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Pensacola, Fl, Us

Pensacola, Florida, United States

Responsible for the establishing the companies' goals and strategic objectives. Focus on revenue growth and delivery. Overseas budget and ensures resources are properly allocated. Create and maintain strong professional relationships with clients, vendors and exchanges. Guaranties client satisfaction with all MDMS services.• Partner with C Suite executives to define strategic goals and relationships with market data vendors to control costs • Define and manage client market data budgets from $10 to $20 million. • Represent client’s interest in market data contract negotiations and audits with vendors and exchanges resulting in 30% to 70% reduction in initial fee liability or vendor commercials.• Reduce market data expenses for clients by analyzing contracts, identifying alternative services, and comparing end user requirements to the existing inventory resulting in over a 20% cost reduction.• Educate and safeguard companies against noncompliant use of market data. Provide solutions to correct misuse of data and communicate issues to exchanges or vendors.• Lead process and technology improvement projects including onboarding workflow redesigns, automation of monthly reporting and inventory management focusing on cost reduction and exchange compliance.• Lead Sales process from initial meetings, Proof of Concept trials to final onboarding of new clients.• Manage a staff of 10 market data specialists focusing on Account Management, Vendor Management, Exchange Reporting, Non-Professional Subscriber Verification, Quote Meter Auditing and IT Management.

Greater New York City Area

Primary relationship manager between clients and all majors stock exchanges. Client base includes asset management firms, hedge funds, fintech companies and broker dealers. Focus on vendor and exchange compliance, exchange reporting, audit defense, non-professional subscriber verification and market data cost reduction. Lead the implementation of all systems and process changes required to support market data contractual requirements. • Represent client’s interest in all interaction with exchanges including audits, fee liability negotiation, and contract compliance resulting in over a 30% reduction in fee liability per audit.• Reduce market data expenses for clients by analyzing contracts, identifying alternative services, and comparing end user requirements to the existing inventory resulting in over a 20% cost reduction.• Perform Vendor of Record exchange reporting duties for all major exchanges in an accurate and timely manner.• Educate and safeguard companies against market data industry wide issues such as Non-Professional Subscriber Verification and Non-Display System Usage, preventing future fee liability payments to the exchanges.• Lead process and technology improvement projects including onboarding workflow redesigns, automation of monthly reporting and inventory management focusing on cost reduction and exchange compliance.• Participate in the Sales process from initial meetings, Proof of Concept trials to final onboarding as a client.• Manage a staff of 6 market data specialist focusing on account management, Non-Professional Subscriber Verification, Quote Meter auditing and IT Management.

Greater New York City Area

Analyze existing business processes, technology stack and subscriptions to provide recommendations to improve efficiency and cost savings. Review existing workflows, employee responsibilities and vendor contracts associated with the Risk Management, Operations and Information Technology departments.

Greater New York City Area

Supervised the migration of all data and applications from Radian Asset Assurance (RAA) to Assured Guaranty. Led IT resources from Radian Group, RAA and Assured Guaranty to successfully transfer applications, file shares, email, phones and the document management system. Details of the migration include leading a cross-company team in transferring all applications, Oracle databases, Xerox DocuShare document management system, Oracle Hyperion reporting system, network file shares, and Exchange email and phone numbers to Assured Guaranty within 6 weeks of the close of transaction.Performed user testing and documented results of the migration for audit which produced zero exceptions.Negotiated IT portion of the Transfer Services Agreement between Radian Group and Assured Guaranty.

Greater New York City Area

Led a team of 14 direct and indirect reports responsible for the delivery of system solutions. Provided vision and strategic thinking required to increase automation and efficiency while reducing operational risk. Identified and prioritized all projects. Performed as project manager and business analyst for new software development and report creation. Implemented an offshore software development model supported by an Agile SDLC. • Reorganized the IT department into a blended onsite/offshore business model switching from Waterfall to Agile SDLC, creating a steady flow of deliverables and increasing communication between IT and business. • Coached and motivated IT resources during the run-off and sale of the business, improving IT/Business relationship, leading to the completion of 10 accounting projects, outstanding for over 7 years. • Appointed ownership of the outsourcing relationship with Alliance Global Services in Hyderabad India, reducing cost of engagement by 25% and increasing in system documentation and knowledge transfer to offshore team. • Delivered a new application (RadAR), automating reserve reporting process and removing operational risk to key employees. RadAR resulted in real-time updates on 40+ reports, removal of duplicate data entry, and a dramatic reduction in time for management verification of reports. • Initiated data warehouse redesign project, automating and improving data quality of reserve, earnings and exposure reports, resulting in immediate report availability at month end and 80% reduction in IT data corrections. • Revamped the RAA disaster recovery plan replacing SunGard Availability Services with a Citrix based solution saving an annual cost of $72K and a potential $8K usage fee. Recovery time reduced from 2 days to 2 hours.

Greater New York City Area

Introduced and fulfilled the role of business liaison, building trust and bridging the communication gap between business stakeholders and IT. Identified business support deficiencies in the RAA technology stack and managed all key IT initiatives including business requirements, testing, overseeing the design and development, and managing deployments.

Greater New York City Area

Appointed Data Czar responsible for the maintenance and data integrity of all RAA applications concentrating on municipal bonds, interest-rate swaps, project finance, asset-backed, credit default swaps (CDS), commercial and residential mortgage-backed, and Trust Preferred transactions. Business analyst for risk management related projects. Managed project teams across the business units, providing knowledge transfer of structured finance products to IT to define business requirements and conduct testing.

Greater New York City Area

• Team Leader of four project managers responsible for the coordination of software deployments and infrastructure upgrades. Created deployment strategies which included resource allocation, deployment/back out scripts, risk appropriate rollout plans, change management approval and training/communication plans.• Monitored all phases of the SDLC including development, quality assurance and user acceptance testing to assess impact on deployment dates. Pursued problem resolution of any issues that jeopardized the on time completion of a project. • Interacted with all levels of management within IT concerning changes in deployment philosophy, the role of the department, and process changes.• Participated on the UBS Branding task force responsible for the conversion of the UBS PaineWebber brand to UBS.

Greater New York City Area

• Managed a staff of six responsible for the daily maintenance and delivery of municipal and taxable pricing files. Provided customer support for all redistributor companies and associated clients such as SunGard, State Street Bank, DST Systems, and Merrill Lynch.• Member of the project management committee designed to prioritize and implement all IT initiatives. • Member of the transition team responsible for merging Telekur's international pricing service into Standard & Poor's.• Drafted business requirements for the creation to the new portfolio maintenance and bond pricing system (IES). Traveled to client sites to discuss issues and solicit suggestions to include in the design of the system.• Partnered with the technology team for the purpose of translating business requirements into design specifications. • Managed all aspects of the user acceptance testing. Wrote test plans and scripts, prioritized and delegated tests to staff, and documented all results for audit department.• Trained business units on the portfolio maintenance and bond pricing systems. Provided basic technical support to the staff regarding editing software, LAN workplace, and Windows applications.

Greater New York City Area

• Assisted Lead Editor with validating the data entry of 10Q information into the Moody’s database, supervised the production staff, and interfaced with department managers and programmers on system issues.• Performed testing and quality control for the project development team of Moody's Company Data service product.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

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