Christopher Cerra has over 20 years of experience as an IT consultant and project manager for major financial institutions such as Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan, and UBS, where he has managed projects ranging from $1.7 million to $5 million involving technology upgrades, platform migrations, and operational re-engineering. He has a background in finance, programming, and project management methodology, and lists skills in areas like governance, budgeting, implementations, conversions, and applications like SharePoint, Office, and SQL. Cerra holds a B.A. in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh and was in the top 5% of his class

1. Christopher Cerra
http://www.linkedin.com/in/christophercerra | (732) 672-6290 | cerrafamily@msn.com
PROFILE
Business Systems IT Consultant and Program Manager / Sr. Project Manager with proven ability to motivate,
influence, and steer programs and projects. “Hands On” experience deploying operational & technical solutions.
Consulting Assignments and Full Time Employment with the following firms
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Citigroup’s GTS and Wealth Management
Bank of America JP Morgan Pershing - BNY Mellon UBS Citibank Smith Barney
SKILLS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE* - Consulting (7 Years)
Bank America Merrill Lynch - Princeton Information Systems
June 2014 - Present | Program Mgr. Retirement Services, Pennington, NJ
 Manage multiple projects including a platform upgrade, ESP Plan
corporate action and Mutual Fund Advisory share class conversion.
 Oversee a $4.4 million TECH build to link equity plan platforms.
UBS - RSC Solutions, Weehawken, NJ
June 2013 - June 2014 | Program Manager Enterprise PMO
 Engaged to support senior leadership in the management of Mutual
Funds Advisory share class conversion.
 Coordinated $5 million Tech project for the Office of the COO.
Pershing - a BNY Mellon Company - Computer Enterprises Inc.
May 2012 - May 2013 | Sr. Project Manager Enterprise PMO, Jersey City, NJ
 Managed Account Solutions $1.7 million TECH spend.
 Full CMM cycle as part of an entitlements program re-engineering.
JP Morgan - WSS Client Account & Entitlements, New York, NY
Aug. 2011 - May 2012 | BAU Program Release Manager – PMO
 Re-engineered a Custody operations technology release process for
business driven prioritization & scheduling.
Bank America Merrill Lynch - APEX Systems, Pennington, NJ
Aug 2010 - July 2011 | Project Mgr. - Wealth Mgmt. Performance Systems
 Business liaison re-engineering of a performance index process.
WebMD - Implementation Promotional Products - New York, NY
Feb 2009 - Aug 2010 | Sr. Project Manager WebMD Professional
 Oversight of the re-engineering of the operational work flow for a
new implementation platform deployment.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE* - Full Time Roles
Citigroup - Smith Barney and Citibank - New York, NY (2 positions)
1998 - 2009 | Program / Portfolio Manager
 Department Manager for a team implementing a suite of Accounts
Payables / Receivables and Information Services products - Citibank.
 Retirement / Equity Product liaison manager directing a team of
Project Managers and Business Analysts responsible for the
oversight of a prioritized project portfolio – Smith Barney.
Merrill Lynch - Global Employee Services - Somerset, NJ (2 positions)
1994 - 1998 | Project Manager and Developer
 PM Business Analysis - Recruited from within TECH to build a team
and governance process focused on custom builds for clients.
 Senior Programmer Analyst coding and supporting a Mainframe
Batch/CICS Employee Benefits recordkeeping & trading application.
ADP - Brokerage Information Services Group - Jersey City, NJ
1991 - 1994 | Technical Senior Programmer Analyst
 Junior Programmer/Developer later advanced to Sr. Programmer.
* Expanded work experience and accomplishments available upon request.
- Program / Project Management
- Project Governance
- Best Practices
- Budget Tracking and Reporting
- Global Implementations
- CMM - Capability Maturity Model
- Six Sigma
- Waterfall SDLC
- “C” Level Reporting
- Relationship Accountability
- Requirements Documentation
- Business Analysis and Testing
- Conversions / Gap Analysis
- Back Office Recordkeeping
APPLICATIONS
- SharePoint / WIKI
- MS Office suite, WORD, EXCEL,
PowerPoint, MS Project
- VISIO
- PLANVIEW
- @Task
- SQL Query
- HP Quality Center
AWARDS
FIVE STAR - Leadership Award
Citigroup
Global Transaction Services
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Merrill Lynch
Wealth Management
EDUCATION
University of Pittsburgh
B.A. in Finance
The Chubb Institute
“TOP 5% ” (class ranking)