Senior Director, Legal Operations Candidate

Emlyne Chery ** Maple St. #* Bloomfield, NJ ***** *****.******@*****.*** 973-***-**** mobile

www.linkedin.com/in/emlyne-chery-25a3a3229

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

● Lead IT Project Manager with 10+ years of Global Wealth Management experience in financial services, specializing in tracking initiatives at TD Bank, City National Bank, Ampcus, HSBC, MUFG, and Jones Day. Spearheaded long and short-term consulting projects at member firms. Assembled meeting materials for Senior Management and preparing Executive reports.. Exemplified core expertise in creating decks detailing project health status and business impacts. Kept teams abreast of SW SDLC timelines, handoffs and action items related to reporting deliverables and project management.

Skills: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Slack, SharePoint, PowerPoint, JIRA, Confluence, GRC RSA Archer, xMatters, AI Tools.

Education: St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY 1994 Bachelor of Science, Major: Paralegal Studies

Experience

TD Bank via Envision Technology Solutions, Mount Laurel, NJ Aug 2025 – April 2026

IT Project Manager - Lead

● Led as an integrator and enterprise execution engine supporting >$100MM IT & business transformation portfolio for 40+ Initiatives. Tracked end-to-end project delivery for multiple initiatives such as Strategic, Transformation, Innovation (AI), Regulatory, Currency, and Support projects. Oversaw Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) quality control and monitoring timelines, go-live dates, and workstreams for implementation and deployment. Managed issues and tracked backlog. Developed board-level executive-level presentations and documentation for strategic reporting featuring Key Performance Indicators KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and collaborating with the technology team; Managed team’s SharePoint site and promoted the effective use of firm designed tools and processes. Authored meeting takeaways and drafted official meeting minutes.

City National Bank ( Mindlance Agency) - Remote, NJ Aug 2024-Dec 2024

Project Analyst IV

● Conducted deep dive Dodd Frank - Volcker analysis and assembled data responding to an OCC consent order.

● Collaborated with operations and legal teams to address escalated issues. Met with the Fiduciary Lead to document key takeaways and support escalation decisions.

Ampcus Agency - Bedminster, NJ Dec 2023-Aug 2024

Legal Consultant II

● Logged legal process data into clients' systems and tracked exigent calls, Authored minutes during meetings.

● Scheduled and organized discussions with senior leadership and various teams to drive advancements in processes.

Citibank N.A. New York, NY Apr 2023-Aug 2023

Business Risk Officer – VP SME

● Functioned in close partnership with the Global supervisory structure of Business Risk Teams in the UK, HK, APAC & EMEA executing operational inefficiencies.

● Authored meeting takeaways and drafted official meeting minutes for the Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) Governance Operations Committee, and Global Trade Financing Committee (GTFC) meetings; Stored for audit

AVP Compliance Officer -SME Mar 1997 – Sep 2003

● Subject Matter Expert (SME) Compliance in Control Room/General Counsel’s Office regarding research change restriction policy governance and administration.

HSBC, (US. Tech Agency) New York, NY Jun 2022 – Apr2023

Associate Director – Lead Project Manager - Subject Matter Expert LIBOR Transition– SME

● Spearheaded governance, risk and compliance operational risk project analysis concerning US Treasury LIBOR transition.

● Led meetings with Relationship Managers to ensure they understood the LIBOR decommissioning and could communicate it effectively to clients; Cross collaborated with legal operations and working group teams to spearhead the decommission.

MUFG/Union Bank, ( Pyramid Consulting) New York, NY. Jun 2021 – Feb 2022

AI Project Manager - Legal Liaison- AI Contract Migration - Subject Matter Expert - SME

● Managed LIBOR project timelines and held meetings with Relationship Managers to ensure they understood the LIBOR decommissioning and could communicate it effectively to clients.

● Led cross functional collaboration between legal, operations and sales teams regarding transition action items

Brown Brothers Harriman, (Cavalier It Corp Agency) New York, NY Jan 2020 – Mar 2020

Enterprise Risk Management Governance & Regulatory Risk -Administration Consultant

● Facilitated annual updates by consulting with COO office, Attorneys, Compliance, and Business Partners regarding BBH’s compliance with regulatory policies and procedures and created executive presentations for reporting.

● Attended board meetings, supported the Corporate Secretary with fund and board updates, drafted meeting minutes, reviewing and updating charters.

Jones Day (Axiom, and Twenty Recruitment), New York, NY Nov 2019 – Dec 2019

Project Manager for AI Contract Transition

● Consulted and coordinated legal team to spearhead an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine learning project.

● Executed first round preparation for training the Machine learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool.

Prudential, ( Yoh Services) Newark, NJ Apr 2019 – Aug 2019

Risk Management Associate / Lead Project Coordinator

● Directly lead a team of project or program management professionals and/or oversee work through matrixed resources.

● Executed project coordination with the Business Information Security Officer (BISO), Financial Account Control Team, and Technology Team as Lead Project Coordinator related to Regulatory Engagement with External Regulator and Business Unit leaders.

● Successfully implemented DaaS, also worked on current state and future state of PeopleSoft to Workday transition.

● Authored meeting minutes during audit meetings and documented action items for various team members to action.

Cognizant Technologies, Inc., (Frink-Hamlett) Teaneck, NJ Jun 2018 – Aug 2018

Legal Specialist

• Managed a high-volume legal document project, ensuring timely analysis and filing at scale which improved review delivery.

BNP Paribas, (Russell Tobin & Associates) Jersey City, NJ Feb 2018 – Apr 2018

Policy Governance Analyst

● Led annual governance risk and compliance framework policy governance check and challenge for the Finance and Tax COO Business Management team.

● Aligned management with established processes and communicated new procedures to support change management.

NASDAQ, (Synergy Interactive) New York, NY Jul 2017 – Oct 2017

Paralegal

● Executed governance risk and compliance program management by liaising with UK, Canada and Philippines teams on contract negotiation IT Procurement Sales contract project analysis and change management.

● Held meetings to align efforts and authored confidential meeting minutes and tracked action items.

BNY Mellon, ( ACS Group/Innova) Woodland Park, NJ Mar 2016 – Jul 2017

FRB SR-14 Living Will - Lead Project Manager for Document Migration Contracts - Consultant

● Accomplished high-level governance risk and compliance operational data migration leadership and support regarding documentation transformation/change initiative in scope with Federal Regulatory Rule.

● Created KPIs and KRIs concerning contracts reviewed and presented them to Senior Management.

US Trust/Bank of America Private Bank,( Axelon Services Corp) Florham Park, NJ Jul 2015 – Oct 2015

AML/KYC Refresh Analyst - Assistant to Lead Fiduciary Officer

● Ensured governance structures and supported effective, compliant, and timely decision-making.

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