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Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

Provide consulting services and domain expertise in financial services operations, transfer agency, risk management, regulatory compliance and business process management. •Developed a FATCA position whitepaper and assisted with the creation of the Wipro implementation approach. Created presentation decks to highlight key areas of FATCA program development and available Wipro accelerator tools to assist custodian bank clients. •Participated on the team writing the business requirement documents, for an enhanced pricing system at State Street. The BRD’s focused on the security master set up and vendor billing processes associated with the pricing application. •Member of the IFDS transfer agent platform modernization assessment team. The assessment was targeted at the client demand management, prioritization, development, testing and release management processes. The assessment resulted in the creation of a roadmap to aid the client in improving the development and implementation of platform enhancements.

Greater Boston Area

Project Manager and Business Analyst @ Wellington Management CompanyLeading project to enhance the controls around manual external communications to improve client confidentiality, reporting and automation. Reviewing and documenting manual external communications including email, fax and website usage to identify areas for automation and opportunities to leverage data loss prevention systems. Created budget estimates to support development costs and FTE savings.

Reporting to the SVP recruited to improve operational controls and efficiency, strengthen client relations, increase revenue and reduce costs. Led the effort to develop new business through existing and new relationships. Served key executive clients with combined assets of $300B and 500+ active accounts requiring institutional commingled fund transfer agent and recordkeeping services. Multiple commingled products included Collective Investment Trusts, Common Trust Funds, ETFs, Group Trusts, Institutional Mutual Funds, Insurance portfolios, LLCs, New Hampshire Business Trusts, and partnerships. Handled new business implementations, service changes, and enhancements.

Greater Boston Area

Recruited after Deutsche outsourced to State Street Corporation to manage State Street’s Institutional Transfer Agent department with 33 employees. Operations supported pricing, client trading, distribution, and report processing for 35 bank clients with approximately 800 commingled portfolios and more than $520B in assets.

Greater Boston Area

Chief Operations Officer managed operations of over 50 commingled trusts with more than $20B in assets. As an officer of the trust company, attended board meetings and provided regular updates to the BOD. Prepared and analyzed annual department budget of ~$2M and managed department within budget. Provided leadership to a staff of up to 28. Identified and hired appropriate Officer and Assistant VP candidates. Trust operations department outsourced to State Street Corporation.

Greater Boston Area

Created user specifications for an upgrade to the core shareholder recordkeeping platform, and a management fee calculation / billing application. Managed the development, testing, and implementation.Coordinated design, testing of shareholder performance calculation, and reporting application. Trained team on new or revised systems. Documented procedures for new and updated systems.

Ba, Economics

Magna cum Laude

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