SUMMARY:

• Seasoned business executive born and raised in the State of New York, with profound international experience in consulting, global business strategy and re - engineering of business processes and trading / investment products. Proven success on national & global stage for well-known firms and start-ups for Financial Services and Technology related clients and vendors.
• Industry Professionals (All levels) have found me a joy to work with.
• Being Independent, I will and have engaged in assignment durations from 1 month and Confidential
• Additionally, I have had multiple engagements with the same Client (domestically & / or overseas) that adds credence to my effectiveness, value added and professionalism. The distinctiveness with my experience that prospective employers get to leverage is that I have and continue to work on the functional side (operations, middle and front office) and as well as with technology.
• Highly competent at recognizing key business opportunities / solutions and leading cross functional teams in executing via professional services solutions. A multi-derivatives asset class subject matter expert with a solid foundation in International Financial Services organizations, Brokerage, Banking, Clearing, Exchanges, Consulting, Broker Dealers, Investment Banking, Hedge Funds, Asset Management, Software Vendors and Rating Agencies.
• My unique services, execution and delivery adds significant value to a firms Business line, CTO, CIO, Technology and Data Warehouse departments as their primary business liaison between developers, programmers, system & database administrators, quants, data modelers and data architects and the business lines / functional area they interface, manage and / or support. I engage in regulatory, operational, efficiency, system conversion & implementation projects involving

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Back Office: Operations, Settlements, Collateral, Accounting, Internal Audit, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Risk Control and full trade life cycle maintenance and management, fobo recs, margin recons, collateral recons, broker statement and fees analysis, cash recons

Middle Office: Trading PnL with Full Attribution, Collateral Mgmt, Financial Control, Product ControlEnterprise Risk Management Greek sensitivities (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Rho and Vega)Market Risk, Credit Risk and Liquidity Risk & VaR = (Value at Risk)

Technologies: Proficient MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio (swimlanes) and SharePoint; Futrak, Summit, Traab, Murex, CATS, GOLD, TSAR, Swaps Database, TelerateWall Street Systems ( NDF WSS) RET = NDF Reuters, Bloomberg Working knowledge of SQL, XML, FpML & FIX Protocol, Seek Opptys to become more skillful

Data Management: Market Data and Data Senior PM and BA Full SDLC (Waterfall and Agile / Sprints), Project Management Life Cycle PMO, Program Management, Project Management, Change Management, Business Analysis and Stakeholder Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• New Business Development, Mentoring and
• Client Delivery and Retention Management
• Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst, Risk Manager and Operations SME
• Delegate speaker
• Being independent I have and will take on engagements of various durations (1 month thru Multi Year)

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Intentionally took on 2 month assignment to document bus requirements involving various business lines(ABS, ABCP, CMBS, RMBS, Derivatives, Structured Credits, Covered bonds & Student Loans) covering American, EMEA and Asian regions.
• The requirements will be utilized to confirm the feasibility, a P.O.C. (Proof of Concepts) to build and / or create an Analyst Surveillance Dashboard via a common framework to be easily configurable for each asset class (existing & new on-boarding)
• The dashboard expects to allow the analyst to view, modify, control model runs, review model results as well as offer a systematic analytical workflow for the analyst and rating / risk review committees.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant Senior Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Vital hands-on member, successfully assisted DB manage, monitor & get thru assessment phase into implementationphase (Asset Management replacement System for Investment Accounting & Performance Measurement )
• Focused on vendor assessment analysis, derivative & regulatory project initiatives
• Performed dual reporting responsibilities: Head of Change Management and Frankfurt Program Manager
• Chaired and facilitated stakeholder meetings IE: C-Suite, Sponsors, Vendors, Brokers, FO, BO, MO and Technology
• Communicated project RAG status, next steps, milestones, deliverables, Issue tracking, escalation and remediation
• Created various documents and test artifacts (business requirement, functional specs, mapping, use & test cases)

Confidential, New York, NY

Derivatives Consultant Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Legal Entity CSSU Americas Migration, Regulatory and Integration Project (OPs & Front-to Back)
• Created various documents (Business Requirement, Functional Requirement / Specifications and change requests
• Primary asset classes (Rates / Fixed Income, credit, equity derivatives & securitized products) w/t associated hedges
• Involved in all facets UAT from creation, docs, artifacts, defect mgmt & resolution, metrics reporting and sign-off.
• Worked with Prime Broker handling securities lending, short covering margining and collateral management analysis
• Additionally trained new resource / contractor with Trade Validation & Control (documentation & process).
• Facilitated meetings from setup, chairing to taking& distributing meeting minutes, issues, next steps and milestones etc
• Earned respect CS Colleagues Globally in Change Mgmt, Bus & Tech, other key Stakeholders & Senior Management

Confidential, New York, NY

OTC Derivatives Consultant - Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• CCP- Central Counterparty Clearing / Client Clearing
• Pre thru Post Trade Life Cycle Events and Reporting; Daily processing, clearing notifications and EOD Reports
• New Product Releases - Wrote Business and Functional Specification Requirements
• User Acceptance Testing (Created test scripts, use cases, artifacts, maintained traceability to requirements)

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant Senior Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• S/T Derivatives Engagement Assisted w/t set-up & documentation of Entire Ops Infrastructure, Products & Controls
• Monitored, resolved and reported PB metrics concerning securities lending, short covering, margining and collateral

