OBJECTIVE:

A technology leadership role in the finance, risk or capital markets domains, leading and implementing technology strategies for the future

SUMMARY:

• Vast domain knowledge in the Capital Markets, Treasury, and Financial Services industries
• Subject Matter Expertise in Derivatives (IR/Credit/Equity), Futures, and Equity trading arenas and related software solutions
• Acted as a liaison between risk, operations, technology and CxO teams during significant Treasury transformation programs - Change Agent
• Heavy thought leadership capacity - complex problem solving mentality
• Enabled extensive Business Process Re-Engineering efforts to promote operational efficiencies/optimizations and regulatory compliance
• Developed multi-generational plans to develop technology and architecture road maps to scale to future functional demands and needs
• Extensive experience with Derivatives Trading, Treasury Platforms, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing tools and implementations
• Lead initiatives to evaluate technology stacks to categorize components - invest, disinvest and strategic
• Hands-on Project/Program Management and PMO experience, leading multiple projects as a key resource from an executive management perspective
• Experienced in leading multiple programs/projects within scope, on-time, and on budget
• Strong Change Management definition and process implementation abilities - as well as stakeholder expectation management
• Strong Leadership/Management skills: building/leading teams, mentoring and developing staff for success
• Built and staffed teams, served as a mentor for junior team members and have promoted growth within organizations
• Hands on experience running daily Treasury operations and managing periodic close the books activities

SKILL:

Systems/languages: Quality Center, SQL, FpML, XML, JAVA, Visio, Project, MS Office 2010, Sharepoint, SAP, Visio, Crystal Reports, MicroStrategy, Peoplesoft, Business Objects, SUMMIT, Eagle, Calypso, Imagine, Wallstreet Suite, SAS

Databases: Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SQL server, Teradata, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading the technology and architecture strategy for CCAR Risk at the bank with respect to overall group architecture and delivery from a solution standpoint - leading dev teams to build solutions
• Guiding technology roadmap to build out solutions for bank wide stress testing, not only for regulatory purposes but for internal stress runs to support capital adequacy considerations
• Heavily engaged with functional counterparts as far as taking BRD concepts and evolving them into functional data specific requirements where needed
• Partnered with CTO/CIO organizations to identify the best fit solution stack to meet overall Risk CCAR requirements for stress testing
• Managing multiple strategic efforts with respect to functional solutioning and domain architecture for CCAR Risk
• Closely aligned to the bank’s CDO organization and their grass roots efforts to deploy data policy, standards and procedures
• Engage lines of business, Global Transaction Banking, AWM, CB&S, Finance, Risk Legal and Treasury functions to understand and build solutions for their core needs from a CCAR standpoint
• Closely engaged with Credit Risk, Market Risk and Operational Risk teams from a solution, data sourcing and strategy standpoint
• Well versed in Credit Risk concepts with respect to PDs, LGDs and necessary processes to generate ALLL, PLLL and EL
• Heavily engaged on GMS(Global Market Shock) and understanding how to identify the in-scope positions from a legal entity, product and line of business perspective
• Reviewed capabilities of current infrastructure to generate loss measure metrics for GMS - CVA, MtM, IDL. LCD and Market RWA
• Work closely with Operational Risk teams to understand how idiosyncratic stress scenarios impact operational loss
• Responsible for the build out of multiple reporting strategies and platforms for Group Risk

Sr. Program Manager - Risk/Regulatory Reporting

Responsibilities:

• Managed solution delivery for Confidential - Business Intelligence focusing on strategic initiatives
• Lead a global team of over 50+ team members to deliver multiple solutions for Risk and Regulatory reporting
• Reporting solution landscape includes, CCAR, BASEL III, Liquidity and exposure management reporting governed by the IRIS system
• Aligned all programs to Confidential Capital’s Enterprise Data Management policy, standards and procedures
• Partnered with Executive Risk leadership teams to employ delivery strategies to support daily and periodic Risk reporting
• Endeavored on several business process re-engineering efforts where Business Intelligence architecture and tools were the key driver
• Built mechanisms to create detective Data Quality checks across the Risk reporting data life-cycle
• Responsible to lead the implementation of Risk initiatives within the organizations rigorous Six Sigma framework to simplify business processes and the overall technology footprint
• Responsible for managing to ROI models on strategic programs and overall budgetary management for multi-million dollar programs

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Program Manager/Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed treasury’s strategic debt/derivatives and FX transaction program/platform through crucial business process re-engineering efforts
• Lead a global team of over 30+ resources spanning the U.S., Ireland, India and Mexico
• Provided tactical and strategic leadership to teams comprising of Systems Analysts, Developers, DBA’s, and SME’s to deliver solutions
• Managed multiple programs/projects to enhance, upgrade and debug Treasury’s D&D trading platform throughout its operating life-cycle
• Lead the implementation of initiatives within the organizations rigorous Six Sigma framework to simplify business processes and the overall technology footprint
• Utilized Lean Six Sigma principles to implement program level solutions
• Performed analysis on as is SOPs to identify opportunities to streamline and automate processes across all aspects of Debt and Derivatives transaction processing
• Member of the COO’s Dodd-Frank regulatory response team
• Designed and delivered the solution to facilitate OTC derivatives matching and clearing in order to build regulatory compliance
• Worked closely with the Valuation team to identify areas where operational focus should exist
• Key stakeholder and sponsor for strategic and tactical initiatives to streamline the W2W trade processing lifecycle
• Managed relationship and resourcing/budgeting with several vendors in order to support, maintain and build the organization’s strategic platforms
• Provided leadership to support internal and external audits, SOX reviews and multiple audit attestations
• Driving and leading Business Continuity strategy and execution for Debt, Derivatives Cash Management and FX Trading

