RONALD H. NOLDON
Sayreville, NJ 08872
732-***-**** – Home
917-***-**** - Cell
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OBJECTIVE
A position as a business analyst for a financial services organization where my expertise in back office
securities processing operations can be utilized.
SUMMARY
Business Systems Analyst with extensive experience in business requirement analysis, preparation of
related specifications, system development life cycle (SDLC), project management, and implementation
and end user training. Extensive knowledge of broker/dealer back office trade clearance and settlement
processing for global equities and fixed income products. Have worked with most popular technical
environments from mainframe to client server.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MORGAN STANLEY, NEW YORK 11/2004-11/2009
Director, Business Analyst/Project Manager
• User Acceptance Test (UAT) Manager for the Real Time Account Balance (RTAB) project
which was the implementation of a calculation engine which provides real time client account
balances to client facing, field facing and back office applications
• Prepared business requirements and provided project management for a suite of Mutual Fund
projects which implemented recommendations of the 2003 Joint NASD/Industry Task Force on
BreakPoints
• Prepared business requirements and project management for a field facing application which
permits FAs to initiate the transfer of customer accounts from their workstation. I also
coordinated the training and firm wide communication associated with the project
• As a member of the Platform Renovation Team, was responsible for current state analysis of
the National Cashiering Operations, development of future state recommendations and
evaluation of potential vendor solutions including gap analysis.
BUSINESS EDGE SOLUTIONS, East Brunswick, NJ 3/2004-11/2004
Consultant-Business Analyst at Merrill Lynch
• Prepared Business Requirements Specifications for enhancements to an online web based
retirement benefits system
• Performed QA testing
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP, New Brunswick, NJ 4/2003 – 3/2004
Marketing Manager
• Analyzed the current process for obtaining job leads for the purpose of reengineering the
process
• Implemented a method for tracking employers who are potential providers of job leads
• Participated in the development of a job leads database and an Employer database
• Made in person sales calls to Employers for the purpose of getting them to provide job leads
and/or to utilize the services of the Professional Services Group.
OPEN SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES 5/2002 – 11/ 2002
Consultant-Business Analyst at Merrill Lynch
• Business Analyst for a data warehouse project which encompassed analyzing data feeds from
various securities based lending legacy systems for inclusion into a central repository which
was to be used to support management and operations reporting. My duties included gathering
user requirements, preparing system reporting specifications, data mapping and coordinating
the activities of the systems development and systems operations staff.
LEWCO SECURITIES CORP 7/2000 – 2/2002
Project Manager/Business Analyst
• Project Manager for the implementation of the XCITEK/XPS Solutions Plus Corporate
Actions processing system which included developing the specifications for Lewco specific
system requirements. The requested enhancements included contra CUSIP processing, and
unsettled trade position tracking and processing.
• As a Business Analyst for the Cashiering Division, prepared the specifications and
coordinated the development efforts for all changes and enhancements to systems which
supported back office trade clearance and settlement of equities and fixed income transactions
TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS, INC. 3/2000 – 7/2000
Consultant-Business Analyst at Paine Webber
• Coordinated the interdepartmental development effort to respond to the U S Treasury survey
of domestic securities held by foreign account holders.
• Performed workflow analysis of the Municipal Bond Operations Department from trade
execution through settlement. The resultant workflow documents enabled the Reengineering
department to identify which functions lent themselves to enhanced STP (Straight Through
Processing) and which functions were potential impediments to a T+1 settlement cycle.
AETEA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC 8/1999 – 12/1999
Consultant-Business Analyst at Summit Bank
• Analyzed data produced or maintained by existing legacy systems and created data dictionaries
for each application.
• Interfaced with the Marketing Research Department to select customer profile data from the
data dictionaries for subsequent inclusion in a Marketing Database
• Coordinated development of data file extracts from existing legacy systems for inclusion in a
third party vendor Marketing Database application.
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DEUTSCHE BANK NEW YORK, AG, New York, NY 12/1996 – 8/1999
AVP, Business Analyst/Systems Development Manager
• Managed staff of programmer analysts and business Analysts with responsibility for
maintaining settlement module of multi-currency trade processing and settlement system.
• Provided staff with business specifications for subsequent systems development, supervising
efforts throughout the development life cycle.
• Successfully developed a new settlement module for custody processing by the London
equities office and customized the module to accommodate trade settlement processing by the
Singapore office.
NATIONAL SECURITIES CLEARING CORPORATION, New York, NY 9/1985 – 11/1996
Director, Business Systems Planning
• Managed development life cycle of business systems projects from development of business
requirements through project implementation.
• Worked closely with member brokerage firms, stock exchanges, securities depositories,
regulatory authorities other clearing corporations and industry organizations to develop system
specifications for industry initiatives.
• Developed the business specifications and implementation plans for all enhancements and new
functionality provided by the Automated Customer Account Service from 1985 through 1994
• Developed an information strategy plan for the Risk Management Department.
• Wrote specifications and implemented an On-line Risk Management Systems which measured
the firms market risk posed by equity and fixed income securities transactions.
• Implemented Collateral Management Systems Enhancements (SYBASE Client Server
application with a mainframe download interface).
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
• Coordinated the activities between the Cashiering division and the Systems Development
division of a major brokerage firm during the conversion from a vendor system to newly
developed in- house systems which supported back office clearance and settlement of equities
and fixed income transactions.
• Participated in the development of business requirements, user system testing and end user
training. for the new on-line Receive and Deliver, ID Standing Instruction, Bookkeeping, Stock
Loan/Borrow, Stock Transfer and Corporate Action Tracking systems.
• Managed the following back office operations:
o Block trade expediting
o Institutional deliver and receive (COD/COR)
o Securities safekeeping vault
o Commercial Paper receive and deliver
o Corporate actions
o Coupon collection/bond redemption
o DTC reconciliation
o Institutional standing instructions
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Street side fail to deliver/fail to receive
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EDUCATION
B.B.A., Management, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
Project Management Certification Course
NASD Series 7 (previously held)
AFFILIATIONS
Executive Committee member of the Customer Account Transfer Division Inc., a division of the
Securities Industry Association, 1989 - 1991, 1993 - 1994
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