Data Entry Project Management

Richard Girard

917-***-**** / ************@*****.*** / Forest Hills, NY 11375

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-girard-9b40182/

SUMMARY:

Heavy experience in Business & Data Analysis, mostly in the Financial Svcs(Banking) and Telecommunication sectors.

Utilize SDLC and Agile practices to compile business/user requirements, prepare process flow artifacts, develop system and programming specifications, and create, execute, and manage UAT scenarios.

oSolution oriented, with excellent project management and team leadership experience.

Extensive experience applying data governance practices, with emphasis in creating data quality measurements and remediation for data domains KYC, Compliance, Trade, Finance, Risk, and AML/Financial Crime applications.

oCollaborated with business, CDO, and IT in CDE qualification, data profiling, DQ measurement and data lineage requirements across most regulatory reporting and governing BCBS 239 requirements. Extensive project management. Good experience with Collibra and Informatica platforms.

oExtensive experience with diverse set of asset classes, credit card, wealth management segments serving both retail and commercial customer segments. Familiar with credit bureau data.

oIdentified DQ defects and sources, helping to remediate with both business and technical partners.

oParticipated in a variety of MDM activities to facilitate single sourcing of data for reporting/analytics.

Strong analytic process experience including business case development; use of analytic disciplines to describe, predict, and prescribe actions; deploy analytic process governance and execution.

oStrong experience in SQL and analytic programming for the SAS and SPSS environments.

oExperience with Snowflake within a SaaS ecosystem to support adhoc data analytics.

oGood background in ETL and API technologies.

oExtensive use of various DWH platforms for analytics and reporting.

oGood experience with BI tools, such as Cognos and Qlikview/QlikSense.

oSupported CRM activities for both consumer/commercial segments in credit cards, banking and insurance.

Experienced payment processing across the full lifecycle of issuing/acquiring banks/businesses.

Well versed in Investment Ops procedures and practices.

Have worked on both on premise and cloud platforms, such as AWS and Azure.

Participated in a wide variety of Non-financial Regulatory Reporting(NFRR) including topics such as transaction reporting, data maturities, and risk management.

Excellent communicator and mentor. Former adjunct lecturer in Computer Science at Pace University in NYC.

WORK EXPERIENCE

American Express

Data/Business Analyst, Business Requirements/Functional Analyst, Project Mgr., Sept 2023 – Dec 2023

Assist in building additional DQ rules for newly identified CDEs for Finance domain

Collecting business requirements for developing a comprehensive and standardized DQ reporting tool.

Data profiling of candidate CDEs using SQL and Python in a Hadoop environment.

Bloomberg LP

Data/Business Analyst, Project Mgr., April 2023 – July 2023(project cancelled)

Developed data catalog for data assets of Bloomberg products.

Built data visualization scripts in Qlik for various KPIs of Bloomberg services around Capital Mkts.

Explored data lineages for various products using data modeling views.

Manage inventory of data quality controls for North America operations, particularly for Risk and Finance reporting. Activities included compilation of business requirements, interpretation of requirements for Informatica(IDQ), Tableau and Alteryx development, and distribution to data stewards for remediation.

Richard Girard

917-***-**** / ************@*****.***/ Forest Hills, NY 11375

WORK EXPERIENCE(con’t)

Natixis(French Corporate Bank)

Data Quality Data Analyst, Project Mgr., May 2022-Dec 2022

Manage inventory of data quality controls for North America Capital Mkt operations, particularly for Risk and Finance reporting. Activities included compilation of business requirements, interpretation of requirements for Informatica(IDQ), Tableau and Alteryx development, and distribution to data stewards for remediation.

Bank of America(BofA)

Data Analyst in Risk&Finance Technology, Dec 2021 – April 2022

Facilitate enterprise-wide data quality framework to related LoBs in Capital Mkts and Investment Banking. Helped develop requirements for process efficiencies in developing and implementing DQ controls.

BNY Mellon

Data Specialist, Project Mgr., Jan 2020 – Dec 2021

Onboarded data lineage and catalog details across the bank’s application landscape using commercially available technology for capturing and displaying this information. Periodically led teams to facilitate these efforts based on business LoB across the enterprise including Capital Mkts, Investment, Treasury, etc.

Societe Generale(SocGen)

Data Domain Business Analyst, Oct 2018 – March 2019

Satisfy 2018 various DQ and data management objectives for NA CDO organization including completing Fed mandated metadata, data lineage, and scorecard requirements in support of BCBS 239 program. Work with SG businesses to develop and implement 2019 plans, mostly in Capital Mkts.

