SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst, Financial Services Technology AnalystAn experienced, creative analyst/technologist with special concentration in the financial services industry.
• For more than 20 years served as developer, designer, business analyst, project leader, project manager, troubleshooter and special projects designee.
• Business applications include trade flow, settlement systems, pricing, security movement, front office, back office, trust accounting, global custody, tax, compliance, operational risk, financial reporting, with focus on translating complex business requirements into technical components for development and implementation on various platforms.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Office.
• Project management experience for life - cycle, meeting rigid deadlines and skillfully negotiating with vendors and clients.

CORE COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:

• Requirements Analysis
• Testing Management
• Data Analysis
• Implementation
• Quality Assurance
• Project Mgr/Leader
• UAT
• Documentation
• Knowledge Transfer
• User/tech Interface
• Presentation skills
• Use/Test Cases
• Problem Resolution
• SDLC
• Application Research

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: OS/MVS, COBOL/COBOL2, Confidential /VS, VSAM, OS/JCL, V-Basic5, SQL Server, SYBASE, Oracle/Java, DB2/SQL, SPUFI/QMF, TSO/SPF, CLIST, REXX, NDM, BMS, HTML, XML, FILE-AID, ADABAS, XPEDITER, ENDEVOR, EASYTRIEVE, MS Office apps (Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Project), Sharepoint, Visio, ERWIN, Qlikview, HP Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the identification, definition and mapping of fixed income data elements slated for migration from core legacy platforms.
• Analysis efforts were concentrated in the areas of Public Finance bonds, Structured Finance bonds and Municipal Structured Products earmarked to be rated together in a new One Rating Program.
• Researched historical documentation and current feeds from Confidential and Confidential to establish usage and definitions, and prepared proposals for reconciliation of disparate data element values.
• Authored sections of Functional Requirements Documents, preparing Screen mockups, element definitions, Business Rules and taxonomy for Sales, Instruments, and Credit Risk Enhancements.
• Liaised with business stakeholders throughout.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensive mapping from legacy data source to newer data warehouse facility.
• Liaised continuously with Business to confirm processing rules, mitigate risk and resolve gaps.
• Produced Functional Specification documents to memorialize transitional processes.
• ’Translated’ developer code into process logic for non-technical business partners.
• Consolidated data feeds from a single source to serve several UT control applications.
• Maintained JIRAs for issues tracking and planning.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed documentation from the parent financial institution and rewrote appropriate requirements from the perspective of a Confidential Agent.
• Participated in IIB conference calls with representatives of other foreign bank New York branches to discuss issues and common concerns, identify gaps, and plan regulatory compliance.
• Documented procedures to outline the Confidential process for training and onboarding.
• Conducted research using RDM (Reference Data Manager) to match legal entity names with customer database, verifying accuracy with Relationship managers.
• Created detailed instructions for developers to populate Chapters 3/ 4 / 61 Confidential reporting.
• Assisted in the plan to remediate pre-existing clients for compliance.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed substance and history of over thirty existing extracts, reports and output files, including SWIFT messages, to uncover potential conversion gaps, risks and inconsistencies.
• Partnered with various business and technology areas to identify gaps, plan regulatory compliance, remediate related documentation and resolve issues.
• Created design documents to identify with great detail each item to be converted, its appropriate alternate data warehouse or reference data source and platform - mainframe or web-based, and its conversion conditions.
• Reviewed design documents with development team and produced modular instructions for developers and testers.
• Extracted equities and fixed income data for testing and coordinated the testing process, interfacing between developers, business users and vendor system representatives.
• Created SQL queries to monitor remediation of defects, tracked in HP Quality Center.
• Coordinated team assignments around team members needing assistance and expedited various tasks nearing deadlines.
• As a business/technology analyst on Confidential (Global Securities Processing), was responsible for evaluating business and functional requirement documentation, designing, enhancing, testing and supporting such Prime Services as the bank’s Global Custody back office business, Stock Lending as well as new business for the bank’s proposed future role as a global depositary.
• Evaluated subject matter/workflow from Confidential to Confidential - authored SDLC-based DRD and SPD documentation, covering software design, coding, testing and acceptance criteria.
• Conferenced with various business and technology areas to identify and resolve issues.
• Developed, documented, tested and implemented software modifications for such processes as Unitized Accounting (NAV/liquidity), Agent Lending (Dodd-Frank, liquidity), MQ and a project to support Confidential as depositary (buy/sell matching, Confidential ).
• Represented Confidential in design meetings and UAT defect discussions.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the Business, other technology groups (DealTrak), vendor (Broadridge) and the tax department to flesh out requirements, project plan and design, identify and resolve risk and other issues, and initiate improvements and responses to regulatory changes.
• Assisted the tax department in producing BRDs and traceability documents.
• Authored Confidential and DRD documents for initial phase and later enhancements.
• Designed architecture software models, prototypes, data feeds, DB2 table enhancements and web-sourced output interfaces.
• Participated in both Waterfall and Agile-based planning and design meetings.
• Designed testing scenarios, UAT goals and implementation plans; Conducted user demos.
• Constructed and applied process for tax remediation of clients whose documentation was either missing or not timely received.
• Served in an operations capacity to run down data queries from the Business using SQL, resolve potential issues, and instruct other analysts on the impact of the software and the interaction of data from various sources.
• Represented tax technology as SME at all relevant meetings and for sign-off on documents.

