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Bethesda, Maryland, United States

• Responsible for the trust operations, technology support, cash operations, fund accounting, trade settlements, fees, corporate actions, reconciliation, performance and client reporting teams across two companies: CCT.
• Oversaw the cash operations team responsible for fee processing, cash receipts and disbursements, as well as, all related treasury functions including DDA reconciliation, DNS, ACH’s, wires, checks, F/X and.
• Responsible for all regulatory reporting in regards to 13F, 13G, 13H and 314a.
• Oversaw the fund valuation team responsible for two CTF’s ($28M and $4B AUM). Provided oversight for our external fund valuation of two Collective Investment Funds ($20B combined AUM) and one publicly traded fund ($27M.
• Managed the middle-office and back-office teams responsible for post-trade settlement, trade confirmation, settlement resolutions and failed trade monitoring across multiple asset classes in both domestic and foreign.
• Managed the reconciliation, performance and reporting teams responsible for custody recon and ex-custody recon (15 outside custodians) and firm performance for both CCT/ASB and client reporting packages that pull from.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Managed and developed an eight member team responsible for reconciliation, performance, security master, trade support, RFI/RFP’s and special projects.
• Held monthly one-on-one meetings to discuss current projects, career goals and issues. Set actionable items to be accomplished prior to the following meeting.
• Set yearly goals for the Operations team and conducted year-end reviews and compensation adjustments.
• Identified and drove opportunities to leverage efficiencies and streamlined efforts to promote continuous improvements for OMS trade support, OMS compliance rules, reconciliation, account opening, security master.
• Maintained and updated an affiliate’s $50MM Private Equity model.
• Successfully outsourced part of the reconciliation process to a third party. Resulted in time and monetary savings.

• Planned, coordinated, tested and implemented data conversion and integration of PORTIA/CRD onto Advent’s APX/Moxy. 12+ month project.
• Responsible for upgrading, planning and implementation of Advent’s suite of financial software products under strict deadlines.
• Designed, implemented and maintained LMIC's new Intranet site: - Open source software Wordpress (http://wordpress.org) on a LAMP structure (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). - Included modifications to the site's PHP files.
• Restructured and worked on enterprise level agreements and affiliate level agreements with vendors.
• In-depth knowledge of the Advent Software Product Suite, including: Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), Moxy, Rules Manager, Market Data Manager (MDM), DTCC, automation and integration.
• Lead security master and corporate actions specialist for over 10,000 securities. Responsible for setup, maintenance, data integration and accuracy.

• Systems administrator for applications including Charles River, FactSet Directions, FactSet Marquee, FactSet Portfolio Gallery, Zephyr AssetAllocator, Zephyr StyleAdvisor, MorningStar Ibbotson products, BondEdge.
• Researched and resolved all trading and order management system issues on a daily basis.
• Worked closely with traders, portfolio managers and portfolio assistants to resolve problems, ensure accurate data and build custom views and screens for all the various applications.
• Wrote CRD compliance rules and maintained compliance warnings and alerts.
• Set up users on front-end and back-end applications. Trained all new employees on software applications.
• Developed ways to enhance the portfolio management and trading experience by creating new screens and processes.

• Supervised four employees and conducted semi-annual performance evaluations.
• Provided day-to-day supervision and operational leadership for AMTS operations.
• Created procedures and controls for clients and implemented procedures for monthly SOX audits.
• Worked with operation managers to identify required data elements by suggesting automation and improved the reconciliation, performance calculation and management fee billing processes.
• Responsible for monthly performance calculations for additional business affiliate Legg Mason Trust. o LM Trust managed more than 50 portfolios with assets that include fixed income and cash. o Performance required.

• Supervised four employee and conducted semi-annual performance evaluations.
• Performed daily reconciliation of two clients, one of which holds six billion in AUM and managed over 100 accounts.
• Responsible for producing more than 25 reconciliation audits per month detailing holdings, discrepancies, pending/open transactions, accrued income, etc.
• Responsible for monthly and quarterly management fee billing for three Legg Mason affiliates:o Process involved the extraction of market values from our accounting system, billing calculations, invoice mailings.
• Assisted the LM Finance department with monthly reconciliation of the general ledger for all three affiliates including reporting discrepancies and performing write-offs during a time where the finance department had.
• Participated in two client conversions onto Legg Mason systems.o Involved QA testing (systems analysis, report generation and conversion feasibility), reconciliations, report and system design and recommendations to.

• Lead financial analyst of University Specialty (Deaton) Hospitals’ $20 million dollar receivable.
• Supervised five employees; developed and implemented financial/technical training requirements and delegated assignments.
• Coordinated and led bi-weekly meetings to discuss goals and obstacles of the Specialty Hospital.
• Created and performed the first ever Cash Collections Team Internal Audit:o Focused on lockbox, cash posting, report balancing/reconciliation, adjustment posting, refunds and denials.o Errors and observations were used.
• Due to audit and controls that were put in place, cash collection rates increased from 60% to more than 80%.
• Assigned to the system transfer team for Deaton Hospital SOS system onto the UMMS system STAR:o Responsible for collecting, evaluating, testing and reporting on system software to determine implementation.o Prepared.

• Analyzed receivables and then delegated and coordinated efforts to solve secondary billing problems.
• Designed web site to inform vendors of quarterly progress.
• Reconciled system activity between ending and subsidiary balances, standardized statistical reports, and posted cash reports.
• Co-created quarterly newsletter to inform other divisions of the quarter’s achievements and areas in need of improvement.
• Lead trainer of new employees on month-end reporting procedures and billing cycles of the three hospitals.
• Provided technical support to planning, systems development, and operational activities.

• Responsible for month-end reporting and analysis of receivables.
• Worked as part of a team to balance revenue to billed claims.
• Responsible for monthly reporting of uncompensated care through statistical data elements.
• Created SQL queries and reports that resulted in an approximate 66% decrease in month-end reporting time.
• Created queries and reports through Access and the hospital’s built-in SQL system.

Master Of Science, Finance

Activities and Societies: Member of Beta Gamma Sigma (International Honor Society for Business) – one MSF student selected each semester

Bachelor Of Science, Double Major: Finance And Information Technology