Career Responsibilities
Strategic development and management of the business rule portfolio
used in the detection and prevention of fraud in financial products
Consult and report fraud strategy recommendations to senior-level management; act as subject matter expert on fraud system integration and use
Manage the fraud analytics team on model governance activities involving internal and vendor fraud management solutions
Manage projects and fraud systems for business unit leaders in Enterprise Risk Management, Payment and Card Services, BSA/ AML, and Loss Prevention
Developed integrated Alert Management system for Loss Prevention, designed to cross-analyze reported fraud risk from multiple source systems and reports
Model validation project manager for fraud models: Analysis and documentation for scoring methodologies used in risk- based rule systems; data modeling, sensitivity and gap analysis
The tracking, classification, and reporting of operational loss events as they align within the organizational hierarchy and GRC framework of the Bank
Integration, testing, and performance benchmarking of VAA, FICO, STAR, 3D-Secure, and EWS score models into fraud system rule systems
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Profile and variable analysis, using real-time historic data calculations to define account activity anomalies and perform dynamic fraud rules
Dashboard and interactive business intelligence development for analytic, operational, and management use
Career Achievements
Established and co-direct the Data Analytics Reporting (DAR) Program for Hancock Whitney Bank. This program networks the resources and talent of directors, managers, and analysts with the mission to design new solutions for improved capability and efficiency.
Defined the risk/rule control strategies that reduced fraud loss by 37% in one year and false positive rates by 50% within debit card activity
Development of operational risk capital model projections based on historical events, peer bank analysis, and statistical inference
Developed multi-faceted Common Point of Compromise application which assesses and determines fraud event origins over spans of time
Developed a validation method of qualitative risk assessment ratings using historic risk events surrounding lines of business, control parameters, and time series analysis
Development of the Industry Concentration Tracker- a comprehensive view of credit risk metrics based on the market and financial condition of the Bank’s commercial client base
Developed and currently optimize the risk score model used for mitigating fraud losses on mobile banking deposits. Remains in production for 3 years, increasing fraud detection to 89% and saving the bank an average of $3MM each year.
Lead Strategist for deposit and check fraud rule development, integration, and testing with Policy Manager and Case Management 3
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systems, resulting in a 50% reduction of false positive reviews Education
Fall 2021 LEAD Leadership Management Certification Harvard Business Review
December 2005 Information Systems Management, M.S. Florida Institute of Technology
May 1997 Finance, B.S.
University of New Orleans
System Skills
Fraud Management Systems:
Proactive Risk Manager, OrboGraph
NICE ACTIMIZE Policy Manager (Deposit/check/wire); VISA Strategy Manager; Image Centre; FIS/FISERV/KMS detection products Data Visualization and Programming Applications
Microsoft Office 2010-2016;
Tableau; Metric Stream
SQL Programming; SAS
Power BI tools suite and DAX language;
Palisade @Risk Statistical Applications
BPM (Business Process Management) Projects;
Visio;
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Experience History
VP of Risk Analytics
Hancock Holding Company Financial Crimes Division Fraud Management/ BSA/ Quality Assurance (Modeling) February 2016 - Present
Data model development; Fraud risk strategy analytics; Model Validation Implementation Supervisor;
System design and development;
Project Lead on fraud system policy management;
Co-Director of the Data-Analytics-Reporting Network for HW Bank Hancock Holding Company Enterprise Risk Management, AVP October 2013 – February 2016
Operational capital modeling; operational risk and loss event reporting KRI development; Legal case assessments; RCSA assessments within a GRC framework
Credit Portfolio Analyst II October 2006 – Sept 2013 Hancock Holding Company Credit Portfolio Management Financial Reporting and Analysis of the Bank’s $30B credit asset portfolio Industry, risk, and client relationship analysis
Credit underwriting analytics; CRE and Industry Loan analysis; Regulation 365 Non-Conforming Real Estate reporting; Credit Approval Memorandum assessments and financial statement analysis; 2-Dimensional Risk Rating Score modeling
Professor of Business and Technology August 2007 – present Subject Matter Expert on Curriculum Development
Delgado Community College
ITT Technical Institute
Course of Instruction:
Accounting; Finance and Banking; Business Communications; 5
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Managerial Science; Database Structure; Management Information Systems; Computer and Internet Literacy; Statistics; Web Fundamentals Director of Admin Services August 1998 – May 2003 General Manager of Bookstore Operations
Delgado Community College
Managed a staff of 20+ associates and department managers; Bursar; Institutional Research; Property Control
Account Manager August 2005 – Sept 2006
Corporate Green, LLC
Managed landscape installation crews; designed sales proposals Asst Branch Manager, Consumer Finance August 1997 – August 1998 Washington Mutual
Originated and closed real estate and auto loans; managed sales contract accounts