Eugene Aarons-Cooke Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York

• Lead end-to-end feature development focused on growth features and seamless enablement onto Mastercard’s tokenization service, MDES, supporting contactless payments, identity, and digital commerce solutions for 1200+ issuers• Drove the strategic roadmap in collaboration with regional sales and delivery teams to support scaling and customer self-service, contributing to over 7.8 billion MDES tokenized transactions processed in 2020 and 80% YoY growth• Spearheaded partnerships with digital wallet providers such as Apple and Google and token requestors such as Facebook and PayPal to future-proof Mastercard acceptance and lead the future of digital commerce

• Supported the Wealth Management business by partnering with client-facing, user experience, and technology teams to execute the digital transformation vision and launching products / solutions that strengthened and enhanced the client and advisor experience across desktop and mobile platforms.

Greater New York City Area

• Lead data specialist analyzing and monitoring daily KYC and watchlist screening of over 200 million clients/entities• Led enhancements to automated screening using machine learning which improved alert processing throughput by 20%• Determined strategic KPIs for operations management and designed reporting for senior leadership and the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)• Worked directly with business leadership to provide expertise and plan for the AML impact of new products

Greater New York City Area

• Subject matter expert in OFAC screening and Customer Due Diligence, managing a team of 12 KYC/AML analysts• Constructed end-to-end global operating model for client screening standards and procedures. • Wrote compliance training procedures and traveled globally to conduct in-person training for 200+ analysts• Designed and tested the capacity model used for location and headcount planning

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Co-founded company and created mobile application that allowed individuals a free way to raise money for charities when they download free apps or play sponsored games• Designed UX for Android application and website and managed two engineers for feature development. • Deployed and maintained web page hosted on Heroku• Formed fundraising and marketing partnerships with United Way and six other national non-profits as well as application distributor Flurry Inc.

• Used credit opinion research to assign event risk probabilities for potential rating changes. • Produced debt projections and graphs later used in Moody’s outlook on the US credit rating during the 2011 European Debt Crisis• Revised and organized sovereign database information for several countries

Greater New York City Area

• Performed checks on legal language for new collateral agreements• Categorized 8 weeks of error data to design a program to address training gaps for the offshore team• Leader of winning debate team as judged by senior leadership on topic of government role in financial regulations

Education record

High School

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