Brian A. Email & Phone Number

Remote

Member of a small team in the finance org responsible for funds transfer pricing, capital and profitability.

Spokane, Washington Area

Created a few video games and an app. Made a statistical simulation web service for a mobile game. Now working on a charity for teachers.

Spokane, Washington Area

As the Finance System Manager, I audited, optimized and expanded a newly implemented Hyperion PBCS system while creating new models for key items in the corporate forecast, such as deposits, loans, depreciation and compensation.

Pasadena

• I supervised employees including a senior analyst and rotational interns. I handled project management and coordination to positively influence design and implementation of financial procedures, policies, and tools.
• Planned and implemented the Dodd-Frank Act stress testing subset of the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, covering assets valued at $15 billion.
• Ideated and developed commercial credit challenger models as well as retail credit champion models.
• Helped develop proprietary ALM software and served as software engineer/tester.
• Utilized high-quality analytics to continuously eliminate unnecessary expenses and achieve maximum cost reductions.

• I served as project manager to oversee the development and seamless implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act stress testing (DFAST) program. In order to integrate stressed assumptions into the corporate forecast and.
• Acted as econometrician, project manager, quantitative lead, and technical writer, personally ensuring the successful completion of key projects.
• Served as the designated subject matter expert (SME) for Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Oracle's Hyperion system, in addition to serving as the reverse mortgage portfolio SME.
• Operated as a software development team member to oversee the development of ALM software that included a GUI addition to enable easy input of stressed assumptions to generate a more reliable forecast of cash flows.
• Handled interviewing and on-boarding of numerous candidates ranging from recent college graduates to seasoned professionals for key management, financial engineering, software developing, and analyst roles.

Pasadena, CA

• I served as the SME for proprietary and HECM reverse mortgage portfolio, in addition to working with FDIC loss sharing agreements. I conducted monthly SOX audits of financial statements, ALCO liquidity stress testing.
• Developed and built an automated management reports system—reducing forecast cycle by nearly a month—and a web-based loan pricing engine utilizing ASP.NET 4.5.
• Served as the liaison between the Finance and IT departments on the Hyperion corporate forecast project, creating synergy and proficient communications between the two divisions.
• Collaborated with the IT department to create the server stack through development, beta, and production phases of the project.
• Conceptualized and implemented sound business logic, optimizing the forecasting of commitments, direct expenses, fees, and segment allocations. Improved reliability, which enabled two technical consultants to be.
• Recognized for outstanding performance of the “One Customer at a Time” policy.

Pasadena, CA

• I assisted FP&A with crucial updates to schedules and various model inputs. I was involved and influential in model review, scenario analytics, data analytics/validation, and SQL querying.
• Created forward interest rate 3D-visualization tools used to track changing forward expectations.
• Used VBA, SQL, and succinct formulas to improve proficiency of Excel process

Master Of Science - Ms, Computational Finance & Risk Management

Activities and Societies: Husky TradersAMATH 540 Intro to Computational Finance & Financial Econometrics AMATH 541 Investment Science.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta Epsilon Economics Honors Society, Husky TradersCertificate in Quantitative Managerial Economics.

Education record