SUMMARY

• Senior project/program manager (Scrum/Agile), business analyst, strong developer background, extensive experience in both legacy support and strategic development, vendor management, big data analysis and warehouses, business intelligence, credit and market risk management, business and financial systems development, trading and arbitrage, financial analytics, P&L and project management, various shops and technological platforms in the Wall Street environment.
• Extensive experience with Trade Capture, Trade Surveillance, Trade Reconstruction and analysis.
• Vast experience in Financial Transformation projects such as firm - wide Back-Office vendor replacement, Risk and P&L vendor system replacement large-scale work with Operations on clearance numerous types of listed and OTC derivatives clearing and settlement.
• Major Financial Transformation project due to acquisition of a financial company and merging business lines.
• Held leading roles in the Equity Finance environment as PM/BA on business and technical implementation.
• Served as main firm contact for Sungard/FIS systems and has a hands-on knowledge and/or familiarity with products such as Loanet, SmartLoan, Global-1, Martini, GMI. Kiodex, Phase3 and APEX.
• Participated and design and lead stream of work for numerous strategic project implantations (e.g. A new prime brokerage division, back office vendor replacement (Broadridge), risk vendor replacement, acquisition and merger of brokerage unit (NewEdge).
• Project and program management included participation in the program initiation phases, budgeting, interviewing and hiring personnel, participate in program stirring committees and directly reporting to senior management.
• Participate in firm wide initiatives to adhere to Basel III regulatory requirements.
• Learn the challenges of various CCAR processes at the Bank and participate in creation of solutions to bridges the gaps between current data flows and the regulatory demands.
• Worked closely with firms’ legal teams on numerous legal agreements, such as Master Swap agreements, Repo agreements, Equity Swap and CDS agreements. In addition, worked with the legal team to draft and maintain numerous vendor agreements.
• Study requirements and evaluate frameworks to support policy developments in the regulatory requirements and guidance from Dodd-Frank and Volcker rule.
• Convert the Equity/Fixed Income Finance stream to Broadridge back office system.
• Focused on modeling and pricing numerous financial instruments such as: Equities (Stocks, Convertibles, Equity Swaps, Futures, Options and Securities Lending); Fixed Income (Treasury, Municipal Bonds, Corporate Bonds, TRS, REPO and Mortgages); Interest Rate Derivatives (Interest Rate Swaps, Swap options, Caps, Floors, Futures, Options, FRA); and Credit (Credit Default Swaps, Credit Linked Notes, ASCOT).
• Supported numerous trading desks: Risk, Prime Brokerage, Sec. Lending, Arbitrage, ALGO trading and F/X.
• Modeling data and building relational financial data warehouses for Risk, Pre-Trade Analytics.
• Building Business Intelligence MS-SSAS and Essabase (Cube) to provide analysis on customer & lender P&L.
• Third party vendor software packages analysis, evaluation, selection and implementation including Murex, Sophis, Calypso, Imagine, Riskmetrics, Summit, Martini, Liquidator and others.
• Developed business requirements for application development initiatives (Utilizing SDLC, Prince 2, BRS/SRS, Agile, and other PMP methodologies).
• Experience in managing multiple projects for numerous trading and risk desks. Focusing on business development, back office operations, revenue generation and P&L calculations.
• Expertise with Risk Methodologies and Measurements (e.g. VaR, and sensitivities).
• Writing analytics code (e.g. pre-trade analytics, pricing modules, P&L, and curves).
• Actively participated in numerous companies steering committees on global projects implementation.
• Managed teams of BAs and developers of up to 10 people.
• A doctoral degree in Finance and Computer Science and ability to undertake business development, financial analysis, team leadership and project management assignments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial Products and Applications: Securities Lending, Repo, Fixed Income, ETF and Index Arbitrage, Market and Credit Risk Management, Equity Swaps, Credit Default Swaps (CDS), US Treasuries, FRN, Ascot, Convertible Bonds, CDO, ABS, Short Sales, Hedge Fund strategies, Prime Brokerage, General Ledger, Super-DOT, Program Trading, FIX protocol, CTM, CMO, MBS, Money Flow, Listed and OTC Derivatives, IR Swaps, Cash Management, Funds Transfer, LOC, KYC, Basel II, Basel III. Dodd-Frank and Liquidity Management, FSTR

Computer Languages: PERL, C, C++, C#, RPG, VBA, XML, Unix Shells, Cobol, SAS, MQ, Java scripts, JSP, HTML.

Databases: Sybase, Oracle, AWS, Microsoft SQL, MS-Access, DB2/UDB, IMS, Essbase Hyperion.

Methodology: Agile/Scrum, DevOps, Prince 2, TOGAF, SDLC, OLAP, Business Intelligence, Relational Data Modeling, SOA, Data Warehousing, UX/UI, Mosaic,, Data Mining, Object Oriented design, UML, CISA, Use Cases, BRS/SRS, RUP, GSDP.

Software Packages: Microsoft Office, Visio, SharePoint, Erwin, MicroFocus, Actuate, PGP, CRISP, NeuralWorks, Informatica, Business Objects, FlexCube, Net Express, WebFOCUS Microsoft Analytics, AutoSys, Control-M, Brio, Crystal Reports, DataVantage, SAS, SPSS.

Financial and Vendor Systems: Sungard/FIS (Loanet, SmartLoan, Global1, Martini, APEX, Phase3), Imagine, Polypaths, Sophis, Diogenes, Smartloan, Equilend, GMI, AML Broadridge Impact/BPS, Calypso, Martini, Algorithmics, RiskMetrics, Murex, Charles River, Bloomberg terminal, SWIFT, SWEEP, OASYS, Reuters Terminal, CRISP, TELESTATE.

Operating Systems: UNIX (SunOS, Solaris, AIX), AS400, Windows NT/XP, MVS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Regulatory Risk and Compliance PM/BA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the effort to recalculate company’s worldwide positions on FX spots, futures, options and other derivatives with optionality features based on Delta values.
• Held the role of Scrum master according, which included running the daily Scum meeting, facilitate Sprint review with Product Owner and other stakeholders,
• Facilitated Sprint Reviews; worked with Product Owner and team to determine the agenda for the review
• Facilitates Sprint Retrospectives; captured and incorporated it as sprint planning input
• Backlog Refinement: Helps Product Owner administer, prepare, groom, prioritize, and right-size the backlog
• Utilized Oracle PL/SQL advanced features to manipulate huge data volumes, in order to optimize loads, reconcile data, run calculations and analytics and generate Risk and Compliance reports
• Analyzed the new Compliance reporting business architecture utilizing UX/UI design methodologies
• Run numerus Data Analysis procedure, utilizing qualitative and quantitative/statistical methods.
• Managed the stream of work to breakdown multi-underliers instruments (Index, ETF and its derivatives, to mention a few) into constituents to adhere to worldwide equity reporting regulations.
• Implementation of Trade Surveillance processes to identify pre-defined abuse type scenarios and generate alerts to Compliance team and Senior management.
• Reconstruct scenarios of unauthorized trades and document results for further investigation.
• Build a customer database to support KYC, and build a process to monitored trades and generate alerts.
• Managed numerous regulatory initiatives, utilizing Agile/Scrum/DevOps methodology, of the Group Shareholding Program of firm-wide discloser obligations to US, Europe and Asia regulators, such as: Large Shareholdings to BaFin, Short Selling, Takeover Panel (HK/SG), FCA lose links, SEC Large Trader Registration and MAR/MAD based Research Disclosure.
• Participated in plaining and design of firm’s wide effort to covert exiting applications and processes into AWS environment.
• Participate in a firm wide effort to adhere to Volcker rule regulations (as part of Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) firm-wide initiative). Gathered requirements and managed the implementation to capture Security Lending and Prime Brokerage data to adhere to worldwide regulation requirements
• Position Monitoring of Foreign Ownership Limits, Short Swing Rules, BHCA Monitoring, Basel III reports, MiFID2 Short Position Reports.
• Manipulated large firm-wide data live and historical feeds, utilizing latest Big Data analytics using advanced SQL coding methods and MDX
• Gathered and provided data to adhere to numerous Federal regulations (worked with Risk and Compliance for years and I am well familiar with the Federal Reserve requirements (FRY-11, FRY-14/14A, etc.)
• Participated in an initiative to source firm-wide Legal Entities and build the Legal Structure Data Base
• Participate in a firm-wide effort to analyze the potential impact of BREXIT on the regulatory environment (e.g. Legal Entity Structure and UK financial ‘Passporting’ rights to EU, as regulated by FCA)

Deutsche Bank

Equity Finance PM/BA

Responsibilities:

• Utilized BPS as part of the Global Inventory management design and development.
• Utilized Vendor packages such as Impact, BPS, Loanet and Global 1 for reconciliation
• Analyzed, designed and convert firm’s Inventory Management processes in US, Europe and Pacific’s into comprehensive Global Inventory, which will address firms’ global needs.
• Enhanced and supported the Collateral Management procedures, such as collateral agreements, netting, collateral calls, CAV calculation and credit exposure.
• Implemented a work flow to extract Repo and Securities lending transaction to support Global Inventory management process.
• Adhere to worldwide regulatory requirements in encompass them in the Global Inventory Management process.
• Gathered, developed and published requirements utilizing Scrum methodologies, UX/UI, Mosaic, JIRA, SharePoint and JAMA.
• Participate in a firm wide effort to replace JAVA/SQL based system into newly designed HTML 5 based system.

Confidential

Wealth Management - Trading and Capture, PM/BA

Responsibilities:

• Senior PM/BA in the Wealth Management Capital Markets and Risk areas, utilizing Agile/Scrum and DevOps methodologies.
• Support Equity and Fixed Income trading systems for more than 15,000 users which included Front End trading engine, and Trade Capture.
• Lead and participates in multiple projects in the regulatory environment such as: Reg S., Reg 871m, Blue Sky, Off-shore ticketing, Option Regulations, Department of Labor Financial Advisor regulations, Insider Trading and numerous other.
• Participate in a cross-company initiative to analyze the DFA, PRA/FSA, RDS IV, CCAR, and Basel III regulatory reforms, assess their impact, and generate scenarios for Trading, Margining, and Clearance management
• Learn the challenges of various CCAR processes at the Bank and participate in creation of solutions to bridges the gaps between the Bank's current data flows and the regulatory demands.
• Follow the Agile methodology for project management (e.g. Held Scrum calls, Utilize JIRA, etc.).