SUMMARY:

• Banking Information Technology Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager / Software Engineer in Cash Management, Treasury, International Payments, Trade Finance, Investigations, Reconciliations, AML and many more.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• 370 Assembler
• Account Statements
• Accounting & G/L
• Accounts Administration
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• ACH Payments
• Administration
• Alpha VMS
• Anti Money Laundering AML
• Application Support
• Artifacts
• Assembly Language
• Assoc for Financial Professionals AFP
• Audit & Compliance
• Automation
• Back Office
• Bank Industry Trends
• Banking Processes
• Bankleitzal
• Basic & V - Basic Programming Language
• Best Practices
• Bills and Collections
• Bills of Exchange
• Business Analyst
• Business Continuity Mgmt
• Business Requirements
• C C++ Windows C++
• Capability Maturity Modeling CMM
• Cash Management
• Check Clearing, Processing & Returns
• Items,
• CHAPS & CHIPS
• CICS
• CIF Customer Information File
• Clearing Systems
• COBOL
• Commercial Loans
• Crystal Reports
• Customer Service
• Customer Statements
• Data Center Acceptance Testing DCAT
• DB2, IMS/DB
• DDA / Nostro Demand Deposit Account
• Digital Command Language DCL
• Decnet
• Development System
• Documentation
• E-commerce
• Electronic Funds Transfer EFT
• Electronic Check Issuance
• Equities and Securities
• Euroclear
• Fastwire
• FedWire
• Federal Banking Regulations
• Foreign Currency Payments
• Fortent Searchspace AML
• Fortran
• Front Office
• FTP
• Functional Specifications
• Funds Transfer
• FX Foreign Exchange
• FX ECN
• GL General Ledger
• Global Limits System
• Global Payment System
• High Level Design HLD
• HTML XML
• IBS / IBIS International Banking System
• Implementation
• In House Banking
• Integral Development Corp FX ECN
• Integrations
• Interface Design
• International Payments
• Internet Applications
• Investigations
• ISO20022
• Java, Javascript
• KYC Know Your Customer
• Letters Of Credit
• Liaison
• Mainframe MVS
• Mercury
• Merva
• Middleware
• Microbank Investigation System
• Microcash
• Money Market
• Montran GPS Money Transfer System
• MT Money Transfer
• MQ
• MS Access
• MS Excel
• MS Office
• MS Outlook
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Project
• MS Word
• Multi-Currency Payments
• Non-Regression Testing
• Nostro
• OFAC / SDN
• Operation Support
• Oracle
• Pega Investigation System
• Procurement (Hard / Software)
• Product Management
• Production Conversion
• Production Enhancements
• Production Start-up
• Production Support
• Production Transmittal
• Production Update
• Production Upgrade
• Programming
• Programming Specifications
• Project Leader
• Project Life Cycle
• Project Management
• QA Testing
• Quicken / Quick Books
• Reconcilement
• Reengineering
• Regression Testing
• Regulatory Requirements
• Relationship Management
• Risk Control and Analysis
• Searchspace Fortent AML
• Securities and Equities
• Settlement
• Software Development life Cycle SDLC
• Software License Compliance
• Solution Management
• Specifications
• SQL
• Stachem
• State Banking Regulations
• Straight Thru Processing STP
• Sungard IntelliSuite, IntelliMatch, IntelliMate, IntelliTracs & IntelliTran
• Sungard Trax, MINT, GTM
• SWIFT MT1XX, 2XX, 3XX, 5XX, 7XX, 9XX
• Target RTGS
• TCP/IP
• Technical Analyst
• Technology Industry Trends
• Test System
• Testing
• Time Management
• Training
• Transcom TOLAS
• Treasury Mgmt Assoc TMA
• Treasury Products & Systems
• Unix Solaris/Linux
• User Acceptance Testing UAT
• User Group Conferences
• User Support
• U.S. Patriot Act
• VAX VMS
• Vender Analysis, Evaluations & Management
• Visio
• Viveo STP System
• WallStreet Systems
• Web Applications
• Windows & Windows NT
• Wire Transfers
• Work Flow Analysis
• Workstation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

