Alex Gregory

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Summary

Versatile technology manager with proven success driving enterprise-wide, high-visibility efforts. A dynamic project lead, able to drive multiple workstreams to align business requirements with policy, processes, and automation. Excellent documentation, visualization, and communication skills keep all stakeholders engaged and aligned.

Education

Columbia Business School, New York, NY Master of Business Administration 2005 - 2007

Tufts University, Boston, MA B.S. in Engineering 1991 - 1995

Experience

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY 11/2011 - 2/2022

Officer, IAM Program Manager / Product Owner, Markets Group 12/2016 - 2/2022

Remediated a SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Significant Deficiency and two control deficiencies by working across multiple work streams to enhance and align policies, processes, and governance controls. Successfully resolved the audit finding within one year.

Spearheaded the remediation efforts which included significant business and risk analysis, process mapping (visualization), automation, development, data clean-up and training.

Served as product owner for in-house IAM applications, created roadmap, user stories, and managed backlog.

Re-engineered more than 10 processes, adding workflow automation to normalize data and replace manual steps.

Collaborated with enterprise-wide counterparts to improve processes and tune SLAs spanning the system.

Participated in Bank response to pandemic emergency by working across system to green light emergency procedure changes to expedite the distribution of external access tokens to partner bank staff working from home.

Managed performance and budget for a team of eight analysts, associates, and contractors.

Served as main point of contact for all audits including Big 4, Board of Governors, OIG, and Treasury (GAO).

Submitted risk events, performed root-cause analysis, delegated ring-fencing and created remediation plan.

Regularly reported KPIs, risks, key decisions and strategized with senior stakeholders.

Co-led a Markets Group DEI workgroup and co-founded the JEDI (Justice Equity Diversity & Inclusion) council.

Technical Project Manager, Supervision Infrastructure Operations 5/2013 - 12/2016

Managed the build of the infrastructure to support the Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR) following Agile methodologies throughout the full SDLC.

Worked closely with the Board of Governors to understand and model the CCAR Program processes.

Anticipated needs and created a flexible design to accommodate a rapidly changing environment.

Coordinated onboarding and testing with our counterparts at the external banks.

Served as primary contact for a key software vendor, coordinating their implementation and release schedule.

Supervised a development team with three people supporting more than 150 SharePoint sites.

Business Process Automation Consultant, Markets Group PMO 11/2011 - 5/2013

Automated data collection and reporting for Markets Program Management Office (PMO), increasing their ability to manage additional projects, and significantly improving data transparency.

Worked within the Markets Group to map out and translate human resources onboarding process into automated workflows using a combination of SharePoint, Excel VBA, Microsoft Access, and Workflows.

CS Technology Consulting, New York, NY 4/2008 - 8/2011

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) 2/2010 - 8/2011

Principal Consultant - Project Manager as part of a CSTechnology engagement

Coordinated the onboarding and migration of the trading infrastructure of 70 trading firms, hedge funds and investment banks to the new NYSE data center including primary and secondary circuit installations and testing.

Influenced a key decision regarding equal access to the trading engines from a latency perspective.

Created a migration tracking system to handle 2300 servers, 300 applications, and 150 circuit installations.

Increased project management efficiency by 300% using an automated model of project management.

Fidelity Investments 8/2008 - 1/2010

Principal Consultant as part of a CSTechnology engagement

Co-authored a $1.5 billion data center strategy, including enterprise technology risk assessment, and gained buy-in from the CIO, CEO and Chairman.

Designed and led the roll out of an asset tracking system to support the migration of 10,000 servers and 3,000 application instances, providing real-time progress updates to senior management and stakeholders.

Spearheaded a cross-departmental data quality and collection initiative to consolidate and improve data quality.

Wachovia Corporation 4/2008 - 8/2008

Consultant - Disaster Recovery Business Analyst as part of a CSTechnology engagement

Performed an enterprise-wide application migration and disaster recovery analysis which included building a model that weighed various levers such as sales tax, energy costs, flood plain risk, labor costs and county investment incentives by location.

Interviewed more than 50 participants from technology groups within the firm, compiled the observations and created a presentation for the bank’s senior managers which was highly praised, and was adopted as the outline for the next steps of the bank’s migration program.

Bank of America Corporation, New York, NY 5/2004 - 11/2007

Vice President, Business Analyst / Dev Manager, Global Fixed Income Trading

Managed a team of tactical developers and business analysts, responsible for providing trading software and tools for the Fixed Income trading desks and risk managers.

Worked with traders to model a Credit Derivatives trading system and authored the requirements document.

Served as the primary business unit liaison and software delivery manager for all Fixed Income traders.

Facilitated cooperation between development teams in Europe and India and the development teams in London, Chicago, and NY. Managed the full SDLC including analysis, development, QA, UAT, training and roll out.

Conducted a Six Sigma Greenbelt Project, which saved more than one million dollars in market data costs.

Negotiated agreements with the major vendors such as Reuters, Bloomberg and MarketAxess.

Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY 1/1997 - 7/2003

International Prime Brokerage Developer

Designed and delivered two cross-platform web applications using Java, JSP, Natural, Sybase, Unix, Mainframe and MQ-series, which had more than 300 users and reduced annual costs by more than $5 million.

Analyzed business processes and translated them into IT requirements for the Prime Brokerage Client Link web-portal used by more than 70 major hedge fund managers. The portal was the fund managers’ main access point to Morgan Stanley trading, portfolio management and custody services.

Areas of Technical Accumen

Skillsets

Programming

MS Tech

Efficiency

Agile Development

VB / VBA

SharePoint / O365

Training Video Creation

Automation

Java

InfoPath/Nintex

Mind/Process Mapping

Business Analysis

Javascript

Project

Digitization

Access Management

XML/HTML

Access / SQL Server

DevOps / Jira

Certificates

PMI-ACP Candidate for 2023 (currently preparing for the exam)

SUN Certified Java Programmer (2001)

Six Sigma Green Belt (2005)

Community

Designed a program which resulted in more than 4,000 computers being distributed to “high needs” families in the New York City metro area. (2004-2010)

Mentor - Chelsea High School Mentor Program (2002-2004)

Math SAT Tutor – Harlem Center for Education (2000-2001)

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