Saaim Aslam

Bank of America, Barclays,

Managed a project budget of $15M
Lead an in-house team of 8 senior consultants along with 15 FTE
Managed 10 offshore contractors

•Lead IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization.

•Developed detailed project work plans, devised project activities and identified resources for project completion

•Responsible for directing, administering and coordinating all financial aspects of project operations

•Planed and developed programs, agendas, budgets and services according to customer requirements

•Managed Big Data infrastructure project by migrating legacy systems with Hadoop & NoSQL component

•Developed and maintain an appropriate IT organizational structure that supports the needs of the business

•Managed all escalations for project roadblocks to ensure deliverables are not compromised

•Collaborated with multiple engineering, development and internal stakeholders to validate and control scope creep

•Point place for PMO for weekly hosted project status screening and stakeholder reporting

•Close collaboration with Six Sigma teams to instrument process improvement for SS7

•Managed data migration program from AS400 to Salesforce dot com for the entire organization

•Managed cross functional risks and executing corrective solutions with BI project tracking

•Chaired the committee meetings, JAD Sessions, ISA team meetings, vendor meetings for third party application management

•Analyzed, evaluated and rectified business requirements for enterprise business application integration for each modified enhancement

•Structured the Data Warehousing team to setup ETL & ELASTIC process, for data analytics aspect of BI

•Couched the resources to design EPICS, USER-STORY selection, sizing and task definition

•Established SLA & team standards, utility of BI tools to reduce development time by 35%

•Analyzed and formulated solutions to utilize unstructured information for Big Data Platforms

•Monitored business & functionality progress, against project objectives to ensure specific release criteria is meet.

•Consulted meetings as a subject matter expert to improve business process and Security Audit requirements gathering and verification stage



•Validated Activity diagrams per USE CASES to guide developing requirements specifications and BRD / FRD artifacts

•Directed and managed TSD plans, schedules, policies and programs including, but not limited to, all business operations by identifying pain areas to improve & project and business performance

•Established impact and preliminary analyses and delegated actions for implementation
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Vanguard Financials, Malvern, Pennsylvania Central Pennsylvania State

Managed a project budget of $8M
Consulted for major state finance & organizational initiatives.
Lead an in-house team of 5 senior software developed & 2 Tier 5 solution architects
Managed 6 offshore contractors.

•Established and managed strategic initiatives by planning, functional transformation, change, budget and resource allocation

•Coached the transformation from a traditional technology services department of data centers and networks to embracing creative customer-focused, cloud-based application deliverables

•Monitored and controlled application design and architecture components for Fin-Tech & PeopleSoft ERP based fiscal management of own going projects

•Collaborated with major stakeholders and clients to establish elicitation and information gathering techniques to architect PeopleSoft solutions, payable/accounts receivable (AP/AR), OMNI-Channels automated general ledger (GL), and asset management (AM)

•Identified project milestone delivery schedule for technical team to efficiently and effectively deliver multiple release cycle's

•Planned capacity strategy to enhance customer experience for surge in project revenue

•Consult IT, business & finance managers to reconstructing staffing models aligned to portfolio of projects and operational activities

•Maintain a single line communication with the leadership for managing demand and capacity; including capacity management & queuing models to ensure resources incoordination are efficiently aligned and leveraged

•Managed AGILE based structured as a SCRUM MASTER for multiple cross functional operational structures

•Analyzed, validated & created UML, Prototypes, Wireframes, Business Process Diagram, Workflow Diagram, Swim Lanes for the leadership for informed & consulted initiatives

•Articulated project scope and goals, translated business needs into technical terms, restructured detailed work breakdown structure (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones

•Generated cost benefit analysis and ROI assessments to assist leadership decisions to prioritize business proposals

•Resolved tactical project issues including aligned staffing, scope creep and divergent business

Managed a project budget of $5M on multiple assignments
Supervised a project team of 3 testers, 2 business analysts, 2 technicians and 2 contractors

•Scheduled and facilitated sprints with Data Center Operations and Development Operations teams to plan new software/hardware implementations and upgrades

•Worked with technical managers to define and schedule resources required for implementations, upgrades and other projects as needed

•Managed risk, escalated issues as needed and communicated project status to Client Services and Technical Implementation teams including providing reports as requested

•Worked with the technical teams to standardize and document the implementation and upgrade process which reduced number of man hours from 24 (3 business days) to 4 hours

•Collaborated extensively with users and management to implement appropriate technologies, processes and best practices

•Researched, recommended, and facilitated the deployment of the new modules and infrastructures to support new solutions

•Planned, tracked, and monitored all aspects of projects; and delivered status reports to team members, management and users

•Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan (unit, integration and UAT)

•Created a detailed status of all the issues and bugs and report issue resolutions to senior management

•Performed risk assessment, issue resolution, root cause analysis and change management initiatives

Managed technical team members in interacting and gathering requirements from business users and documenting them as per the company policies and standards

•Lead the requirements gathering and JAD sessions to manage requirements for avoiding scope creep

•Reviewed the test cases provided by QA team, and provided feedback

•Managed and coordinated cross-functional resources to deliver against the Statement of Work (SOW)

•Prepared project schedule, status reports (both internal and client facing) and reviewed project budgets

•Worked collaboratively with internal cross-functional and external vendor teams to develop strategies that meet business goals within budget and established timelines