SME Consultant

• Implemented the Office of Currency Control (OCC) Consent Order mandates of Promotory Financial Group (PFG) recommendations to Citi’s MANTAS AML (Oracle) and CitiCMT Investigations Systems.
• Implemented globally to over 50 countries to Regions: North America (NAM), Europe and Middle East (EMEA), South and Latin America (LATAM), Mexico, and Asia - Pacific (APAC).
• Detailed Management, Payment, Correspondent Banking, AML and SQL SME, responsible for several regions, but particularly the region with the most challenging data quality issues, largest volumes, strictest country privacy laws, and language issues.
• Implemented Business Lines: Global Consumer Group (GCG), Institutional Client Groups (ICG), Citi’s Private Banking (CPB), Banamex, WorldLink, and Correspondent Banking.
• Implemented Instruments from over 50 Product Processors from all Products, Services and Channels: EFT’s - SWIFT’s, Fedwires (and other local domestic clearing methods), CHIPS, ACH’s and treasuries; Monetary Instruments (MI’s) - personal checks, travelers checks, certified checks, money orders, cashier checks, cash letters, and; Cash Instruments - currency, debit and credit cards.
• Deployed AML Scenario Alerts and Thresholds for: Deposits/Withdrawals in Same Amounts; Multiple Identifiers; High Risk Geography; Large Reportable Transactions; Patterns of Recurring Originator/Beneficiary; Patterns of Sequentially Numbered Checks; Structuring: Deposits/Withdrawals of Mixed Monetary Instruments; Structuring: Avoidance of Reporting Thresholds; Transactions in Round Amounts; Etc.
• SME of: Business Requirement (BRD’s), Functional Requirement (FRD’s), Technical Specifications (TSD’s) and Change Request Documents for EFT’s, MI’s, Cash Instruments, Scenarios, Country Derivation, and; Data Models for Front-Office Transactions and Front-Office Transaction Parties.
• Liaised with Global, Regional and Local teams each of Management, Compliance, Technology, Operations, UAT and Consultants (E&Y and Perficient) on daily UAT, War Room and Touch-point calls.
• Represented the Global AML Monitoring and Compliance Group and managed the Regional and Local AML Monitoring and Compliance Teams.
• Managed all HP Quality Center (HPQC) Plans, Use- and Test-Cases and Thousands of Defects.
• Managed HPQC Defect Process: ETA’s; Severities - Show-Stopper, High, Medium and Low; Statuses - New, Open, Tech Work, Fix Ready, Pending Clarification, SIT, Ready for Retest, Retest, Closed; Defect Description - Invalid Mapping of: Account Type (internal/external), Account, ID, Name, Address, Country, Currency, Converted Amount, Sender, Receiver, ORG, BEN, OBK, BBK, INT Parties; Assigned To; SQL Queries; Comments; Etc.
• Produced and presented daily and weekly Meeting Minutes and Management PowerPoint, Pivot Table, HPQC Defect Metric (Pass/Fail Rate, etc.), Visualization Tool and SQL Reports and Presentations.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

• international, domestic, transfer between accounts and bulk payments
• FXOnoline live FX rate feed, FX Contract, Cross-Rate Calculation
• Generic Message Interface to create consolidated client statements from all sources
• STP Payment Rules
• Account Status and Limit Checking and Balance Display
• Direct Debits Processing
• Lead Days Value Date Calculation
• SWIFT Character Filtering
• Password Rules
• Performed technical upgrades to Weblogic, JBoss, Oracle SQL Server, Apache, FileNet, MQSI, TradeForms, Business Objects Reporting, SWIFT

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Consultant - Business Analyst

• Converted the legacy Reconciliation, Investigation and Cash Concentration Systems to Sungard IntelliSuite on Java J2EE Web based client-server platform including IntelliMatch (Reconciliations), IntelliTracs (Investigations), IntelliTran (Research) and IntelliMate (Bridge)
• Supported Reconciliations, Investigations, Loans, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Letters of Credit, Cash Concentration, Foreign Currency and Money Transfer (FEDWIRE, CHIPS, SWIFT, CHAPS, SEPA) Departments as liaise between business sponsors, departments, IT and vendors.
• Interviewed all of the departments and wrote the Business Requirements and Functional Specifications documenting legacy procedures and requirements for the new systems.
• Wrote test plans, test cases, conducts Systems Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Tracked and resolved issues, trained users and wrote procedures documents.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager / Business Analyst

