Michele Leo

**** ****** ****

Leesburg, Fl *****

ac49g1@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

A Highly motivated and driven technical professional with an extensive, established technical & financial background. Exceptional leadership, project development, network engineering, and project management skills with the proven ability to effectively plan, coordinate and meet strick deadlines of multiple projects. Dedicated, goal oriented, customer focused and tenaciously; committed to executing brilliant solutions on time and under budget, demonstrates great leadership skills and exception client services skills. A enthusiastic employee educator and experienced business/financial analyst with over 15 years professional experience working in the financial industries, focusing on accounting, finance, investing, IT, Business Analysis and full life-cycle project management. Skilled user that is knowledgeable in securities, bonds, trade processing, security settlement, custody, assets and investment Management.

Individual Performance & Accomplishments

Created and develop training classes traveled to the company sites to teach and train employees or to travel to the client site to train them on their system usage-Received numerous Department performances awards, letters of recommendation, and appreciation from management Reduced Mellon’s Enterprise Wide STP rates dramatically and received a 47.25% overall reduction in claim charges by sub custodians and reduced service delivery role positions to other departments for employment opportunities. Successfully converted over 350 clients/vendors to ISO15022 format successfully and timely.

Computer, Systems & Software Skills

Operational and technical skills developing, using and creating ISITC format ISO15022 & ISO9997,

SWIFT ISO15022 formats, EDI electronic trade processing and custody settlements. Monitored and maintained all in-house, proprietary inbound and outbound messaging systems and applications used by both clients and vendors. Developed professional working relationships with private asset management groups, Client Vendors, Investment Managers, accounting, portfolio and custody management teams. 15+ years’ experience with electronic trade processing and technical trade system development using EDI, DTC, FED, SWIFT, ISITC, SMPG (Batch), Proprietary Batches, XML format files, ISF Format, T1/VPN/EDI/FTP/encryption, Bloomberg, MIS, IAS, CMS, CICS, SEI, Eagle/STAR and STARI, MINT/SWIFT Alliance, Mercator, Bloomberg Custody Link and Bloomberg Trade Feed Programs, OMEGO messaging, delimited & comma separated files, WS momentum, Charles River's TS/PI, MERVA, SWIFTnet, FXALL,BBH’s Infomediary router, Radianz, MQ Mainframe. Also experienced with Clearcase, PeopleSoft, SQL Query Tool (using QTOBC) and Oracle databases, R&D, Q&A, & NUKI time-keeping.. Experienced user and developer with ACTION, Sun Guard, Alliance, Electra, PORTIA, SALARIO, Eagle IStar & PACE, OASYS, OMNI, Crystal Reports, MQ series, Heliograph, SQL/TOAD, trade web, TPR and VMUs. Strong MS Office, Visio, Outlook, SharePoint, Clearquest, Sun Solaris, Windows XP, Vista and 7.

12/2006-3/2009 Commonwealth of Massachusetts/MassHealth NewMMIS ITD-IT Analyst

Worked directly with and reported to the President and Vice President of the NewMMIS ITD Department at Massachusetts MassHealth Division. Assisted both with their daily operations, conducted and ran all meetings, created, recorded, analyzed and distributed meeting notes and tracking changes to all department heads . Created multiple Clearquest databases which would query, track created user specific, detailed reports used for analysis of the entire project as well as tracking all efforts accomplished. Granted access, install and maintained all computer programs and software installs/uninstalls. Responsible for the full life-cycle implementation of all technical projects; including, creating and writing PDRs, performing and analyzing all pre-production test data, software development, creating test cases and test plans and resolving any performance issues through troubleshooting and quality assurance. Successfully implemented completed projects into production and monitored the performance to ensure a successful implementation. Responsible for providing any ITD employee access to the virtual private networks (VPN) remote access and secured the security of all VPN users. Developed, installed and tested new VPN access connection for the entire Commonwealth's VPN access. Performed LAN and VPN configuration, server monitoring, storage management, account security maintenance, and OS

performance tuning. Owned and maintained all company laptops and completed all necessary maintenance to the programs and system software. Ensured secure systems to all users granted access to use.

September 2004-March 2006 Independent Consultant/Contract Experience

Full Lifecycle Project Manager,

Created web sites and documentation, using HTML, to manage various projects. Wrote design document, test plan, and user documentation. Enhanced system functions. Developed enhancements, new system functions, and fixed defects in other functions. Work done in C and UNIX using ClearCase

January 2002 -March 2004 Technical Analyst & Project Manager-Mellon Financial Business & Technical Analyst, SWIFT & Electronic Trade Processing Systems

Developed, performed QA, created test cases and performed testing & System Debugger & Production & Implementation. Client/Employee Systems and Financial Instructor: Led business-critical information security initiatives for large financial institutions involving encryption of customer data to ensure compliance with change in federal laws.

Education 1994-1995 Salem State College, Salem, MA 1991-1993 Fitchburg State, Fitchburg, MA

1990-1991 University of Ft Lauderdale, Ft Lauderdale, FL Studied Accounting and Finance,

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