Kevin Byrne

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City: West Caldwell

State: NJ

Zip: 07006

Country: USA

Phone: 973-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: 175

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iKevin Byrne

West Caldwell, NJ 973-***-**** abo0fo@r.postjobfree.com

Qualifications Summary: Innovative systems implementation specialist with background in investment-related project management, business analysis and regulatory reporting.

Consultant a July, 2006 to Present

QA Analyst - OmniVista Solutions May, 2012 to August, 2012

NYC and Chicago-based hedge funds

Tested trade entry processing and calculations for the Charles River Development trade order management system version 9.1.4.4. Profiled historical trading activity, wrote the testing strategy document, reviewed and documented trading desk process workflows and blotter configurations, wrote, executed and documented test cases and assisted with the conversion on go-live date.

Senior Business Analyst - ForwardThink Group October 2010 to April, 2012

TIAA-CREF - Asset Management I.T. Dept., New York, NY.

Completed the Assets Under Management (AUM) investment query and reporting project as part of firmas strategic Asset Management Data Distribution Hub initiative.

Implemented bilateral and tri-party repo transaction processing capabilities in the Charles River OMS and Eagle Star / PACE environments. Prototyped new repo loan reporting formats and integrated repo collateral restriction processing.

Prepared Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for the firmas cloud-based Information Services Distribution Roadmap.

Project Manager / Business Analyst July, 2008 to Oct, 2010

MFX Fairfax / Odyssey Reinsurance, Morristown, NJ a GAAP Asset Reporting project

Automated the production of management and regulatory GAAP holding and transaction reports for the Regulatory Reporting Accounting Group from a PAM-sourced investment data warehouse using Business Objects XI.

Defined and implemented a GAAP Asset reporting hierarchy and related business rules used in investment classification.

Defined and implemented GAAP code override, investment value override and external asset upload processing capabilities.

Lead QA Manager July, 2006 to June, 2008

TIAA-CREF, Asset Management IT Dept. New York, NY a FIPC and CASFE projects

Led the QA testing effort for the conversion of fixed income portfolios onto the Charles River Development pre-trade compliance and trade order management application and Eagle Star/PACE back-office accounting platform.

Prepared a firm-wide catalog of test cases by business area.

Provided SDLC and SOX artifacts.

Also tested internal and external SWIFT MQ messaging, corporate action processing and an in-house investment reporting application.

Project Manager / Systems Analyst 2005 to 2006

Societe Generale, IT Dept. Jersey City, New Jersey

Served as project manager and business analyst for the revision and QA testing of an investment liquidity risk reporting application in accordance with the Basel II Accord, using IT resources in NY/NJ and Bangalore, India.

Supported the Accounting and Finance Department on monthly liquidity risk reporting.

Assisted the Tax Departments with general ledger mapping for their annual corporate tax reporting requirements.

Consultant a 2000 to 2005

Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst 2003 to 2005

Bear Stearns - Global Clearing Services Project Management Dept. a New York, N.Y.

Investment Scorecard Project.

Implemented the Investment Scorecard performance reporting application in the Advisory Services, Broker Dealer and Prime Broker business units

Brought new wealth management beta client firm and individual investor accounts onto the Scorecard platform and managed day to day operations.

Business Analyst / QA Tester 2002 to 2002

Alliance Capital Management, LP, NY, NY - Investment Operations Technology Dept. SPARK Project.

Tested financial transaction processing and set up regression test bed for the implementation of the Eagle STAR portfolio accounting application and PACE (Oracle) data warehouse.

Prepared multi-currency transactional test cases for equity, fixed income and mortgaged backed instruments, gain/loss, FX translation and corporate actions processing.

Business Analyst /QA Tester 2001 to 2001

Financial Technologies International, NY, NY. Street Ledger Project.

Senior Business Analyst on the QA team for the Street Ledger investment accounting sub-ledger application.

Reviewed application functionality and posted and evaluated multi-currency equity, fixed income and other business transaction test cases. Tested the loading of static data.

Project Manager 2000 to 2000

BNP Paribas, New York, NY. W8 Repository and Global Payments Reporting System (GPRS) Projects.

Implemented two customer tax applications written by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the Tax Department at BNP Paribas to comply with IRS Reg. 1441 related to withholding taxes on U.S. source income from non-resident aliens.

Prepared application deployment documentation, project plans, business requirements and testing plans for the Lotus Notes-based W-8 Repository and the (Oracle/UNIX) Global Payments Reporting System.

Education:

BS in Accounting a May, 1980, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT.

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