Business Systems Specialist / Manager
2/2007 to 2/2012 – Account Manager/Business Systems Specialist► Responsible for Order Processing and Compliance systems that interface with investment systems such as Trading, Portfolio Accounting, Asset Management, and Manager Results► Led effort to document and adapt critical investment systems changes to improve efficiency and mitigate risk during significant market fluctuations► Maintained business technology roadmaps and process workflows in support of key business and IT initiatives to improve operations► Managed numerous global projects to improve business processes and operations (Business Intelligence, Windows 7 and SharePoint)► Worked with Equity Trading to deal with existing process issues related to trading mandates and client trading restrictions► Interfaced with existing Quality Assurance (QA) teams to ensure and enforce quality standards► Managed 7 million dollar budget and reduced overall costs by 40%► As an Agile Product Owner, streamlined budget, reduced development costs by 25% and cut delivery time of systems enhancements from twice a year to quarterly.► Mentored IT associates and upcoming product owners► Reported to Sr. Management periodically through upper management dashboards 1/2001 to 2/2007 - Sr. Software Engineer / Sr. Business Systems Analyst► Successfully implemented new forward contract order processing system as lead analyst► Supported existing business equity order processing through process engineering► Championed and implemented system design changes and bug fixes.