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EMAIL AVAILABLEPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEEXECUTIVE SUMMARYBusiness Analyst and Project Manager with a software development background, focusing primarily on Front-to-Back solutions for Fixed Income, Derivatives, Risk, Finance (P&L) and other business areas in financial services industry. Good understanding of the Treasury business, Risk and Finance functions within investment banking. Experienced in Requirements Gathering, Product Strategy and Roadmap definition, Change Management, Business Development, Functional Testing, UAT and prod parallel support, full SDLC and Agile methodologies.Strong client servicing and client management skills.EXPERIENCE:Ghin LLC Jan 2024 PresentBusiness Analyst for various consulting assignments with financial institutions.Supporting client onboarding and their Middle Office functions, including SIT and UAT.Bank of New York Mellon, New York, NYSenior Business Analyst Consultant Oct 2019 Dec 2022Served as Summit functional expert for OTC and Fixed Income products including cleared and bi-lateral interest rate swaps, total return swaps, swaptions, equity options, FX Options, FX forwards, repos and bonds. Provided expertise on Summit applications: static data, trade capture, market data, STP etc.Supported the onboarding of new banking clients who are outsourcing their Middle Office functions to BNY Asset Servicing; MO functions include: trade capture, pricing, cash flow generation, exposure reporting, reconciliation to broker statements, accounting, etcWorked with traders and project stakeholders to gather and document Functional Requirements and BRDs for custom development related to new products, enhancements to existing products, automation of operational processes to support business objectives.Served as Product Owner in Agile spring cycles, lead scrum meetings, working with development team to prioritize work to ensure delivery, provide clarifications on the requirements and brainstorm best solutions.Facilitated project meetings with stakeholders across various groups; highlighted, escalated, tracked and resolved issues.Created workflow diagrams, system mockups using wire frame diagrams and Use Cases.Identified and managed issues, risks and change controls throughout project life cycle.Developed test scenarios and test scripts, assisted and facilitated unit, integration and UAT.Worked on modernization of BNY s interest rate and FX curves as a member of interest rate derivatives team for IBOR transformation, including curve construction for exchange and bi-lateral trades.As part of the IBOR transformation worked with Middle Office to revamp hedge and explained P&L reports leading to greater operational efficiency.Used Summit tools to simulate and provide the impact analysis for Front Office.Lead analyst on bank-wide Single Name CDS initiative for trade capture for both investment grade and high yield credit entities, including valuation and hedging and working with technology to import default probabilities (EOD load process)..Technical work included review of distributed servers, parallelizing intense P&L calculations, review of XML and SQL bespoke works and caching of data visa-a-vis Summit system.Natixis, New York, NYSenior Business Analyst Consultant Nov 2017 Jun 2019Coordinated BAs and IT teams during Front Office and Back Office implementation of the major accounting system and Summit, work included pricing, valuing and configuring financial instruments.Project scoping and planning, progress reporting, identification and management of issues/risks and communications. Identified pain points, proposed and implemented solutions for improving workflows and efficiency. .Collaborated with traders and other users to determine business requirements, including the identification of any potential issues or functional omissions; defined and documented the business requirements and detailed specifications for IT development teams.Developed test cases and validated test results during user acceptance testing; trained end-users.Conducted system requirement analysis - buy vs. build; performed gap analysis.Barclays, New York, NY May 2015-Jun 2017Senior Business Analyst/PM ConsultantBusiness analyst and Project manager for Risk and Finance Change Management team, with focus on regulatory related projects such as CCAR Global Market Shocks (GMS).Prioritized business requirements, identified the scope, assisted with functional requirements and testing including process flow and use cases review with traders and validation. Created detailed technical specifications.Identified and documented risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies providing status update on progress.Facilitated scrum meetings across various groups; highlighted, escalated, tracked and resolved issues.Generated management reporting including milestones, metrics, project plans, accomplishments and issues for senior stakeholders.Commerzbank AG New York, NY Sept 2010-Sept 2014VP, Business AnalystAssisted Front and Back Office of the Bank with Summit Trading Systems implementation projects including:Using Summit and Excel models for trade capture, pricing and valuations, functional analysis, Risk and P&L calculations for interest rate derivatives and fixed income instruments.Created Business Requirements (BRD), Functional Specifications (FSR) and Technical documents for developers interacted with traders and users from Front, Middle and Back Office staff to understand requirements and create comprehensive solutions.Responsible for conducting, leading and coordinating software development activities including key design decisions for technology and process workflows for new and extending systems using Agile principles and best practices.Supervised and guided IT Business Analysts and Development staff acting as a conduit between IT and business managers claims on projects, deadlines, problem solving, risks, deployment, etc.Utilized SQL for reporting and queries.Finestra Inc. New York, NY Mar 1998-Sept 2010Business AnalystBusiness Analyst for on- and off-site of Summit client implementations including:Supported the onboarding of new banking clients including UAT, prod parallel, conversion, go-live.Summit architecture and system configuration setup for leading Investment Banks for full trade workflow.Developed technical specifications based on requirements gathered from business users.Designed, developed and implemented custom functionality using Summit APIs.Utilized SQL for reporting and queries. Resolved technical issues for Summit clients.Senior Software Developer, New York, NYDeveloped, assisted with testing and documenting some of the essential Summit components for various financial instruments.EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONM.S. Computer Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, GPA 4.0.Specialized in parallel processing programming and algorithm design including involvement in fundamental research in parallel processing. Programmed in C*, C, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog and C++.B.S. Applied Mathematics, Moscow State University of Transport (MIIT).NY Institute of Finance, Fixed Income Professional Certificate, 2014NY Institute of Finance, Certificate in Financial Risk Management, 2013NYU School of continuing Studies Certificate in Financial Risk management, 2001PUBLICATIONSAn NC Algorithm for Depth-First Search of Graphs with Bounded Genus DIMACS Technical Report 94-29, Co-authored with Dr. Justin Smith. Paper presented at DIMACS Conference, November 1993PROFESSIONAL SKILLS SUMMARYMicrosoft Office Suite: including Excel, Word, PowerPoint. Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX.Databases: Working knowledge of Sybase, OracleProgramming Languages: C++, C, UNIX Shell Scripting, XML, Visual Basic, Java. |