Confidential

Attorney

Responsibilities:

• General civil practice dealing primarily with IP, commercial and real estate matters.
• Clients include Internet e-commerce companies, software developers, real estate management, speculators and developers, and video producers.
• Prepared sales and joint venture agreements, software licenses, partnership agreements, trademark searches and applications, service agreements, copyright assignments, employment contracts and web lead referral agreements.
• Conducted forensic reconstruction of 20 years of real estate transactions using recorded deeds, mortgages and agreements for pre-trial preparation.
• Prepared and closed real estate sales contracts, mortgages, assignments and agreements for residential and commercial properties.
• Secured and defended against Confidential & Confidential evictions.
• Secured Visas for foreign nationals.

Confidential, New York

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, development, testing and implementation of system to evaluate wealth performance and route managed portfolio data feeds to various global systems.
• Maintained and supported VSPS/VAST proprietary SMAC systems for Private Banking.
• Developed Confidential Offset Accounting system to track and match incoming/outgoing payments.
• Provided guidance, design and functional documents to initiate.
• Revised methodology to identify foreign accounts and consolidate Confidential rate calculations for Regulation 1441 compliance.
• Designed and developed portions of Securities Processing & Reporting System ( Confidential ) on PC platform, using Visual Basic 5.0 and SQL Server.
• Responsible for all SWIFT processing for Confidential (home-grown SMAC system), including new series. Attended SWIFT training sessions.
• Provided support and enhancements to VSPS Global custody system, adding processing for new data feeds from CGO depository, conversion to COBOL2 and adding file Xmit thru NDM.
• Planning, analysis and implementation of responses to industry changes such as Confidential +3 requirements and Same Day Funds processing.
• Redesigned Confidential Broker screens and added processing for “new” SWIFT messaging. Converted S&P tape feed from sequential data to DB2.

Confidential, NYC

Programmer/Analyst; Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and design for Stock Lending and Borrowing system on OS/2 platform using SmallTalk and Sybase.
• Responsible for coding prototype using MS Access, preparing design document covering Collateral and Mark to Market processes, and SWIFT interfaces.
• Implemented Global Securities Processing ( Confidential ) customization for the U.S. market.
• Prepared syllabus and lesson plans for in-house training of staff in VSPS Utilities and Infrastructure and conducted same.
• Conversion and migration of VSPS system from mainframe to AS400 platform.
• Planned and scheduled a one-man project to convert mainframe COBOL applications to COBOL/400 Implemented conversion and installation of Confidential /400 releases.
• Interfaced with IBM personnel and other vendor support for debugging and maintenance.
• Project Manager for the Vista Settlements section of TAURUS, the Automated Securities Processing System for the London Stock Exchange.
• Constant interface with Stock Exchange personnel to analyze and pin down requirements.
• Authorship of three separate functional specification documents.
• Produced estimation and allocation plans for resource management (8-10 programmers).
• Designed settlement for securities trading, lending and off market transactions (OTC).
• Program and data modeling, design and coding, management and implementation of test plans, review and monitor coding/testing progress, "fire fighting" and bug repair.
• Coordinator of VSPS 4.0 ideology retrofit to combine Vista's VSPS and VTAS systems.
• Analysis of changes, enhancements and retrofit requirements, preparation and execution of procedures to automate required modifications to a few hundred modules.
• Managed personnel and allocation to specific tasks within the retrofit.
• Developed change priorities and balancing of requirements to combine domestic and Global specifications in generic software, conversion of existing Status Movement structure to 4.0 table format, providing instruction and constant assistance to staff.
• Installation of Confidential System package at Midland Bank, England
• Provided application knowledge and experience to facilitate installation and testing. Maintained all facets of the system, correcting bugs, implementing enhancements and interfacing with clients throughout.
• Lead programmer to develop Confidential System at Bank of New York, producing design of screens, documentation, analysis of requirements, program models, coding, and testing for securities processing of equities and fixed income, adding functionality such as sub custodian facilities, corporate action maintenance, position adjustment and enhanced income processing.
• Developed Canadian version of VSPS software package adding enhancements such as multi-currency and multi-branch processing, and an interface to Canadian depositories.
• Designed, coded, tested and installed the system at two Canadian banks.
• Maintained sole responsibility for on-line functions.