Richard G. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il.

Assist the IS Department Project Management Team with building of Bright Work/Share Point project sites pursuant to approved project plans.Ensure accuracy and completeness of such project plans.Coordinate User Group and Steering Committee Meetings: Summarize project charters,prepare project schedules, gap analysis, agendas.Coordinate with IS and Business groups to maintain project gap analysis tracking variations in all project schedules and create standardized status reports to ensure project participants can easily and succinctly review project progress. Assist in the development of project management standards, design of standard project management templates and the establishment of consistent reporting and communication standards.

Chicago, Il.

Project Lead for web development projects. Gather, document business and technical requirements providing marketing and event planning tools for clients in the pharmaceutical industry. Define, execute unit, user acceptance test plans to ensure software quality. Manage/triage production support issues to improve reliability and consistency of marketing and event planning web based applications.

Jan. 2017-August 2017PMP Certification (May 2017) – Project Management Institute Agile Certified Scrumaster(CSM) Certification (August 2017) - Scrum AllianceCertified Business Analysis Course - IIBAOther Courses: Microsoft Access and Excel advanced, MS Project 2013

Chicago, Il.

Led Agile projects in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment and Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) web-based environments. Coordinated offshore / onshore developers to code, test, and deploy Hive based applications to ingest client-supplied CBOE data and create exceptions, alerts used by regulatory investigators for monitoring compliance to exchange and SEC rules. Manage development teams totaling 17 employees. -Liaison to CBOE to ensure compliance to Regulatory Service Agreement (RSA) agreement(i.e. managed change requests for development work(i.e. impact analysis, estimate,allocate,and schedule onshore/offshore resources).-Lead Agile projects in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment and CBOE web-based environments with cross-functional Agile Scrum Teams (17 employees) in matrix reporting environment onshore and offshore.-Agile management included: Daily Scrum meetings, Monthly Sprints, Collaboration with Product Owner, Developers, Quality Assurance ,Business Analyst groups, and managing Product Backlog. -Reduce costs(1 million dollars annually) migrating CBOE-based Insider Trading web application to FINRA platform used by revenue-generating group. -Ensure changes in exchange,SEC rules governing quoting obligations are reflected in CBOE web-based environment, enhancing surveillances, including Continuous Quote, Quote Width, and Opening Quote. -Redesign Option Marking surveillance adding financial analysis features identifying quote manipulation impacting end of day position pricing.-Design cloud-based Transfer Positions and Complex Order Cash Spread application to replace manual financial analysis procedures, improving efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness of review.-Develop cloud-based Excessive Messaging application, enabling detection,identification of excessive messaging violations or potential issues with quote and / or order algorithms, providing insightful analysis of firm’s trading behavior at CBOE Options Exchange.

Chicago, Il.

Managed Agile projects, supervise 15 employees offshore/local. Led teams to maintain, enhance ORSA Insider Trading (2 million dollars annual revenue), CBOE,CFE Regulatory, and Miami Options Regulatory web and batch applications. Tracked/reported project status via MS Project, migrated to Teamwork (ALM) software which allowed planning/collaboration with cross functional teams. Participated in 20 to 25 projects per year. • CFE Surveillance migration project to segregate futures-based surveillances from option-based surveillances.• Evaluate, recommend, implement system solutions for ORSA Insider Trading group to enhance the group’s reporting to participant exchanges and the SEC (ex. automate reporting, supervisory reporting, data mining tools via dashboard). This reduced manual effort, improved data accuracy, enhancing the group’s Insider Trading surveillance capabilities. Estimated, allocated onshore/offshore resources for related, concurrent projects.• Enhanced existing, created new surveillances for CBOE, CFE Regulatory Departments of Market Regulation to facilitate Regulatory compliance reviews (ex. CFE Quote Obligation, Oracle 11g migration, Limit Up/Down for Quote-based surveillances).• Customized, enhanced Regulatory web and batch applications for Miami Options Exchange so CBOE regulatory personnel can perform surveillance functions on behalf of Miami Options Exchange. Estimated, allocated onshore/offshore resources for related, concurrent projects.

Chicago, Il.

Managed web development for surveillance of Insider Trading activities used by Options Regulatory Surveillance Authority (ORSA), largest surveillance department at CBOE which works on behalf of all US option exchanges (2 million dollars revenue annually). Other web application development projects were Quoting, and Option Trade execution related. Track/report project status via MS Project.• Gather, document business, technical requirements, unit, user acceptance test plans, develop batch and web applications for the ORSA Insider Trading group. Design, develop data marts consisting of US Option exchange trading activities crucial for investigations. • Create new and enhance existing web-based surveillances for CBOE Regulatory Department of Market Regulation, including dashboard reporting to facilitate reviews of compliance by Regulatory personnel (ex. Locked and Crossed, Book Trade Through, Best Execution).• Develop/enhance Market Replay application, supporting CBOE Help Desk, Trading Floor Liaison group, Market Regulation, and Executive personnel, delivering up-to-date information on trade, quote, market conditions, and order activity at CBOE,CFE exchanges. Enhancements provided powerful research capabilities, reduced manual effort, and improved accuracy of review.

Master’S Degree, Information Systems Management, B+

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting, B+

Activities and Societies: Worked in maintenance for 300 unit apartment complex to finance college tuition.