firewall rules along with the associated monitoring software. Supported the team in establishing secure session keys with all of our external vendors and the implementation of improved security controls in the mainframe environment. Worked with the Operational Risk Management group to enhance their assessment process and eliminate risk initiative redundancy.
* Managed the Mainframe Security Remediation program (Self-Identified Security Assessments) in the first 4 of 49 remediation efforts. This was the start of one of the largest, most complex initiatives. Managed 25+ staff and a budget for the first 4 efforts of over $6MM. Throughout the forecast to actuals had a zero percent variance. As part of a group effort, we changed some of the Bank's security policies to increase the security posture and mitigate operational risk to the company. Also studying for the CISA (Certified Information Security Auditor).