Experience

AirPlus International

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Legal Counsel

  • Jun 2017 - Present

  Advise sales team, management, and other partners in the US, Germany, and Latin America on legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements applicable to daily operations. Provide overall maintenance of the US compliance program. Continuously monitor processes, policies, and procedures to minimize risk, identify potential gaps, and implement changes where necessary. Advise management on risks and propose control enhancements. Conduct regulatory and legal research related to daily operations and special projects. Provide legal and regulatory guidance. Draft guidance documents. Proactively monitor applicable legal and regulatory trends and changes. Advise on potential risks or impacts to the US and other global Lufthansa entities based on the changes and/or trends. Propose risk mitigation where possible and necessary. Designed and implemented AirPlus’ Board approved AML compliance program. Drafted all policies and procedures required for the implementation of the program. Created and implemented new processes as part of the AML Program. Maintain AirPlus’ AML compliance program. Proactively monitor AML regulatory changes to determine potential impacts on AirPlus’ AML program. Continuously assess AML policies, processes and procedures for risk exposure and update in response to regulatory requirements. Adjust policies, processes, and procedures to comply with regulatory changes as necessary. Draft, review, and negotiate sales agreements, vendor agreements, non-disclosure agreements, marketing referral agreements, and partnership agreements. Provide guidance and serve as point of contact for management on contractual matters. Provide redlined recommendations on nonstandard contracts. Provide legal and regulatory risk and control assessments for new products, new initiatives and programs. Advise business of identified risks and support remediation efforts including policy, process, and procedural changes.



JPMorgan Chase & Co.

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• KYC Quality Control Associate/AML Officer

  • May 2014 - Jun 2017

  Served as subject matter expert on AML (Anti-Money Laundering)/KYC (Know Your Customer) policies, procedures, and processes to quality control and client on-boarding teams. Advised on policy and procedural requirements. Served as designated point of contact for policy and procedural related queries. Provided policy, procedural and process related guidance in response to audit and regulatory requests. Determined whether deficiencies identified were valid. Partnered with stakeholders for remediation. Conducted controls testing and gap analysis to identify and mitigate risk and improve controls. Provided policy, process and procedural recommendations to minimize risk exposure. Researched and analyzed AML/KYC, and OFAC sanctions regulatory requirements. Drafted policies and procedures that sustained established AML standards for Commercial Banking (CB) business and operations teams globally. Identified gaps in CB policies, procedures, and processes. Advised Global Financial Crimes Compliance and CB business and operations employees to address the deficiencies and mitigate risk. Monitored policies and procedures to ensure continued compliance with internal policy standards and regulatory requirements. Developed training materials, job-aids and conducted policy and procedure training for CB AML/KYC operations and business employees globally.



Lexolution, LLC

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Attorney/Legal Analyst

  • Jan 2006 - May 2014

  Drafted legal memoranda, assisted in deposition preparation, and created attorney client privilege logs to prepare for impending corporate, securities, and intellectual property litigation. Analyzed documents to determine legal relevance as well as the existence of attorney client privilege in response to opposing parties’ discovery requests. Assisted in revising protocols used during the review and analysis of documents. Managed team of attorneys during the litigation preparation. Mentored and trained team attorneys on the requirements of the review project. Drafted training materials. Ensured timely completion of team assignments. Performed quality control review of team members’ assignments to ensure accuracy and compliance with established protocols.