SUMMARY:

• Obtain certification for data warehouse application as an Authorized Data Source for financial company.
• Led innovative systems solution to avoid incorrect filings during critical junction in merger of Primary
• Dealers, merging data from each source at most intelligent point to reduce reportable positions.
• Implemented Treasury Reporting application within short time frame. Application provided Federal Reserve Bank series 2004 filings with online adjustment facility allowing further drill - down into details of calculations.
• Recreated historical trading positions for the firm, the use of which were critical during negotiations with regulatory agencies. Helped to prove firm was not trading improperly.
• Expanded client base of Financial Regulatory application from five clients to 150 clients. Internal clients gravitated to the super stock record created by application I managed for customer protection.
• Manage staff of several business analysts in the creation of Requirements Specifications for our client who was selling its record keeping business for third-party financial institutions.
• Manage the upgrade of operational systems and accounting practices in order to provide sufficient controls for stock transfer and associated activities, thereby complying with regulatory advisement (PMO).
• Supervised Help Desk assisting clients in their use of an in-house tool that built queries to relational data bases on multiple platforms. Enhanced the success of this new application.
• Led onsite and offshore teams in major expansion of a trade file for a service provider. CMM compliant project enhanced a trade file threefold. Managed four onsite and 26 offshore resources.

SKILL:

• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Excellent communication skills
• Application Development
• IT Management
• Financial Services background
• Client (stakeholder) focused
• Data analysis and conversion
• Strong legacy systems background
• Fixed Income, derivatives
• Issue / Risk management
• Proficient in MS Office Suite
• Data Bases (relational and hierarchical), SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hopewell, NJ

Project Manager

• Obtain Enterprise Data Management certification for a data warehouse application as Authorized Data Source for the application. Authorization based on: Data Quality, Sourcing, Provisioning, Lineage and published Data Dictionary.
• Maintained individual project plan for my application
• Responsible for team communications, risk and issue management.

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Senior Project Manager

• Application retirement. Responsible for managing timelines of project; communications to clients and management. Manage team of analysts and developers creating archiving solutions for software applications being retired; reduce data being stored; move required data to lower cost alternative.
• Responsible for analysis of application elements (procedures, program code) utilized by Express Scripts to convert client files for their new platform.

Confidential, Old Bridge, NJ

Software Application Specialist / Student Records Manager

• Manage daily operations of the school district student information systems. Accountable for accuracy of information for internal controls, external reporting; accessibility of system to administrators and instructors.
• Manage conversion from old Student Information System to new system. Necessitates moving data, validating conversion, communications with vendor and administration, training and testing.

Confidential, Matawan, NJ

Consultant

• Collaborated with clients (small company business systems) bringing solutions to their technology problems.

Confidential, New York, NY

Principal Consultant

• Led project management office and application development project for eFunds clients in the Northeast region. Clients included EquiServe (shareholder services) and Pershing (service provider to financial organizations). Manage tasks, issues, risks and communications (both client and management) for projects.
• PMO - Managed the upgrade of operational systems and accounting practices in order to provide sufficient controls for stock transfer and associated activities, thereby complying with regulatory advisement.
• Project Manager - Led onsite and offshore teams in major expansion of a trade file for a service provider. Supervised 4 onsite and 26 offshore resources.

Confidential, New York, NY

Technical Specialist

• Led staff of 10 in development, maintenance, and support of several mainframe regulatory systems. Applications supported the Financial Division in its filings to external regulatory agencies (SEC, Federal Reserve Bank).
• Enhance system to increase availability of firm capital for trading purposes. Optimize calculations enabling the firm to utilize more capital for proprietary trading. Enhance “haircut” calculations for fixed income, mortgage, and equity processing.
• Led team of 3 developers in the maintenance and enhancement of the Interest Rate Swaps and Interest Rate Contract Products (Derivative Products) systems. Provided support to traders, operations, and Financial Division to maintain firm’s leadership in this new international market.
• Automated coupon processing for operations. Added other interest rate contract products (CAPS, FLOORS, and Forward Rate Agreements).
• Developed financing subsystem of Economic Trading Profit & Loss system.
• Developed new Interest Rate Swaps application. Worked directly with clients of applications, including those in Financial Division and Swaps trading desk
• Engaged in development of the Economic Trading Profit & Loss system. Designed, coded, and unit tested individual reporting programs in application built on Mainframe/COBOL/IMS platform.
• Redesigned pool rate financing module for financing subsystem. Develop remainder of finance subsystem which included repo / reverse repo, and other specific financing of positions.