Leslie Weber

Experience

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  Savings Bank of Manchester

  Jan 1993 - Dec 1995

  Systems Administrator - Retail Lending Department
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  Advest Bank & Trust Co.

  Dec 1995 - Aug 1998

  Application Systems Analyst
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  Savings Bank of Manchester (Became NewAlliance Bank in 2004)

  Sept 1998 - Apr 2004

  Project Manager / Business Analyst

  • One Bank Acquisition – Coordinated activities of assigned teams with all parties, including data mapping and testing.• Directed all software projects and participated in all aspects of support; project management, testing, issue resolution and report generation.• Department liaison between business lines, vendors and IT Department.• Managed release testing annually for bank platform vendor. Defined test methodology and environment, analyzed test results, documented and tracked issues.• Developed training materials and trained user departments on new releases.• Ran the Community Reinvestment Act collection of data annually and submitted it on behalf of the bank to the Federal Reserve. Show less

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  First Niagara Bank (formerly, NewAlliance Bank)

  Apr 2004 - Jan 2011

  Assistant Treasurer - IT Project Manager

  • Supported three Bank Acquisitions – Worked with vendor to coordinated all activities and track and resolve issues.• Led the Business Banking Loan Origination Initiative involving two software applications, interfaces between the two applications and the bank’s core banking system.• Led the Investment Departments Initiative to implement software to capture their purchased loan portfolio information and calculations.• Managed the Remote Broadband Access Implementation, involving hardware and software upgrades.• Supported the ATM Instant Issue Initiative.• Served as the IT Audit Liaison between Audit and Information Systems departments. Gathered and supplied the Audit Department with requested documentation. Provided written responses to audit report findings.• Created ad hoc reports utilizing various database tools including MS Access, Data Warehouses and Cold Storage systems.• Assisted the Desktop Support Team with service pack and other software upgrades. Show less

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  Rockville Bank

  Mar 2012 - Dec 2014

  Project Manager Officer

  See above duties as Rockville Bank and United Bank merged in 2014.

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  United Bank

  Dec 2014 - Jan 2016

  AVP, Project Manager

  Managed large strategic projects with high risk, customer impact and large cost across multiple business lines and project teams simultaneously. Utilized waterfall or agile project management methodologies and led project team meetings, prepared project documentation, developed and maintained project plans throughout the project life-cycle. Provided clear and timely status reports to senior management, and ran all aspects of each overall project in a lean resource environment.• Created and maintained a collaborative project environment with all team members. Worked closely with project sponsors, business subject matter experts, and all support organizations across the bank for each project, including Risk, Information Security, Quality Assurance, Fraud Investigation Unit, Compliance, IT, and Vendor Management.• Partnered with senior executives and project sponsors to identify the goals and requirements. Reported weekly project updates, issues, risks and mitigations with senior executives and project sponsors.• Managed projects in a complex, multi-vendor project environment. Held regularly scheduled project meetings with stakeholders. • Researched vendor selection, gathered business requirements, created process flow documents and developed and maintained project plans.• Developed/organized training for each project, test script and management of the testing process. Including but not limited to acceptance testing, regression testing, end to end testing, functional testing and load testing.• Mentored managers on project management methodologies and project management skills. Trained project managers with advanced project management skills in a classroom setting.• Collaborated with leadership to identify areas of improvement in IT and Operations and train/develop talent on the value of the organizations project management methodology. Show less

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  People's United Bank, N.A.

  Jan 2017 - Oct 2021

  Lead Project Manager

  Responsible for planning, scheduling and managing multi-disciplinary, cross-functional project/program efforts that may be cross-divisional or enterprise-wide in their impact. Responsible for management of all aspects of a project (schedule, budget, resources) of varying size and complexity according to the organizations PLC and standard SDLC. Manages projects from initiation through to completion (using both Agile, Waterfall and hybrid methodologies). Creation of project charter for each initiative outlining project scope, timeline, risk assessment and other key elements. Conduct regular status meetings with project teams, controlling scope and communicate/escalate project issues and risks to the appropriate executive management teams as needed. Show less

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  PeoplesBank

  Oct 2021 - now

  • Assistant Vice President Project Management

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Project Management Officer

    Oct 2022 - Nov 2024

  • Project Manager

    Oct 2021 - Oct 2022