SUMMARY:

• 19+ years of buy - side and sell-side experience serving asset managers, hedge funds, asset servicers, and broker-dealers in the areas of team building, strategy, planning, and implementation, with an emphasis on business and technology solutions within investment operations.
• IBOR and ABOR
• Pre/Post trade compliance
• OTC derivatives processing
• Portfolio/fund accounting implementation
• Post-trade processing solutions
• Investment operations taxonomy
• Reference data management
• Data governance and metadata management
• Enterprise reconciliation management
• Asset servicer selection
• Client onboarding
• Built a data governance and metadata management platform that effectively manages an organization’s referential, transactional, and analytical data domains.
• Executed several operating model initiatives involving process and technology capabilities assessment, definition of future state functional and technical architectures and operating models backed by a business case and an implementation roadmap.
• Provided recommendations for achieving process efficiencies, reducing cost, and improving technology and data solutions that reflect a holistic, end to end perspective.
• Led multiple multi-year transformation initiatives driven by market initiatives or internal change programs with an emphasis on large system integration project oversight, and managing business and technical teams through implementation, testing, and conversion.
• 19+ years of buy-side and sell-side experience that includes 12+ years in Big 4 consulting firm and 6+ years in product management focusing in the investment operations area.
• Managed $5-$100M+ program ranging from investment operations strategy and planning to roadmap execution.
• Received multiple recognition for service quality excellence.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Front and back office transformation
• Operating and business capability models
• Roadmap and business case development
• Technology blueprint (application and data)
• Data integration management
• Data governance and metadata management
• Product design and development
• Business process reengineering
• SDLC (Waterfall and Agile)
• Offshore capabilities build-out

MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

• Leadership and supervision
• Large scale program and project management
• Resource management and planning
• Budgeting and cost reduction
• Vendor selection and vendor risk management
• Training and skills development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Managing Director

Responsibilities:

• Provide business, operations, technology, and data solutions to traditional and alternative asset managers, hedge funds, asset servicers, and broker-dealers.
• Built a metadata and data governance platform that provides business and technology users the transparency into the taxonomy, business glossary, owners, stewards, and lineage, including Interfaces, business applications, and the transformation rules. It further helps identify opportunities to simplify and consolidate integration methods.
• Solutions targeted to achieving better controls, gaining process efficiencies, and deploying holistic technology and data solutions that reflect an end-to-end perspective, thereby helping firms manage risk and reduce cost.

Confidential, New York, NY

Executive Director - Wealth and Asset Management

Responsibilities:

• Provided technology leadership on various solution design and implementation transformation programs ranging from $5M-100+M delivered to asset managers, hedge funds, asset servicers, and broker-dealers.
• Developed operations, technology, and data solution capabilities and service offerings for traditional and alternative asset management industry.
• Mentored, coached, and trained senior managers, managers, seniors, and staff.

Confidential, New York, NY

Manager - Regulatory & Capital Markets Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business and technology solutions delivery primarily within the middle and back office and managed multiple large engagements in PMO capacity.
• Identified and prioritized key technology vendors in the “Operational Risk and Derivatives Processing” space. Led vendor relationships, manage vendor knowledge, and organize vendor demos.

Confidential, New York, NY

Vice President - Senior Product Specialist /Pre-Sales

Responsibilities:

• Conducted client surveys, reviewed and drafted a response to RFPs/RFIs and conducted product demos and POC.
• Collaborated with the product development team to define and prioritize market requirements and synthesize product roadmap.

Assistant Vice President - Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned, implemented and supervised various projects involving the automation of the client’s reconciliation and exception management and assist them in achieving STP.
• Responsible for migrating all Confidential Americas clients from SWIFT ISO standards.
• Conducted training and workshops to help client strategize their trading and reconciliation workflow.

Confidential, New York, NY

Assistant Vice President - Implementation Head and Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed site surveys and developed an understanding of the client’s operations.
• Implemented and trained CrossMar Automated Reconciliation Services (CARS) at client sites.
• Established links among various custodians and Asset Managers.