HSBC, Global CDO

Senior Data & Business Analyst, Project Mgr., Dec. 2015 – June 2018

Worked with North American businesses to business analyze Data Quality (DQ) requirements and deploy periodic DQ assessments for hundreds of critical data elements (CDEs) in support of BCBS 239, customer onboarding, KYC, and AML/Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) programs. Close partnership with IT and local CDOs, businesses.

oPerformed myriad of “root cause” analytics to facilitate remediation efforts by local CDOs.

Team leader of onshore and offshore resources, performing data profiling and DQ logic use using IBM Info Analyzer.

Feb. 2015 – Dec. 2015

Provided services for Data Governance and application re-engineering during a variety of short-term engagements.

oAIG, Business P & C, (Feb 2015-Apr 2015) – Regression testing of risk-rating processing from system enhancements.

oBarclays Investment Bank, Treasury Ops, (Sept 2015 – Dec 2015) – Assessed data quality and performed reconciliations of trade collateral data for Compliance reporting. Extensive use of SQL to perform DQ work.

Citibank, US Consumer and Commercial Bank, Marketing/Decision Management

Senior VP, Nov. 2009 – Jan 2015

Developed Data Governance/Data Quality processes for critical data element qualification, business rule development, and data maturity assessments for regulatory reporting.

oProposed and performed assessments of customer linkages to implement iterative consolidations of these relationships for KYC and sales/marketing efficiencies.

Performed business analysis of functional and user requirements for re-engineering of front/back-end business processes impacting Marketing, Payments, Sales, Compliance, Finance, and Operations.

oDeveloped data requirements for CRM data mart, based on complex event processing (CEP) in support of interactive marketing initiatives triggered by real-time customer events.

oRecognized SME of business data impacting prospect and customer management, CRM, DWH, and BI.

Supported targeting of B2B/B2C omni-channel marketing campaigns primarily using SAS in Teradata environment.

LoBs supported were consumer/commercial banking, Private Bank, Wealth Management.

Richard Girard

917-***-**** / ************@*****.***/ Forest Hills, NY 11375

Citibank, Global Consumer Banking, Global Decision Management

Senior VP, Jan. 2003 – Oct. 2009

Partnered with global consumer and business groups to develop and implement data-driven business enhancements to improve business outcomes.

oEngaged with European and Asian markets to develop standardized customer segmentation schemes to support requisite acquisition and retention initiatives. Leveraged SAS and various BI tools to implement.

oEnhanced loan-selling process in German market by enabling certified personnel to offer and approve loans on the phone, rather than visiting a branch. Realized almost a 100% increase in interested loan prospects.

Citibank, US Cards and Consumer Bank, Business Planning & Analysis, Decision Management, VP, 1988 - 2002

Worked in various analytic/reporting functions, providing a variety of analytic services in the areas of DB Marketing support, BI reporting, process re-engineering, and competitive intelligence.

oCompiled data requirements for large-scale DB of customer, product, and transaction time series. Created user requirements for self-service data extraction tool. Recognized SME for DB’s data content and consumption.

oHelped to develop MDM requirements for single source database in support of reporting/analytics for consumer and commercial banking.

oProvided numerous marketing lists in support of product x-sell and upsell initiatives.

oDeveloped sales lead templates for branch network use in outbound sales promotions.

oFacilitated next-likely product strategy, using a velocity of product acquisition methodology.

RG Consulting, Principal/Consultant, 1985 - 1987

Implemented large-scale analytic solutions for a variety of clients (AT&T, Citibank, and ADP). Developed these projects:

oUser interactive framework for commercial distribution of self-service macroeconomic models developed by economic consultancy Townsend-Greenspan (lead partner was Alan Greenspan).

oRate planning, demand models for tariff filing of a national optional-calling service to be offered by AT&T.

oConsumer demographic profiling application, based on Citibank credit card activity at specific merchants, to facilitate selling of Citibank’s merchant services.

EDUCATION

PACE UNIVERSITY, BBA in Mathematics and Computer Science

Received 4-year scholarship to a work-study program; started local chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon, national Math Society.

Following graduation, served for 1 year as an adjunct professor of Information Systems

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, non-credited courses in Advanced Statistics

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Analytic/DB Languages: SAS, SPSS, SQL, Python, Cobol, Fortran

Analytic Tools: Alteryx, Snowflake

DB Systems: DB2, Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, Snowflake

Platforms: AWS, Azure(hybrid, private), mainframes, Hadoop

Productivity Tools: MS Office including Access, Visio, SharePoint, various DQ measurement tools, JIRA, Quality Center

Data Governance Tools: IBM Info Analyzer, Collibra, Informatica Suite, ASG Technologies, various Lineage tools

BI Tools: QlikView/QlikSense, Cognos

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