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New York, United States

The Projects & Change team is a newly formed group within the Credit Suisse Asset Management COO organization that supports the senior leadership team in executing its strategic agenda. The team’s focus is on shaping and delivering strategic business initiatives, including major change programs, and oversight and governance of the Asset Management global project portfolio. • Leading change to Value Based Delivery model.• Solely responsible as program manager for Investment Platform.Digital Client Experience IT LeadIT Americas digital client experience team lead. Working with business to define current and future digital landscape for asset management in Americas. Responsible for 18 distribution applications management and direction. Implemented SaaS solution (DealCloud CRM) for private funding group. Leading Americas portion of global CRM implementation. Leading effort to transform the processing of investment guideline monitoring team.• Implemented SaaS solution (DealCloud CRM) for private funding group.• Managed and maintained 18 distribution applications.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Managed and ran dog daycare franchise in West Palm Beach, Florida. Directed all aspects of infrastructure and business build-out, financials, operation, marketing, and customer service.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

The IT lead for new technology in the health care space. Co-created business model, validated technical feasibility of platform, managed developers and design teams. Instrumental in managing strategic partners, optimized client engagement strategy and overseeing business operations.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Managed Security Master application, a core component of Citi’s asset management platform. Key member of team tasked with onboarding of new business with $5M budget.• Restructured team to meet demands of growing outsourcing installed base. Built team collaboration focused on client service.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Managed team of 30 developers with key highlights including but not limited to:• Delivered new investment management platform that interlinked 8 different applications in 13 weeks, including 1) reworked architecture of platform, 2) integrated systems for full investment lifecycle i.e. Paladyne, Geneva and CRD, 3) designed central data store for platform, 4) and designed reconciliation systems to ensure complete data integrity throughout platform. • Successfully implemented 4 additional business lines to retire 20 YO legacy application in 18 months. $15M budget.• Implemented PMO office to integrate business and financial application teams. $10M budget.• Led effort to completely outsource middle and back office systems and functions to Citibank. $3M budget (1st phase to shut down $15M recurring cost).

New York City Metropolitan Area

Used expertise and business contacts to help build newly formed practice in New York marketplace, and to utilize Exigen’s resources to support capital market services. Responsibilities included client relationship management, application architecture, and business modeling. Billed project fluctuated between $5-10M.Key Initiatives:• Analyzed feasibility of carving out major European bank’s transfer agency system.• Managed project of enhancements for asset management system of subsidiary of European asset management firm. Enhancements include derivatives, variable rate accruals, corporate actions, ledger updates, and settlement reconciliation.• Engagement Manager for large US investment manager focusing on all aspects of mortgage-backed security processing. Integrated other fixed income products into straight through processing application originally designed for mortgage-backed securities.

New York, Ny

Concurrently managed/directed IT and Operations. Direct reports included Chief Information Officer, Director of Operations, and Vice President of Project Management. Performed budgeting and strategic direction of both IT and Operations departments. Combined budget exceeds $20M. ● Reengineered nightly batch processing applications to meet market requirements for money market firm. Designed and implemented changes in 2 months. Allowed company to meet SLA that resulted in retention of $5B in assets under management. ● Instituted project management office that put structure around operations and information technology deliverables. Hired/built dedicated teams that were able to rapidly refocus efforts and adapt to new project requirements. Successfully completed 20 initiatives in first year. ● Reorganized asset management firm operations and information technology teams. Company doubled assets under management while increasing staff 5% to headcount of 120 employees through increased efficiencies, technological advancements, and personnel changes.

Turks And Caicos Islands

New York City Metropolitan Area

Co-founded company and deeply involved in all areas of startup venture, from executive management, to product development and deployment, client services, and quality assurance and primary technology lead on all sales calls. Oversaw all company financials and budget management. Developed, managed, and controlled $6M budget. Recruited/hired talent and directed staff of 40, including raises, promotions, and development/disciplinary actions. Built teams that were dedicated and displayed solid representation of business, as well as provided diverse talent offering to maximize capabilities of emergent company.• Instrumental in growing firm into 3rd largest 401(k) software provider, with growth rate of 100% per year. • Implementation of marketing strategy that leased software on per participant basis, providing recurring revenue that significantly enhanced company’s profitability.• Created Quality Control/Release Management process for product; designed and developed industry specific billing system.• Implemented accounting system to track client payables. Reduced receivables 40% over 3-month period.

Founder, Rhombus Consulting Services, Inc., New York, NYAssistant Vice President, Citibank, New York, NYSoftware Engineer, Hewlett Packard, Fullerton, CASystems Analyst, Santa Fe International, Orange, CAProgrammer, Vitro Laboratories, San Pedro, CA● Created systems consulting organization servicing all aspects of security processing community. Managed responsibilities client development, contract negotiation, and ongoing client support. Built team of 15 employees working on >15 financial services projects with annualized revenues of $2M. Firm profitable within 1st 3 months. (Rhombus Consulting)● Redesigned securities processing system of Private Banking Group. Developed/led team of 8 project leaders in $15M project to convert and implement International Securities functionality from HP to IBM. Successfully launched 3 months ahead of committed due date. The transformation saved the bank over $4.5M/year in development costs. (CitiBank)