GREGORY D. MILLS

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Flanders, NJ **836

973-***-**** i3doyh@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Project management professional with solid background in finance, information technology and business management. Adept at on boarding, teambuilding and streamlining businesses. High degree of flexibility with focus on corporate mission and objectives. Solid budget and planning experience, process improvement identification and execution.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HSBC SECURITIES, INC., New York, NY 2001 – 2011

IT Business Management/PMO (2007-2011)

• Implemented and enhanced Project Management Office functions inclusive of project status reporting as well as administration of best practices across all asset classes in IT.

• Identified priority projects and consolidated into concise, timely and accurate reports for Americas CIO, asset class heads and other senior management.

• Chaired monthly project status conference call to clarify issues, risks and timeframes and to expose previously unknown dependencies between asset classes.

• Acted as Senior Project Manager in Finance, having five direct reports overseeing 25 critical IT projects at a time including:

o Basel II

o Risk-Weighted Assets

o Audit Mitigation

o Restricted Stock Shares

• Trained project managers on HSBC Risk Based Project Management Standards (using CA's Clarity).

• Administered and managed budgetary planning totaling over $75 Million in IT in areas of Finance, Operations, Risk, Global Banking and Cross Products.

• Updated departmental forecasts, analyzed and prepared monthly financials against departmental costs.

• Wrote SOWs and administered applications for approval of on-boarding 3rd party vendors.

• Managed and reported billing, budgeting, resource planning and project status to senior management.

Vice President, Finance (2005-2007)

• Managed a team of ten professionals.

• Project managed new application development to provide additional efficiencies to Product Controllers, Financial Controllers and MIS departments for internal and external financial reporting and analysis. This involved drawing out and identifying actual requirements (instead of perceived requirements), performing gap analyses to determine what was a priority, designing a solution which would meet the end-users’ needs while being feasible from a development perspective, spot checking with programmers to ensure they understood what they needed to produce and communicating progress to end users, testing prototypes before presenting, demonstrating applications to end users and senior management, training end users on how to use and request enhancements, documenting user guides to ensure knowledge transfer and availability, and providing

• Recommended modifications to financial reporting processes using iGrafx for Six Sigma and Visio.

• Provided daily reconciliations between numerous source trading systems and HSBC’s general ledger system.

• Edited existing procedural documentation to ensure timeliness and clarity.

Assistant Vice President, Finance IT (2001-2005)

• Created new reports using Cognos Impromptu and Powerplay as front-end reporting tools to consolidate cross-system customer, risk, MIS and regulatory reporting.

• Wrote and conducted UAT test plans for reconciliation processes and to ensure data integrity.

EBS DEALING RESOURCES, INC., New York, NY 1995 – 2000

Director, Electronic Broking

• Provided subject matter expertise for non spot-FX instruments (forwards, swaps, FRAs, CFDs, FXAs, ERAs, MM, options, credit, etc.), explaining these instruments to senior management.

• Owned all credit related issues, e.g. all counterparty credit relationships, credit-affected trading patterns and analysis, meeting with executive management at Partner Banks to determine critical new credit requirements, and modification of the EBS credit process

• Ran special projects:

o performing market research

o developing business cases for new trading and geographic markets

o negotiating with potential merger partners.

• Managed projects in MS Project following CMM methodology developed by Watts Humphrey (Personal Software Process, Team Software Process) to create and implement a global electronic broking system for FRAs.

• Initiated extensive credit program increasing transaction revenue approximately $18 million per year by increasing mutual credit between customers by combining information from disparate systems and databases.

• Wrote business and functional requirements for counterparty credit system using UML in Rational Rose, applying object oriented analysis and design principles of the RUP and DOORS.

BT-FSIS CORP. (Bankers Trust Subsidiary), New York, NY 1989 – 1995

Vice President

• Managed REMOS-FX, REMOS-MM and REALMS (derivatives) position keeping systems. Decided on all enhancements and wrote all requirements for new functionality.

• Implemented REMOS globally, managing installation, training and support.

• Demonstrated REMOS on all sales calls and answered all Requests for Proposal (RFPs).

• Managed all North American and Asian customer accounts.

INVESTMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS (INNSYNC), Bloomfield, NJ 1987 – 1989

Swaps, Caps & Floors Product Manager

MANUFACTURERS HANOVER TRUST, New York, NY 1983 – 1987

Assistant Vice President – FX (Trading Floor)

UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND, Zurich, Switzerland 1982 – 1983

Assistant to Chief Economist

BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, New York, NY Summer 1981

Assistant to Senior Economist – FX (Trading Floor)

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

M.B.A., Finance and International Business

Colby College, Waterville, ME

A.B., Economics (Distinction in the Major), with minor in Mathematics

HONORS

Five US Patents

6,343,278-Combined Order Limit for a Group of Related Transaction in an Automated Dealing System.

7,024,386-Credit Handling in an Anonymous Trading System

7,636,683-Communication of Credit Filtered Prices in an Electronic Brokerage System

7,693,774-Credit Limit Storage in an Anonymous Trading System

7,827,085-Conversational Dealing in Anonymous Trading System

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