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Senior Project Manager & Business Analyst with close to 15 years of software delivery experience KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
● Financial advisor system enhancements for the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney technology merger.
● Implementation of SEC 15c3-5 and Dodd-Frank trader controls on Morgan Stanley’s FI trading applications.
● Front-end UX enhancements for E*Trade’s retail equities and options trading platform.
● Automation of Fixed Income portfolio transition management process for CNR Bank.
● Product Manager for BNP’s CRM application for North/South America.
● System analysis for establishing the new Brazil structured equities trading platform for BNP.
● Implementation of a client services management system for North America for BNP Paribas.
● Successful migration of cost basis reporting from Sungard to Gainskeeper for UBS. SKILLS
Large Scale Project Management ● Business Data Analysis ● Wireframe Documentation Agile Software development ● System Analysis & Design ● System Scaling & Customizations ● Software Delivery Life Cycle ● SQL Data Analysis ● Oracle/Siebel proficiency● Compliance & Regulation Analysis ● MS Project\Visio\Excel proficiency ● PMP certification in progress PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Fidelity Investments – FINCOMM (01/20 – Present)
Senior Business Analyst- legacy COBOL programs
● Team lead to migrate financial communications programs from legacy COBOL.
● Design the process to translate and deliver the COBOL programs into user stories.
● Negotiate SLA between client, and third-party software stakeholders.
● Conduct weekly meetings with project stakeholders for project updates
● Coordinate training of the third-party code analyzer application for client IT team.
● Document post-project handover to the client IT team and set post-project support guidelines. City National Rochdale (09/19 – 12/19)
Senior Solutions Architect
● Project Manager/ Business Analyst for automation FI portfolio transition management processes.
● Analyze the delta between the current and proposed process automation.
● Design new process wireframes to incorporate into the existing infrastructure.
● Work with development teams to identify new system and coding enhancements.
● Design Agile project plan identifying responsibilities and dependencies across all stakeholders.
● Manage daily scrum meetings to review and prioritize Jira use cases.
● Manage the lifecycle of the project through post deployment handover to client support teams.
● Provide post deployment training to FI portfolio managers. BNP Paribas 02/14 – 7/2019
Product Manager – E-Trading Platforms
● Manage client-facing FX and Index trading application suite.
● Manage client on-boarding priority with business stakeholders.
● Document requirements and customize trading applications accordingly for clients.
● Assist clients through the on-boarding process and conduct training as needed.
● Manage system enhancements and work with IT stakeholders through SDLC. Vice President - CRM Applications (North & South America)
● VP of client relationship management activity for North and South America.
● Document new requirements and consult global sponsors for approval and prioritization of work.
● Manage user support and training for CRM applications.
● Manage CRM custom data reports for various business end user groups. 1
● Conduct data mining projects to identify synergies between business lines.
● Provide monthly and weekly marketer performance reports using the CRM database.
● Coordinate CRM application training for users across North and South America.. Senior Business Analyst-Brazil EQD Digital
● Conduct Data Analysis for the new Brazil structured equity business line.
● Work with key stakeholders to ensure data integrity between NYC structured equity desk, Paris hedging desk, and Sao Paulo trading desk.
● Test Data feeds to downstream reporting and PnL applications
● Document enhancements to the proprietary structured equity trading system to incorporate new data fields.
● Work with PM team to conduct UAT testing and run post deployment production test deals book correctly. Project Manager - CLM IT – Client Services & Reporting (CSRT)
● PM for KYC investigation project to integrate vendor database Alacra with the proprietary client onboarding application (GCARS).
● Manage project deliverables and provide weekly updates to compliance and legal stakeholders.
● Conduct UAT testing and post release checks.
● Provide third level support and user training as needed.
● Build daily report feeds for compliance consumption. Project Manager - Client Services NY - Hobart
● PM for Hobart email functionality deployment for Corporate Banking NY.
● Work with Paris Capital Markets IT team on Hobart Convergence project for Capital Markets NY.
● Coordinate with North America Risk Management and Data security teams to ensure email security.
● Ensure email transfer is recorded per industry guidelines on data management and retention.
● Conduct weekly meetings with Compliance, Legal, Data Security, and IT stakeholders.
● Engage Compliance and Legal team to attain signoff required at various stages of the project.
● Manage data migration from old ticketing system to Hobart.
● Provide application training to North American Hobart users.
