SUMMARY:

• IT Business Analyst / Project Manager with a strong background supporting the financial industry.Supported many large initiatives providing quality deliverables on time in a professional manner.
• Earned my MBA to provide the background into the management and motivation of staff as well as through the many years of management of onshore, offshore, and matrixed teams.
• Frequently act as a mentor for other members of the team.
• Worked as an employee dedicated to the success of the company as well as a contractor driven to find and implement innovative solutions to justify being a crucial part of the team. Always looking forward to insure the next deliverable is implemented on time and to proactively manage issues before they can impact the project’s timeline.
• Consistently assigned to the “problem” areas to develop the framework to successfully move forward. Sensitive to the needs of others while delivering solutions as planned.
• Experienced, Trained, and Motivated to work with you to plan and deliver you project solutions.

EXPERTISE AREA:

Project Management:

• Experienced in the management of Projects utilizing the SDLC and the Agile methodologies.
• Managed projects organized with matrixed, offshore, and onshore teams.
• Developed project proposals, plans, financials, and testing schedules.
• Responsible for the client’s relationship management and project portfolio reporting.
• Worked independently and managed teams upwards of 48+ staff members.

Business Analysis:

• Captured business and functional requirements to provide clear and comprehensive documents for Confidential by the team.
• Rapidly acquire / develop all requirements of the development lifecycle to meet the entire range of artifacts required to put/keep projects in compliance.
• Developed Confidential cases and Visio diagrams to clearly define process flows.
• Quickly and independently able to analyze the application and data to become a productive member of the team.

Testing:

• Managed test case creation, night cycle runs and user checkouts to insure all enhancements meet all agreed requirements.
• Executed test scripts using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) and logged all issues into HP’s Quality Center issue tracking software and/or Excel.
• Supported the set - up of an independent QA process to independently validate all enhancements to achieve the highest level of quality and control of new technology functions before entering UAT
• UAT Lead support directly working with business users throughout the testing process.
• Create Disaster Recovery plans and participated in stimulated testing.

Metrics / Reporting:

• Created metrics tracking production issues and resolution which insure permanent solutions are implemented and resource allocations are optimal.
• Tracked the progress of projects using dashboards and identified problem areas where management can make key decisions to optimize the project portfolio.
• Managed the department’s budgets and met with users to review chargeback allocations and optimize project portfolio.
• Share Point Administrator responsible for providing access and maintenance of the structure and contents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Actimize Risk Case Manager (RCM)
• Embarcadero Rapid SQL
• Oracle SQL Developer
• Sungard Intellimatch
• MS Visio
• MS Project
• MS Office (Access, Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook)
• HP Quality Center
• HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior AML Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted model validation to ensure that Actimize rules performed as designed and recommended changes to prevent excessive false alerts.
• Supported the data governance team in the resolution of data quality issues that potentially can affect the proper generation of alerts.
• Implemented new rules in multiple regions to provide the monitoring of all products to meet the firm’s Confidential for AML monitoring.
• Rules were risked based to lower thresholds for high risk clients.
• Supported and developed the source feeds to Mantas through COPS.
• Implemented segmentation and transformation rules to support the Mantas scenarios.
• Provided analysis to the data masking process using Delphix in order to provide scrambled data to the Global Requirements Analytics team in their effort to validate / tune the Mantas scenarios.
• Using Agile methodology, developed and entered requirements in JIRA for the offshore development and project monitoring.

Confidential

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a contractor for Confidential, supported the Corporate GTO Compliance & Legal Department in the enhancement of the platform to provide an automated solution to Position Reporting. The system automated the calculation of position holdings, tracking of position movements, and generated alerts when thresholds were met. The platform also supported the European Securities Markets Authority ( Confidential ) reporting of short sovereign debt exposure.
• Created flow diagrams, test plans, test cases, and artifacts in Team Forge in support of testing.
• Validated data contents in User Interfaces, databases, and reports from the setup and execution of Alert Definitions and against business requirements. Validated the new Security Reference and Positions databases in both the propagation of data from hundreds of source systems as well as the data enrichment processes that includes the decomposition of funds down to the security level.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the progression / resolution of all project issues. Whether creating test cases, resolving audit issues, creating project plans & artifacts, or managing QA support for the Margin, it is necessary to independently step in and quickly provide/drive solutions.
• Administrator of the team’s Share Point as well as supported the setup of an automated QA testing environment using HP Quality center and Selenium.
• Supported Confidential enhancements including the Independent Amount Segregation for OTC derivative trades, EMIR reporting, and FATCA withholding.
• Created all required artifacts / documents to meet the firm’s Agile and SDLC documentation requirements.
• Trained staff in the proper creation of artifacts / documents to support their projects.
• In addition, responsible for creating the Disaster Recovery (DR) plan and the project lead in the creation of an automated QA testing environment using HP Quality center and Selenium.
• Supported Confidential enhancements including the Independent Amount Segregation for OTC derivative trades, EMIR reporting, and FATCA withholding.