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• S/T Engagement metrics evaluation and standardization project involving derivatives & financial products

Confidential, New York, NY

Consulting- Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• S/T Engagement to elicit and document detailed business and functional requirement specs
• Documented for Tech and Biz stakeholders for current risk VaR & PnL processes and future enhancements

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Derivatives Consultant - Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included project planning, management and execution, status reporting, governance, committee reporting, staffing and the day to day coordination between Vendor and End Client.
• Client liaison and daily interfacing role, helped with set-up of demos, worked with presales, sales and technologyn behalf of software vendor, managing two major projects at Client: the installation of Summit software version 5.4.0and the upgrade to Summit software version 5.5.0
• Goal was to reduce operational costs for processing of trades
• Software product enhancements included volatility, variance, and correlation swaps, FX, precious metals,listed options and futures as per end clients business specifications
• Assisted Tech Teams to ensure standards (XML & FpML) were upheld for efficient import / export of trades and life cycle events for upstream and downstream applications

Confidential, New York, NY and New Jersey

Senior Consultant - Back-Up Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported Regulatory Reporting and Data Warehouse Compliance Management Personnel
• Assisted IT Leads w/t various facets of testing (UT & SIT), Business w/t BRD, FRD, & UAT
• Prepared traceability matrices, testing metrics and created test artifacts for audit purposes
• Backed-up PM as needed, investigating and remediating project & stakeholder issues, risks and dependencies
• FX - NDFs (Non-Deliverable Forwards) Coordinated & managed testing strategy, enhancements & production roll out

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant - Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 Initiatives
• Elicited, gathered & wrote various requirement / specification documents for a variety of stakeholders / businesses
• Directly involved in the change management process from inception, obtaining board approval to production roll-out

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Consultant - Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reported directly to a Managing Director based in the firms Omaha Headquarters
• Worked predominately on post merger brokerage integration projects (Think or Swim Options Platform) communicating with core and cross functional teams
• Appointed to projects designed to assist and enhance the firms initiatives strategically focused on improving the clients experience, investor (online and mobile), risk controls and
• Assisted various PM's to manage project deliverables: scope creep & timelines thru various project phases

Confidential, Boston, Massachusetts

Senior Derivatives Consultant - Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted firm to analyze, test ( UAT) and upgrade their derivatives trading system (vendor application)
• Worked with S.M.E.’s analyzed, prepared and documented requirements
• Documented test cases, performed test execution and validated results
• Provided backup for production support, collateral analysis & FASB 133 hedge accounting

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Consultant - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with transition to a new central trading platform named Global Trading Profit and Loss (GTPL)
• GTPL housed global equities & fixed income products. Assisted with some accounting & corporate action tasks
• Documented business req, business rules, and created workflows and spreadsheet examples for stakeholders
• Performed data analysis, prepared and reviewed test scripts during various UAT system phases

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Consultant- Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Re-engineering effort included origination, syndication, securitization, credit, documentation, loan/lease admin & ops
• Documented current state for loan divisions, mapped & prepared Visio flow-charts thru stakeholder sign-offs
• Gathered & documented requirements, current biz state, source systems, interviewed 30+ stakeholders & SME’s

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Consultant - Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered audit and valuation statement specs by region, documented procedures, data sources and business rules
• Kept stakeholders abreast concerning projects progress, deliverables, resource constraints and potential conflicts
• Involved in Murex IT team covering roll-out of exotic instruments, static, market and data.
• Prepared process flows, gathered various requirements and market data from various providers and source systems

Confidential, New York

Consultant Derivatives

Responsibilities:

• Successfully resolved and reduced severe aging & client complaints of intricate Credit and OTC Derivative trades
• Coordinated daily meetings with clients, SME’s, stakeholders, technology, and offshore teams
• Improved reliability of MIS reporting metrics with desks, accounting, technology, prime brokerages and hedge funds
• Credit Derivatives (CDO / CBO / CLO), OTC Derivatives, Rates / Fixed Income and collateral management
• Investigated and resolved short covering / securities lending, collateral, margining and rehypothecation problems

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Consultant Global Equity Derivatives

Responsibilities:

• Hired to assist with NY Sophis implementation from a vastly manual deal booking process (access and excel)
• Managed, investigated and resolved trade input, payment, corporate action, dividend and recon matters
• Supported several NY & London Traders. Collected & checked data quality used for various reporting purposes

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant - Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided trade flow analysis -Buy-Side Start-up; Fixed Income, Asset Management, Loans, Equity & Private Banking
• Provided data analysis, gathered business and functional requirements, UAT support and mapped security data
• Worked with SME’s to help with the set-up and design of its operational, risk management & trading infrastructure

Confidential, New York

Consultant Back and Middle Offices

Responsibilities:

• Resolved $75MM in potential write-downs/offs/discrepancies involving 200 items in < 90 days with sign-offs
• Appointed to manage and resolve a specific group of aged and complex breaks positioned in London & NY portfolios
• Helped roll-out new phase of CDS trading system (TSAR) warehoused 6,000+ Inv Grade, HY& Emerging Market deals
• Assisted with successful migration of OTC Derivatives Operation from NY to London (reduced complaints by 15%)