• Promoted to a team-lead role in one year, overseeing the planning & execution of various automation efforts and risk and compliance programs; drive cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced environment & translate model results and data trends into actionable proposals;• Partner with investment managers to redesign strategic asset allocation framework involving equities, fixed income & alternative assets; integrate appropriate models, and select frequency of rebalance strategy, resulting in increased investment income by 16%• Overhaul Market Risk's processes and tools such as upgrading to a secure, customized & streamlined database that better support forecasting market, interest, liquidity, and credit risk, which has reduced manual processes by 70%+• Influence Legal Office to revise their interpretation of our investment policy based on regulatory guidance, avoids a $1 OM fine• Manage & train cross-departmental teams of analysts on the benefits of utilizing structured data sources; guide teams to code & build effective financial models; 20 analysts can now write code independently vs. only 3 in 2018 • Establish risk appetite metrics for business unit; assess and ensure adherence to all OCC, TOI, FDIC, or FINRA regulations; identify issues with new technology, document retention, and potentially inaccurate risk quantification, which have led to successful audits• Reconcile pricing discrepancies between models; remediate internal model issues involving erroneous bond pricing by comparing prices between Bloomberg, Aladdin, and a self-developed pricing model, which ultimately improves board reporting accuracy by 10%• Spearhead projects with Investment Office to create an automated reporting system mandated by FDIC; partner with CFO & Data Scientists to mitigate USAA's exposure to risks from derivatives & hedging activities, leading to multi-million-dollar savings

• Directed projects with cross-functional teams to close a Federal Reserve MRA 3 months before deadline; expedited an automated investment limit monitoring system that significantly reduced exposure to risk; avoided $50M in regulatory fines; awarded 2 spot bonus• Led an organization-wide change to implement Aladdin, a new investment performance & risk attribution system that improved efficiency, and accuracy and amassed $1 OM in cost savings per year; retired redundant systems & manual processes which doubled efficiency• Managed an initiative to re-evaluate mortgage service rights & pipeline derivative hedging effectiveness, which discovered carrying these service rights was unprofitable and risky; recommended ending the program leading to approximately $3M of savings annually• Designed new VaR & Expected Shortfall frameworks using Monte Carlo methods to capture 3 high-impact risks not previously considered• Counseled investment partners to carry out a swaption strategy, which generated $2M+ in additional income

• Oversaw advanced analytics operations to assess & quantify future market risks, opportunities, & program effectiveness & translate model results into tangible solutions; leveraged industry standard methodologies, and model valuations & produced reports to drive decision-making• Deployed innovative approaches to quantitative analytics that provided conclusions to help solve complex business objectives• Facilitated an "Interest Rate Forecasting" panel to discuss IRR strategies and as an opportunity to influence leadership decisions• Led team to redesign department's auto loan hedging program; conducted research on Bloomberg and devised an Asset-Backed Security that had a similar loss ratio; advised management to purchase a credit default swap, which reduced credit losses by 50%• Examined & improved model assumptions; revised stochastic parameters, which increased accuracy & reduced calculation time by 50%

• Designed and presented to senior leadership a new counterparty risk model based on true default risks and transitional default probabilities; model approved by Executive ALCO and used by several departments; increased hedging effectiveness by 20% and reduced costs by 30%• Owned all regulatory compliance to ensure bank processes remained compliant with OCC mandates; led to zero-finding audits• Researched root cause of elevated Option-Adjusted Spread (OAS); developed algorithm to automate outlier discovery• Partnered with Strategic Resources department to build new G2PP prepayment model, which improved cash flow forecast by 20%+• Reviewed & recommended swap/swaption contracts to improve duration matching; reduced mismatch by 50%

• Led 2 projects for equity alpha generation; modeled Euro Zone market returns using PMI data that increased "hit rate" by 10%• Presented a proposal to CEO that utilized keyword sensing technology to grow client base, which increased revenue by estimated 40%

• Managed the firm's $1.8B repo portfolio; maximized return of the portfolio through diligent research; presented a proposal to senior management & CEO; implemented the strategy and increased the portfolio's income by 200% or 8M in six months• Implement arbitrage strategies which allowed 5k of additional money market income per day• Delivered cross-functional leadership to a high-performing team of up to 3 temporary employees and interns while managing regulatory interactions and FINRA Audits.