Project Management Wealth

Dennis Wong

Email: **********@*******.***

Tel: 1-929-***-****

Extensive experiences within the financial IT sector, demonstrating a strong understanding of the banking environment with working coverage on various banking business silos (Investment banking, Global Market Trading, Wealth Management, Private banking and Retail-Middle SME banking).Working capacities in banks, consulting and government sectors with job focus on solution architecture, Project management, Business data Analysis, System development, Process re-engineering, Specialized application management and support, Pre and Post sales.

Summary:

Seasoned Financial/IT professional with 20+ years of international (Singapore, India, China) and domestic experiences across banking, insurance, government, and IT consultancy sectors.

Working domain knowledge in bank systems (Murex, Calypso, ION, Summit, Kondor+), risk management (Market/Credit/Operational Risk, CECL, VAR, Monte Carlo), and regulatory compliance (SOX, CECL, AML, Basel, Dodd-Frank, FINRA, MAS, OFAC). Skilled in KYC, Treasury Ops, Payments (SWIFT, ACH, Fedwire, CLS), and settlement processes. Extensive experience with Trading, wealth management platforms, insurance sales workflows, and RegTech initiatives.

Strong consulting and solution architecture experience, including RFP/RFI, POC, pricing, and system integration across industries. Adept at pre-/post-sales support, TCO analysis, vendor management, and stakeholder engagement

Technical Skills:

Architect: Solution/System Architecture. Application Architecture. Infrastructure Architecture. Data Architecture. SOA.TOGAF 9.1. Security Design. Process Design. Solution Design and Pricing. System Integration. IT Roadmap map strategic planning.

Specialized System/Application Analysis and Support: ION Wall Street treasury and Trading STP Suite. Kondor+ Platform. SunGuard Treasury Collateral Management System (TCMS). Citibank MEMFIS Investment Suite (Security Brokerage, Equity Trading, Option Pricer, Mutual Fund, Fixed Income), Ntier Securities Compliance Workbench. Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Fiserv Premier and Business Analytics. Sagework Credit. Abrigo BAM+ and AML. Bloomberg. Murex (Iincluding modules like Etr IdeaPad, Livebook, Simulation, RTPS, Market Risk Box, based on project needs). Score (GL system). Infinity Derivatives. Euclid (Euroclear). Automation, ITIL. Providing Front Office IT Support for these platforms. Knowledge of other Trading and Risk Management Systems (e.g., Calypso, Summit)

Data & BI Analysis and Management: IBM Cognos BI. SSDT(Microsoft Data Tools). Power BI, Aqua Data Studio, and Server. CRM Dynamic. Foxtrot. Data Remediation. ETL. EISL. Data Reconciliation and validation. Reporting and Dashboard. Data warehouse and Data Mart design (including Data Mart Plus concepts). MSSQL. Oracle SQL developer. Sybase. MySQL. Python. R. Excel. Applying analytical techniques relevant to Quant/STRATS.

Business Analysis and Project Management: PMP. SDLC Experience in a Banking Environment (Waterfall, APAL, Agile, and Agile FDD). Eclipse PMP. Quality Center. JIRA. Sierra Dimension. Requirement Analysis. Gap Analysis, Quality Assurance. Technical and business documentation.

Familiarity and Working knowledge: Windows and Unix/Linux OS environment. OLAP and OLTP databases. SQL. Python Anaconda environment. C#. Unix Shell scripting. ProIV..Net Framework. Java. Java FX. Java Eclipse. Intellij IDEA. Big Data Analysis. Hadoop. ServiceNow.

Experience:

Citigroup/Synechron Consulting - New York Jun 2023 -Dec/2024

Delivery/BA Lead/Managing Consultant

Responsibilities: High Billable for consulting works on specific client on-boarding/KYC project (Citigroup), Leading an Orchestration Engine (OE) team of business and technical consultants.

