Prashant Patel

Highly Motivated, Result Oriented, Completely Dedicated, Change Specialist and Proven track record of successfully contributed, managed and delivered Software projects throughout 14+ years of professional engagement with different client as Program Manager/Project Manager/Scrum Master/ Lead BA in leading sectors like financial services, Banking, Investment Management, Asset Management, Wealth Management & Retirement services domain. Possess strong experience in Managing/capturing/analyzing project and solution requirements related to the Digital transformation initiative, automating business solutions, data initiatives (Migration, Building/Enhance Data Warehouse or BI Capability), Portfolio Accounting System, business processes re-engineering, Object-Oriented Design/ Modeling, Service Oriented Architecture, New Development and enhancement of existing application, Legacy platform Conversion, Regulatory Reporting and Project Management. Highly versatile and proficient for working under tight deadline to perform project activity related to plan, execute, monitor, control and close in traditional Waterfall, Lean Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Change Driven Approach and Hybrid Approach.

Lead Project Manager at Mizuho Securities USA (2023-01 – Present)

• Delivered multi-phase program to MVP agreed with business and expanded userbase outside power users for application.
• Successfully delivery of Quarterly goal for the digital Project/Program to align strategic commitment for Senior Leadership.
• Provided needed visibility for Program/project to senior leadership with weekly status walkthrough and reporting through firm's PMO approved reporting updates.
• Managed multiple projects Scope, Schedule, executions and successful delivery with appropriate change control process.
• Worked directly with executive and director level business leaders to understand the strategic objectives based on value driven approach for application projects to make sure delivery is align as per maximizing business value and business prioritization.
• Enhance capability of application build on Salesforce.com platform to enable secure file share/Access mechanism for business users.
• Proactively Communicated project information such as timeline, progress, milestone achievements, blockers, risk and mitigation strategy and more with project team members and project key stakeholders as appropriately to do necessary progress.
• Identified and managed project risks and issues, ensuring their timely mitigation and resolution with impacted stakeholders.

Program Manager/Lead Project Manager at Wellington Management (2022-01 – 2022-12)

• Successfully delivery of Quarterly goal for the digital Project/Program to align strategic commitment for Senior Leadership.
• Established PMO structure, practices and policies, including Project Governance and Resource Management. The new PMO align with EPMO and project management best practices for entire program/portfolio and streamline key processes across.
• Provided needed visibility for Program/project to senior leadership with project dashboard and summary report on monthly updates.
• Managed multiple projects Scope, Schedule, executions and successful delivery with appropriate change control process.
• Worked directly with executive and director level business leaders to understand the strategic objectives based on value driven approach for application based projects to make sure delivery is align as per maximizing business value and business prioritization.
• Proactively Communicated project information such as timeline, progress, milestone achievements, blockers, risk and mitigation strategy and more with project team members and project key stakeholders as appropriately to do necessary progress.
• Identified and managed project risks and issues, ensuring their timely mitigation and resolution with impacted stakeholders.

Program Manager/Sr.Project Manager at Deutsche Bank (2020-03 – 2021-12)

• Took ownership for delivering program/project assigned under portfolio with objectives and deliverables.
• Drives project execution within established scope, schedule, resource, quality requirements and leading project teams of cross-functional resources in matrix environment with successfully obtain Sign off from Business post deployment.
• Managed multiple project executions and successful delivery along with appropriate change control process.
• Worked directly with executive and director level business leaders to understand the strategic objectives for major business change initiatives and implemented the tactical programs/projects to realize these objectives managed ongoing risk and conflicts for project with appropriate action to resolve them effectively.
• Proactively Communicated project information such as timeline, progress, milestone achievements, blockers, risk and mitigation strategy and more with project team members and project key stakeholders as appropriately to do necessary progress.

Master in Business Administration (MBA) – Fairleigh Dickinson University (2010)

Bachelor of Science (BSc) – North Gujarat University (2003)