SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated and accomplished professional with over 18 year experience in Information Technology and Business processes including, Business Analysis, Process design, Project management, Data Management, Data Architect, Data Quality, Quality delivery of complex software, infrastructure, and initiatives in the financial services industry with solid end to end Change execution, Governance, and Resource management skills
• Knowledgeable in Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Brokerage, Credit Risk, Market Risk, CCP, SFTs (Repos, Secured Lending)
• Knowledgeable and experienced in Regulatory and compliance for Basel, CCAR, Anti - Money Laundering, Fraud, Economic Sanctions
• Worked extensively in business and technology solutions in financial sector.
• Full life cycle analysis and documentation, including Terms of Reference, Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, and Implementation Plans.
• Strong analytical and Problem-solving skills. Ability to provide tactical and strategic solution. Attention to details.
• Advanced expertise with Data Governance, Data Management, Data Integration, Data Quality/Validation, Data analysis, Data Mapping, Metadata and Data Lineage. Master Data Management (MDM), Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
• Proven ability to react fluidly to changing priorities and deliver results. Effective management of stakeholder relationships at all levels of the business (both internally and with third party suppliers).
• Expertise in SLA / vendor negotiation, Scope management, project planning, requirement analysis, risk management, data analysis, quantitative metrics definition, test planning, test design, build, deployment, and process audits
• Traceability matrix strategy and Interaction with end users and QA teams in developing use cases, reviewing and approving test plans
• Expertise in SDLC methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, V), Process models (Six Sigma, CMM, ISO) for Technology and Business processes

CORE LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

Business Analysis

Business Process Modeling

Data Architect - MDM, Data Modeling, Data Analysis, Data Warehousing, Data Quality & Lineage

Project Management

Agile and Waterfall Methodologies

Budget and Resource planning

Six Sigma (DMAIC), CMM

Quality Metrics Management

Process & Systems Integration

Performance Management

UAT Testing

Executive Reporting

SKILLS/ ENVIRONMENT:

Project Management: Clarity, PPR, PCM, Maximo, MS Project, Jira, Version One, Quality Center.

Documentation Tools: UML, MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project), MS Visio, Erwin

Modeling Tools: UML, MS Visio, Erwin, Power Designer, Provision

Databases / ETL: MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, Hadoop, Informatica, Data Stage, Adaptive

Languages: Java, VB, SQL, HTML, XML, UML, ASP, JSP, COBOL, HTML

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Win Runner, QTP, and Load Runner, PC 9

Report Tools: Actuate eRd Pro, MS Reporting Services, SAS

Other Tools: Net Terms, WS-FTP Pro, TOAD, SAP FiCo, SharePoint

SDLC Methodologies: CMM, Waterfall, Agile, and Six Sigma, UML

Risk Management Tools: Oracle Reveleus & Sungard

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Management Consultant and SME

Responsibilities:

• Successfully leading business analysis and data analysis in creating requirements documents like MDD/ FRD/BRDs for Book of Work (BoW) projects for OTC Derivatives, SFTs (Repos, reverse repos, Secured Lending Transactions), Banking book, Central Clearing (CCP) work streams.
• Facilitating business requirement meetings to gather requirements. Work closely with technology and testing teams to make them understand the requirements in the process of Tech design specs and test scenario creations
• Manage the requirements from users of various departments and educate them on enhancements in the platform from E2E process of the application for backend data, frontend web portal and reporting and validations.
• Work with the Directors/SVPs of different work streams to define and prioritize the technology project backlog
• Worked in Agile methodology using JIRA. Participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Stand Up, and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Participated in the development and grooming of Project Backlog Stories (Requirements) with business and technology partners.
• Captured Business Process Flows and Reengineered Process to achieve maximum outputs.
• Captured As-Is Process, designed TO-BE Process and performed Gap Analysis
• Plan the resourcing needs and timelines of multiple projects and manage the engineering team in the development and enhancement projects
• Lead for Data Quality, Lineage and Metadata programs in compliance with BCBS 239.
• Identified Key Business elements (KBE) and related Data Elements for CCAR and Basel initiatives
• Create and maintain Data Mapping doc and Data quality Business rules doc
• Advanced SQL Skills and data analysis

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst and SME

Responsibilities:

