SUMMARY

• Project Management and business analysis experience in financial services firms. MBA from Confidential with concentration in Finance and IT with expertise in the areas of:
• Data Analytics and Business Intelligence/Reporting for Global Banking Regulatory Compliance.
• Investment Management and Wealth Management systems and processes for portfolio management, accounting, institutional client billing, collateral risk management and trade processing.
• Project Management experience in development of in - house applications and integration of vendor based systems.
• Business process analysis, data analysis, requirements gathering and documentation.
• Passed CFA Level 1 and PMP Certified in 2012.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Senior Business Analyst, ETS - Enterprise Compliance Risk

Responsibilities:

• Compliance Risk Appetite framework - developed functional requirements for CitiControls an end-to-end integrated platform for strong internal governance. Heightened standards risk appetite framework provides an integrated solution that operationalizes creation of metrics inventory, monitoring, alerts, escalation and regulatory reporting of compliance risk.
• Compliance Metrics - created requirements for Dashboards in Microstrategy covering various compliance themes of AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Training and Mandatory Absence, Issues and Corrective Action. Dashboards provides data visualization of various compliance metrics and enabled users to slice data by regions, country, business and sectors and review trends.
• SEAR (Scenario Effectiveness Analysis Report) - automate generation of quarterly report to capture AML monitoring scenarios effectiveness in suspicious activity detection across regions, country, business, product lines and scenarios. The dashboard and report is used by AML operations and compliance for SAR reporting.
• KYC Reporting - created portal for Institutional Client KYC reports using Microstrategy. Project involved migration of reports from Business Object platform to Microstrategy and creation of new reports. Reports included Global Scorecard reports with dynamic filtering options and Country Tracker reports for a particular country.

Confidential, Hopewell, NJ

Senior Business Analyst, Global Wealth & Investment Management Technology (GWIMT)

Responsibilities:

• Goals based analytical tools, Goals inventory, wealth projection tools based on Monte Carlo analytics used in Merrill Edge Guided Investing platform. Evaluate business requirements and create SRS documents for the development team. Assist quality assurance team in knowledge transfer of new functions and features for creation of test scripts.
• Supported WealthBench product - a goals based wealth management tool for Private Banking & Investmnent Group (PBIG) clients.
• Managed and implemented strategic IT projects sponsored by the Chief Operating Officer. Analysis of business processes and investment data required by Operations, Compliance, Portfolio Managers, Risk and Client Services group within Delaware.
• Eagle System Conversion - Managed IT work stream for a conversion project of Delaware’s fixed income and equity mutual funds and institutional accounts from existing legacy accounting system to Eagle STAR/PACE investment accounting system. Project involved accounts conversion and integration of front end trading systems and downstream internal data-warehouse to the Eagle platform. Established Delaware’s future data requirements from Eagle system and did extensive data testing using Rapid SQL related to holdings, transactions and reference data.
• Institutional Billing - Implemented Bonaire’s REVPORT as the new billing system for Delaware’s Institutional and Separately Managed Accounts. Gathered and documented business and functional requirements of the new billing process flow. The project improved operational efficiency and streamlined generation of invoices, reports for client services and GL feed to Peoplesoft.
• Counterparty Risk - Managed implementation of Omgeo’s Collateral Management System - ProtoColl to enable operations to better manage the firm’s counterparty risk which was previously manually handled. Effectively managed IT resources to automate collateral management processes for OTC derivatives, TBAs and Listed derivatives. Also handles Central Clearing of OTC Derivatives – IRS and CDS swaps, to be in compliance with Dodd-Frank regulations. Integrated Sapient feeds from clearing brokers and applied ETL tool to convert feeds in Protocoll format.
• Post-Trade Processing/Settlements – Enhanced static and trade feeds to ITG Trade Ops – as outsourced service for post trade matching and settlements - to automate settlement of international and domestic trades using SWIFT messaging to Custodians. New process improved operational efficiency and reduced cost in terms of reduced failed trades and operational risk.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Vice President, IRA Product, Retirement Group

Responsibilities:

• Program Management - Managed IRA and 529 technology projects with an annual budget of $6 million. Evaluate and prioritize projects based on their risk, return, and alignment with group strategy and resource availability. Key projects included Retirement Outlook based on Monte Carlo simulation to guide clients on the likelihood of success of meeting retirement goals under multiple scenarios. Managed and tracked all project expenses to budget.
• Direct Mailings - Managed strategic direct marketing campaigns to enhance IRA assets and account base. Responsible for annual RMD mailing and Early Bird Contribution mailings to selected client base.
• Product Management – managed relationship with legal, operations, IT and Financial advisors to promote IRA product. Generated analytics and performance reports for management for quarterly and annual review.

Confidential, New York,

Senior Business Analyst, Cross Divisional Projects and Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Swaps Factory - Led this project to rollout a new Swaps Factory as part of firm's strategic architecture. The initial rollout was for fixed income plain vanilla swaps and 6 weeks of UAT was conducted to simulate three business days. Trade, cash, payment, tax withholding and NPV flows from front to back office systems were successfully tested as part of the UAT.
• Prime Brokerage - Conducted analysis and implementation of change of trade flows (equities and fixed income) from legacy system to the distributed Client Sub-leger (CSW) system serving European Institutional Clients. The new system provides data in real time to Operations and Controllers in London, as mainframe batch processing was replaced by real time messaging and processing.
• Commercial Paper Factory - Executed the testing and rollout of a new factory for commercial paper trading. Developed detailed checklist to track the progress of the project and resolved test issues by working closely with IT and business users including Operations, Controllers, Credit and Tefra.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Software Engineering: Member of the strategic Personal Software Process (PSP) team to improve company’s software development processes to Capability Maturity Model (CMM) level 2. Evaluated and re-engineered software processes for development of test and embedded software at reduced cost, maintenance and cycle time, as part of software quality assurance plan.
• Project Management: Led team of Engineers to develop an Automated Test Equipment (ATE). Interfaced with design and manufacturing groups to develop test system requirements and specifications. Production ATEs increased throughput by 50%, increased reliability by 30% and produced cost savings of $500,000 annually.
• Product Development: Designed and developed a Real Time Simulator (RTS) to simulate train propulsion systems using Matlab and Simulink, and is used for testing train embedded controllers. Usage of RTS increased productivity of software engineers and reduced costs associated with testing software

Confidential, Canonsburgh, PA

Electrical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented control systems (PLCs) for industrial water and waste water treatment systems.
• Developed applications for Man Machine Interfaces - MMIs (TCP Smartscreen, Allen Bradley’s Panelview and PCIM’s SCADA package).
• Managed startups for projects in Philippines for Shell/Fluor Daniel and in South Carolina for Duke/Fluor Daniel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Applications: Project, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint, Visio

Tools: MicroStrategy BI Tool, HP AML, Autosys, ETL, RapidSQL, MySQL, Jasper iReport, IGrafx, JiraConfluence, Swift, XML, RUP RequisitePro, Remedy, MATLAB, Eviews, C, Python