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Lone Tree, Colorado, United States

Retired and living in the Denver, Colorado area. Active in downhill skiing, fly fishing, motorcycling, golf, kayaking, landlord with property management, maintenance, and refurbishment. Occasional operations, IT and financial management consultant to former associates in the financial services industry.

Greater New York City Area

Led operations and technology transformation related to Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML).

Greater Denver Area

Executive technology and operations consultant specializing in strategy, analytics and business optimization, counter-fraud, anti-money laundering, IT department transformations, operational excellence and game-changing improvements in business processes and application systems for the financial services industry.

Greater Denver Area

• Led the design and implementation of global treasury management and cash settlement, human capital management, fraud detection, supply chain, and credit risk management systems.• Implemented real-time rules-based anti-money laundering transaction analytic and OFAC list processing systems to support retail money transfer operations in over 200 countries. Implemented related software solutions from, IBM EAS, Norkom, and Accertify. • Led acquisition due diligence and IT integration of European retail and commercial money transfer businesses. • Reduced fraud losses through real-time predictive analysis of global transaction data using FICO Blaze technology.

Led an organization of over 200 staff to design and implement financial systems and operations improvements. Resolved control and financial closing weaknesses to meet industry standards, audit, and Sarbanes – Oxley requirements. Directed general controls, system and procedural improvements in operating areas including securities portfolio management, portfolio valuation, corporate accounting, management reporting, project accounting, human resources, document management, and regulatory reporting using data warehouse, vendor-packaged and custom-built solutions. Reduced staff turnover by 50% by implementing leadership and staff development programs. Reported directly to the EVP of Operations and Technology and indirectly to the CFO. Annual budgets in 2006 and 2007 were $130 MM and $50 MM, respectively.

Developed strategy and directed multi-departmental teams in the implementation and control of financial transaction, cash management, securitized asset reporting, fed wire, trading, performance data warehouse, management reporting and asset / liability management systems. Directed the definition, redesign and documentation of finance division processes and systems to comply with Sarbanes – Oxley and Basle II infrastructure, reporting and control requirements. Implemented strict change controls, test facilities, procedures and solution delivery methodologies to ensure system and business stability. Contributed to the development of corporate-wide IT practices for delivery excellence, including performance metrics, quarterly reporting, strategy setting, activity and resource planning, and spending controls. Managed an annual budget of $27 million.

Greater New York City Area

Specialized in strategy, turnaround, diagnostic analysis, benchmarking, design and implementation of state-of-the-art systems and operations for ERP, financial and performance management, product control, trading, cash management, securities settlement and clearing for money-center banks, mortgage-backed and other securities depositories, and broker / dealers. Directed operations crisis management, efficiency and controls improvement engagements.

Mba, Finance, Operations

Tutored graduate level statistics, teaching assistant for Decision Analysis course

Ba, Political Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Student Senate, Fraternity President, School of International Services semester at American University