Manages the M&T Bank’s loan pledge programs with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRB) and Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (FHLB) ensuring adherence to program requirements and that the Banks $130 Billion in loan assets are utilized to maximize liquidity. Manages Treasury Operations Quantitative Analytics Support team focusing on use of data analytics to support business line reporting needs and automation of procedures. * Cultivates strong working relationships with FHLB, FRB, and throughout the organization.* Manages internal audits as well as external audits conducted by the FRB and FHLB by ensuring business line support is both timely and accurate.* Conducts complex analyses using multiple disparate data sources to develop insight into potential issues or opportunities.* Maintains roadmap for the Banks loan pledge programs to develop opportunities for increased liquidity and to enact risk mitigation processes and technologies to lead to satisfactory audit outcomes.* Collaborates with multiple Agile Teams to ensure pledge initiatives are known, prioritized, and delivered.* Works with business lines to ensure controls are in place to ensure FHLB and FRB eligibility rules are enforced.

Served as “voice of the customer” within an Agile Environment and owner of large set of various technologies and applications that support Treasury, Treasury Operations, Debt Capital Markets/Loan Syndications, and Fixed Income Capital Markets. * Defined and delivered product vision and roadmap working with the business lines to align strategic intent with technology capacity ensuring Epics are structured and prioritized to deliver the greatest potential business value.* Represented the voice of the customer working with the technology delivery team to convey Epic and User Story details as well as to move delivery forward with least impact possible to business.* Authored User Stories and prioritized Backlog to achieve greatest return on capacity each Sprint ensuring right-sized Sprints and timely delivery.* Influenced essential business partners and others throughout the organization to advocate the greatest potential benefit for the customer.* Presented team objectives, key results, updates and more at S2 and S3 Agile Ceremonies. * Collaborated across teams and with other Product Owners to align dependent backlogs.

Managed Derivatives Operations Department including Balance Sheet Liabilities operations while serving as project lead to major system replacement effort. * Oversaw daily activities of department ensuring timely and quality completion of tasks to satisfy defined regulatory and department policies.* Provided leadership, guidance, feedback, and training to staff ensuring staff had the key knowledge and skills to be successful contributors.* Evaluated department processes, procedures, and policies to identify opportunities to increase operational efficiencies.* Worked with senior leadership to obtain proper approvals and funding in place to begin system replacement project.* Served as project lead to system replacement initiative from the RFP/vendor selection process, definition and delivery of business requirements, system training and testing and implementation all the while ensuring department had necessary leadership.

Directed a team of three derivatives analysts and served as Derivatives Operations back office subject matter expert for multiple large scale projects; most notably Dodd-Frank Act compliance.* Graduate of Operations Management Program to further development of Managerial, Financial Planning & Analysis, Risk Management and Leadership skills. * Priced the swap portfolios to assess their performance within the current market and interest rate environments; results of which are reported to senior management.* Directed derivatives desk team in the management of the complete operational life-cycle of the interest rate derivatives portfolio.* Functioned as Derivatives back office subject matter expert for Dodd-Frank Act compliance which includes coordinating the onboarding of affirmations service and creating multiple file uploads to SDR (Swap Data Repository) incorporating all required reportable data prior to the Bank’s compliance date.* Created efficiencies at the department level through consolidation of work and process improvement.* Performed monthly receivable/payable integrity on interest rate derivatives ensuring systems are booking G/L entries accurately.* Prepared and submitted month end G/L entries for derivatives portfolio gains/losses.* Involved in several acquisitions of varying size and difficulty, most notably Wilmington Trust Company acquisition which added over 200 derivatives positions.* Tasked with adding positions to system and verifying pre-closing/post-closing accounting.* Trained new employees, ensuring adherence to departmental procedures and bank policy.

* Prepared the liability/settlement position report used by senior management to track collateral and target daily funding.* Worked in conjunction with Treasury Administration and Commercial Loan Operations on clean-up project to reconcile loans not properly identified as having a derivative hedge.* Responsible for confirming ~900 swap payments each month with street counterparties prior to settlement.* Ensured accurate and timely settlement of overnight term borrowings typically totaling >$1B.* Acted as a liaison to the corporate reporting department regarding derivative issues.

* Supported the Buffalo and Baltimore front offices, as well as to interest rate derivatives clients and their auditors. * Reconciled daily activity/account balances for First Home Loan Bank (FHLB) accounts. * Worked in conjunction with street-side counterparties, clearinghouse entities and various areas of the bank to ensure proper settlement of securities trades.* Prepared credit line report measuring the Bank’s daily positions and exposures to its counterparties.