SUMMARY

• Hands - on, IT Business Analyst / Project Manager with deep experience handling Wealth Management in Financial Service applications and Federal Reserve Regulatory reporting applications.
• Subject Matter Expert in the Bank Deposit Program application utilizing strong mainframe knowledge and performing business analysis functions from end-to-end, beginning with the project’s initiation phase thru to the post-implementation phase.
• Oversee strategic initiatives with aggressive targets to deliver on-time, on-budget, solutions with full user satisfaction. Perform business analysis and project management tasks using SDLC methodologies utilizing strong business and technology skills to ensure complex projects fully align with business requirements.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic Initiatives
• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Financial Services
• Wealth Management
• Regulatory Reporting
• Automation & Process Improvement
• Mainframe technology
• Audit Compliance
• Data Collection & Analysis
• Testing QA & UAT
• Production Migrations
• SDLC methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Axiom
• AutoSys
• IBM Mainframe
• SDLC (waterfall, agile)
• Microsoft (Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• COBOL
• COBOL II
• OS/MVS
• JCL
• DB2
• TSO
• ISPF
• CICS
• VSAM
• CHANGEMAN
• Endevor
• SDFII
• File-Aid
• Comparex
• MSSQL
• DB2
• Configuration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BUSINESS ANALYST / PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported Federal Regulatory Reporting System using Axiom Controller View application; ensured full test coverage, configured software, and created reports (Axiom, SQL) to satisfy Federal Reserve requests.
• Implemented regulatory reporting solution for CCAR (FR Y-14A & FR Y-14Q), Consolidated Filings (FR Y-9C & FR Y-9LP), Legal Entity Filings (FR Y-11 & FR 2314), Treasury International Capital (TIC), and Country Exposure Report (FFIEC 009); maintained documentation and reporting procedures to meet audit needs.
• Business Analyst / Project Manager for Federal Reserve reports and technology initiatives; translated regulatory requirements into functional/technical specifications to facilitate reporting, data aggregation, and workflow modeling; liaised with different technology and LOB groups to synchronize implementation strategies and timelines.
• Liaised with business project management, technology and the business to set requirements, current/future state architecture, and support services.
• Designed/applied quarterly changes into core project deliverables; create status reports, business requirements, functional specifications for FRB quarterly reporting requirements; applied and migrated changes into Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
• Support Axiom ongoing project releases by keeping business users involved in UAT test procedures; obtain business approval that test plan was reviewed and that full traceability of business requirements and solution design elements successfully passed documented test cases via user acceptance test scripts.
• Held project status meetings with business, technology, and external teams focusing on project risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies (RAID); document user feedback and lessons learned upon project execution and project team performance; prepared dashboards, metrics, scorecards, issues, risks, and accomplishments for senior management.
• Lead projects utilizing software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes and controls to meet user requirements; resolve complex issues and propose viable solutions; team player and independent worker with exceptional management skills.

VP, IT Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in project analysis/ management/planning including IT application design/development, cost budgeting, forecasting, time and scope constraints, and resource needs.
• Oversaw conversion process with to move $60B to Confidential for client assets on Bank Deposit Program (BDP); performed business analysis including creating BRD, FRD, and TDD documents to deliver BDP assets from Citibank's bank program into Confidential 's BDP program, facilitating largest financial conversion ever completed on Wall Street.
• Supported Wealth Management applications specifically for Mutual Funds, Money Market Funds, and Bank Deposits; oversaw projects, gathered business requirements, and created use case scenarios during QA and UAT phases.
• Coordinated Call-Option project based on SDLC, waterfall methodology from project initiation to implementation; enabled successful ownership of $110B in BDP assets to Confidential .
• Performed analysis on vendor removal project to move sub-accounting processes for Money Market funds in-house.
• Led design and team code reviews to meet requirements; developed process design and solution architecture along with planning, estimating, scheduling, controlling, and reporting on projects to senior management.
• Created Business Requirements document (BRD), Functional Requirements document (FRD), Technical Design documents (TDD), Visio related documentation, User Test Plans.

VP, IT Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed day to day operations regarding financial services applications, including application development and coding; handled business and resource requirements; manage multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Analyzed, Designed and implemented regulatory requirement solutions regarding TAGP in BDP program.
• Coordinated requirements between interface areas for banking program which included margins, client facing apps, statements, and client profile interface (cpi) systems.
• Maintained and enhanced Cobol source code to support Mutual Funds, Money Market Funds, and trading systems that processed in-house fund sub-accounting processes via COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL and other mainframe utilities for change management.
• Presented progress reports to senior leadership, constructed project budgets/forecasts, and ensured final products were delivered on-time and on-budget; oversee multi-tasking and prioritization of tasks for successful project delivery.
• Collaborated with Development, Tech Support, and Production Scheduling to ensure implementations were coordinated with scheduled release plans; maintained internal control standards.

IT Project Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and led project to create Bank Deposit Program cash sweeps system with FDIC protection that became highest earning revenue application within Confidential, hitting over $60B in assets.
• Facilitated business discussions and coordinated with E&Y consultants to obtain functional specifications required for banking regulations; applied Regulation-D banking requirements to BDP product by including TA/MMDA sub-accounts to each client account enrolled in BDP bank program.
• Documented processing functions of applications using COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM; performed data retrieval for analysis using SQL on DB2 database and other mainframe related utilities.
• Maintained new tiered rates to entice client enrollment into BDP program; designed new Cobol programming to rollout a cost-effective strategy for rebalancing assets.
• Created technical design documents, data mappings, and workflows used by development team to generate required source code for waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Prepared test cases for QA/UAT and managed project scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment; coordinated and planned tests to support and resolve production problems within real-time trading system and critical batch system supporting investment vehicles.