Portfolio Operations Manager

• Mar 2018 - Present

Assistant Vice President Derivatives Operations

• Oct 2013 - Jul 2017

• Defined and led implementation of the internally-built collateral system.• Adopted internal processes to Dodd-Frank, EMIR and BCBS/IOSCO margining requirements and spearheaded cross-departmental preparedness. • Managed Reconciliation, Collateralization and Payments for the Cleared and Bilateral Swaps products, Prime Brokerage, Repos, and stock lending.• Saved $60,000 a year by implementing alternative to Reuters terminals.• Streamlined daily processes utilizing Excel VBA resulting in savings of over $40,000 a year in FTE cost. Show less

Assistant Vice President Operations Trading Support

• Jul 2011 - Oct 2013

• Directed testing and adaptation of the Bloomberg’s AIM Order Management System to achieve scalability via Straight Through Processing.• Responsible for Trade Capture and/or Trade Enrichment of equity trades, swaps (single name equity, index, credit), Bank Loans and Stock Loans.• Trained and on-boarded traders and Portfolio Managers on AIM.• Saved $100,000 a year by identifying alternative solution to offered reporting suite and by learning how to create compliance rules in the system. Show less

Senior Associate Manager of the Derivative Operations Team

• May 2010 - Jul 2011

• Business lead on the process re-engineering project for derivatives support.• Analyzed requirements and vendor solutions for the Stock Loan system.• Administered cross training among three associates on five core processes.

Senior Corporate Actions Assoc

• Apr 2009 - May 2010

• Tested and implemented new corporate actions system (XSP).• Improved controls around key processes and conceptualized income auto-matching process.• Acted as liaison between company’s operations and trading units, external managers, and custodian banks/prime brokers.

Hedge Fund Middle Office Operations Principal

• Jun 2007 - Apr 2009

• Managed Prime Broker and Fund Administrator for the assigned portfolios ensuring daily P&L accuracy, weekly and monthly NAV, as well as, addressed trade queries and pricing issues. • Assisted in the implementation of Front Arena, including system testing in the UAT environment, documentation of processes and procedures

Market Data Operations Principal

• May 2005 - Jun 2007

• Developed Business requirements for processing Corporate Actions on the newly implemented Hedge Fund system, and worked with IT team on its successful implementation. • Streamlined processing of Corporate Actions, decreasing inaccuracy by 30 percent. Decreased incorrect pricing by 10 percent by instituting procedural changes.

Corporate Actions Senior Research Analyst

• 1997 - 2005

• Acted as primary point of contact for research of critical, complex and risky Corporate Actions. Effectively communicated problem areas within the newly implemented Corporate Actions system to the technical support groups. • Implemented a streamlined Corporate Actions set up process, which eliminated duplication of work and increased productivity. • Acted as primary point of contact for research of critical, complex and risky Corporate Actions. Effectively communicated problem areas within the newly implemented Corporate Actions system to the technical support groups. • Implemented a streamlined Corporate Actions set up process, which eliminated duplication of work and increased productivity.