Utilizing JBPM for the workflow design to map the on-boarding process to automate business processes involving complex Front-to-Back Flows. Used Python and Shell scripts for automated data in financial applications

Project Management/delivery and Business Analysis responsibilities on Citi Investment track onboarding initiatives, leveraging Agile eexperiences in Citi Banking Environment. Manage client expectations regarding the consulting work from the consultants. Coach, Mentor, and motivates the consulting team through quality and delivery.

Actively engage in the selling of the company’s technology services in the banking technology area to clients. Developed and maintained data pipelines to distribute real-time and historical financial data to internal stakeholders.

Providing sstrategic guidance on the growth and development of consulting services for the company. Effectively building strong client relationships. Act as delivery and BA lead for group-wide digitization of client on-boarding initiative for the private banking division, which falls under the wealth management umbrella of Citigroup.

Business Analysis covering and act as product owner for bank wide client on-boarding transformation initiatives with focus on investment track on-boarding projects such as MACS IRA, IRA, CIM (Citi Investment Management), Fitek integration, IAA.

UBS Banking Group/Wipro Consulting - New Jersey May 2021 – Jun 2023

Senior Delivery Manager/Principal Consultant

Responsibilities: Participate in group-wide WMAP project (Legacy-Broadridge), a large transformation capital Market project by UBS. Responsible for the delivery of various requirements from different work product streams (MF,Fixed income, Equities.) Act as Scrum master to guide 30+ developers/SMEs on project requirements within a corporate Agile framework. Conduct Scrum calls to track project progress and answer queries.

Covered Account swing/conversion project to convert the UBS Old World account to the new OWA number in sync with the Broadridge conversion process.

All aspects of data manager responsibilities including Data governance, Data reconciliation, data quality, Data mapping.

Perform business analysis, JIRA user story writing, and project work for the bank’s integration team (EISL) on API development initiatives. Maintain a critical master tracker of 5000+ file integrity for senior management (MD level) reporting.

Perform functional data mapping and sourcing project between the bank’s mainframe and its external partner (Broadridge) systems to facilitate the development of API, managing complex Front-to-Back Flows.

Data analysis and support on the bank’s data lineage project. Collaborated with product owner,trading desks, risk teams, and IT to enhance processes and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Revamp the file batch process for the utilization of MuleSoft’s distributed platform to be in sync with Broadridge. Ontology mapping project for all domains to facilitate the development of a data lineage application used by the integration team as well as other team. Exercise to convert Excel tracker to SharePoint reporting. File merge and Pre-production release for 2000+ mainframe files.

Hanmi Banking Group - Los Angeles, CA Aug 2018 - Apr 2021

Application and Data Services, VP

Responsibilities: Act as team lead for application and data services support across all business units within the bank, including Front Office IT Support. Create and enforce policies for effective application and data management. Managed Reuters, ensuring high availability and low-latency market data distribution.

Assist in Data Governance initiatives. Responsible for several core applications, administration, and support. Straight through business analysis from application to data output, understanding Front-to-Back Flows.

Formulate techniques for quality data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy, and legitimacy of data. Maintain inventory of enterprise data and perform data analysis activities (data modelling, BI, data mapping, data integration, data remediation and validation, reporting, and dashboard).

Manage and design reporting and integrate real-time data with core banking Systems. Data warehouse support and administration (including Datamart / Datamart Plus concepts).

Data and application specification documents, data lineage. Assess tests and implementation of new or upgraded software adhering to SDLC principles in a Banking Environment. Support for the strategic decision on the new systems and bank IT roadmap.

Project: Core Banking(Fiserv) Customer Information (CIF) data clean-up. Implementation of the bank-wide CRM system (MS Dynamics 365). Data remediation and validation project for the CECL regulatory rollouts on Credit Risk. LexisNexis data quality initiative. Implementation of the AML application (Abrigo, BAM+) application under BSA (Bank Secrecy Act) and data feeds, OFAC,FinCEN,SSA, CCPA, and Nexus government compliance requirements.

