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+.
• 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%.
• 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.

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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