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Vice President-IR/Equity Derivatives

Responsibilities:

• Stationed as a Subject Matter Expert within the Interest Rate and Equity Derivatives Team
• Facilitated the implementation of several best practices from both an operational and technological perspective
• Performed analysis to identify opportunities to implement STP across the trading desk, which included the Front, Middle and Back Office
• Worked closely with the accounting team to deliver a comprehensive Proof of Concept for Equity Linked Notes(SILC)
• Assisted Executive Management as a part of the COO’s services team to present an executable initiative to drive to a more comprehensive STP standard
• Member of Confidential Robinson Humphrey’s Derivatives Advisory Committee
• Conducted meetings with senior management to create comprehensive and executable project plans for upcoming implementations around Calypso
• Worked closely with “The Bank’s” Risk Management Team to employ better strategies to capture position level metrics
• Worked closely with the Quantitative Analyst team to identify areas where operational focus should exist
• Lead the implementation of automating a Futures/Futures Option Position Update Process to “pull-in” Reuters Market Data into Calypso to support MTM capture and P&L Reporting
• Part of integration team to implement connectivity to exchanges and clearing technologies for cash equities and derivatives
• Worked closely with the organization on efforts involving Calypso and Imagine.
• Hosted working sessions with various Market Data providers (Reuters/Bloomberg) to identify possible services to enable the symmetric publishing of Market Data to the entire institution

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Manager Domain Consultant/SME

Responsibilities:

• Performed detailed analytics on Calypso 7.0 used to process Commodities, Structured Credit Products, FX and Interest Rate Derivatives
• Interacted with users, production support and development teams to identify upstream and downstream data dependencies
• Created a detailed current state analysis from a business perspective which included processes such as Accounting, Settlements, Confirmations(SWIFT/DTCC), Credit Risk, and Valuation
• Drafted business requirements, use cases and work-flow based testing scenarios for Calypso
• Conducted meetings with senior management to create comprehensive and executable project plans for upcoming implementations
• Created and designed tools to assist the Back Office in validation efforts for new releases
• Responded to several RFP’s and packaged proposals with detailed cost benefit analysis
• Engaged testing team in an effort to integrate testing best practices such as automated testing, documentation based testing, and the generation of Test Cases and Test Scenarios
• Actively managed an off-shore team of 20 to generate proofs of concept for derivatives interface re-design effort

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided detailed analytics, assessments and feasibility analyses on an expansionary project for Debt and Derivative trade capture, financial reporting and FAS 133 accounting at Confidential
• Created a detailed future state reporting framework taking into consideration periodicity, importance, data sources and other reporting needs
• Performed reporting inventory analysis to identify what reports currently exist and what reports will exist in the future state
• Conducted review sessions with Confidential ’s treasury departments including Front Office, Middle Office and Back office as well as the financial reporting workstreams to review reporting framework and inventory details
• Conducted meetings and interviews with Senior Management to identify customizations on Confidential DEBTS application w/ Summit 5.0 as its core
• Created a detailed catalog to identify customizations based on Senior Management feedback, the catalog included detailed business function analysis as well as dynamic metrics to track the progress of identification
• Performed analytics on a hundred or more tables to identify data attributes that were/were not currently being consumed and utilized
• Wrote SQL queries to analyze debt and derivative data from an accounting perspective
• Created training documentation to allow users to readily access Summit FT and Summit 5.0

Confidential, McLean, VA

Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management oversight on a multi-million dollar engagement to develop a new process and system for Debt and Derivative/FAS 133 accounting at Confidential
• Positioned as a workstream lead on the delivery of Misys SUMMIT a COTS real-time, multi-tiered, high-volume debt and derivative transaction system
• Positioned as a workstream lead on the delivery of Eagle STAR a global accounting management system supporting multiple lines of business
• Used subject matter knowledge on the debt and derivative product line i.e. Options, Swaps, Swaptions, Futures, Bonds, Caps and Floors etc. to assess the business areas needs
• Provided insight to senior management on outstanding issues and mitigation strategies based on assessing identified risks
• Managed multiple efforts to trouble-shoot implementation issues from a business perspective
• Provided support on high-visibility rollforward report analysis and rendering
• Worked collaboratively with Internal Audit to identify control points and sources for weaknesses in various business processes
• Managed processes for formal change requests to the functionality of both Eagle and Summit applications to deliver a viable end product
• Gathered requirements for Eagle Star and worked with the 3rd party vendor to create efficiencies for the day-to-day accounting activities of the business unit
• Acted as a liaison between end users, developers and QA analysts

