Project Manager Engineering

LANA SHUSTERMAN

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1939

Staten Island, New York, 10308

www.linkedin.com/in/lanashusterman ******@*****.***

PROJECT MANAGER

Accomplished Technology Manager with extensive results oriented experience

in transaction based systems, performance management and securities

operations. A solid track record in partnering with business leaders in all

phases of a project life-cycle to collaboratively define and deliver both

short-term and phased long-term objectives, designing process and system

improvements to increase efficiencies and reduce costs, including:

. Managed development of new strategic high throughput, high capacity

real-time transaction publisher that allowed for platform convergence

and elimination of multiple legacy applications.

. Redesigned workflow, now utilized as corporate blueprint model across

multiple Operations teams, for Settlement Operations for client

specific account trading resulting in a highly automated STP solution

leading to head count savings of $400K.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Multi - platform System Design and Application Risk

Experience Architecture Management

Process Engineering Strategy Development and Team Leadership

Execution

Scenario Planning Finance and Securities IT Audit and Governance

Knowledge

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GOLDMAN SACHS ( Jersey City, NJ

1998 - June 2014

Project Manager (Vice President), Operations Technology Division, 2006 -

June 2014

Managed the suite of distributed systems that includes Securities Stock

Record, Sub-ledgers, Strategic Journaling Platform, Global Error Tracking

and Audit Confirmation Systems while leading a global team. Delivered

projects that closely align with operational area's long and short term

strategic goals.

. Managed development of strategic real-time Global Error Tracking

System used by Trading Operations and enabled intra-day monitoring of

trading errors and real-time alerts based on thresholds and other

metris.. Improved data availability for account analysis by 24 hours.

. Project managed development of Risk and Approval Control Framework in the

Strategic Global Journaling Platform used by 1200 users in Operations,

Controllers, Sales and Trading divisions to effectively manage and

mitigate operational risk including Sanctions Protection and Real Time

Surveillance.

. Liaised with Operational Risk Team and Internal Audit, and served as

central point of contact with division Internal Audit, to introduce

reference data and calculation integrity verifications in the strategic

Global Error Tracking System to ensure accuracy and transparency of data

reported to Basel II.

. Automated manual workflow for the Audit Confirmation team in Operations

that included automation of the retrieval of client statements and

verification of client information resulting in reduction of personnel

requirement by 4 head count during the peak auditing period.

. Managed budgets for multiple projects with spend of over $2M across

multiple operational teams. Generated financial reports for senior

stakeholders across technology, operations and business that provided

maximum transparency and allowed for optimization of project resources.

. Partnered with the Functional Architecture committee to provide

functional and architectural development of a distributed reporting layer

for Firmwide Securities Stock Record. Project resulted in highly scalable

solution that allowed for concurrent data loads and retrieval and

provided significant improvement of data quality.

. Created and implemented an effective process assurance framework for the

Technology Audit program that ensured full compliance with SOX and SSAE16

controls and requirements.

. Analyzed business requirements, created functional specifications that

support strategic architecture initiatives and satisfy regulatory

requirements for client data segregation in Firmwide Securities Stock

Record and Sub-ledgers.

Project Leader (Consultant), Operations Technology Division, 1998 - 2006

Designed and implemented projects that ranged from Industry critical

initiatives to reengineering systems that enabled the rollout of strategic

architecture.

. Led the development of transactional gateway to facilitate migration from

mainframe to distributed platforms. Optimized system performance,

reliability and improved transaction throughput in applications that

publish and process real time transactions. Increased messaging

throughput from 50 to 200 per second to allow speedy delivery of critical

data to downstream systems (Funding, Stock Loan, and Customer

Segregation).

. Developed software and managed the initiative to migrate Institutional

and Prime Brokerage accounts from mainframe Stock Record to a distributed

client platform. Completion of the project resulted in platform and

functional convergence for Prime Brokerage and Institutional

Operations.

. Implemented automated reconciliation framework to enable migration from

mainframe to a distributed Stock record.

. Provided technical oversight and led development functions for the GS

Capital Market Multi Currency Conversion Project migrating balances for

firm accounts from the Stock Record to the General Ledger.

. Acted as lead developer on project to support 1441 IRS Regulation on

Backup and NRA Withholdings, built an interface with the strategic tax

module.

. Supervised and executed Y2K and EMU user-acceptance testing for Core

systems. Developed software to replace key components of the system

according to contingency plans.

Bank of New York Mellon ( New York, NY

1997 - 1998

Senior Programmer Analyst (Consultant)

. Responsible for the full project life cycle of the online OmniPay Check

Writing System. Streamlined management of payments to pension fund

employees; converted online and batch modules to be OmniPay compatible.

. Optimized nightly batch cycle performance, reduced run time and improved

data availability by 2 hours. Addressed online access to historical

information and outstanding check notifications.

Other Experience

. GOLDMAN SACHS ( New York, NY ( 1996

. Bank of New York Mellon ( New York, NY ( 1996

. CHASE MANHATTAN BANK ( New York, NY ( 1995

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Summa cum Laude)

. Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering,

Voronezh, Russia

Bachelor of Science (Summa cum Laude)

. Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering,

Voronezh, Russia

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Tools: TSO/ISPF, QMF, BMS, File-Aid, Comparex, Intertest, CEDF, Endevor,

Librarian, MQ Series, CVS, Autosys, MS Project, Excel, Word, Visio,

PowerPoint, Clarity

O / S: Linux, Unix and OS/MVS (Mainframe)

Languages: SQL, JCL/Utilities, COBOL II, and CICS (command level),

Microfocus COBOL. Familiarity with JAVA, JMS Messaging

Databases/File Processing: DB2/UDB, Sybase, SQL, VSAM

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / ACTIVITIES

Columbia University Campus Recruiting Team Member

Operations Technology Functional Architecture Committee - Active Member

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