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Hanover, Nj, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

Product Strategy / Direction• Responsible for leading the Operations Product team, which focuses on the tech delivery of operations solutions in the alternative industry, such as, Capital Calls and Distributions, Net Asset Value process, Trade tickets, Statements, General Ledger approvals, Fund Document management, Fact Cards process, Fund Master, and more.• Successfully authored and led the presentation of a two-year growth strategy plan for technology solutions at iCapital, known as… Show more Product Strategy / Direction• Responsible for leading the Operations Product team, which focuses on the tech delivery of operations solutions in the alternative industry, such as, Capital Calls and Distributions, Net Asset Value process, Trade tickets, Statements, General Ledger approvals, Fund Document management, Fact Cards process, Fund Master, and more.• Successfully authored and led the presentation of a two-year growth strategy plan for technology solutions at iCapital, known as Project Blue Bird, addressing operational inefficiencies. Projected savings were approximately $10 million in the first year and a half, with an expected total of $50 million over five years from project completion.• Led the execution of the growth strategy across multiple teams comprising 80 individuals, including UX Design, Development, Architecture Designs, Business Analysis, Data Quality Analysis, and Project Management. • Spearheaded the reorganization and restructuring of various Product and Technology teams, centralizing operational areas under a unified Operations Product effort.• Developed and strategized an execution plan focused on enhancing the client user experience with a scalable approach to address operational pain points in Document Management, Data Quality, Workflow Automation, and Client Connectivity and Reporting, utilizing the latest technology; RPA, AI, and OCR.• Instigated a cultural shift within iCapital, transforming the mindset from treating internal platform users as secondary to prioritizing them as real clients, emphasizing the delivery of best-in-class technology solutions. Show less

New York City Metropolitan Area

Product Roadmap / Execution• Led and managed product managers across various initiatives focused on the automation of operational processes in Fund Finance. Authored product roadmaps and strategy with a focus on tactical solutions while executing strategy• Managed technical software engineers through various tech design discussions and provided direct oversight of the entire development cycle from inception to rollout and implementation.Key Project… Show more Product Roadmap / Execution• Led and managed product managers across various initiatives focused on the automation of operational processes in Fund Finance. Authored product roadmaps and strategy with a focus on tactical solutions while executing strategy• Managed technical software engineers through various tech design discussions and provided direct oversight of the entire development cycle from inception to rollout and implementation.Key Project Accomplishments• Successfully led the effort to integrate business units acquired through a merger with Merrill Lynch, consisting of 175 funds, with a focus on data integrations, online workflows, and new business processes.• Led the development of critical new automated operational tools from the ground up, designed to bring efficiencies and scale, such as the Capital Events Process, PCAP generation, Fact Card process, NAV recon, and GL approvals. Show less

Greater New York City Area

Project Management• Led the business, vendor, and project team through a series of engagements across various IT groups and senior management in the implementation of third-party client reporting software.• Supervise a project team of business analysts, project managers, report designers, and software developers onshore and offshore in Kochi India.• Managed third-party software vendor relationships, holding vendors accountable while influencing and challenging them to meet MetLife's… Show more Project Management• Led the business, vendor, and project team through a series of engagements across various IT groups and senior management in the implementation of third-party client reporting software.• Supervise a project team of business analysts, project managers, report designers, and software developers onshore and offshore in Kochi India.• Managed third-party software vendor relationships, holding vendors accountable while influencing and challenging them to meet MetLife's interests, practices, and standards.• Responsible for budgeting and forecasting a $3.6 million budget for 2018, covering software costs, vendor professional services, the allocation of consultants, and hiring of full-time employees.Application Development• Managed two functional software development teams that included managers, developers, business analysts, project managers, and report designers.• Designed future state business process flows for the client reporting process, such as the sourcing of data from downstream systems, data quality review, and content approvals, covering various investment products like Real Estate Commercials, Privates, Emerging Markets, Municipals, Govts, and Corporate Debt.• Strategized the long-term direction of the reporting capabilities of the MIM Business while assessing costs, functional needs, and overall scalability and flexibility of the current platform.Key Project Accomplishments• Led project teams to deliver the automation of quarterly external reports/statements and market overview commentaries across 50 clients and $80 billion AUM.• Led the automation of over 150 data files to clients via FTP, covering various data domains such as security master, cash payments, trades, holdings, and analytic• Reduced costs and time to market through a configuration approach for new client onboarding and delivery of new automated data file setups, realizing a time reduction from 3 weeks to 3 days. Show less

