SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of projects related experience within the financial industry
• Direct and in - depth exposure to various businesses and regulatory projects including, DFA Section 165 - Enhanced Prudential Standards, OTC Clearing
• Superb analytical and problem solving skills, technically savvy and detail oriented with a keen focus on project delivery

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Mgmt.: MS Project, Power Point, Excel (financials)

Workflow tools: Visio 2000

Database: Sybase 12.0, SQL ’92, Stored Procedures, JDBC, MySql, SQL Server 2000

ETL Tools: Autosys

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

VP - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Managing the delivery of Board, CEO, CRO & Key Officer IHC relevant Management Information (MI) while orchestrating Conformance testing for IHC standup.
• Point person on communicating RAID’s to the Americas COO weekly, program office and internal auditors for implementing MI and testing.
• Collaborated with leads and management across functional areas to identify, develop and deliver relevant MI.
• Spearhead an initiative identifying controls associated to producing MI - Data Lineage.

VP - Project Manager/Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Stream lead for Finance and Trade Management component of a strategic program to consolidate processing for client cleared derivates on to the Confidential GMI platform.
• Stream lead responsibilities include requirements gathering, project management, test coordination, resource management and Sr. Management communications and reporting.
• UAT manager responsible for coordinating UAT across functional, technical and stream leads.
• Provide SME guidance on the OTC Cleared trade capture functions.

VP - Project Manager/Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with key stakeholders across Business, Operations & Sr. Tech mangers to champion criticality of Records Management initiative and other regulatory initiatives.
• Strengthen relationships across Business and Ops by leading workshops for reviewing and discussing regulatory requirements, performing deep dive analysis and managing deliverables for Records Management.
• Spearhead discussion with infrastructure and applications teams in identifying workable solutions that fit requirements and delivery timeframes.
• Take command in providing guidance and best practices to applications teams in ambiguous situations such as, converting ambiguous requirements into meaningful solutions relating the requirements to existing BAU processes.
• Point person on the asset classes assigned for application teams to escalate concerns and issues such as resourcing and prioritization.
• Mentor/Coach junior staff on task assignments and promote individual growth.

VP - Project Manager/Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Managed across multiple application teams in Confidential for the delivery of requirements aligned to central counterparty (CCP) offering on Interest Rate Swap products.
• Ensured appropriate technology resources are in place across application teams in Confidential by negotiating delivery timelines and scope with team leads.
• Functioned as the Confidential representative to communicate with the Project Management Office, cross division Technology & Ops Change teams on timelines, status, issues & risk to projects.
• Performed business analysis and gathered requirements by conducting workshops with relevant application teams and Ops/Business subject matter experts.
• Facilitated the coordination between CCP's and internal technology teams such as, middleware, networking, development in establishing systems connectivity.
• Prepare test plans and worked with Ops Change along with Quality Assurance teams on generating test cases.
• Assisted in the budget process by projecting project duration, resource need and cost (including low cost locations).
• Mentored junior business analyst by providing direction and support during requirements gathering phases on various client clearing initiatives.

Confidential

VP - Sr. Business Analyst Strategy & Planning

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the analysis of current state client clearing ops processes and lead the initiative to create a scalable future target operating model (TOM) across multiple exchanges.
• Drive meetings and presentations of TOM proposals to senior business managers.
• Co-lead phase two of the tactical enhancements around timely ops processing of IRS trades with counterparties post clearing the exchange (LCH).
• Responsible for driving weekly stakeholder meetings to communicate the progress of various in flight tactical initiatives.
• Assisting in client clearing testing with Prime Broker client service reps, Cross Product Margin Ops, Risk and Finance.
• Mentoring junior staff in performing analysis and day to day coordination of their progress.
• Internal business re-engineering consultant liaison between the IT and operations line & middle office clients.
• Perform business process analysis to identify opportunities to re-engineer processes, improve efficiencies and reduce costs within Trades Processing Operations.
• Worked in various capacities based on projects assigned, ie: Project Manager, BA, Test Manger.
• Produced test strategies, plans and managed test execution for the Pay Down system.
• Participate in functional and technical design, coordinate test planning and execution.

AVP - Technical Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Standardize software license process to enable reuse and cost efficiencies within Infrastructure
• Review departmental Information Security (IS) Risk quarterly and create controlled processes for risk remediation.

Business Analyst/Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end to end delivery of core liquidity application including writing requirements, design, development, testing and production support