SUMMARY:

• Financial Systems Project Manager with over 15 years of experience in managing and developing financial applications. Strong analysis and project management skills with hands on knowledge of financial and program risk management
• Product knowledge includes CVA, CDS / CDX, IRS and other Fixed Income and Equity derivative asset classes
• Experience with various development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, etc.).
• Expert experience with UML Use - case modeling/design approaches
• PMO Division Lead
• Executive event management
• CCAR senior auditor at Confidential .
• Designed quantitative Market Risk VaR and Risk Metrics application at Confidential .
• SR11-7 governance; created model risk policy/procedure documents for Confidential.
• Hands on experience with data warehouse design, ETL data mapping, data reconciliation, and SQL queries.
• Performed multi entity data gap analysis at Confidential .
• Confidential Analysis for Confidential .
• Created impact trace matrix.
• Software engineering and application design lead - front office credit derivatives/ IR Swap trading system, Confidential .
• Software development and data analysis experience.
• Global team leadership.
• Designed front office credit trading application at Confidential .
• Fluent with multiple requirements elicitation techniques including the facilitation of firm-wide stakeholder workshops, ‘deep-dive’ qualitative research and survey analyses.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Oracle, MS SQL Server, Toad, Erwin, C, C++, MS .Net, XML, UML

Unix, Windows

OBIEE, OFSAAI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Jersey

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led team analysis for Axiom object conversion project.
• Reviewed mdrm level aggregations, shorthand and portfolios and their traceability to various report templates.
• Evaluated Axiom report templates for FR Y-14A / 14Q and 14M reports.
• Led the CFO Attestation project - analyzed final vendor application workflows, reviewed CFO attestation letters and clauses, prioritized project open issues, risks and dependencies and created final functional specification for business signoff.

Confidential, New York

CCAR Auditor

Responsibilities:

• Performed various audits for the 2016 and 2017 FRB/BHC CCAR submissions for Confidential .
• Designed audit approach, researched underlying data discrepancies, mapped model processes and input/output data to various applications, highlighted data efficiencies, analyzed Level 1 and Level 2 Line of Defense process and data flows, conducted meetings with user stakeholders, documented final audit reports.
• Per SR11-7, reviewed various CCAR model documentation against benchmark standards, ensuring key sections were included and reconciling model document charts to data sources.
• CCAR Subject areas included FRY 14A Counterparty and Trading Stress Loss schedules, Capital narrative analyses, Counterparty CVA schedules and Default loss processes and models.
• Performed analysis for the IT SDLC firm-wide audit.

Senior Manager - Financial Services Consulting

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed marketing go to market strategy for Confidential in support of the Basel Confidential 352 Market Risk capital regulation, aka ' Confidential '.
• Performed primary and secondary analysis on regulation impact to various trading desks and market risk calculations.
• Decomposed each regulation requirement into corresponding risk, trading and technology impact.
• Proposed technology service offerings to senior managers including a Business Analysis COE, Organizational Change Management, and Application Development.

Confidential, New York

PMO Division Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for division wide CTB and RTB program and portfolio governance, managing 65 CTB projects.
• Re-branded division PMO Office. Led division wide compliance campaign.
• Designed and automated rules based project Dashboard.
• Designed training programs and mentored division project managers on governance controls and tools.
• Created and hosted monthly IM Tech PMO Steering Committee meetings.
• Maintained PMO governance repository (SharePoint).
• Prioritized and processed project maintenance activities (project creation, closure, etc.).
• Held one on one project reviews with divisional Executive and Managing Directors.

Confidential, New York

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

• Designed project to write and re-engineer over 50 Infrastructure process documents.
• Assessed the current state of documentation on various SharePoint repositories.
• Created the project roadmap and project plan.
• Communicated project roadmap with lead stakeholders.
• Created Master document template.
• Created SOP template and development process.
• Liaised with global leads to coach them through the first stages of formatting.
• Revised SharePoint folder structure.
• Advised on document governance processes.
• Wrote storage operation procedure documents, including ‘checklist’ formats for live tech support callers.

Confidential, New York

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings with business user and stakeholders, designed and documented as-is application components including functional use cases, relevant gui interfaces, data dictionaries, data tables.
• Used Erwin to design / document core data E-R diagrams and relations.
• Developed UML state diagrams based on analysis of transaction status data.

Confidential, New York City

Senior CCAR Internal Auditor

Responsibilities:

• Lead Internal Auditor for the CCAR ( FRY 14A, FRY 14Q ) Federal Reserve Corrective Action Program (CAP). Conducted stakeholder interviews, reviewed data repositories, analyzed CCAR RWA, CVA and market risk SVAR upstream data flows and data reconciliation processes, analyzed and designed reconciliation and other data control processes.
• Wrote audit workpapers and final audit findings CAP reports. Mentored junior auditors.
• Managed industry event co-hosted by Platinion and PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers Industry Association). As a former PRMIA NYC steering committee member, leveraged PRMIA relationships to create a thought leadership event that marketed and showcased Platinion’s Risk Management services to the Confidential .
• Platinion is the Risk Management subsidiary of the Confidential .
• Speakers included the CME and the CEO of Platinion.

