Comfort Somuah
Senior Program Manager | Senior Project Manager | Strategy | Lead Adaptation of Business Initiatives | Mentor
- Role
- Senior Program Manager at Barclays
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Comfort Somuah
Summary:A passionate, self-starter senior program/project manager who transforms business challenges into opportunities for revenue growth by engaging leadership, leading through influence, delivering quality solutions and driving adaptation of technology and methodology with a result-oriented attitude.Key Accomplishments- Modernized and transformed infrastructure which enabled the acquisition of 2,200 customers corresponding to about 3.5 billion in revenue for the company- Led cross-functional, global, virtual teams on AWS, software development, data, security and infrastructure projects throughout all phases of the project lifecycle using project management techniques to manage scope, schedule, budget and stakeholder communications - Successfully lifted and shifted Hadoop servers across two different data centers (cross team collaboration) which avoided $3.6 million dollars from building new servers and was delivered two months ahead of schedule to meet a key business initiative* Led geographically dispersed functional and technical team on a $1.5 million multi-year software development project using agile principles*Increased transparency and effectiveness of Army’s budget management saving $1.7M *Mentor and coach on strategy and implementation of PMO and program/project managementSpecialties: Program/Project Management, Application Development (SLDC), Data Management, Process Improvement, Security, Infrastructure, Project Management Office (PMO), mentoring and coaching, Agile and Waterfall methodology
Experience
Senior Program Manager
Apr 2019 — Present · New York, NY, US
Avoided data center migration cost by $3.6M with delivery two months ahead of schedule - Developed and led implementation of overarching plan for $4.5M data, cloud, and equipment retirement as part of data center strategy
Education
Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics at University of Delaware
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance and Information Technology
2006 — 2009
University of Delaware
Master, Information System and Technology Management
2009 — 2010
University of Delaware
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering
2001 — 2005
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