Confidential

Software Development Engineering & Testing (SDET) Mgr

Responsibilities:

• QA Manager for the validation of code and processes in support of the Special Education Student Information System (SESIS).
• The entire project was managed using the Scrum methodology resulting in monitored parallel efforts to quickly deliver results to the users.
• Requirements, test cases, test executions, issues, and reporting were all done in HP Quality Center.
• Test executions accomplished using Selenium and QTP. Applications developed in C# using Visual Studio in a .NET Framework with SQL server as the database.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided functional / technical analysis to retire the Confidential (Integrated Business Information System) application; which is a vendor based, front to back, suite of Money Market / Fixed Income back office applications. Worked with users in the creation of Confidential cases and the set-up of Reference Data to insure accurate test results. Heavy validation of Accrued Interest Calculations, Trade Valuations, and Settlement instructions were accomplished against Product Master and Customer Master.
• Managed the offshore development efforts which included the calculation of broker commissions against payout rates on the Broker Master Reference database. Validated Common Modules for Bond Calculations to insure enhancements for dividend payouts were correct. Worked with the Legal and Compliance Department (LCD) to document requirements and validated results in the creation of trade reconciliations using Intellimatch to meet regulatory reporting requirements.
• Developed functional and technical documents for the extraction of cash flow events from the firm’s Cash Account Management Systems to the Confidential (Transaction Lifecycle Manager), a Confidential software solution. Created data models, mappings, and transformation logic to migrate data to the Confidential software. Enriched transactional data using Reference data as required.
• Supported the Confidential MRS (Matchbook Reporting System) Elimination project that is targeted to retire the on-line part of the application that has been replaced by a new Repo front end. Set-up Product Master and Customer Master Reference files to support QA and UAT testing. Provided weekly management status reporting.
• Supported the Optimization effort to increase the daily trade processing capacity from 750K to over 2.8M through technical solutions like the static linking of common components, the rewriting of called modules to allow static linking, and the optimization of high CPU usage modules.
• Worked with the Confidential Clearance team and Chase in identifying the system changes, costs, and timeline to support the Auto-Substitution of Collateral for TriParty Repo transactions.
• Supported the implementation of the Fixed Income Municipal Securities processing for Build Confidential including the required 15 minutes’ notification to MSRB of all trades and the auto-setup of securities. The project was structured on the agile methodology to quickly get the business trading while building out the infrastructure in multiple phased deliveries. Coordinated the set-up of front office and back office Reference files to insure correct transactional processing test results.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the technical team, project financials, and most importantly, the customer relationship during the client engagement. Contracted for the review / progression of the client’s data redaction processes of sensitive information in their development environments. The primary focus was the masking of the Customer Reference data to protect the client’s confidentiality.
• For the Citi IT Risk Management Office (ITRMO), created and conducted surveys globally and prepared presentations for the Audit and Risk Review (ARR) department to inform them of the progress of regulatory projects, outstanding issues and proposed solutions.

Confidential

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Identified the Golden Sources for Reference Data and map to a Central Depository to be used in the trade enrichment processes for a new trade processing / settlement system.
• Developed the business proposal for a Trade Compression process that will generate an annual cost savings of $5.2 MM and reduce transaction volume by 3.1MM annually. The reduction in transactions will have the additional benefit of prolonging the life of legacy applications that are approaching their maximum processing capabilities.

Confidential

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Managed the data mapping and feed creation from the Transactional Data Warehouse to a centralized compliance demographics data warehouse being created to facilitate regulatory reporting, including providing feeds into the Mantas system which is a vendor Anti-Money Laundering (AML) application.Supported the Client Transaction Data warehouse that provides reconciled consolidated statements and performance calculations to our clients. Reduced the number of backlogged production issues by 90%.
• In addition, managed the Client Reference System and support of the Confidential (Know Your Client) on boarding process.

Confidential

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• In addition to the production support of the back office Trading, Purchase & Sales, and Custody systems, successfully managed the Y2K remediation project of all back office applications with an onshore staff of 48 and an offshore team located in Israel. Not one issue occurred when the system rolled into year 2000.
• Moreover, implemented the T+3 project without incidence that resulted in personal letters of recognition from the Users and the Confidential Management Committee.

Confidential

Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Working directly with the users, managed the New Product Support Function from the IT side that provided an infrastructure to QA new financial products through the firm’s back office systems.
• In addition, was the Production support manager for Security and Customer Reference Systems.
• Managed the conversion of all Customer Master Batch processes from legacy files to the new Relational Databases.