Confidential, Jersey City

PM/BA CCAR Axiom Reporting Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead functional analyst for CCAR Axiom Reporting team.
• Created BRDs, FRDs, Free Form and Tabular Reports, Data Models and Aggregations.
• Met with business to resolve discrepancies. Supported quarterly releases for the CCAR FRY 14-Q and FRY 9-C reports.
• Performed reporting analysis for the FRY 14-A and FRY14-Q reports.
• Supported Fed submission re-runs, re-filings and reconciliations between Interseries reports (Capital, consolidated balance sheets, etc.).
• Focus on Reg Capital transitions, Trading / CVA and reconciliations to the firm ledgers.
• Coordinated documentation for the CCAR initiative.
• Presented data findings to broad stakeholders, facilitated workshops to coordinate reconciliation procedures.

Confidential, Jersey City

PM/BA

Responsibilities:

• EPS: As part of the Data Warehouse team, performed gap analysis to map EDW tables (Capital / Credit Risk) to Fed CCAR required data elements.
• CCAR Forms: FRY-14Q Schedule D Regulatory Capital Transitions
• Ran workshops to evaluate high level regulations and map these to multi-entity scope requirements.
• Participated in Multi entity US based data gap analysis for CCAR.
• Focused on FRY-14Q - Schedule D.
• Crafted and administered 50 question survey of current state data-warehouse practices for multiple IHC entities.
• Performed as-is analysis of the credit risk data warehouse infrastructure and process flows for each in scope entity.
• Mapped 14Q required RWA data elements (Market RWA, Credit RWA) to source data warehouse tables from multiple entities.
• Discussed/prioritized CCAR data remediation solutions with stakeholders.
• Evaluated the impact of these credit risk and CCAR business changes on the supporting technical data warehouse infrastructure (across multiple regional legal entities).
• Evaluated solutions for a centralized firm-wide CCAR calculation and reporting platform.
• Designed approach to centralize credit metric calculations including RWA, EL, EC and exposure aggregation.
• Began evaluation of Qlikview as a CCAR reporting platform.
• Participated in BRD reviews for the credit risk project tracks. Develop multi entity high level project schedule.
• Created and delivered Credit Risk Reporting presentations to senior management.
• Liquidity Risk: Analyzed data requirements for branch LR system.
• Performed data gap analysis of over 500 data warehouse data elements. Ran SQL to analyze complex data relationships. Reviewed / updated Class and ER-diagrams.
• Documented data dictionary definitions in Informatica and Toad.

Confidential,l New York City

PMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• End to End Project Manager for cross divisional project spanning all ‘Big 5’ central ratings applications. Collaborated with component team PMs, Delivery Managers, BAs, Test and Dev leads and sponsors.
• Produced tactical release of 5 project teams on time and within original budget. Created end to end RAG scorecard to track cross divisional dependencies. Managed project scope and baseline change control. Designed project communication and governance models. Led planning for end to end integration testing. Hosted weekly progress calls. Developed project charter doc.
• Personally confirmed all reported project updates - via direct data analysis and reviews of test scripts and Agile user stories. Escalated serious exceptions to division senior MD.

Confidential, New York City

Qualitative Research Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed and managed a series of division wide focus groups, i.e. ‘Deep Dives’ to assess the current state IT project management practices.
• Created Deep Dive questionnaire deck of over 80 project methodology questions and 20 project categories including Agile.
• Created and conducted online survey.
• Moderated 22 Deep Dive workshops.
• Team lead on effort to qualitatively assess results and produce final statistical report of Risk Technology current state project practices.
• Presented final results to division managers.
• End to End PMO for Market Risk data engine initiative including 12 consumer groups, including VaR, Stress and Volcker.
• Managed project plan.
• Created critical path visual analysis due to volume of project dependencies.
• Maintained daily project RAG Scorecard.

Confidential, Jersey City New Jersey

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Procedures included the model development lifecycle and model validation test processes. Designed the model scope, grade and materiality criteria.
• Created supporting Visio process diagrams.
• Reviewed model performance criteria and change control practices for firm market risk VaR models. Prepared manuals for Confidential Board (BRC) presentations. Sections included the model validation process, model change management, model performance monitoring, model validation standards such as theory and assumptions, model data inputs and parameters, review of numerical implementation, model outputs, model risk grading ( A through F ), etc.
• Designed Model lifecycle workflow application for use by the model validation team.
• Planned project governance, developed project acceptance criteria and managed stakeholder performance reporting.
• Created the BRD which included UML use cases, screen mockups and data model.
• Conducted stakeholder BRD walkthroughs. Designed model inventory database.
• Created the project schedule.
• Created implementation approach for multiple sprints based on requirements.
• Created the project high level test plan and suite of detailed Test Cases.
• Documented model risk governance Board committee charter.
• Organized monthly model risk governance board committee meetings where stakeholders approved recently validated models.
• Gathered updated list of validated models, prepared Board meeting agendas, documented meeting minutes and stored onto SharePoint repository, tracked Board committee open actions.