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Prague, Czechia

Warsaw Area, Poland

London, United Kingdom

• 2 parallel projects to upgrade Actimize AML SAM from version 3 to version 8 (1 in EMEA and the other one in Asia).• Joined when both projects were already in-flight and managed 2 Matrix-IFS teams, total of 15 resources, in 3 locations (London, Tampa, Singapore). • Significantly improved projects governance, reporting, resources management, tasks allocation and tracking of deliverables.• Managed project plans, resource plans, budgets and stakeholders (up to director level). Led workshops, calls and meetings ensuring clarity, accuracy and quality of deliverables.• Both projects successfully delivered and transitioned to BAU.

Vienna, Austria

• Replacement of Norkom with CFRM from Bottomline Technologies covering the areas of KYC/CDD, AML/CTF, Correspondent Banking and Sanctions.• Established vendor’s project management framework, established project governance, gathered effort estimates, produced roadmaps, project plan and resource plan for the 3 phases of the project (expected duration of 28 months). Heavily involved in scope definition and requirements gathering. • Managed stakeholders (up to CEO on the vendor side and up to managing director level on client side). Managed a remote team of 5 Matrix-IFS/Bottomline Technologies resources based in Tel Aviv.• Led workshops, kick-off meeting and various other technical and project management calls and meetings throughout the engagement.• Matrix-IFS left the project during the development stage of the first phase of the project, Bottomline Technologies taking ownership of the rest of the project.

London, United Kingdom

• Requirements gathering phase for APAC countries for upcoming Oracle Financial Services Anti Money Laundering (Mantas) implementation projects. • Reviewed local regulatory policies in each APAC country where Deutsche Bank is present, performed a gap analysis between current transaction monitoring system and local AML requirements and documented requirements for the future projects.• Led workshops, calls and meetings with local jurisdiction Compliance teams.

London, United Kingdom

• Multiple implementations of Actimize AML SAM, Actimize Trade Surveillance and Actimize Watch List Filtering platforms with a global Case Manager for 3 different regions covering all business lines (Cash Equity, Derivatives, Fixed Income, FX and Wealth Management). Programme covering 4 work streams (2 Change The Bank, 1 Run The Bank and 1 full Front to Back review). • Global team management of 25+ Matrix-IFS resources in 4 locations (London, New York, Tampa, Tel Aviv).• Established project management framework and created suite of project management reports. Driving Steering Committee meetings and stakeholder management from requirements to delivery and transition to BAU.• Involved in negotiations with the client and in the preparation of several Statement of Work.• Produced roadmaps, scope, estimates, high level project plans, detailed project plans, resource plans and managing budgets. Following Nomura standard project deliverables from business requirements gathering, functional specifications, technical specifications, development, unit and integration testing, UAT, release and BAU.• Led workshops, calls and meetings ensuring clarity, accuracy and quality of deliverables.

London, United Kingdom

Barclays Wealth Management (Hong Kong, Jersey, Monaco, Singapore and Switzerland)• Multiple implementations of Actimize AML SAM Transaction Monitoring platforms for 5 different jurisdictions with staged deliveries throughout 2 phases.• Successfully delivered circa 300 rules along with customized models and extensive management reports suite.• Followed SDLC standards (waterfall) from business requirements, functional specifications, design, development, integration testing, UAT, post production to BAU. • Highly involved in gathering requirements, specifying scope, identifying source systems and key data requirements. Produced estimates, resources planning and project plans.• Managed a team of 10 Matrix-Exzac experts, business analysts and developers based in London and in Israel throughout data sourcing, analysis, development, integration testing, UAT, fine tuning and delivery. Coordinated work between Matrix-Exzac team and Barclays staff (London and India) by assigning work, following up and resolving issues.• Managed internal and external stakeholders and produced status reports.• Led workshops, calls and meetings ensuring clarity, accuracy and quality of deliverables.

London, United Kingdom

• Implementation of an Actimize AML SAM Transaction Monitoring platform for Singapore. Relocated from New York to London to act as on-site single point of contact between Barclays and Matrix-Exzac and to provide expert advice to the client.• Gathered business requirements and provided expert advice in deriving the list of rules and models to implement in order to mitigate the money laundering risk associated to the business conducted by Barclays WM in Singapore.• Identified source systems, conducted data sourcing exercise with source systems experts and produced data feeds specifications for static data (products, accounts, customers, KYC/CDD) and transactional data. Conducted data analysis, derived customer segmentation model and transaction type mapping. Produced data mappings between source systems feeds and Actimize databases.• Conducted extensive integration testing on ETL and Actimize.• Produced documentation, release notes and roll-out plans. UAT support and production release support.

Greater New York City Area

Several financial institutions including BNP Paribas, Citigroup and Nomura• Participated in a number of on-going projects for different institutions. The projects were on Actimize AML SAM Transaction Monitoring implementations and Actimize Trading Surveillance implementations. Tasks and responsibilities included but were not limited to:• Conducted data analysis and produced data mappings between source systems feeds and Actimize databases.• Performed technical upgrade of Actimize AIS, conducted extensive integration testing and produced technical release notes and roll-out plan.• Produced documentation and provided customer support during UAT and production releases.• Performed fine tuning exercises and provided recommendations on Actimize thresholds and scores in order to minimize false positives and maximise alert generation on riskier transactions.

Paris Area, France

• Actimize Trading Surveillance implementation covering New York perimeter. MUST (Monitoring Unusual and Suspicious Transactions) in-house trading surveillance implementation covering Paris and London perimeters.• Technical leader and Java developer managing a team of 5 Paris based developers responsible of implementing the ETL layer for circa 20 interfaces with front office systems covering derivatives, fixed income, cash equities, commodities, foreign exchange, OTC trades, market data and static data. Single point of contact and coordination for off-shore development team based in India.• Redesigned the entire ETL architecture and improved jobs scheduling resulting in a significant performance improvement (10 times faster). Daily volumes handled were circa 50M trades and 150M orders.• Produced the database design, the data dictionary, developed, tested and delivered the ETL layer between MUST and a new Business Object anti-money laundering reporting tool providing money laundering reporting officers and analysts useful insight in trading activity and customer behaviour.• Highly involved in business requirements gathering workshops, scope definition, data sourcing, data analysis and in producing data mappings between source systems feeds and Actimize/MUST databases.• Produced workload estimates and resources planning. Coordinated the work between all team members. Highly involved in producing key SDLC deliverables such as technical design, test strategy, estimates, project plans, risks/assumptions/issues/dependencies logs, functional specifications, test plans and roll-out plans.• Led daily calls and meetings to allocate work items, follow up on tasks, resolve issues and ensure quality of deliverables. • Extensive system integration testing and performance testing. Produced roll-out plans and performed production releases.• BAU support (incidents and change requests).

Paris Area, France

• Software development for a Web portal allowing CDC employees to manage loans made by the bank to corporate customers.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Software development for a Web portal used by a large insurance company to support its underwriting process.

Montreal, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

Quebec, Canada

Bachelors Degree, Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Quebec Engineering Games (Jeux de Génie du Québec) each year from 2003 to 2007.

It Projects Management

Market Abuse

Education record

College, Technique En Informatique

High School