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Seattle, Wa, Us

Responsible for bringing the best of Slalom’s Consulting services to retail clients:- Bring the Slalom capability to solve the client’s problem and meet the business need - Ensure Slalom project teams meet and exceed client expectations - Perform project roles on client projects (e.g., Engagement Manager, Strategist, Product/Project Manager, Process Optimization Specialist)

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Guided companies to new levels of business performance by delivering strategy, experience, and process optimization projects.

New York, Ny, Us

Strategy & Operations Manager for Chase Digital Payments, a business that supports trillions in annual payments volume. Highlights:- Developed strategy for digital payments product portfolio through roadmap definition, competitor benchmarking, resource alignment and planning for a $70 million budget. Supported Payments General Manager in daily management of 60 team members and the delivery of their product features, including quickly resolving issues and improving team productivity.- Held Enterprise Agility Lead role for firm-wide new product architecture transformation which ensured new features are prioritized based on the best outcome for the customer. Defined the strategy for cross-product dependency management and championed decisions to reduce dependencies through technology modernization and migration to new data centers.- Leader of competitor research workstream. Quickly gathered insights by garnering support from a 75 person cross-functional team of volunteers which influenced product feature roadmaps and executive reviews.- Improved team productivity in several areas. Streamlined the monthly process of gathering and distributing 50 executive summaries describing upcoming software releases. Automated a weekly status reporting process for a 150 project program by removing email and PowerPoint from the steps, and migrating to the JIRA application.

New York, Ny, Us

Led projects that accomplished strategic priorities, resolved complex issues, and streamlined operational processes for a business with 100s of billions in assets by partnering with executives and managing cross-functional teams. Highlights include:- Built the strategy to enable 3,000+ clients to comply with new international regulatory requirements. Collected inputs from cross-functional stakeholders, trained client service teams, obtained decisions from senior executives and managed the reporting workflow to foreign jurisdictions. - Managed the Program Management Office for over 150 projects. Advised project managers on project prioritization, timelines, and status reporting to senior management. - Automated a process that previously required manually updating Microsoft Word and Excel documents. Simplified the front office workflow by reducing the data entry points from three systems to one.

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Worked collaboratively with a number of leading institutions, including mortgage servicers, regional banks, automobile finance companies, and asset management firms, to address operational and technology issues. Highlights include: - Presented an operating model recommendation to the CFO and CIO. Analyzed the current payment workflow and defined the pros and cons of each vendor through an in-depth analysis. Created a model to forecast vendor costs and expected return on investment. - Established an operating model framework by working with business unit leaders to document current and future state operational workflows, and to identify opportunities for long-term simplification. - Created requirements for a loan origination system implementation. Led four work streams simultaneously by conducting a current state assessment through documentation analysis, interviews, defining the business enterprise’s desired loan origination strategy, and presenting findings to business owners.

San Francisco, California, Us

Interned at the interest rate swaps sales desk at Wells Fargo. Assisted in the sales, pricing and presenting of interest rate swaps, caps, and collars for clients.