• Successfully leading business analysis and data analysis in creating requirements for Data Exploration (sourcing - 8 systems), Data Analysis, Data Preparation (Processing (ELT) by applying business rules, Modeling (Creating risk models and Analytics and reporting), Validation and Implementation and tracking using various technologies like Teradata, Oracle, UNIX, Micro-Strategy, Java. Supporting 4 downstream systems.
• Gathered and managed the requirements for MDM and reference data required for CAQF program to make a common data for all risk models/ applications
• Partnered in establishing Master Data Management guidelines, procedures and definitions for CAQF Master Data Domains
• Designed, developed, and implemented Master Data Domain models
• Populating initial Master Data models with data from existing source data systems
• Ensuring that data definitions and management principles are standardized and harmonized across master data domains.
• Ensuring high data quality and limiting risk of business process interruptions, while improving process and system effectiveness.
• Identified 600 Key data elements (KDE)
• Led data quality and data lineage and implemented Enterprise Data Management Policy (EDMP) and Risk Data Aggregation (RDA) strategies in compliance with BCBS 239
• Worked in Agile methodology. Participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Stand Up, and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Participated in the development and grooming of Project Backlog Stories (Requirements) with business and technology partners.
• Assisted in closing gaps and TARs for associated Stories in each individual Sprint. Assisted in entering and updating Issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) onto VersionOne Agile application
• Captured Business Process Flows and Reengineered Process to achieve maximum outputs.
• Captured As-Is Process, designed TO-BE Process and performed Gap Analysis
• Resolved complex LOB and GL Balance reconciliation issues and established efficient routines for CAQF model integration
• Lead for FSR integration efforts with validation of CAQF end to end and walked through business for all critical aspects
• Partnered in creating CCAR reports (FRY 9C, FRY 14A/Q/M reports) and Basel I, II, III and managing them.
• Partner with multiple cross functional teams like Line of business, Technology teams, Quality Assurance, Finance Support Report, and Risk Technologies to analyze the impacts for CAQF.
• Updating the Documents and sending the change requirements to developer lead/ developers and make sure to retest the results after the change implementation. Provided status reports and escalate key risk areas to higher management. Expert in presentation and articulation
• Advanced SQL skill and Data analysis

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Project Manager and Senior Business/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership and direction for all Banking integration projects with TIAA systems on schedule and with in the budget.
• Manage and work on SOW with third party vendors like FIS and PHH for technology solution for online banking and lending and mortgage.
• Project planning and resource allocation of various projects like GL integration, Financial & operational reports, 360 consumer experience, Customer data integration with MDM in the areas - Scope management, project planning, requirement analysis, risk management, data analysis, quantitative metrics definition, test planning, test design, build, deployment, testing, configuration management, and process audits.
• Lead the Use Case design from the Business Requirements and partnered with the Testing team in developing test scenarios & pre-launch technology-testing efforts.
• Created several UML diagrams including Activity Diagram, Use Case Diagram

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Change Consultant, VP

Responsibilities:

• Change Consultant and single point of contact for FSR- Basel Calculator Retail, Secured Lending, Repos, Reverse repos, Margin Loans and Cash Securities work stream for Capital Risk Management, Data Quality and Data Validation. Responsible for People, Process, and Technology execution and Integration.
• Implement the Iterative incremental development process/Agile process in all possible areas to ensure the fast, rapid requirement changes and accurate data for regulatory reporting.
• Managed a team of 4 resources and $2M budget
• Managed in implementation of data mergers like Countrywide and Merrill Lynch for Basel II calculator.
• Project scheduling / planning (detailed level - Work Breakdown / task breakdown, escalation plan, metrics monitoring, generation planning) to initiatives. Maintain and work assignment to Basel configuration team.
• Gathering metrics and submitting status reports for executive and regulatory presentation.
• Identify and share best practices and document them in SharePoint and Discovery web site.
• Developed the Risk Analysis workbook. Mentor new associates and training.

Confidential

Vice President - Project Lead/ Senior Dev Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing projects from an End to End perspective
• Identifying resources needed and assigning individual responsibilities
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of all projects
• Review deliverables prepared by team before passing to client effectively apply methodologies and enforce project standards. Applied Waterfall methodology and used six sigma DMAIC process.
• Engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures