SUMMARY

• 15 years’ experience managing projects on a global landscape
• Track record of completing business - critical projects on time, within budget
• Solutions driven communicator with a mastery of gathering consensus between key stakeholders
• Experience collaborating with senior stakeholders at the program level including Director & Managing Director

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Regulatory & Operations Projects
• Global Team Management
• Stakeholder Reporting
• Cross Functional Collaboration
• Industry Wide Initiatives
• Risk Mitigation
• Noted accomplishments
• Lead projects for large street-wide industry initiatives including T+2 & FINRA 4210
• Management of interdisciplinary & global teams to deliver Operations & Regulatory based projects
• Management of internal process improvement initiatives

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confirm the scope of all projects based on industry guidance and/or internal requirements
• Complete program-level business justifications for project initiation including overall scope, budget and project resources required
• Obtain consensus between Business, Technology, Legal & Compliance, Finance and peer teams to establish roles & responsibilities
• Create a comprehensive project roadmap identifying milestones, timelines and key tasks; Define strategy for completing milestones
• Provide weekly and/or adhoc reporting to all key stakeholders including senior management
• Identify project accomplishments in line with target deadlines
• Identify key risks, issues and mitigating controls
• Audit project resource allocation in accordance with approved budget
• Participate in workshops for Regulatory projects dat require industry guidance
• Liasion with external business & IT vendors based on project requirements
• Provide ongoing guidance to entry-level, peer and senior level project resources
• Provide recommendations to senior management for process improvement and “key lessons learned” upon project completion

Confidential, New York, NY

Change Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identify, liase and coordinate with senior stakeholders globally
• Confirm the T+2 scope for Operations via the analysis of systems, processes & products
• Create a comprehensive Operations Business Requirement inclusive of systems & processes in scope, required system updates (globally) and required reporting updates (globally) as they apply to industry guidance
• Create a comprehensive Operations test plan for UAT. Details include: Description of test phases, test strategy, scope of testing (test data), client test strategy, connectivity to be tested externally within the market and the overall timeline
• Identify target deadlines for business requirements & test plan in preparation for front-to-back industry testing
• Participate as a representative for Confidential within industry workshops for T+2 - i.e., DTCC, ISDA
• Day-to-day point of contact for Operations, IT, Business, Regulatory & Compliance to mitigate risks & issues
• Provide senior leadership with status updates as frequently required

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scope project delivery including:
• Agree scope & key target timeframes with senior management
• Forecasting of budget based on all project deliverable within each target stream
• The identification and hiring of contract resources for timeframe
• Allocation of resources to the appropriate teams based on skillset
• Foster communications between various internal teams to identify a plan of action to complete project deliverables collectively
• Track the completion of key deliverables on a consistent basis with all teams
• Liaison with various business units & supporting departments to determine priorities
• Provide senior leadership with reporting - includes the progress on key deliverables, timelines for completion within each stream, and issues for discussion

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requests for client trading within the Prime Brokerage & Clearing businesses and administered access when appropriate.
• Coordinated all tasks associated with Fix Connectivity, database updates, upload configuration and client communications between cross-functional teams.
• Streamlined global communication between cross-functional teams by introducing and implementing a revised report distribution method.
• Identified inconsistencies between the report offerings of the Clearing, Futures and Options businesses and presented a thorough a gap analysis; fostered discussions with senior leaders to implement a consolidated report methodology.
• Implemented a proprietary workflow management tool for the facilitation of new operational processes.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided on-going, day-to-day support to client services, identifying and directing the management of information from various business and operations support teams.
• Identified and coordinated with Technology to resolve report distribution delays which directly effected a clients’ internal reporting within their proprietary system(s).
• Identified inconsistencies within the global report offering (U.S. & EMEA) and presented a quarterly plan for consolidation.
• Assigned independent deadlines to all cross-functional teams for project completion.
• Led the analysis of new client portfolios to evaluate the firms’ pricing of investments in marketable securities such asstocks,options and futures.
• Developed and implemented a centralized project repository to track the progress of all projects.
• Mentored interns and new staff willingly sharing skills, knowledge and expertise.

Confidential, New York, NY

Information Systems Auditor

Responsibilities:

• Investigated business processes in association with Information Technology practices for multiple public sector companies.
• Applied SDLC and Sarbanes (SOX) methodology to audit processes; developed client specific audit practices.
• Identified ratios and sample populations to be utilized for testing to ensure dat the full-scope of an organizations business was appropriately reviewed.
• Evaluated operational TEMPeffectiveness and recommended mitigating controls to reduce risk inherently present in day-to-day tasks.
• Published audit result results for senior management regarding operational controls.