Experience

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  Investment Management Firm

  • United States

  • Technical Solutions Lead

    • 2019 - Present
    • United States

    I manage initiatives to develop and integrate multiple applications systems with internal and external firms. This position is focused on business and technical processes for security master, corporate actions, and benchmarks subject areas. Key components of my responsibilities include: the design and project management of business, operational, and technical processes. Features also incorporate the development and building of data governance components such as data quality validations and exceptions management capabilities utilized by business and technical teams.

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  Independent Consultant

  • Business and Technology Consultant

    • 2008 - Present

    Supporting multiple Service Offerings, including:1) Data Architecture2) Regulatory Mandates3) Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)4) Reference Data Management5) Metadata Management & Data GovernanceProjects include:Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)* Member of the Private Sector Preparatory Group (PSPG) to develop the new Global Legal Entity Identifier system (GLEIS) under the direction of the G20, Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB). My primary focus is developing Requirements and Designs as a member of the Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Operations and Entity Relationships teams.Benchmark / Index and Constituents Automation• Led the effort to capture FactSet Index (Benchmark) and Constituent Securities by developing processes to perform security “matching” and automated security setups via BloombergGICS Automation• Led the effort to automate to capture and assign GICS codes to Issuers via real time and batch automated processesBloomberg Automation• Led the effort to automate the Bloomberg “DataLicense Per Security” product into the GoldenSource Security Reference Data system. The Security Type groups included all Equities and Derivatives productsIntegration of two Asset Management companies• Supported many initiatives to facilitate the integration of two companiesOptions Symbology Initiative (OSI) Implementation• Managed and Directed all US and international divisions (Data Management, Trading, Communications, Accounting and Client Reporting) migrating to the new Options Symbology• Primary Market Data Vendor Analyst and liaison with Bloomberg and ReutersDesigned and Developed a Metadata Management application• Developed Requirements, Design, and Specifications and built a prototype application systemAssignments with Columbia Management, Ameriprise, Deutsche Bank & other firms.

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  CBA Solutions

  • Partner and Co-Founder

    • 2007 - Present

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  Investment Management

  • United States

  • Data Governance Architect

    • 2018 - 2019
    • United States

    I led a full-scale implementation of Data Governance at an Investment Management firm. The initiative conducted a thorough analysis of current state processes thru the design and implementation of all facets of a Data Governance Initiative. Areas of focus within the program included: Organizational Structure development, creation and assignments or roles and responsibilities, development of a Glossary of definitions, establishment of new business rules and data validations, exceptions processing and management, and the design and implementation of all components.

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  ThinkBRQ LLC

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Senior Data Architect

    • 2016 - 2017
    • Greater Boston Area

    I co-Led a Master Data Management (MDM) Initiative to design a new Data Model and provide a series of recommendations for a data analytics firm in the construction industry. Core functional and technical areas within my responsibilities included: • Perform a detailed Current State Analysis of technical processes and existing systems• Develop the future state Data Model • Develop Recommendations for business and technical process improvements• Develop a comprehensive Governance Model • Develop an Implementation Road map for migrating existing application systems and processes into the future state environment

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  NIIT Technologies Limited

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Director, Data Management, Banking and Financial Services

    • 2013 - 2016
    • Greater Boston Area

    Led multiple development teams in creating application systems and supporting services offerings for Data Management. Areas of focus included: Co-inventor of the Risk Data Aggregation Framework® (in MarkLogic NoSQL and Oracle and SQL Server RDBMS environments); the Framework® was filed for a world-wide International Patent. Core functional areas included: • Risk Data Aggregation and Management• Data Analytics• Reference and Master Data management (securities, economic, energy, companies and customers)• Quality Control Automation systems and processes• Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)• Data Governance and Metadata management. Specific areas of responsibilities were: • Framework strategy• Architecture• Business and Functional Requirements engineer• Functional and Technical Designs and Specifications• Testing of all components during all project phasesThis initiative enhanced firms’ capabilities for Risk Management, Data Warehouse and Data Analytics business needs.I was a Partner Showcase speaker at the MarkLogic World Conference in New York City in June, 2015.

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  Private Consulting

  • Manager and Business Analyst

    • 2007 - 2008

    Assignments with Credit Suisse, Pyramis, Wellington Management and Fidelity.

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  Independent Consultant

  • Business and Technology Consultant

    • 1997 - 2006

    Assignments with Fidelity, Wellington Management, Brown Brothers Harriman and Putnam.

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  SunGard

  • Product Development Manager

    • 1995 - 1996

    Fixed Income Trading and Accounting systems product development, with concentration on Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS)

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  The Boston Company

  • Project Manager and Project Leader

    • 1987 - 1995

    Global & Domestic Custody, Trading, Securities Lending, Foreign Exchange, SWIFT, Sub custodian Reconciliations, Client Reporting, Multi-currency Client Accounting for a European Headquarters office

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  Computervision

  • Project Leader / Programmer

    • 1980 - 1987

    Financial, Sales & Manufacturing systems development and support. Spent two years in the Europe and Far East divisions completing multiple application systems development releases, system conversions and conducted training sessions in six countries.