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New York, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Technical Solutions Architect responsible for leading cross-functional development teams across various lines of business including Product Governance, Policy Governance, Data Management, Third Party Governance, Global Sourcing & Procurement, and Risk & Compliance.Select Accomplishments:-> Manage a 50 member global workforce, implementing application enhancements, systems integrations, and data migrations that eliminate manual processes, automate reporting and analytics, and remediate regulatory findings across Issues Management, Policy Governance, Material Risk Inventory, Risk Appetite, and RCSAs.-> Represented the Technology Engineering organization on enterprise Steering committees with senior Policy, Product, Risk, Compliance and Shared Services business stakeholders to improve technology-enabled business processes for workforce and financial planning.-> Defined a new operating model to significantly enhance working relationships and handoffs between technology, shared services and end users, resulting in process efficiencies, streamlined requirements gathering and validation, enhanced communication, workflow review and approval.-> Successfully implemented multiple Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms (ServiceNow, Workiva, Clausematch), introducing enhanced workflow capabilities, risk management, and analytics and reporting. -> Hired high-performing diverse teams of industry experts in technology, agile, analytics visualization, full-stack developers, Power BI developers and program management.-> Ensured enterprise operational risk and technology plans support regulatory consent orders that align with overall risk strategy, risk appetite, and PMO standards.-> Successfully closed 2 MRIAs (Matters Requiring Immediate Attention) associated with a Consent Order in Third-Party Governance and Vendor Contract Workflow, resulting in zero audit findings and full closure of regulatory fines and scrutiny.

New York, Ny, Us

Management Consultant leading strategic change by designing, implementing and executing risk and capital management functions for large financial institutions.Select Client Delivery:-> Consent Order Remediation: successfully managed various work streams for a $30 billion insurance company to remediate regulatory consent order mandates, resulting in the elimination of material findings and avoidance of multi-million dollar penalties by regulators.-> Current State Assessment and Operating Model Design: successfully delivered rapid target-state assessments resulting in operating model design and multi-phase implementation. Responsible for planning, budgeting, proposal, hypotheses validation, root-cause analysis, recommendations, roadmap, and operating model design; resulting in phase-2 implementation to reduce cost, streamline processes and improve governance.

Newry, Northern Ireland, Gb

Risk and Technology Transformation Program Leader focused on establishing close partner relationships with clients domestically and abroad, delivering technology and operations solutions within the Capital Markets Consulting Practice in regulatory change, risk and compliance, performance / process improvement, business and IT transformation.Select Client Delivery:State Street (Boston) Pre/Post-Merger Integration Mngt Office (IMO):Program Lead for the $2.6BIL Charles River acquisition; successfully integrated 6 business units between State Street Global Exchange with CRD. Contributed to the vendor selection and product launch for a new synergies platform.State Street (Boston) Program Management in Global Exchange (DataGX): Served as a technical program manager responsible for leading the design and implementation of end-to-end program management efforts including planning, scoping, budget management, staffing and program execution of Agile software development teams building front-to-back trade execution and data management services.State Street (London) Technical Program Management in the IT Strategy & Global Markets Organization:Responsible for leading the MiFID II solution development, training, delivery and implementation across FX, Portfolio Solutions and Security Finance businesses.Credit Suisse (London / Dublin) Program Management, EMEA Change Delivery:Managed teams across London, Dublin and New York to implement a new target operating model resulting in the dismissal of a multi-million dollar consent order mandate by the FCA.Northern Trust (Chicago) Project Management, Derivatives Client Services:Led a global transformation engagement across North America, EMEA and APAC that eliminated annual cost of operations by 1.2mil.Citi (New York) Global Markets:Led various Dodd Frank risk remediation initiatives.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for managing a global compliance team to provide centralized oversight and a sustainable control environment for the Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) organization while implementing the firm-wide Anti-Money Laundering Risk and Controls Self-Assessment (RCSA) requirements for year-one Consent Order requirements. Management responsibilities spanned across global teams in the US, Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America, contributing a global perspective and coordinated approach to the banks Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Corporate Client Banking (CCB), Commercial Banking (CB), Corporate Investment Bank and Asset Management (AM). Additional key responsibilities include:-> Oversaw 9 functional areas of responsibility including SAR quality program enhancement, GFCC Investigations AML RCSA requirements, client list terminations screening, business requirements documentation, system access reviews, business continuity management, international SAR screening, significant SAR review, user-tool governance, issues and actions management and training business heads on operational risk management objectives and procedures.-> Developed and deployed a new continuous controls testing program that assesses over 175+ internal controls globally on a quarterly basis, including issues management, root cause analysis and process improvement corrective measures required to mitigate future occurrences.-> Led global RCSA assessments through execution to ensure all aspects of the assessment lifecycle are achieved, including program planning, substantiation/controls testing, and issue/action plan reporting.-> Liaised between business groups as a central point for coordinating efforts to provide substantiation for regulatory agencies including the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve Bank, and Internal Audit.

Lima, Pe

Responsible for successfully launching a new subsidiary technology division named Forexware 'forex-software' that commercialized proprietary back-to-middle office risk management software and front-office white label trading platforms to FX broker dealers worldwide. The company continues to be successful and can be found at: Forexware.comI wore many hats in this role, including corporate planning, go-to-market strategy, staff hiring and training, product management (Agile), client solution design, budgeting, forecasting and P&L oversight, C-suite reporting.Successful in generating new revenue of $10+ million in first year of operations while integrating front-to-back office operations between Forexware and the parent FX broker dealer (FXDD).

LVN Advisory Group was made up of former Big-4 staff that served clients in IT / business risk and advisory ranging from IPO readiness, compliance, IT / business internal audit, process improvement, and operating model design (current to target state assessment).Co-Founder responsible for growing and managing the Business Advisory and Financial Services Practice. Successfully led the corporate infrastructure development, collaborative partnering initiatives, go-to-market strategies and leading teams on client engagements. Responsible for P&L management and revenue oversight.

London, Gb

Led domestic/international client engagements across a number of industries. Served as an area Process & Controls Champion and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Subject Matter Expert in the Pacific Southwest region. Area Leader in training E&Y's methodologies, tools and technologies.Served in a nominated role with E&Y's U.S. National Office responsible for quality reviews of client strategy methodology and process improvement initiatives across various industry sectors.Project Management lead for clients with annual revenues of $200M to over $14B; including PMO engagement oversight on domestic and international assignments.Direct experience in Process Optimization & Cost Reduction Strategy, Enterprise Risk Assessment / Management (ERA / ERM), Business Process Transformation, Internal Audit Advisory, SOX 404 Design & Implementation, Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), IT Process & Controls (logical access, change management, SOD and application controls), IT Risk Assessments, SAS-70 Readiness

London, Gb

Responsible for developing and managing internal audit programs across North America.Extensive experience in risk-based auditing, report writing, audit information systems, engagement team and project management. Responsible for leading several training courses on internal audit best practices. Co-Managed SOX-404 readiness efforts for North America implementation and management readiness requirements.Developed audit programs for the following: Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Bad Debt Recovery, Basel II, Sales Contract Management, Branch Monitoring, Branch Review, Credit Initiation, Collections, Customer Service, Direct Lending, HMDA, Foreclosures, P&C State Exams, REO, Records Management, RESPA, Loan Structuring and Sarbanes Oxley.

Mba, Columbia University | Finance & Management

Scholars Program | 17Th Century Literature, History, Theology, Philosophy

Bachelor Of Science In Accounting | Minors In Finance, Marketing