Greater New York City Area

• Led re-engineering initiatives of daily operational process for reference data for trade / order processing as well as support for compliance and reporting.• Identified areas of data controls and automation and streamline processes with a vision towards the centralization of reference data globally across various systems.

Greater New York City Area

• Led the application development team of the BRIDGE - the global middle tier program which connects Aladdin to all downstream applications / processes at MetLife.

Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for leading all IT efforts related to the implementation of Aladdin at MetLife Mexico.• Designed future state business process workflow for Mexico Trading/Operations.

Greater New York City Area

Management• Supervised a team of developers in New York, San Francisco, London, and Singapore.• Allocated resources and prioritize workload to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.• Established key project milestones by analyzing quick win scenarios versus long-term rollout costs.Software Development• Designed a centralized database storage warehouse for raw data (i.e. prices, equity shares outstanding, fundamentals and estimates, economic data, terms and… Show more Management• Supervised a team of developers in New York, San Francisco, London, and Singapore.• Allocated resources and prioritize workload to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.• Established key project milestones by analyzing quick win scenarios versus long-term rollout costs.Software Development• Designed a centralized database storage warehouse for raw data (i.e. prices, equity shares outstanding, fundamentals and estimates, economic data, terms and conditions data for fixed income) from various market data providers for distributing locally to various trading system clients utilizing Extract, Transform, and Load.• Developed securities data modeling for all asset types managed by BlackRock (i.e. equities, preferred, convertibles, corporates, governments, ABS, CMBS, CMOs, Swaps, Futures & Options).• Built securities data extraction and data modeling services through servers to all applications within the Aladdin trading platform including Compliance, Trades and Analytics.• Streamlined access points to securities data by providing centralized securities data services through consolidation and / or replacement of existing multiple elements and APIs.• Optimized application database transactions – enhance table locking schemes / indexes.Key Project Accomplishments• Designed new framework for securities data retrieval utilizing process memory / disk cache for faster data retrieval and reduced loads to database by reducing direct database queries – 450,000 securities in cache servicing over 50 trading systems and 100,000 requests daily.• Developed the centralization of data loads into central data warehouse to reduce multiple loads to multiple database server locations providing distribution service to over 50 trading system clients. Show less

Greater New York City Area

• Lead developer for the software development of various server applications in support of securities data search / extraction / securities modeling for trade / order work flow processing.• Built automated testing frameworks of Securities Services servers in Perl Scripts and wrote over 2000 test cases of various regression test scenarios.• Designed database tables / elements for data storage including stored procedures and triggers.• Utilized FTP file transfer processes and pollers,… Show more • Lead developer for the software development of various server applications in support of securities data search / extraction / securities modeling for trade / order work flow processing.• Built automated testing frameworks of Securities Services servers in Perl Scripts and wrote over 2000 test cases of various regression test scenarios.• Designed database tables / elements for data storage including stored procedures and triggers.• Utilized FTP file transfer processes and pollers, including file encryption / decryptions / XML, CSV parsing. Show less

Greater New York City Area

• Gathered business requirements and wrote specs for various projects for new vendor data feeds such as Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Fitch, Reuters, Bloomberg, IDC, Intex and Trepp.• Designed, built, and automated manual operational procedures with new workflows/programs.• Completed regression and unit testing of various software prior to release rollout.• Managed data vendor relationships to keep vendors accountable for quality and timely services.

Greater New York City Area

• Led DIG’s quality control procedures and ran day-to-day operations with data support staff.• Designed and built data quality control processes and reporting in Perl Scripts.• Supported day-to-day data issues related to portfolio management and trade/order processing.