NONA- MARIE JONES
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RELEVANT SKILLS
AML/BSA Compliance International Sanctions Compliance Investigations Transaction Monitoring
CAMS – Expected April 2020 Data Analytics – R, Excel EDUCATION
MA Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies (3.9 GPA) (May 2020) The Middlebury Institute of International Studies Monterey, CA
• Financial Crimes Specialization, French Language Concentration
• Relevant courses: Financial Investigations, Financial Threats and Sanction Topics, Legal Aspects of Compliance, Strategic Export Controls, Advanced Data Analysis
• Activities and Awards
o Student Council Vice President (2019-2020)
§ Oversees 17 council members
§ Manages $100,000 yearly budget used for programming and events o 2nd Place –The Atlantic Council’s National Cyber Strategy Memo-Writing and Briefing Competition
BA International Relations (August 2017)
San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Data Initiative (Dec. 2019 – current)
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions Research Internship Phoenix, AZ (remote)
• Conducts open-source data collection to assess AML regulatory and sanctions trends
• Analyzes and interprets federal and state legislature and guidance relating to industry- specific issues for banks and money-service businesses
• Continuously monitors developing regulatory changes to ensure ongoing compliance
• Collaborates with a remote team to ensure continued development and execution of product development goals and deadlines
o Communicates by telephone, email, Zoom (video conferencing), and Slack o Prepares weekly status report for supervisor
• Curates and manages over 2000+ source documents within a database for development
• Assists in the product development of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. (May 2019- August 2019) Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Governance Internship St. Petersburg, FL
• Researched and analyzed regulatory laws and guidance relating to emerging AML and sanctions risk from domestic and international regulators (OFAC, BIS, EU, BOE, HMT, UN, OSFI, etc.)
o Review sanction alerts and determine emerging threats
• Assisted in designing risk scoring metrics for transaction and monitoring software
• Collaborated with Senior Analysts to draft internal recommendations for changes to enterprise policies and procedures to mitigate AML and sanctions issues
• Regularly prepared written and oral reports for Senior Staff
• Conducted enhanced due-diligence case investigation using open-source and priority venues to identify:
o Entities listed on sanctions watch-lists (e.g., OFAC SDN List, BIS Denied Persons List, United Nations Security Council Consolidated List, etc.) o Determine any licensing requirements and proper fulfillment of requirements o Identify and verify adequate disclosure of any sanction violations
• Coordinated with other Departments (Financial Intelligence Unit, Client Intelligence Unit, Enhanced Due Diligence Unit, Securities Review Unit, etc.)
• Assisted in development of AML and Sanctions Compliance trainings Cyber Initiative, The Middlebury Institute of International Studies (Sept. 2018-Dec. 2018) Graduate Research Assistant Monterey, CA
• Maintained the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research's Cyber Index Database
• Curated open-source government documents to catalog UN member state's national cybersecurity posture, response capabilities to a cyber-attack, and existing national Computer Emergency Response Team or Computer Security Incident Response Team
• Proof-read to ensure the correctness of spelling and grammar of database entries Naval Postgraduate School (Dec. 2017 – current)
Research Assistant and Administrative Assistant Monterey, CA
• A federal employee with a Department of Defense security investigation
• Conducted open-source research to support project proposals and reports for publishing o Authored, “Feasibility of Encoding Sensitive Personal Record Data using
“Blockchain” Structure”
• Executed R-code to identify problems, code accuracy, and usability by 3rd parties
• Assisted in the development of COREnets, an R software-package
• Regularly supports over 200 faculty members administratively
• Acted as a member of the Government Purchase Card (GPC) Program from 2017-2019 o Managed purchase card with $60,000 monthly threshold ($3,000 per purchase) o Used an Enterprise Resource Management system to enter, track, and reconcile purchasing assignments
o Maintained electronic and physical records of monthly purchasing records Global ECCO, Office of Naval Research (June 2017-Dec. 2017) Counter-Terrorism Strategy Virtual Gaming Product Development Internship Monterey, CA
• Researched and drafted user-manuals for strategic web-based and virtual reality games o Edited existing manuals to ensure proper spelling and grammatical correctness
• QA tested games and logged product issues through JIRA
• Collaborated with software engineers and senior researchers to improve product design