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-- Portfolio Management: Managed Prepaid Product team to support public and private sector clients utilizing payment cards to pay employees, government recipients and customer incentives.-- Business Development: Partnered with sales and client management teams to grow prepaid business including pre-RFP client product education for government and corporate client customers.-- COVID-19 Pandemic: Managed nine state unemployment insurance programs issuing MMs of prepaid cards to unbanked/underserved recipients receiving $BB in weekly benefit payments.-- Regulatory: Drove key product initiatives required of bank card issuers by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in support of the Prepaid Card Rule while partnering with Legal, Compliance, Risk and Marketing across all client programs.

Foster City, Ca

-- Portfolio Management: Partnered with top-5 U.S. banks, program managers, prepaid processors and other card issuers to provide Visa branded prepaid payment solutions to millions of unbanked or underserved recipients. Payment segments included: Public Sector (G2C,G2B – 100+ State & Federal programs), Payroll (B2C – 1,500+ Employers) and Commercial (B2C, B2B – 100+ Rebate, Reward, Incentive and Travel) programs. -- Business Development: Collaborated with sales team to realize ongoing, double-digit Y-O-Y portfolio growth across product lines. Select activities included: Providing pre-RFP industry SME product expertise to numerous government agencies and large corporates; Aligning with partners to led with Visa when bidding on new business; Supporting deal pricing; Supporting multiple clients bidding in parallel on open RFQs and RFPs. -- Key Client Support: Drove key product initiatives across product lines including: On-going SME partner support, best practices consultations and industry comparison scorecards, marketing campaigns (digital, mail, etc.), cardholder research (industry segment summary, cardholder insights [qualitative, quantitative, annual surveys, etc.]) as well as supporting various Industry and Regulatory initiatives. Partnered with global regional product offices to share US SME best practices with their key regional issuers looking to pursue new prepaid opportunities (cross-border, disaster, travel, etc.) within local markets.-- Budgeting, volume forecasting: Managed $MMs annual budget required to support various client initiatives, marketing efforts and cardholder “insight” research as well as legal, regulatory and other general industry support. Responsible for monthly forecasting $BBs cardholder cash (ATM and Teller Withdrawals) and POS sales (PIN & Signature) volumes across product lines.

Chicago, Il

-- Portfolio Management: Managed public sector prepaid portfolio comprised of Federal, State and Municipality clients transitioning away from costly paper check disbursements in favor of low-cost prepaid debit cards. Select applications included: (State) Unemployment Insurance, Child Support, Workers Comp, Income Tax Refunds and Payroll as well as (Federal) US Treasury FMS programs.-- Business Development: Partnered with Sales to expand portfolio from 5 state programs (‘04) to over 26 state and federal programs (‘09) by supporting various onsite pre-sales client “education” initiatives in addition to responding to numerous RFI, RFQ and 20+ major RFPs.-- Budgeting, forecasting and P/L: Responsible for annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting and monthly variance while improving overall P/L driven by cardholder behavior. Conducted monthly business reviews with functional partners to track progress against plan and prepare for on-boarding of new clients. -- Product Development: Continually tracked market landscape and client requirements to enhance prepaid platform; sponsored numerous platform enhancements to improve overall product offering on a quarterly basis.

Chicago, Il

-- Designed, implemented and managed interface to support 1,200 US Bank branches serviced by 25 regional field offices with 120 staff members. -- Managed budgeting process (’01-’03) to develop $130MM annual plan; tracked and reported monthly variances by region. -- Redesigned accounting process by selecting outside consulting group to develop current/future state for systems implementation. Led team to identify gaps and define requirements. Trained end users on new system upon successful implementation.-- Daily management of cross-functional projects across multiple regions to improve employee productivity including, for example, the design and implementation of web portal for regional/traveling employees to access and exchange files remotely.

Phoenix, Az

-- Analyzed and modified legacy COBOL modules utilizing data comparison routines to ensure Y2K readiness for client’s domestic charge card applications.-- Performed application review and QA testing on modified modules before migrating entire Y2K tested platform into production environment.-- Designed, coded and tested business requirements to enhance batch authorizations process on client’s “Triumph” platform utilizing ”Method 1” methodology.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Information Systems