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Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

IT Program/Project Manager for Regulatory and Cross Product Technology: - Program Managing Regulatory, Equity IT technical leads to deliver Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) reporting to FINRA CAT. Working with Compliance, Legal, Regulatory Ops leaders to make sure regulatory obligations for order lifecycle and customer account information reporting are met. Working with several Vendors to remediate their systems’ issues impacting reported data quality- Program Managing Electronic Blue Sheets regulatory reporting by moving infrastructure to Cloud and delivering series of preventive and detective controls to ensure data’s quality- Acting as a technical lead for the Operational Resilience Program driven by PRA/FCA regulation for the Bank’s London Branch. Identifying third party dependencies and assessing operational risks, helping to drive scenario testing design and communication of results- Creating and managing plans for these programs; Driving deadlines and approvals on tight schedules; Communicating status, risks, and blockers with stakeholders. Collaborating with a variety of teams, including Compliance, Legal, Front office, Operations. Chairing Operating and Steering Committees to ensure adherence to the supervisory procedures- Led design and implementation of the comprehensive Clock Synchronization monitoring and reporting solution for CAT program in order to meet regulatory requirements - Managed off shore vendor developers, BAs and QAs to deliver strategic and regulatory programs for the Global Markets Structuring Business and Valuation Services Group. Implemented new revenue recognition methodology, consolidated revenue reporting and change tracking via the BI solution using Qlikview. - Moved Structuring business IT platforms to private Cloud based infrastructure resulting in over 1mil USD in annual savings- Managed BAs in delivery of the strategic Client Statements program in order to increase timeliness and quality of the bank’s client statements

New York, New York, Us

Consulted Market Risk IT

New York, Ny, Us

Director, Global Operations, Senior Project/Program Manager: Delivery of various cross product programs/projects, including implementation of Tax Operations Remediation, New Products, OFAC program, Tax, High Net Worth Individuals business, fails prevention for the Syndicates desk- Led the Tax Operations Remediation, Strategic Technology, in order to comply with the IRS 1441 tax withholding and reporting requirements; Directed IT in implementation of the New Products Program- Managed the prospectus delivery reengineering project which resulted in 90% decrease in cost of prospectus delivery to investors. Came up with the idea and implemented fails prevention tactics for the Syndicates desk which resulted in increase of settlement rates from 80% to 98%- Working with many stakeholders across the firm (Credit, Compliance, Sales, Product Control Group, Collateral management, IT) defined and tested the end to end model in order to establish a new High Net Worth Individuals business (Equity Derivatives)- Successfully project managed the implementation of the new company wide cash payments system that complies with the OFAC sanctions program

New York, Ny, Us

Senior Project Manager for the Asset Management Division: Creation of the Middle Office, delivery of the new Order Management System and other projects for the Fixed Income and Index trading desks- Delivered the new Order Management system Aladdin (BlackRock) for the Institutional, Private Fixed Income and Short Term Money Management desks on time (6 months) and on budget ($1.5 mil).- Led establishment of the new Middle Office, credit and compliance departments, design and deployment of new business processes, including special processing of Tri-party Repos, Time Deposits and Master Notes. Successfully managed BlackRock’s, BearingPoint’s, internal Technology Project Management and Business Analysis teams (20 people)

New York, Ny, Us

Project Manager for the Investment Bank’s Fixed Income Technology and Global Prime Brokerage: Delivery of the end-to-end Consolidated Risk and P&L solutions for Liquid Markets (US Treasury, Agency and Finance Desks). - Came up with the idea, architected, designed and successfully led the delivery of the Java based Consolidated Market Risk reporting system to the Risk MO that enabled them to save $1.5 mil in the technology baseline costs. The provided solution shortened the end to end business cycle from 45 to 15 minutes. It allowed MO to run risk numbers several times per day and produce reports that were distributed to the heads of the trading desks, the head of the Liquid Markets and the Market Risk Group.- Quality Program Manager for Credit Trading Technology: Management of the global QA teams in integration, system and performance testing for Cross Product Risk Management, Trade capture and Valuation Systems

Worked with the group of Business Analysts and developers in the Equities T+1 model's Development for the US Securities Industry which resulted in a successful bid for the GSTPA’s contract and creation of the Omgeo corporation. Developed functional requirements using Use Cases for the TradeSuite Server. Mentored OO Analysis and Design using UML to the team of analysts and consultants

Wichita, Kansas, Us

Delivery of the end to end solution for the company’s Weather Derivatives trading business- Designed new business processes, managed Matlab, Java and SQL server developers and successfully delivered solution that helped the company to become one of the three market makers in the Weather Derivatives business- Delivered functional specifications, performed risk and change management- Translated user needs into detailed business and functional requirements using Rational’s ReqPro and Rose. Provided RUP, and UML mentoring to the Systems Analyst team in various projects- Managed and led other projects including replication of databases (MS SQL server), development of the middleware production objects (NEON), live production database transfers across global locations, regression and Y2K testing for the company wide risk aggregation system, and integration of various trading systems

Mba, Major - Computer Information Systems

Ms, Economic Cybernetics