SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated and experienced candidate with expert proficiency defining and guiding global enterprise Financial Services Capital Markets, Wealth Management, Banking, and Insurance front & middle office strategic transformation initiatives supporting Business Development, Market & Credit Risk VAR Stress Testing, Regulatory Filing Enhanced Prudential Standards Regulatory Order requirements for CCAR - Capital Plan supporting BHC & IHC, Enterprise Risk Assessments, Financial Planning Reporting, BASEL III and BSA/AML Financial Crimes Regulatory Reform Supervisory Response change the bank and obligation .
• Effective senior leader capable of shepherding multiple complex business or technology enterprise-wide transformations from genesis through sustainability.
• Skilled in managing multiple work streams consisting of data control framework, economic scenario creation, model design and development, fit for purpose assessment, and filing regulatory submission with work streams and special strategy projects using Agile Scrum methodology across different business & technology units and global regions, with executive authority over multimillion dollar budget development, risk management, and transformation change initiatives.
• Well versed in directing and influencing matrix resources including formulating governance framework to deliver outstanding results with the highest degree of expertise and professionalism and presenting to all levels of C-level senior management, external regulatory entities, and corporate board of directors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Waterfall

Financial Crimes Transaction Monitoring Integrations: Actimize & Mantas

Regulatory/Financial Reporting: Moody Analytics, Axiom, Lombard Risk FR Y-14 & 9C

BI & Analytical tools: Qlikview; Tableau

Project Management Tools: Jira, Clarity, MS Project Server, SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word

Customer Relationship Management: PEGA, Salesforce, Siebel

Six Sigma & Lean (Process Driven): Six Sigma Black Belt, DMAIC, DMADV, VOC, QFD, Value Stream

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

PROGRAM MANAGER GLOBAL MARKET & CREDIT RISK

Responsibilities:

• Develops plans and coordinate efforts for the design architectural system diagram for risk factor attributes and data acquisition and alignment from source systems to Market risk & financial actual systems, scenario generation\testing VAR loss estimation, business net revenue models, and report aggregation and remediation.
• Ensures integration with third party valuation modelling and regulatory reporting platforms
• Develops high quality updates for senior management forums and steering committees
• Track the program progress and provide high quality summary status updates
• Collaborates closely with CCAR Infrastructure and Quantitative Modeling of Derivative Securities implementation team, Group Planning, Front office, Risk, Treasury and Data technologist
• Set up governance, and design review and challenge modeling sessions
• Track progress, takeaways, timelines and deliverables and follow up on issues, blockers and any infrastructure needs
• Manages all enhancements (i.e., process improvements/optimization and process change management initiatives) related to the overall CCAR program by analyzing a system, identifying and specifying developments and improvements and coordinating the testing and implementation of new systems
• Recommends program resource needs and providing analysis to technical areas to provide basis for resource requirements/impacts tracking and process mapping skills, development of scorecards and Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Confidential, New York, NY

SENIOR PROGRAM LEAD GLOBAL RISK & FINANCE TRANSFORMATION

• Discussing, understanding and making decisions regarding a wide array of complex business, technical challenges and competing regulatory risk priorities. 
• Engaging risk managers, controllers, regulators, third party auditors, internal auditors, vendor solution providers in sessions to review strategic, tactical, and remediation immediate and long-term direction.
• Presenting daily, weekly, and quarterly information and ideas to regulators, senior management, and steering committee.
• Writing up regulatory support documents for the federal filing and formal response back to regulators.
• Highlighting project critical paths, major risks, and impediments.
• Aggressively tracking project timelines and release burn-down charts.
• Applying industry project management or agile best practices in managing the day-to-day activities of projects.
• Coordinating major business and technical reviews including sign-offs for releases, distribution, and regulatory filings.
• Facilitating scenario or risk model reviews and fit for purpose.
• Driving consensus among project cross-functional team leaders.
• Conducting kick-off, project status, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective
• Track expenditure on specific projects and the Innovation Unit as a whole

Confidential, New York, NY

SENIOR PROGRAM LEAD GLOBAL STRATEGIC FRONT OFFICE & RISK TRANSFORMATION

• Evaluated industry practices and compare to current state to challenge solutions (models, data and software) model use
• Acquired and assessed Data Control Framework using SQL and other ETL tools
• Coordinated with business users, model subject matter experts and developers on the creation of test scripts, scenarios conditions and test plans
• Maintained quality control following internal department standards
• Supported Stress Testing and Economic capital, for example - credit risk/market risk/counterparty credit risk models, balance sheet, aggregation models, etc.
• Assessed the Capital Plan and develop work plans to enhance standard risk management framework and internal control monitoring
• Developed exception based workflows of thresholds and triggers to monitor internal controls
• Track expenditure on specific projects and the Innovation Unit as a whole
• Facilitated investment sign-offs through stage gates

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

DIRECTOR/PROJECT MANAGER

• Lead matrix teams of cross-functional technology and business professionals dedicated to providing Customer Relationship Management and Client Onboarding Enterprise solutions
• Championed the overall integrated project plans to deliver Client-Facing & Agent related solutions from concept through development and distribution.

Confidential, New York

PROJECT MANAGER/BUSINESS ANALYST

• Driven projects ranging from a one-week break/fix effort to multi-year to in support of (Equity, Equity Derivatives, Wealth Management, Prime Brokerage, Finance, Risk & Compliance AML) and IT in managing client initiatives Trade Order Management, Prime Brokerage and Wealth Management
• Formulated contracts for external consultants and construction teams.
• Enforced contractual agreements with third parties and suppliers.
• Calculating the training costs for project staff
• Provided executive oversight of projects ranging from $2 million to $10 million