• Supported Sungard’s Trax Treasury Payment Factory Product on Java EE / Web / Xml technology on WebSphere (IBM), WebLogic (Oracle), JBoss (Red Hat) application servers processing FEDWIRE, CHIPS, CHAPS, SEPA, ACH, SWIFT-FIN, SWIFT-FILEACT, ISO PAIN 20022, GIRO, proprietary payment formats and SWIFT MT940 and BAI Statements.
• Served as Sales Support traveling to client sites demonstrating the products and gathering business requirements.
• Conducted client-site workshops with clients and their correspondent banks writing business requirements, functional specifications, and programming specifications and training.
• Managed clients and their banks through all phases of the project through Planning, Definition, Design, Construction, Testing and Implementation.
• Managed analysts, programmers and testers through all phases
• Implemented first instance of JPM Chase’s ISO 20022 PAIN 001.001.02 Credit Transfer Transaction standards

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant - Project Manager / Business Analyst

• Supported Integral’s proprietary and White Label FX Trading Platforms (FX ECN - Foreign Exchange Electronic Communication Network): FX Inside, Barclay’s White Label, Citi FX Trader, Calyon FX Edge, and ABN Prime Broker matching FX LP (Liquidity Provider) Makers and Takers. Systems are of latest Java EE, XML, Web and FIX technology.
• For all of the systems above, performed all of the functions below on Production, Staging, Testing and Demo Systems.
• Electronic Trading, Algorithmic engine, Client on-boarding, Crossing Engine, client facing
• Served as first-level support addressing calls and e-mails from traders, dealers and their IT support in handling production issues with, for instance, network connectivity, servers - client, application and price-adapter - trade rejects, latency and stale prices.
• Resolved issues through the use of Grid Monitors, Trade Blotters, rates logs, server logs, client logs, stack-trace logs.
• Performed Administrative and Property File configurations setting up all parameters including new users, Liquidity Provider (LP)-Trader pairs, currency pairs, tier limits, price provision rules, and STP, MQ, FIX, XML and HTML configurations.
• Provided daily customized services and reports to the highest valued Traders.
• Performed many types of testing including:

Confidential, New York, NY

Assistant Vice-President - Project Manager / Business Analyst

• Technologies: Montran, SWIFT, ACH, SEPA, CLS, RTGS, CHAPS, Web payments (Cash-Register Plus and Microcash), Checks, Drafts, Advices, Statements, Actimize AML, Pega Investigations, CAP Billing, VMS, Basic, Mainframe (DB2 SQL, Cobol, CICS), MQ, Merva, Windows, SDLC.
• Managed projects following CMM SDLC Management Methodology as project owner from kick-off through final delivery by prioritizing and directing all tasks, activities and workflow of the project team.
• Managed many small to mega-sized projects (some listed below) as liaison between vendors (Montran and others), business sponsors, corporate clients, Client Relationship Management, Product, many internal IT teams, Infrastructure and Data Center.
• Performed upgrades of Montran Production and Test Systems, conversions off of legacy systems onto Montran, and Montran new Branch setups. In addition, performed requirements gathering, designing, SDLC documents writing (MS Project Schedules, Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Programming Specifications, Test Plans, Test Cases, Issues logs and others), managing stakeholder meetings, coding, testing (Unit, Integration, Regression, Non-regression, Volume, UAT and DCAT - Data Center Acceptance Testing), script writing (many including Production Roll-out Transmittal command procedures), user training and 24/7 Production support.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant - Project Manager / Business Analyst / Programmer

• Served as sole Business Analyst / Programmer writing the interfaces from Montran Payment, FX, MM, DDA/Nostro, Check and Account Statement systems to the Sungard IntelliTracs Payment Investigations System.
• Performed Y2K Remediation and Production System Support.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant - Project Manager / Business Analyst / Programmer

• First to travel to Frankfurt to represent McDonnell Douglas to install two sets of demo systems: pre- and post Money Transfer versions of all applications.
• Traveled for ten years to international branches (NY, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Milan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo) performing upgrades of all IBS applications, conversions off of legacy systems onto IBS, new branch startups. In addition, performed requirements gathering, designing, documents writing, managing stakeholder meetings, coding, testing (unit, integration, regression, volume, UAT and DCAT - Data Center Acceptance Testing), script writing (production roll-out transmittal command procedures), user training and 24/7 production support.
• Developed many of their interfaces: Montran, Generic, Stachem, Head Office Reporting, Wall Street (Client-Server), IntelliTracs, Trexs, Citibank Clearing, Checks, FedWire and SECPAC.
• While at McDonnell Douglas, in addition to working for Commerzbank.