BONY-Convergex Securities/Ntier Financial System - New York, NY Oct 2016 – Feb 2017

Senior Application and Data Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities: Act as a Tier Financial system senior consultant for the Convergex client. Perform Data analysis and provide application support of Convergex's data Compliance/data reconciliation solution(Ntier Workbench), involving analysis of Front-to-Back order and trade Flows. Tasks included application support, data analysis, and performing proprietary data reconciliation and compliance platform implementation, system/application monitoring and support, IT, and compliance advisory.

Project: Implementation of the LTID (large Option trade) compliance module upon FINRA's bluesheet requirement. OATS implementation (Order Audit Trail system) module for FIX data validation, overall data Reconciliation and validation to ensure data integrity for bluesheet submission to FINRA. Generated a Compliance report from various data sources upon client request.

Stratech System Ltd. International Business Park – Singapore May 2012 – Apr 2016

IT Solution/Portfolio Architect

Responsibilities: Responsible for a portfolio of architectural design projects utilizing in-house product or out-of-the-box vendor products. Acting as a System integrator and consultant to fulfil clients’ requirements. Covering both business (Sales, Presale, Pricing) and technical responsibilities. Overall Application, Infrastructure, Process Solution Design on Multi-Million Dollar Tenders from Initiation of Proposal, Pricing to Presentation, development, Implementation, Testing, Commissioning, all the way to Maintenance and Support with team management responsibilities, following structured SDLC approaches. Interaction with the Sales team, Product team, Supplier, and Customer on the solution design. Work closely with the Development team. Requirement and release Management, Project Management.

Solution and Projects: Overall complete design of business Analytic Hub system (BAHUB) utilizing the latest technology, which will positioning it for the data warehouse, big data project in the future. Tasks including application, infrastructure, security, data mart design (incorporating Datamart / Datamart Plus principles), with project management involvement.

Solution and Projects: Overall complete design of Medical Claim Pro ration system (MCPS) for the public service department of Singapore, including application, infrastructure, security, and database design with project management.

Various in-house product involvements catering to global clients. These products include iFerrert (Foreign Object Detection System) and GPS PMS system, Upgrade of Online Certification of Entitlement (OCOE), Vessel Identification and Positioning System (VIPS).

OCBC Banking Group. OCBC Center - Singapore Aug 2007 – Jun 2008

Business Production Management/Project-Team Lead

Responsibilities: Technology Support and Management for group treasury, risk, and operations on various Core Business applications, including Trading and Risk Management Systems. Provided essential Front Office IT Support. Perform Application and Data analysis, including analysis relevant to Quant/STRATS (e.g., Risk). Project management of core STP application for group treasury, risk management, and back office operation, ensuring smooth Front-to-Back Flows. Automation, Change, and Release Management within a defined SDLC Banking Environment. Act as liaison between business and IT. Gather user requirements and provide Business and Technical Analysis and develop standard templates to facilitate project and support processes. Team management of 5. Delegate IT Project and Service Requests. Full project life-cycle work. Provide software estimation on business projects and customization. Perform the requirement and gap analysis. Writing various project and support-related documentation, including Functional Specification, UAT testing. Present production support, System stream review to CIO. Strategic improvements and issue preventative actions. Process improvements.

Project: Full project and business analysis life cycle on core trading application used by group treasury for their proprietary trading (including potentially Fixed Income Trading) and risk management operation. Upgrade of the core trading engine and surrounding interfaces. Project and Business Analysis of a new credit module for the credit and market risk operation. Upgrade of their collateral Management and Margin Leverage Platform.