● Document post release enhancements as requested by owners. Senior Business Analyst -SignPlus – Jersey City, NY, & Montreal
● North American Admin for global signatory repository with vendor application SignPlus.
● Provide support and training for North American SignPlus users.
● Engage with vendor IT teams to establish new feeds for SignPlus users in Montreal, NY, and South America
● Document and report new enhancements requested by users to Paris.
● Setup SLA for SignPlus support tasks.
UBS (Consulting) 05/13 – 10/13
Senior Business Analyst –TOM and Data Conversion & Quality Management
● Senior Business Analyst for Cost Basis Reporting migration from SunGard to GainsKeeper.
● Conduct data analysis to document gaps between the two systems.
● Document functional requirements; use cases for development sprints, and test cases for UAT.
● Manage TOM team deliverables by assigning/tracking/resolving issues assigned to team members.
● Coordinate with Business, vendor IT, Compliance, and Operations stakeholders to resolve project tasks.
● Document UX GUI design for Risk Management and Compliance teams.
● Provide weekly progress reports to the executive steering committee.
● Conduct data integrity tests following each phase of data migration to the new platform.
● Attain Compliance and Legal stakeholders sign off on data management and retention per industry standards. Royal Bank of Canada (Consulting) 05/12 – 04/13
Senior Business Analyst-Operations and Processing
● Implement SEC and FINRA changes to the back-office operations and PnL processing.
● Provide analysis for compliance driven projects related to Dodd-Frank initiatives.
● Provide technical analysis to the Operations and Process team with projects related to daily post trade reporting and intraday PnL management.
● Evaluate existing code and make recommendations for improvement.
● Review systems documentation with users and developers and update support documents and run books for SOX compliance.
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● Overhaul outdated systems documentation and workflows and update support documents and run books related to Equities & Options trade processing across multiple front end trading applications. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (Consulting) 04/11-03/12 Project Management – Technology Merger – Morgan Stanley & Smith Barney (Equities & Options)
● Manage initiatives for the Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney technology merger.
● Document functional requirements for the new retail Financial Analyst GUI.
● Conduct data integrity analysis of Smith Barney data feeds with Morgan Stanley downstream systems.
● Maintain daily project status meetings with key stakeholders from both firms.
● Provide bi-weekly progress updates to key stakeholders at Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney.
● Conduct UAT testing with users from both firms to attain signoff prior to releasing the new platform.
● Manage nation wide release of the new platform to retail Financial Analysts. Project Management - Dodd Frank Project (Equities, Options, Futures, FX, Fixed Income)
● Implement SEC and Dodd-Frank requirements over vendor and proprietary FI trading systems.
● Manage projects with IT teams to ensure all trading systems are compliant with SEC rules.
● Manage Risk & Infrastructure projects with IT stakeholders to deploy risk controls for FI, Equities, and Options execution systems.
Business Analyst/Project Management – Equities & Options Retail front-end trading platform re-design
● Review current GUI design and code for streamlining data input functionality.
● Document functional requirements and new User Interface designs for business approval.
● Manage projects with IT and business stakeholders with weekly meetings.
● Conduct UAT testing and attain signoff from stakeholders
● Conduct pre-release user acceptance testing.
● Manage a nation-wide release broken down by region. Details for the below positions will be furnished upon request Deutsche Bank (Consulting) 11/09-4/11
BA - FIX Client On-Boarding – Global Equities/Futures/Options Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (Consulting) 08/09-11/09 Futures- Client On-boarding
E*TRADE Financial 07/06-07/09
Project Manager - Global FIX Client On-boarding
Susquehanna International Group 02/05-07/06
Business Analyst /Project Manager
UNX- Universal Network Exchange 07/03-02/05
Support engineer/Project Manager
Prudential Securities 04/00-07/03
Electronic Trade Support Jr. Admin/ Trade floor support Electronic trade support
Various Positions as a Help Desk Support/Level 2 Administrator 05/96-04/00 EDUCATION
Montclair State University, Major:Biochemistry, Baccalaureate in Science: spring 1996. Bergen Community College, Major:Biology, Associates in Science: spring 1993. Additional courses: C++, Computer Graphics for Business, and Information Processing AFFILIATIONS
Co-Chair – Interfaith BNG at BNP Paribas
FIX Protocol – active member of the algorithmic trading group. PMI – member of the Project Management Institute.
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