Quality Control Manager

John T. Pasquenza Jr.

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Brooklyn, New York 11228

718-***-**** (Home)

646-***-**** (Cell)

Email: *********@***.***

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a challenging position in the Financial Services Sector to

enhance my 27 years experience utilizing my expertise of Foreign Exchange

settlements, reconciliation, and investigations. Track record for

supervisory skills, training and development of high quality staff.

Reputation for building effective team work. Able to partner with all

levels of management.

CAREER HISTORY

Societe Generale Nov 09 - Nov 10

Consultant Exotic FX Ops

. Responsible for monitoring of all daily EXOTIC FX trades via Opics

System

. Execute all Swift MT 103 and 299 orders to corresponding trades

. Liase with Exotic traders on any and all discrepancies

Bank of New York Mellon Apr 07 - Nov

08

Global Custody FX Specialist

* Responsible for monitoring production queues for 200-300 Mutual Fund FX

trades via DIMS system

* Monitored and executed all stand alone Foreign Exchange Payments and

Receipts

* Responsible for all OFAC activity and monitored various customer accounts

for Anti-Money Laundering

* Reconciled trade discrepancies between Clients and Fund Administrator

* Input 3rd Party FX's

* Heavy interaction with FX Trading desk on all RVP and DVP restricted

currencies

Self Employed - Unrelated to the Financial Sector Sep 05

- Apr 07

Merrill Lynch International Bank Feb 05 - July

05

Consultant FX Ops

* Responsible for all aspects of Foreign Exchange Operations which included

confirmation, netting, and confirm matching via Citynetworks TRAM system

* Monitored all CLS incoming/outgoing funds

* Reconciled, investigated, and resolved all trade and nostro discrepancies

* Processed and reconciled all futures trade for IMM settlement

Westdeutsche Landesbank May 97 - Dec

04

Associate Director Treasury Operations

* Reconciled trade discrepancies

* Reconciled and investigated all nostro accounts

* Performed manual match of open items via Citynetworks Cars system

including netting customers, non-receipts, return of funds, internal

accounts, compensation and value date adjustments

* Processed 800-1200 Foreign Exchange G10, and NDF Latin American inter-

bank and corporate client trades ensuring all trades were confirmed,

settled, and or investigated to satisfaction

* Ensured accuracy and timeliness of confirming deals via straight-thru-

processing, EBS, Reuters, broker, and phone

* Interacted with Spot, Forward, and Sales Traders to resolve any queries

or margin related issues

* Monitored Daily Liquidity Report for all currencies

* Interacted with compliance and legal departments on monitoring Anti-Money

Laundering activity

* Responsible for Futures reconciliation and day to day match program via

Rolfe and Nolan system. Interacted daily with Futures traders and

clearing agent ABN Chicago on all trade discrepancies for IMM settlement

* Involved in implementation of FXNet and Cityneworks TRAM/BART system

* Knowledge of Summit, Sungard, and Citynetworks systems

Morgan Stanley and Company July 86 - Apr 97

Manager Foreign Exchange Operations

* Managed Operations staff of 12-25 for deal capture, confirmations,

netting, settlements, investigations and reconciliation of 2000-3000

spot, forward FX transactions per day, including FX Options trades

* Coordinated with FX IT system team for design specifications and updates

* Implemented Swift MT300 auto-confirmation matching to eliminate phone

confirming

* Automated in-house netting system to real-time creating a real-time

screen based system

* Responsible for managing daily trade discrepancies, reconciliation,

investigation, and all overdraft and bank charges with nostro accounts.

Monitored monthly general ledger balances

* Prepared weekly and monthly statistical error and quality control reports

for management review

* On-site support for Opening of FX Operations in Zurich Switzerland for

implementations and procedures

Bank of Montreal New York 1984 - 1986

Bank Leumi Trust Company 1981 - 1984

EDUCATION

New York University Certificate in Foreign Exchange 1986

LaGuardia Community College 1980 - 1983

Associate Degree in Business Management

References available on request

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