SUMMARY:

• Risk Control Self - Assessment (RCSA) Challenge Expert / Control Testing / Risk Analytics Reporting Project Management / Agile and Waterfall Methodologies Requirement Gathering and Documenting Process Reengineering / Business Continuity Planning / Team Building / Training Third-Party Vendor Management
• Team builder and effective communicator with colleagues at all levels of understanding and responsibility.
• Experienced in Operational Risk Management and Business Continuity Planning.
• Skilled in risk-based Process Mapping decomposition of business activities.
• Analytical, with a superlative track record of achievement, managing and coordinating high-profile technical initiatives consistently delivered on time, on budget and in fast-paced environments using Waterfall and/or Agile Project Management techniques.
• Competent at translating, with the highest accuracy, business needs into technical terms.

COMPUTER COMPETENCIES:

Applications / Systems: Word Excel Access PowerPoint Project Visio Adobe Writer Adobe Captivate IntelliSuite Summit Midas TFS Corona Jira Swift BOX

Languages: Oracle JavaScript Enterprise Java Bean SQL HTML Visual Basic

BUSINESS COMPETENCIES:

Requirement Gathering & Analysis Logical Process and Data Modeling Risk Based Process Mapping Problem Solving Technique Operational Risk Training

CAREER TRACK:

Confidential, New York, New York

Senior Operational Risk Manager, AVP

Responsibilities:

• Conceptual Designer and lead Project Manager of RCSA and Control Testing graphical user interface (GUI) for 100+ users from 23 departments across Confidential North America branches
• Designing a relational database to support 1200+ risks, 3000+ controls and provide automated risk analytics reporting
• Developing company-wide RCSA and Control Testing Standards to include consistent approach for formulating a risk statement, mapping to risk taxonomy, formulating a control statement, identifying key controls and assessing inherent risk and control effectiveness
• Aligning relevant risk data such as KRI breaches, LDC or Audit Remarks into controls' evaluation
• Implementing a program for the testing of key controls
• Integrating and automating issues tracking management
• Facilitating firm-wide identification of operational risks and controls through workshops with subject matter experts and through the use of process modeling technique
• Engaging with process and risk owners for the validation of process mapping workflows
• Providing assistance to first line unit (FLU) during quarterly RCSA
• Reviewing / challenging RCSA results performed by each FLU
• Creating a firm-wide process repository, and risk and control taxonomies
• Managing loss event recording, reporting and issue remediation plans
• Supporting reporting requirement to head office and enterprise risk management team
• Providing coaching and supervision to four subordinates

Confidential, New York, New York

AVP Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primary liaison between business users, outsourced and internal IT teams
• Facilitating release and sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint demo and sprint retrospective sessions
• Analyzing and translating business requirements into user-stories
• Developing and maintaining product backlog
• Monitoring project schedule and tasks implementation
• Assisting end-users in release testing efforts
• Managing issues log and stakeholders’ expectations
• Primary liaison between global IT and NY business users
• Created test scripts and test schedule
• Administered and monitored user-acceptance regression testing
• Collected required data for automated testing
• Facilitated technical test of all dependencies
• Recorded, tracked and managed issues on Jira
• Facilitated required business approvals
• Participated in production implementation preparation activities
• Managed production rollout and facilitated validation of final product
• Created and updated all required documentation
• Primary liaison between global IT and NY business users
• Performed gap analysis between current and target system and documented data mapping requirements
• Identified all other critical system interfaces and data requirements
• Defined service level agreements for level of support and maintenance hours
• Facilitated the definition of new user profile and other process enhancements
• Completed business requirements and prepared all other project required documentation
• Administered and monitored user-acceptance testing
• Managed issues log and documented changes
• Managed production rollout and facilitated validation of final product
• Managed Third-Party Vendor relationship

AVP Operational Risk Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Risk identification workshops, Risk Based Process Mapping and Scenario Analysis
• Facilitating risk assessment and measurement sessions
• Creating and maintaining the official risk register
• Examining current audit report for detection of possible Internal Controls weaknesses
• Participating in periodic Internal Controls and process review sessions
• Discussing process improvement recommendations with senior management
• Reviewing and updating existing risk measurements and key indicators
• Collecting and reporting internal and external loss data used provision and capital charge calculations
• Representing the NY branch in OpRisk process review with both internal and external auditor
• Monitoring and reporting progress of open issues remediation

AVP Business Continuity Professional

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducting business impact analysis (BIA) sessions with each line manager
• Identifying, documenting and addressing gaps that could impact operations readiness
• Conducting a risk assessment and identifying new threats and/or vulnerabilities for the year
• Re-assessing current risk control strategies and document recommendations
• Discussing proposed recommendations with executive managers
• Reviewing and/or developing emergency response plans for each approved strategy
• Administering BC awareness and training to all staff members
• Maintaining overall business continuity plan and updating accordingly
• Devising and executing DR test scenarios with local and global IT teams and BC teams
• Reporting results to executive management and discussing corrective actions
• Representing the NY branch in yearly process review with the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) and the European Community Bank (ECB)
• Third Party Vendor management