SUMMARY

• Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager and Subject Matter Expert with over 18 years of experience in all areas Financial Services reference data management, including a total of over 35 years Financial Services experience.
• Highly experienced team player with strong client relationship skills. Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills. Strong focus on writing Use Cases, Business and Functional requirements.
• Accomplished record of managing and delivering analytical solutions and technology projects to full life cycle implementation.
• Experienced with SQL, QlikView, Big Data, MS Access, BPM, SDLC, Teradata, DB2, Tableau, Informatica, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Agile/Scrum, Project, Excel, Visio, SharePoint and PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Development Manager and Lead Business Analyst for the Field Management Analytics Team developing analytic solutions to drive compensation and expense policy decisions to the CEO/COO of Confidential ’s Wealth Management business.
• Drove development of QlikView dashboards and visualizations driven by Data Mining Teradata, Hadoop, DB2 and SQL databases.
• Partnered with the Wealth Management Home Office to turn requirements into analytic visualizations.
• Lead EDG Business Analyst/Project Manager on the integration of Confidential Private Wealth Management business onto the Confidential Smith Barney platform.
• Successfully implemented key strategic compliance, regulatory and Dodd/Frank driven programs and projects as lead Business Analyst/Project Manager using the Firm’s formal SDLC under tight regulatory deadlines and budgets. Strong focus on meeting key regulatory dates and project reporting.
• Leveraged experience and business knowledge to develop new Business Requirements, Project Plans, Bills of Work, Business Process Management Workflows, Change Management and Client Engagement Models for global projects managing teams in multiple locations and time zones.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Enterprise Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead Business Analyst on the successful full life cycle implementation of GoldenSource as the Enterprise Security Master. Successfully managed multiple stakeholder and system requirements across multiple locations of the firm. Credit Default Swaps and Equity Derivatives were the primary securities added to the system.
• Developed requirements and processes, documenting and writing business rules and technical documentation for turning multiple manual processes into a single set of systematic rules for publishing data to downstream systems.
• Educated and trained business, management and technology on reference data concepts and solutions.
• Governed competing and conflicting requirements, resolving prioritization issues and managed stakeholder expectations
• Managed enterprise wide and cross - functional project prioritization across various business sponsors. Liaised with all levels of stakeholders on a regular basis to manage requirements and design solutions.
• Managed team of Business Analysts and Project Managers team across multiple locations. Managed and mentored the team setting individual goals and development plans.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed Business Analysts and Development team for the Firm’s Entity, Client, Counterparty and Book reference data repositories.
• Managed project timelines to implement full life cycle planning under tight regulatory deadlines.
• Cultivated relationship with users and downstream systems to successfully integrate global account management, trading, risk management, finance and sub-ledger systems into the repositories.
• Developed and implemented quality assurance tests, procedures and metrics.
• Managed 24x7 Production Support resources on and offshore. Developed processes, procedures and metrics to ensure clients were receiving the highest level of attention. Developed SLA with vendor to ensure compliance with metrics.

Confidential

Business Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented project and test plans for the installation of vendor supplied and internally developed software packages.
• Worked with development teams to design and implement user requirements.
• Interfaced with users to define system enhancements, resolve development issues and implement training programs.
• Worked on the independent investigation of Bankers Trust pursuant to the directive of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the New York State Banking Department.
• Reverse-engineered, modeled, priced and analyzed risk/reward, suitability, and hedging strategies of complex leveraged derivatives including swaps, structured notes, forwards, and exotic options based on underlying indexes and rates.

Confidential, NY

Director of Options

Responsibilities:

• Managed all Confidential ’s stock and option exchange floor operations
• Served on Confidential ’s Operations Committee and was Co-Chair of Confidential ’s Technology Committee. Headed up several technology projects including the search to acquire and integrate a client-server SQL based Portfolio Management System into the firm’s existing network and mainframe architecture.
• Created cash flow and prepayment projections for Mortgage-Backed Securities using Excel.