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Newark, Delaware, United States

Global ASD Manager for 4 sites (DE/NJ/UK/India) leading remote operations, 2 locational leads, and 14 team members. Developed/trained staff fostering information sharing and continuous learning environment.- Managed/maintained 53 applications, analyzing/executing business requests, and oversaw production releases.- Managed daily/weekly applications releases and timing preventing cross-impacts in consort with Developer.- Transition Manager for the DevOps leading the Application Developer and Application Support team.- Oversaw 10-15 weekly application releases/enhancements, weekend server hygiene, and Sustained Resiliency/Disaster Recovery events with action plan preparation.- Composed monthly ASD, Application Development, and Ops Stability reports.Highlights: Directed DevOps model project initiative from ASD perspective assisting AD team implementation changes into BAU model successfully meeting deadline. Optimized SQL transaction information pulls building new business application reducing runtime to 30 seconds from 1 hour also allowing for adhoc runs. Streamlined multiple daily Money Market sweep control-m flows impacting billions of dollars for hundreds of clients. Added dependencies and removed hardcode run times reducing human touch points improving overall run times. Solution reduced job processing risks during business job hold requests and slashed financial/reputation risk for Money Markets sweeps processed as expected. Identified/analyzed/improved Money Market timing processing solution decreasing processing time 87%, and avoided service delays, SLA breaks, manual processing, potential loss of investment income. Solution eliminated P/L and reputation risk. Tested solution in UAT. Resiliency team partner that automated Sustained Resiliency/Disaster Recovery plans minimizing potential impact. Created training documents and trained 300+ global end users prior to implementing new accounting system.

Newark, Delaware, United States

Led North America team and 7 team members analyzing outages for 53 applications and processing issues potentially impacting billions in trading across 5,000 institutional client accounts. Promoted releases to production for UNIX, Control-M, DB (Oracle/Sybase), GAIA, and multiple applications improving client service processes. Project Manager transitioning to Linux from Solaris for Eagle Accounting system. Created/supervised project plan and deliverables. Led cross-team partnerships with architect, Oracle DBA, Unix SA, UAT, and business teams. Reported project status to senior management. Identified sweeps process issues, and rebuilt end-to-end process achieving 95% reduction also avoiding missed deadlines and billions in trade loss risk. Prepared/executed Sustained Resiliency (SR)/Disaster Recovery (DR) events for multiple applications. Analyzed issues and enhanced code improving end-to-end processes reducing potential risk and monetary impacts. Compiled/reviewed weekly ITSM release details with AD teams for potential application cross impacts and post release issues.

Newark, Delaware, United States

Built upon former Core Operations Manager role to bring EAGLE platform to fruition. Project Team Leader for EAGLE new accounting platform analysis/testing/development/roll-out.- Researched/resolved issues and bugs partnering with vendor during testing phase.- Analyzed/developed 28 internal reports-based business requirements yielding smooth platform transition.- Developed/executed client conversion plan, and trained 300+ global users for a seamless transition.

Newark, Delaware, United States

Led Corporate Accounting, Journal and Payments teams comprise of 3 team leaders and 12 team members.  Replacement Accounting System Project: Analyzed/advised/planned new EAGLE reporting platform implementation for 125+ large Global Cash Short Term Institutional Clients (>$50 million) dramatically improving reporting. Partnered with Clearwater Analytics vendor.- Analyzed/managed impacts of imbedded satellite application unbundling initiative transitioning IDSSG accounting platform to eliminate dependency entirely while reducing implementation time.- Tested new Eagle accounting platform functionalities conducting performance analyses, gap documentation, and vendor partnership to close gaps/mitigate risks.- Developed automated process increasing accuracy, reducing 90% excess manual transactions.

Newark, Delaware, United States

Led accounting team verifying reports prior to publishing to client. Led team in compiling data for clients’ ad-hoc requests. Created macros reducing month-end processes manual effort and overtime while increasing productivity. Partnered with Portfolio and Client Account Managers for clients’ manual requests proposing cost/benefits analysis.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Financial Management