Bruce Steinberger

About Bruce Steinberger

Dynamic and highly accomplished senior-level Program Manager with 15+ years of experience leading Agile/Waterfall projects delivering strategic initiatives. Recognized by senior executives for exceeding expectations, challenging the norm, championing new ideas and building relationships across the organization. Highly strategic and organized project manager with an impeccable record of delivering results in fast-paced global environments. Led global cross-functional teams with over 100 resources with multimillion dollar budgets.PROFESSIONAL PROFILE• Energetic, versatile, hands-on leader with extensive leadership experience, creating powerful vision, strategies and plans that achieves great results.• Successfully transformed project teams into high performing Scrum teams. Coached and mentored teams into using Agile best practices and behaviors, recommended and created organizational best practices. • As head of the PMO, standardized and improved the IT governance framework, increased usage of metrics for senior management reporting, facilitated and led senior executive prioritization discussions and program steering committees.• Solutions-oriented IT leader with ability to establish and maintain strong alliances; lead and motivate teams; drive projects to successful completion; convey complex technical requirements/data; exceed customer expectations and achieve fiscal bottom-line results.• Well versed in Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies and strategies.Key Competencies Include:• IT Portfolio Management• Agile Transformation• Executive Communication• Leadership and Team Building • Process Analysis • Scrum and Kanban• SAFe Program Management• Collaborative Leader • Vendor Management• Agile Project Management • Project Risk Management• JIRA Administration

Experience

1. Senior Program Manager, Genesis Olympus Engineering and Onboarding Program

   Citi

   Dec 2022 — Present · Jersey City, NJ, US

   As a Senior Program Manager within Global Finance Technology Group, I am cultivating extensive partnerships across diverse project teams encompassing Finance, Risk Management and Compliance with a mission centering on addressing the regulatory concerns delineated in the Consent Orders and new development efforts providing users more access to financial data in the Genesis data warehouse. RESULTS- Managing the Genesis Engineering portfolio’s governance and reporting. Leveraging JIRA and Confluence to create real-time team performance metrics to provide data-driven insights, resulting in a 15% increase in program outcomes- Spearheading the Agile/Workforce transformation for the entire Genesis program. Increased Agile and JIRA adoption by 30% which resulted in improved reporting, data-driven decisions, and reduction of manual reporting by removing offline excel trackers- Successfully managing team interdependencies, resulting in a 10% decrease in program risk and a 20% improvement in customer satisfaction- Responsible for preparing of status reports, metrics, and analytics for Senior leaders at the Managing Director level for the Genesis/Olympus Engineering portfolio of key initiatives.

Education

• St. John's University

  MBA, Management

• Queens College

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

• St. John's University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management Information Systems, General