Strategic Program Manager and Leadership Advisor

KEN P

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STRATEGY ADVISOR PROGRAM MANAGER CONSULTANT

LEADERSHIP * EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT * STRATEGIC PLANNING * SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE Formed key partnerships Adapted new methodologies Improved team performance Extensive experience in financial services, technology, strategy, and management. Consistent record of success, promotions and increased responsibilities over years from business analyst to senior program manager. Applications include wide range of financial services from front-office trading to middle office, regulatory compliance to risk and control and transformation to data warehousing. Passionate and energetic strategy advisor and mentor. Completed programs resulting in 20% time savings, 31% labor savings, cutting down the expenses by $10M+ and mitigating risks. Strong dedicated leader and effective considerate mentor focused on results while caring about people. Proven expertise improving processes and turning around projects.

Leadership Strategy Delegation Decision-making

Transformation Vision Collaboration Conflict-resolution

Influencing Negotiation Governance Problem-solving PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT New York / remote 2004 to Present Program Manager CROIXSTONE CONSULTING

Helping clients accelerate transformation and strategic initiatives. Developing pragmatic solutions which are integrated into the client’s culture, enabling the sustainability of business outcomes.

Assisting clients in developing and implementing risk management and compliance strategies that align with their business goals.

Leading and managing projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget.

Ensuring that clients adhere to relevant laws and regulations, and helping them navigate complex regulatory environments.

Program Manager CITIGROUP

Managing the Program for next generation cross-asset Olympus Data Fabric enabling industry-leading analytics for all ICG Products/Lines of Business and integrating with Corporate Finance and Risk data.

Leading the efforts on onboarding of 230 product processors across 8 products, verifying and enriching the data from FO, Risk and Accounting engines and historical trades for 7 years with 410+ billion transactions.

Heading the work towards enabling client, regulatory, surveillance, supervisory, risk & finance reporting and data science solutions, establishing entitlements model which provides granular and multi-dimensional flexibility for data access with audit trail, streamline data sources across the firm, closing CAPs, remediating EUCs and data concerns while integrating data across all Asset Classes, FO Risk, and Markets Liquidity.

Successfully completed Consent Order deliverables for 2022 & 2023 progressing through all the audit stages.

Representing the program on the monthly Governance and quarterly SteeringCo meetings, managing the budget of $25M for 8 projects. Planning, directing and coordinating activities of running the program. KEN P ***-*@*****.** PAGE 2

Driving adherence to program processes, procedures, methods and standards for delivery and leveraging across organization. Introducing significant savings in time and cost and improved data quality through reduced manual adjustments; capitalizing by partnering with Org PMO, overhauling the processes and expanding the scope alongside of Financial Transformation team; tracking and monitoring RAID. capitalizing redesi

Utilizing the diplomacy skills to guide, influence, and convince while overcoming the resistance from stakeholders; applying communication skills to negotiate at senior executive levels.

Overseeing vendor relations, staff management issues, resource management, allocation of work.

Recruiting, leading, motivating, cultivating and developing team; collaborating with executive leadership; influencing; overseeing analysis and implementation; facilitating weekly meetings and guiding the project managers delegating the tasks and inspiring. Evaluating performance and making recommendations for personnel actions. Program Manager/Value Stream Lead AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE Drove the progress of Value Stream in E1P (Enterprise One Platform) program creating strategic growth opportunities for five merged Operating Companies in one entity while capitalizing on and leveraging the diverse experience. {Delivery management Release management Content management DevOps coach leader GitHub SAFe Agile automation quality metrics}

Partnered and collaborated with Product owners and Delivery managers with the goal of successful and timely release. {Zephyr Hexawise Automation framework AWS Sharepoint Jira Confluence Governance QA triage enterprise SAFe integration GitLab Smartbear Kendis ELZ }

Championed the transformation into Agile mindset, running Scrum of Scrums and other ceremonies and coordinating the efforts of vendors, remote on-shore and off-shore cross-functional teams. {Okta Delivery Release }

Led and guided 10 enterprise Agile teams in implementing & rolling out initial stages of the platform. Business Manager/Strategic Projects BARCLAYS CAPITAL Structured and facilitated emerging projects in Markets Risk and Control establishing and optimizing the framework for Unauthorized Trading controls for 100+ trading desks. Implemented Trader Mandate process for Surveillance team.

Managed internal control enhancements programme for Markets business.

Formed key partnerships and engaging with key stakeholder groups (Compliance, Product Control, Operations, Market Risk) to ensure change programs integrate across business functions. Partner with managers to drive execution, governance and communication.

Implemented Trader Mandate surveillance process to identify, record, review and escalate exceptions in accordance with policy and standards. Liaising across markets, coordinating the validation of data, working on Trader Mandate Control, Unauthorized trading and Trade Surveillance programs. Improved reporting process saving 45% time and 35% resources.

Headed the Internal Control Enhancement program for Markets vertical spanning all the business and function units across the firm introducing new and strengthening existing 300+ controls effectively eliminating audit points and mitigating potential risks.

Senior Agile Project Manager MERRILL LYNCH

Successfully adapted Agile Scrum methodologies for phased implementation into ongoing project. Ensured teams practiced the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Managed project initiatives in Global Risk Data Management organization adopting and utilizing Agile methodologies for phased implementation.

Led the effort of transitioning to Agile culture increasing overall efficiency and turnaround times.

Presented at senior stakeholders meetings and prepared project documentation - go/no go deck, release notes. Collaboratively worked across business to inform and influence decision making, ensuring alignment of tactical decision with the strategic objectives.

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master PEARSON

Facilitated Agile adoption, coached new SMs, improved product delivery and collaboration across teams.

Organized and facilitated project planning, daily scrum meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings and ceremonies. Facilitated discussion, collaboration and conflict resolution; empowering teams to self-organize. Effective implementation and incorporating the feedback resulted in 25% higher revenues generated due to new features. KEN P ***-*@*****.** PAGE 3

ADDITIONAL PRIOR EXPERIENCE

CITIGROUP Senior Program Manager/Project Lead

Spearheaded project successfully retiring Calypso vendor system to replace by the in-house strategic trade capture and processing platform resulting in enhanced features, increased flexibility, saving $6M annually.

Managed project plan milestones, tasks, budget and schedule for team of 40. RBC Senior Capital Markets Business Analyst

Designed and successfully rolled out the reporting framework. Liaised with wide variety of stakeholder groups – Compliance, Product Control, Operations, Market Risk, traders, Analytics bankers, portfolio managers, Quant desk. Established robust business and technical environment and specifications. Variable rate securities UBS Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Managed projects for Correlation trading, Consumer loans, and Emerging market desks of DRCM Hedge fund through all phases of SDLC.

CREDIT SUISSE Team Lead/Business Analyst

Managed Swaps (CDS & IRS) for MBS and Futures projects, involved in managing phases of projects implementing derivative products trading, reporting.

J.P. MORGAN AVP/Senior Trading Business Analyst

Actively participated in merging JP Morgan and Chase structures strategically evaluating existing business practices, providing due diligence and eliminating redundancies EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, International Business – Stern School of Business, NYU, New York

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Science – Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York

SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT

Member of Board of Advisors - GallopNYC

Teaching, mentoring and empowering high-school children – CentsAbility Enterprise Disability Network – Citi

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