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager/SME

Responsibilities:

• Supported and developed projects for Confidential
• Managed the process of gathering requirements and designing business models for FAS 140, FIN45, FIN46, EITF 99-20 and FAS91 MBS accounting processes
• Assisted in review of accounting policy and translating this policy into business processes
• Guided the process of building GFAS, a multi-component accounting engine with impact through many streams of restatement activity
• Positioned as a SME(Subject Matter Expert) for designing and testing a large volume Financial Accounting Engine
• Guided many project directives and initiatives for the client including project planning, project definition, requirements definition, Use Case analysis, design, testing, system documentation and user training
• Maintained the application development life cycle on all development and enhancement projects for several applications dealing with financial reporting
• Lead teams in efforts to gather requirements and document these requirements in an accurate and timely manner considering strict deadlines
• Acted as a liaison between end users, developers and QA analysts
• Supported and assisted the client in requirements definition and responsible for driving and organizing JAD sessions to resolve implementation issues
• Administered integrated development testing during all phases of application development from multiple development environments through production
• Executed queries using SQL and performed data analysis through validation of application query results versus direct back end (Oracle) query results
• Lead validation efforts for the Financial Accounting group during development of the FAS 140/FIN 45 Financial Reporting Package that included Income Statements and Balance Sheets
• Supported and assisted Developers (JAVA, JSP) and QA Analysts in developing test plans and test scripts, as well as supporting and assisting clients in all testing phases through UAT
• Worked with users to develop integrated documentation (Process Flow/Work Flow) to comply with Sarbanes Oxley 401, 404 and 409 while identifying Control Points and weaknesses

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management oversight on a fifteen person, multi-million dollar engagement to develop a new process and system for mortgage loan and MBS cost basis accounting at Confidential
• Supported and developed a project to create a FAS 140/FIN45 accounting transaction engine for the client including project planning, project definition, requirements definition, Use Case analysis, design, testing, system documentation and user training
• Maintained the application development life cycle on all development and enhancement projects for several applications including a large volume integrated financial transaction engine
• Created prototype application models to illustrate and document system functionalities
• Lead teams in efforts to gather requirements and document these requirements in an accurate and timely manner considering strict deadlines
• Spearheaded efforts to create and design integrated requirements using GAAP accounting principles
• Acted as a liaison between end users, developers and QA analysts
• Supported and assisted the client in requirements definition and responsible for driving and organizing JAD sessions to resolve implementation issues
• Administered integrated development testing during all phases of application development from multiple Development environments through production
• Executed queries using SQL and performed data analysis through validation of application query results versus direct back end (DB2) query results
• Lead validation efforts for the Financial Accounting group during development of the FAS 140/FIN 45 Financial Reporting Package that included Income Statements and Balance Sheets
• Supported and assisted Developers and QA Analysts in developing test plans and test scripts, as well as supporting and assisting clients in all testing phases through UAT
• Worked with users to develop integrated documentation (Process Flow/Work Flow) to comply with Sarbanes Oxley 401, 404 and 409

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported and Developed the Confidential FrontOffice application for the client including project planning, project definition, requirements definition, Use Case analysis, design, testing, system documentation and user training
• Created prototype application models to illustrate and document system functionalities
• Used UML for representation in the artifacts produced
• Maintained the application development life cycle on all development and enhancement projects for several applications dealing with policy setup, administration and benefit calculation i.e. GMWB
• Acted as a liaison between end users, developers and QA analysts
• Supported and assisted the client in requirements definition and responsible for driving and organizing JAD sessions to resolve implementation issues
• Administered integrated development testing during all phases of application development from each development environment through production
• Performed queries, using PL/SQL, and data analysis through validation of application (Front-End) query results versus back end (Oracle) query results
• Supported and assisted Developers (JAVA, JSP) and QA Analysts in developing test plans and test scripts, as well as supporting and assisting clients in all testing phases through UAT
• Worked on developing SAP, BAPI/SuperBAPI implementation dealing with issues such as RAM(HEAP) allocation per dedicated BAPI and user issues with query failure

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for scoping and prioritizing product requirements based on time, cost and efforts with close interaction of product management team
• Responsible for the systems development life cycle on all development and enhancement projects for several modules that deal with pricing, accounting, lender approval and loan program approval
• Duties include supporting and assisting the client with project planning, project definition, requirements definition, Use Case Analysis, design, testing, system documentation and user training
• Used UML to produce various artifacts requested by the management
• Maintained project documentation (PCR, BRD, etc…) using the Departmental templates under established guidelines
• Acted as a liaison between business and technical staff at all levels, and mentored Jr. Business Analysts
• Developed complete user interface systems design on simple to complex projects, determined alternative approaches to business issues, and selected optimal solutions to process breaks
• Created project artifacts and deliverables including Process Decomposition Diagrams, UI Designs(Wireframes), Field level Descriptions, Gantt Charts, and Service Processing Logic
• Supported the project team in developing test plans and test scripts, as well as supporting and assisting Software Engineers (Java, C/C++, SQL) and clients in all testing phases
• Supported and assisted the client in requirements definition and responsible for driving and organizing JAD sessions