Citigroup Inc. 1 Millennium Tower – Singapore Jun 2005 - Aug 2007

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities: Provide business and technology consultation, including Front Office IT Support, on several wealth and investment applications to front-end users and the application architecture/design team. Product Management and enhancement on the bank’s Securities brokerage, Mutual fund, insurance, structured investment, wealth management banking application. Perform Business Analysis and oversee the Project on MEMFIS securities brokerage, Mutual Fund investment system for global initiatives. Provide software estimation on wealth management projects and customization. Perform requirement and gap analysis. Documentation of Functional Specification. SIT certification and sign-offs, UAT testing, and coordination. Interaction with various Business units and external parties on business requirements. TTT (Train the Trainer). Presentation on functional changes. Upper Management Reporting. Managed projects, understanding Front-to-Back Flows.

Projects: Utilization of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC - APAL) in a Banking Environment. Full project cycle responsibilities for APAC, including Hong Kong, China, and other countries user for the implementation of Front to Back Fixed Income Securities trading, FX trading, as well as a Mutual fund wealth management platform. Project risk tracking, Resource allocation. Project initiation to implementation. Coordination with in-country business group, Operation &Technology (O&T). Status reporting to upper management.

ABN AMRO Bank NV. Chulia Street – Singapore Oct 2001 - May 2005

Business Support Manager/System Owner

Responsibilities: Carry out Business, Technology initiatives, and project activities on behalf of the Investment Banking arm of ABN. Provide Front Office IT Support and analysis for the Bank's Global Financial Market Unit (including Fixed Income Trading desks). Production support of various business technologies, including core Trading and Risk Management Systems. Perform business analysis of new requirements, Translations of business into Technical. UAT coordination and execution of new releases. Functional Specifications: Define project initiatives and enhancements. Release Management, BCP exercise. Develop and maintain client partnerships. Liaison between different Business units, vendor management. Advances ABN AMRO's Technology Procedures and Capabilities. Manage and develop staff. Control system documentation. Managed activities requiring strong SDLC Experience in a Banking Environment and understanding of Front-to-Back Flows.

Projects: SDLC and PMP. Manage projects and perform a support role throughout the department. Involvement in various STP projects, including the migration of the core front office trading system to new version, the migration of the bank's core back office system to Version 4.0, and go-live initiatives for various countries. Manage the new release of the Report Management System STORQM. BCP documentation for all FM applications. Involved training program on the bank's FM and FMO technologies for new hires and users the support their abilities.

JPMorganChase - New York, NY Jun 2000 – Aug 2001

Business Associate

Responsibilities: Provided customer service and advice to wealth management business clients in regard to financial and investment agendas. Developed clients through cold calls, referrals, and cold canvassing. Analyzed the problem and provided a resolution. Interaction with various departments (Ex, Finance, treasury service) on different issues. Provide support to the consumer and middle market unit on sales, business, and technology initiatives. Utilized in-house systems to facilitate the resolution of the issues and provide better support to customers.

Wall Street Systems Inc (ION Trading) - New York, NY Jun 1996 - Jun 2000

Analyst Programmer/Client Support

Responsibilities: Analyse, Develop WSS STP Trading and Risk Management system (covering areas like Fixed Income Trading), Analysis of capital products, provide Front Office IT Support to investment product managers on module implementation, WSS application and in-house product knowledge support, business and requirement analysis (understanding Front-to-Back Flows), functional analysis of client's business processes, wrote programs to improve WSS functions by utilizing available software, recording/reporting status/exceptions/issues, change management, Perform UAT, QA on every new and improved developments applying early SDLC principles, staff training, technical support to sales staff, support to documentation manager on RFP inquiries.

Projects: Assistant to VP of migration on system porting project from a character-based WSS system to a GUI platform treasury system. Financial application analysis and user support, perform control analysis and compliance issues, metadata maintenance, scheduling data load using auto sync, run unit/integration/QA/user-acceptance tests, and validate data integrity, provide customer support for various clients such as AIG, CA, RBS, BONY either on site or through conference call.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Brooklyn College of New York City University

Studying Economic and Computer Science, Jun 1996

AWARDS:

Star award for Critical Business Support in ABN Amro

WSS GUI Implementation award for AIG

Team award for Wall Street System project in ABN Amro

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