An experienced and result oriented financial industry professional with a
broad array of Business Analysis, Project management and Information
Technology skills responsible for Full Life Cycle Projects on Cross
Functional Teams with a primary focus on structured fixed income, fixed
income derivatives and equity derivatives.
Professional Experience
Bank of New York Mellon - VP, Senior Business Analyst - Analytics
2007 - Present
Initiate and manage collaborative partnerships with internal teams and
senior managers, external clients and vendors. Gathering and documentation
of business requirements. Development, documentation and implementation of
current and future-state business processes. Change management and business
user testing coordination.
Accomplishments include:
. Authored business requirements and owned the on-boarding of Structured
Investment Vehicles (SIVs) and other conduit pass-thru structured
products.
. Developed the business process used in the administration of Government
Stabilization programs.
. Management of initiative to integrate 3rd party data and analytics into
existing Government Stabilization programs.
. Prepared Dodd-Frank transparency reports for "Super SIVs" Maiden Lane II
and Maiden Lane III.
. Managed and documented the on-boarding and launch of Trade MAPS 2013-1.
The first of its kind multi-seller structured pass-through.
F-O-R Consulting Group 2004 -
2007
Client: State Street Bank - Treasury Trading
Business Analyst - System Selection
. Assist client in selection of business support system to provide
analytic trading support as well as STP operational support for Credit
and Interest-Rate Derivatives.
. Authored and published the RFP; Evaluated RFP responses; Developed
vendor test cases & data sets; Evaluation of vendor performance vs.
RFP response; Gap and impact analysis.
. Accomplishment: Selection of system; Definition of extra-system
business requirements.
Client: IVY Capital Partners
Business Analyst - System Selection
. Developed the roadmap to provide a comprehensive risk management and
business-support platform.
. Defined requirements and macro targets: Current State => Interim State
=> Final State.
. Result: authored and published RFP.
Client: Bank of America
Business Analyst / Project Director - Global Equity Derivatives (GED)
. Authored the plan that generalized and scaled the GED trade execution
and P&L system to serve as an enterprise-wide service.
. Ownership of the overall project.
. Result: Initiation of the GED P&L Service to the Equity Finance and
Corporate Investment businesses.
Client: Credit Suisse First Boston
Business Analyst / Project Direction - Risk Management Technology
. Authored the end-state system and process proposal. Shepherded the
proposal through to completion.
. Served as the project director upon approval of the proposal.
. Designed the data model and functional specifications (CDO, MBS, CMO &
ABS).
Logic International Consulting
2001 - 2004
Director of Hedge Fund Practice
Client: Navigator Capital Management (Hedge Fund)
. Implementation of infrastructure required for launch of fund-of-
funds.
Client: Spectrum Global Fund Administration (Hedge Fund Administrator)
Interim CTO
. Developed technology expansion plan designed scale the systems
development effort to support aggressive business growth.
Client: Archeus Capital Management (Hedge Fund)
. Sourcing and implementation of systems and services, Data &
Analytics and Transactional systems.
National Healthcare Resources (Company was purchased)
1999 - 2001
Vice President, Director of Software Development
. Built out and actively managed the department of 40+ FTEs, in four
locations.
. Result: Development and mass deployment of a medical claims processing
system within 18 months of hire. The new system produced a 25%
improvement in efficiency and a 30% reduction in error rates.
THI, Software/consulting services to financial services sector (Company was
purchased) 1995 - 1999
Senior Managing Director, Consulting Practice
. Responsibilities included - RM, RFP response, cost estimation, resource
requirement estimation and in-situ management of developers.
. Education: developed and presented classes in Capital Markets and
Derivative Products
Classes given to:
. UBS marketing, middle-office, technology, and back-office staff.
. ING middle-office and product control.
. ABN-Amro middle-office and product control.
. Members of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).
Client: GreenTree Financial (largest U.S. underwriter of mobile-home
financing)
. Reimplementation of systems used to support the portfolio of
structured mobile home pass-thrus.
. Coordination with data and analytics vendors (Intex).
Client: ABN Amro, Emerging markets bond and derivative trading
(Amsterdam, New York and London)
. Wrote and implemented regulatory reporting policy and practices,
limits policy, global end-of-day
procedures, trade processing methods & procedures. The new policies
brought the business into compliance with best practices and industry
standards.
. Managed the team responsible for global P&L and position reporting.
Other Relevant Experience
Union Bank of Switzerland - VP / Trader - Structured Interest Rate
Derivatives
Bankers Trust Company - AVP / Co-Manager of MBS/CMO technology / Project
Manager Risk Management & Policy
Prudential Securities - AVP - Fixed Income / MBS / Derivatives Research
Drexel Burnham Lambert - Analyst - Fixed Income Derivatives Research
Education:
Queens College, New York, NY
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
. Magna cum Laude, Departmental Honors in Mathematics and Computer Science
. Recipient of Arthur Sard Award for Excellence in Mathematics; City
University of New York
Graduate Mathematics work at NYU - Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences.
Technical Skills: Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Visio, VBA, SQL, C,
PASCAL, FORTRAN.