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Location:
Alameda, CA, 94502
Posted:
August 15, 2011

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RYAN N. PAGILA

**** ******** *** 510-***-****

Alameda, CA 94502 ****.******@*********.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced business analyst, report developer and application developer in financial firms

Business analysis experience includes project management, designing process models, data

analysis, requirements gathering and documentation.

Technical expertise includes developing user automation and analytical tools, systems development,

report writing and distribution.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Platforms Windows (7, Vista, XP, NT, 2000), IBM MVS, TSO, Legacy

Languages SAS, SQL, Access VBA, Excel VBA, Focus, JCL, Syncsort

Financial Hyperion Essbase, MDSL, Ibbotson, FactSet, DataStream, Bloomberg API,

Portia, CMS

Applications

Other Applications Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio), MatLab, SQL

Enterprise Manager, SQL Developer, Crystal 7.0, Business Objects, Legacy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BANK OF AMERICA, CONCORD, CA 2010 – PRESENT

Business Analyst, Vice President

Redesign and implement Invoice Billing Process Models and workflow for Market Data Administration.

Develop Excel and Access VBA applications to automate workflow. Create project plan to implement new

process model. Identify impact to business process caused by company wide initiatives. Conduct data

analysis for business partners.

• Domestic Invoice Payment Process: Design new process model to pay Domestic Market Data

Vendor invoices and to recharge the Lines of Businesses and cost centers. Built MS Access

Application to automate invoice payment reporting.

o Completes an average of $50 Million in invoices payments monthly.

Improved processing time 95%.

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Reduced manual data entry errors and missed deadlines.

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Improved user experience.

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Established new tracking and dashboard reporting.

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Eliminated staff overtime and weekend hours.

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International Invoice Payment Process: Design new process model to pay International Market

Data Vendor invoices and to recharge the Lines of Businesses and cost centers. Built MS Access

VBA Application to automate invoice payment reporting.

Completes an average of $10 Million in invoices payments monthly.

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Improved productivity 65%.

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Reduced manual data entry errors and missed deadlines.

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Improved user experience.

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Established new tracking and dashboard reporting.

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Eliminated staff overtime and weekend hours.

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Recharge Billing Process: Design and build Excel VBA and Access VBA applications to recharge

invoice allocations to the line of business cost centers.

o Improved processing time by 95%.

o Developed Recharge Applications for US, London and Asia Pacific offices.

Payment and Billing Reconciliation Process: Built Access VBA application to automate the

reconciliation of the Invoice Payment and Recharge activity.

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BANK OF AMERICA (continued)

o Improved resolution and investigation times over 60%

Participate in migration to new MDM platform.

Participate in SAP migration project.

AXA ROSENBERG, Orinda, CA 2008 – 2010

Performance Analyst

Managed the monthly production and adhoc reporting from the performance measurement system.

Provided technical and business support with system issues and daily cycle. Designed and developed

performance reporting automation and analytical tools.

• Designed plan and built proof of concept to migrate Net of Fee performance system from VMS to

Windows platform.

o Improved net of fee reporting time over 95%.

Created process to automate QA benchmark returns system and custom fixed weight benchmark

return calculations.

o Improved service level agreement from 10th business day to 3rd business day.

o Eliminated data quality escalations and issues to nearly zero tickets monthly.

MELLON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, San Francisco, CA 2007 – 2008

Performance Measurement Analyst

Provided performance measurement reporting services and reconciliation to business partners; Client

Services, Portfolio Management and Marketing. Designed technical solutions using software applications;

VBA, Access, and Bloomberg API, to automate reconciliation and reporting tasks.

• Performance History Application: Developed Excel VBA and Access application to automate

historical performance data reporting for sales and marketing. Improved reporting time from 1 hour to

15 minutes.

PACE Data warehouse project: Participated in the PACE Performance Measurement system.

Designed and maintained applications to conduct test validation of data; transaction, pricing,

return calculations, imported from Portia tables into the PACE data warehouse.

GIPS Composite calculations: Produced proof of concept to extract data from Oracle database.

CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., San Francisco, CA 1999 – 2007

Advice Performance Analyst, Schwab Center for Investment Research (SCIR) 2005 – 2007

Calculated and generated performance measurement reports for SCIR's advice initiatives and products.

Maintained and supported VBA, SAS and Matlab applications used to calculate and to produce

performance reports.

• Schwab Equity Ratings (SER) Performance: Monthly report to monitor the stock performance of

the rated in the model.

• Schwab Managed Account Portfolios: Managed the production of a VBA reporting application to

create Performance summary reports and charts.

Schwab Mutual Fund Research Performance: Managed the production of SAS applications that

calculated performance for the Mutual Fund Ratings Model, One Source Select List, and Advice

Solutions, other recommendable lists and relative benchmarks and Morningstar Categories.

Technology Solutions Associate, 2004 – 2005

AMPS MIS (Asset Management Products and Services)

Provided application support for mainframe production jobs that service AMPS Enterprise. Maintained

documentation and best practice procedures. Conducted financial analysis of mutual funds, including

proprietary and Schwab Affiliated funds, including Laudus and Excelsior funds, for relationship managers,

sales and marketing.

• AMCS Data Retention Project: Develop data archival, retention and retrieval schema for Mutual

Fund trade data compliant to industry regulations using Teradata data warehouse.

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CHARLES SCHWAB & CO. (continued)

o Improved the reporting time from 3 weeks to less than 1 week.

Technical Consultant, Risk Monitoring 1999 – 2004

Researched and resolved Margin account trading violations, maintenance calls and restrictions.

Developed and supported MS Access applications and VBA macros generating department reports.

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• Automated Margin Call project: Gathered business requirements for 3 party vendor to implement an

automated phone messaging system to alert customers about margin calls.

EDUCATION

MS, Computer Information Systems, University of Phoenix, Bay Area Campuses

BS, Hotel Management, San Francisco State University, College of Business, San Francisco, CA



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