SUMMARY:

• 15+ years of experience leveraging Analytics, Synergism and Technology to design and implement new products and processes that exposed revenue opportunities for clients across a diverse group of industries.
• Areas of Expertise: Product Management / Project Management / Business Analysis / Data Analytics.
• Industry experience in Capital Markets, Oil & Gas and Digital Marketing.
• Well versed in Infrastructure, Business Strategy and Risk Management with a familiarity with the Derivative Trading Industry and Fraud concepts.
• Experienced in Business Development, Predictive Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and Reporting.
• Launched several products and businesses; global implementations and handled regulatory requirements.
• Methodologies include Agile, Waterfall, RUP, Six Sigma and SDLC.
• Excellent communication and internal/external client interaction skills.

SKILL:

• Project Management/ Business Analysis
• Product Management
• Working w/Business to Create Reporting/Analytics
• SQL
• Tableau
• Hadoop
• Teradata
• Predictive Analytics Projects
• Familiarity with Financial Data
• Data Mapping/Data Governance
• Thought Leadership on Creating Reports content/design
• Creating KPIs or Other Scorecards

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Data Visualization: Excel, Tableau, Hadoop, Teradata

Methodologies: Experienced with Agile Development, Rational Unified Process, SWOT Analysis, Systems Engineering Management & Technical Process (SEMP), ISO 9000 2000, Design for X (DFM, DFA), Six Sigma and SDLC

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Rational Suite (Rose, ClearQuest, ClearCase and Robot), DevTrack, Act, AutoCad, MS - VISIO, RequisitePro, Mercury’s Test Director & Quality Center, Rational, Mercury’s WinRunner, LoadRunner, QuickTestPro, Test Director, LucidChart, MDLC, Great Plains, Bloomberg, Reuters, Tableau

Misc. Software/OS: AP, SQL, SAS, FIX Protocol, TapRoot Incident Investigation, ACT, Linux, Lotus Notes, AutoCad; Visio; MATLAB; Simulink; MC6800 assembly; C++.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Chicago, IL

Product Owner/Fraud Data Analytics

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improve data analytics and rules for identifying a transaction as possible fraud. Reduce false positives.
• Work with technology to redesign the infrastructure around fraud identification, confirmation and resolution.
• Build predictive data models to plan for immediate next fraud transaction and reducing resolution time.

Methodology: Agile and Waterfall Development. One of my task is to transition into agile development

Chicago, IL

Product Owner/Data Analytics

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led internal business units and external clients through gathering business requirements relating to data analytics.
• Identified and mapped out business processes to determine effective data capture.
• Created flow diagrams and extracted market data on which data visualization was to be built.
• Led a team to build artificial intelligent models that identified revenue opportunities using demographic data.
• Developed and executed product strategies and product plans to optimize client operations and maximize returns.
• Built models to analyze customer behavior, marketing trends and events across +30,000 online locations.
• Created data visualizations to improve data analytics across their SEO and CMS software.
• Transitioned team from Python to Tableau for data analytics.
• Utilized SQL to query hosted AWS database.

Methodology: Agile Development - main responsibilities were backlog from tickets, sprint planning and retro.

Chicago, IL

Product Management Consulting

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with senior leaders to understand business needs and help map out end to end business flows for Plastics Manufacturer.
• Led stakeholders on business strategy to create a data analytics solution to for Automotive retail outlet to increase sales and reduce cost.

Capital Markets

• Advised Investment Advisory Firms and Fund Managers on improving services such as portfolio analysis, reporting, setting up alerts and offering new opportunities.
• Advised Municipal Development Organizations and Startups on Product Development and Operations.

Teaching and Coursework

• Designed and taught new coursework at Northern State University and Presentation College: Risk Analysis/Risk Mitigation, Client Profiling, Advanced Corporate Finance, Business Finance, Investments, Entrepreneurship, Retail Management and Direct Marketing.

Chicago, IL

Data Manager/Chief of Staff 

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identified and designed products and tools for predictive data analytics, and execution and monitoring of the trading strategies.
• Managed personnel, contract negotiations, financial report review, client communications, business & budget planning, new business implementation, and review of compliance policies.

Product Management/Project Management:

• Led initiatives to expand into new geographies, joint ventures with other firms, and soliciting investments.
• Assisted in launching four trading groups by allocating resources, building tools, networks and infrastructure.
• Managed a $90M budget and improved profitability in a challenging market by reducing expenses by 48%
• Led cross-functional business teams to optimize resource allocation for improving P&L.
• Responsible for clearing technology, legal and financial audits and ensuring compliance with new regulations.
• Created scorecards (Excel) to analyze Cost for each trading group and P&L.

Data Manager/Predictive Analytics:

• Setup and led a data team responsible for firm-wide data management, data analytics and business intelligence.
• Designed and built complex analytics, data capture and processing, and a simulator for testing strategies.
• Build statistics on market data to predict trends and generate reports for liquidity, hit ratios and network latency.
• Led the code review meetings and bug status meetings.
• Created scorecards to analyze performance in terms of systems speed and reliability, data capture and data stamping
• Provided internal analytics with Tableau.
• Provided data governance including management of historical records, high frequency and offsite data.

New York, NY

Assistant Vice President 

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Executed on change-the-bank initiatives for creating new and modifying existing trading strategies; redesigning the infrastructure for their equity and OTC desks; and building tools for reporting P&L numbers for various desks.
• Responsible for data integrity, process monitoring and improvement, and training.

Product Management/Business Analysis

• Worked on redesigning the entire infrastructure for the equity business from front to back office.
• Implemented new cost allocation models to accurately calculate P&L across these trading systems.
• Developed and implemented numerous proprietary brokerage tools.
• Designed specifications for executing native and non-native order types and volume based execution strategies.
• Managed and oversaw analytics and reporting to senior management on a daily basis

Project Management

• Created and optimized a project plan with 600 deliverables and 12 resources for the development of platform.
• Assisted in managing a team of developers and business analysts in India to design and code a back office system.
• Also assisted the PMO office.

Methodology: Waterfall and SDLC. I followed the phases of Waterfall and SDLC.

White Plains, NY

Implementation Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed a complete suite for trade capture, execution, shipment and settlement of agricultural commodities.
• Implemented product into six head-offices in US, Europe and Asia.
• Managed client relationship, contracts negotiation and budgeting.

Implementation Management / Business Analysis

• Led a team of local and offshore business analysts, developers and architects to build the product.
• Responsible for business process mapping, customizing and implementations.
• Launched their cash and derivative trading system in France, Germany, England, US and Singapore.
• Modules designed were: flat, premium and frame pricing; FX exposure and brokerage; shipment; warehousing; estimated and actual expenses; realized and unrealized P&L; equity liquidation; and SAP Integration.

Project Management

• Successfully implemented standardized processes across the six regions which improved efficiencies by 30%.
• Setup a communication protocols to ensure timely reporting to clients on project plans, budgets and issues.

Methodology - Rational Unified Process: followed all the phases of RUP, created artifacts, managed review meetings, created test plans, UAT plans, signed off on project completion.

Glendale, AZ

Product Manager 

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built the UI for capturing and processing retail customers applying for mortgage.
• Used models for predicting cash flows and calculate reinvestment risk for a large pool of retail clients.

Ithaca, NY

Systems Engineer 

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created technical, contextual and market specifications for products in medical, retail and defense industry.
• Simulated success probabilities using Crystal ball and Monte Carlo simulations

Methodology - Learned and applied concepts from GM Model, CRM, RUP, Waterfall, SEMP, DFX, DFA and Six Sigma.