PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Functional Roles - over 20 years of progressive responsibility in a diversity of leadership roles in Operational Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting, Quality Assurance, Issue Management, Project Management, IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Data Quality, Master Data Management (MDM, Data Governance, Data Architecture, and Metadata Management; tenure includes a Big 4 consulting firm and a multitude of Financial Services Institutions
• Enterprise Risk & Operational Risk Management - well versed in the practices of Enterprise Risk Management (COSO), Operational Risk & Technology Risk Management; assess and enhance risk frameworks to ensure regulatory compliance; process risk assessments(RCSA), controls testing, issue management, high risk process oversight and monitoring (KRIs)
• Regulatory Compliance - management and oversight of end-to-end data quality, business processes, and regulatory reporting requirements; BCBS 239, Basel II & III, LCR, NSFR, CCAR, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), FDPA, Reg W, Reg O)
• Credit Risk and Liquidity Risk Management - well versed in Credit Risk and Liquidity Risk principles in support of key regulatory reporting (Fed 5G, LCR, NSFR, Stress Testing) and financial reporting (FR Y-14A)
• Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) - perform GRC assessments for Fortune 500 Companies as a continuous process improvement initiative, in support of acquisition / merger / transformation activities. Assist clients by defining a data governance framework to ensure: strategic alignment between the business and technology strategies; an enforceable set of policies and standards; governance processes are operationalized and monitoring measures are defined
• Governance and Quality Frameworks - experience with leading frameworks; COBIT, ITIL, and Six Sigma (DMAIC); significant experience in evaluating business and technical risks of the development, implementation, and operational support of IT systems, with a focus on internal and management controls for regulatory compliance; detailed knowledge of the implementation of Data Governance and Data Quality practices in support of regulatory mandates (FRB/OCC, BCBS 239)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database tools: Teradata, MS SQL Server (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), Oracle, Netezza

Business Intelligence & Analytics: Tableau, Cognos, Oracle Essbase, SAP BusinessObjects, OBIEE, SAS, Microsoft BI stack

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Advisory Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defining governance routines and compliance metrics (KRIs/KPIs) for effective management and oversight.
• Partner with risk manager, compliance managers, application managers, audit, Enterprise Data Management, and LOB business executives to continually, assess, prioritize and refine the compliance roadmap

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Advisory Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Data Management, Stewards, Business and Technology partners to support data audits, testing and reviews and ensure timely resolution of findings, SIAIs, MRAs and MRIAs.
• Consult with Corporate Risk, Compliance, Audit, Technology and the Chief Data Office to define consistent processes, architectures, documentation and testing that ensures compliance with applicable policies and regs (BCBS 239, EDM, etc.)
• Manage the oversight, independent testing, credible challenge and corrective action plans for our High Risk Processes.

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Data Governance & Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with WORC risk domains and LOBs to define governance and accountability models that more efficiently manage compliance and operational risk activities across Wholesale’s first line of defense teams and resolve MRA mandates.
• Collaborate with functional and LOB leadership to identify common risks and opportunities, implementation dependencies, and business process impacts leading to the scoping, prioritization, and sponsorship of key data initiatives and capabilities.
• Defined and operationalized the data framework, strategies, standards, and processes to increase the quality, consistency and re-use of common logic and information assets across our risk functions.
• Defined and evolved data processes, reporting, and remediation around core compliance needs (FDPA, BSA / AML, Legal Entity, BCBS239, Reg W, Reg O, etc.) and extended customer master data for consistent implementation across Wholesale.

Confidential - Denver, CO

Advisory Consultant, Information Analytics - Care Delivery

Responsibilities:

• Engaged cross-functional executive leadership to identify and prioritize analytic needs within each Care Delivery capability (descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics).
• Designed the underlying analytic data strategy and governance to leverage both relational and big data platforms to support high quality, high performing, and scalable analytic capabilities across functional and regional business units.
• Defined analytic communities of practice (CoPs) to ensure evolution of skill sets, cross-leveraging of models, and accelerated information sharing and innovation.

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Advisory Consultant, Data Strategy and Transformation - Wholesale Chief Data Office

Responsibilities:

• Defined/refined data governance routines and interactions around standards definition, root cause analysis, implementing data quality controls, metadata management, data testing, issue resolution and data management.
• Evaluated data policies (G&O Framework, WFC4300) & standards for consolidation opportunities and conflict resolution.
• Assessed finance and risk data platforms and initiatives for policy compliance and remediation action planning.

Confidential - Denver, CO / Charlotte, NC

Head of Enterprise Data - IT Strategy and Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with LOB business executives, IT management, data stewards, risk and compliance functions to define information strategies and roadmaps, identify gaps and efficiencies, prioritize initiatives, and deliver value.
• Actively simplified the information ecosystem through more efficient data supply chains, consistent definitions and logic, greater accessibility to enterprise data, and enhanced visibility of data issues and impacts for more timely resolution.
• Consolidated and optimized disparate development silos into a high performing onshore/offshore Center of Excellence providing a complete spectrum of data solutions and services across the enterprise.

Confidential - Agoura Hills, CA

SVP, Business Exec - Home Loans

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with business stakeholders and stewards to understand market dynamics and changing business needs to continually refine and re-prioritize supporting data sourcing, provisioning, integration and consumption strategies.
• Engaged functional and LOB data stewards to classify sensitive data, operationalize data profiling, and establish data quality management initiatives to continually increase the quality, consistency, security and business value of our data.
• Responsible for team build-out, best practices, operational metrics and build-out of assets into the new environment.

Confidential - Simi Valley, CA

Director, Business Intelligence - Commercial Property and Casualty

Responsibilities:

• Dually reported to the CIO and CFO to build and refine information strategies that supported business efficiencies, pricing strategies, underwriter performance, market growth, and risk appetite reduction.
• Led executive steering committee comprised of finance, sales, operations, product, and technology executives.
• Hired, mentored, and retained high caliber data talent; simplified our data and reporting landscape; streamlined our information deliver model; and re-wrote our core data repositories to remediate performance, quality, and integrity issues.

Confidential - Denver, CO

Information Management Services Executive (AIMS) - Financial Services

Responsibilities:

• Consulted with a multitude of diverse client executive teams to define their data strategy, roadmap, governance model, solution blueprint and implementation roadmap that aligned to their business vision, strategy and goals.
• Keynote Presenter and Confidential advocate at various information leadership industry events on best practices and COEs.
• P&L responsibility for assigned client engagements and internal capability investments.

Confidential - Englewood, CO

Managing Director and Co-founder

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all technology, marketing, sales and product development for this SaaS CRM and loyalty management company. Built company from concept to 25,000+ members nationwide with a robust mortgage, real estate, and homebuilder networks.

Confidential - Denver, CO

Managing Director and Co-Founder

Responsibilities:

• Built Confidential from the ground up to become one of the leading Business Intelligence consulting companies in the US and Canada. Drove all aspects of client engagement, technology and service innovation, and capability development.

Confidential - Piscataway, NJ

Business Intelligence Developer / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Co-founded the Business Intelligence / Executive Information Systems (EIS) practice for this nationwide consulting company.

Confidential - Omaha, NE

Business Intelligence Analyst / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Directly supported the Sales and Marketing executive team via dashboards, metrics and agent performance reporting for this Fortune 500, top-10 insurance company.