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Sonia Moreira Mizimakovski

Mississauga,Canada

Summary

Dynamic Senior Project Manager with extensive experience at TD Bank, specializing in vulnerability management and incident response. Demonstrates a proven ability to optimize project delivery and enhance stakeholder engagement through effective leadership and data analysis. Committed to fostering team collaboration and achieving strategic goals in fast-paced environments.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Project Manager

Td Bank
Toronto, Canada
03.2022 - 09.2022
  • Liasing with internal stakeholders and senior leadership
  • Driving optimization of incident impact assessment and response times
  • Responsibility for managing the end-to-end vulnerability management workflow
  • Scanning and identifying vulnerabilities and assist various Line of Business with the remediation
  • Assisting the teams with the prioritization and remediation of the identified vulnerabilities utilizing operational best practices to maintain all tools that are used in the scanning and identification of vulnerabilities as well as the tools used to rationalize, consolidate and apply additional contextual information
  • Working with the Information Security Engineering team in the identification, design and implementation of new tools as requirements arise, consolidating and rationalizing the various vulnerability data from different scanning tools to remove duplicates, applying additional context to provide meaningful information for metrics that help prioritize and drive remediation activities
  • Work with various teams when a CSIRT arises from Vulnerabilities
  • Create new monthly reports to provide updates to upper Management

Technical Senior Project Manager

Government of Manitoba
MB, Canada
03.2018 - 03.2019
  • Resolved project issues and maintained ongoing communications with clients
  • Prepared status reports and tracked the other Project Managers’ progress
  • Work with the various Hospital departments to upgrade their servers
  • Upgrade and consolidate 2 data centers in one
  • Order and track hardware and cables for the new site
  • Coordinate and engage teams to set up and test the new data center
  • Request and track decommission of servers
  • Conduct various weekly meetings with upper Management on project accomplishments

Program Manager

Td Bank
Toronto, Canada
09.2017 - 03.2018
  • Resolved project issues and maintained ongoing communications with clients
  • Prepared status reports and project budgets
  • Presented detailed project plans and proposals to upper management for approval
  • Coordinated with vendors and clients on various projects
  • Assist Bank management team to decide on technology strategies
  • Work closely with team and third-party Vendor on making deployment decisions
  • Work with IBM to install BigFix Inventory tool at TD Enterprise wide
  • Deal with Budget and financials on a weekly basis
  • Updating clarity and upper management on a weekly basis
  • Established milestones and objectives based on input from functional areas and stakeholders
  • Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage
  • Facilitated workshops and conducted one-on-one training to educate team members
  • Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations, complying with policies and regulations
  • Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure
  • Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams
  • Built teams to address project goals and objectives for multiple projects
  • Demonstrated strong writing and presentation skills to develop briefs, memorandums, and analytical reports for clients
  • Managed the Vulnerabilities team at the Bank to reduce the number of vulnerabilities and facilitate resolutions with various teams

Client Migration Manager

FIS Global
Toronto, Canada
09.2017 - 03.2018
  • Leading one of the on-going Data Center Consolidation projects, to migrate VPN services
  • Constant contact with different US Financial Institutions to work on a plan to migrate VPN services
  • Engaged and worked with multiple Technical Engineers and teams
  • Providing project support to senior Project Managers
  • Host the migration call and assist with any escalations
  • Reporting to Program Manager/Project Manager the numbers of migrations on a weekly basis
  • Create all the Firewall changes and migration changes and get approvals from change management

Project Delivery Lead/Project Manager

TD Bank
Toronto, Canada
05.2016 - 09.2017
  • Leading Project Delivery efforts by assisting senior managers in the scheduling, development, updating and monitoring of business and action plans
  • Work on bringing TD Bank applications up to Currency standards
  • Oversee multiple projects across all phases of development
  • Monitor workflow and make timeline adjustments as needed
  • Work closely with Databases administrators and application support teams
  • Attend all the change management meetings and get all the SDM changes approved in a timely manner
  • Leading and organizing a team of DBAs for Oracle and SQL upgrades
  • Collaborate with development to plan project sprints
  • Communicating with the project director to report on project status
  • Keeping in close contact with key project members and decision makers
  • Technologies used: Remote Login, SharePoint, Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Change Management Tool, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Project
  • Accelerated progress by continually reviewing performance, budgets and project timelines

Project Coordinator

CIBC Bank
Toronto, Canada
11.2015 - 05.2016
  • Overseeing and coordinating the day-to-day running of projects by assisting project managers and senior managers
  • Also involved in the development, updating and monitoring of business and action plans
  • Assisting and supporting the Project Managers in their daily duties
  • Ensuring that relevant management information is captured and analyzed
  • Providing project support to senior Project Managers
  • Assessing service delivery efficiency and effectiveness
  • Leading and organizing a team of technicians
  • Used SharePoint to keep record of all the workstations and migrations to WIN7
  • Support technicians with any issues regarding migrations
  • Conduct daily PIR meetings to address any migration issues
  • Technologies used: SCCM, OSD, Remote Login, SharePoint, Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Windows XP, Windows 7
  • Provided support to users over the phone and in person with regards to WIN 7 migrations
  • Assisted engineering with application triage and provided the reason why apps failed on installation
  • Tested applications and scenarios to assist engineering with migration problems
  • Extensively used SharePoint to plan migrations and track all incidents
  • Configured network printers and provided support for multi monitor setup
  • Provided morning and afternoon reports to executive members of the team
  • Raised tickets with Level 2 on machines with SCCM issues

Education

PMI Certification -

Project Management Institute
Toronto, ON
02.2023

Network Administrator - IT Network

Trios College
Mississauga, ON
11.2010

Skills

  • Program Management
  • Project Management
  • Coaching
  • Team-building
  • Project management
  • Incident response
  • Vulnerability management
  • Data analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Budget management
  • Team collaboration
  • Risk assessment
  • Report creation
  • Client communication
  • Leadership
  • Business Case Development
  • Financial Planning
  • Infrastructure Security Risk Mitigation
  • Effective Communication
  • Technical Communication
  • Financial Reporting
  • Budgeting
  • Forecasting
  • Expenditure Reporting
  • Project Delivery
  • Healthcare IT
  • Transportation IT
  • Financial Services IT
  • Software Development
  • Operational best practices
  • Technical documentation
  • Business case development
  • Problem-solving aptitude
  • Technical understanding
  • Customer relationship management
  • Status updates
  • IT project management
  • Client relations

Certification

  • MCITP
  • CompTIA A+ Certified Professional – IT Technician
  • CompTIA Network+ Certified Support Specialist
  • Microsoft Excel and Word Certificate

Languages

  • Fluent in English
  • Fluent in Portuguese
  • Beginner in Spanish
  • Beginner in French

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

Td Bank
03.2022 - 09.2022

Technical Senior Project Manager

Government of Manitoba
03.2018 - 03.2019

Program Manager

Td Bank
09.2017 - 03.2018

Client Migration Manager

FIS Global
09.2017 - 03.2018

Project Delivery Lead/Project Manager

TD Bank
05.2016 - 09.2017

Project Coordinator

CIBC Bank
11.2015 - 05.2016

PMI Certification -

Project Management Institute

Network Administrator - IT Network

Trios College
Sonia Moreira Mizimakovski