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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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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
• 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

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
• 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.

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
• 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.