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E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y
Results-oriented, highly analytical and proven leader of enterprise level revenue and optimization
programs.
 Thought leader: with a reputation forproficiently developing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise
programs, policies and procedures.
 Proven leadership and relationship-building abilities: working and collaborating with all levelsof global
organizations, executives and cross-functional teams to drive value across the enterprise.
 Highly analytical: Creating transparency, measuring progress, and making strategic decisions.
C O R E C O M P E T E N C I E S
Portfolio BOW Planning & Management
Enterprise Architecture Standardization
Data Management
Vendor Governance
IT Optimization
Delivery Planning, Management & Accountability
Quality Control
Regulatory Compliance
Risk & Control
Analytics, Metrics and Reporting
S E L E C T E D A C C O M P L I S H M E N T S & R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S
 Head of Technology responsibilities with direct accountability for Stakeholder Management,
Portfolio Program Management, Cost & Expense Management, Resource Management, Vendor
Management, Risk Management, Quality Management and Continuity of Business.
 7 years within Citi Trade and acting head of tech since Sept. 2010 have partnered with business to
introduce new technologies to grow the business from $580 million to $1.6 billion in revenue.
 Drive IT optimization reducing year-over-year expense to maintain net neutral costs to
accommodate capacity growth and new product introduction. Such as, Data Center right-sizing,
virtual technology, quicker retirement of legacy systems, resource and location strategy (shift high
to low cost centers) and aligned synergies between vendor performance and business demand.
 Delivered White Labeling of Citi Trade applications for a major Australian bank deriving new
revenue stream for Citi and for the Australian bank, an expanded Trade product offering with
wider global reach.
 Introduction of OCR capability to consume and validate data from structured and unstructured
documents facilitating transaction registration, Sanction Checking and improved STP resulting in
Ops efficiencies and reduced risk.
 Travel 3 to 4 domestic and international trips per year to review, coordinate and strategize with
regional Product, Operations, Technology and vendor partners.
 Developed Asset Optimization application where global trade assets are inventoried in a single
repository making them available for asset matching and sale automation to investors.
 Reengineered Trade user front-end to back office processing from thick-client to thin-client
providing enhanced user experience, streamline workflow and up to date technology stack to 2000
Operational users.

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P R O F E S S I O N A L P R O F I L E
Citigroup, Jersey City, NJ Jun 1996–Dec 2000 & Jun 2006–Present
Director; Global Head of Trade Services & Finance Technology Apr 2008–Present
- Head a Global IT organization supportingCiti’s $1.6B Trade business,including Import and Export Letters of
Credit, Standbys,Guarantees,Open Account, Supply Chain Finance / Working Capital and Commodity
Finance. Operate in 86 countries with over 3,000 Operation users with annual technology budget of $50mm.
- Lead a team of over 400 technology staff and contractors located throughout theAmerica’s, India, Asia and
Europe supporting theongoing run and build thebank initiatives.
- Build high performanceteams, drivingclient solutions and deliver quality products resultingin increased
client revenue, satisfaction,operational efficiencies and technology modernization.
- Provide leadership for thoseinvolved in the development, design and optimization of IT functions, services
and systems supporting enterprisebusiness processes,ensuringconformance with applicable internal risk
and control,compliance and external regulatory requirements.
Global Information WarehouseManager Jun 2006–Apr 2008
- Global implementation management of the Payments Statement Mart designed tohouse all statements in one
central repository for all Cash Management, Securities & Treasury Services Reporting needs.
CitiDirect Production Data Migration & UAT Infrastructure Manager Jan 2000–Dec 2000
- Managed production data migration of five global regions intoa newly developed Client Web Browser
CorporateCash Management Payment & Reportingsystem and built supportingE2E UAT environment.
Cash Management Y2K PMO Manager Jul 1998–Jan 2000
- PMO management for Y2K remediation and test for CASH Management, Securities,Foreign Exchange,
Derivatives and Fixed Income applications.Managed budget, teams, and daily updates to MIS performance
scorecards.Represented the bankon theU.S. Y2K SWIFT Banking Committee.
Funds Transfer Network (FTN) Stabilization Manager Jun 1996–Jul 1998
- U.S. FTN was experiencing ongoing outages and FED extensions. Engagement was to lead the stabilization
effort from 'root cause' analysis through tosuccessful system reliability.
JPMorgan Chase – New York, NY Jun 2003–Jan 2006
Vice President; Credit Card Services Project Manager
- Responsible for leading Chase Credit Card online marketing and servicing projects, until merger with Bank
One and then managed migration of both internet servicing sites to new target site. Six Sigma, PDL (Project
Development Life Cycle) and CMM practiced throughout.
E A R L I E R C A R E E R
Independent Contractor(Citi, JPMC, BoNY, Sony, Viacom)
PMO, PM, BA, Tech Lead (1993 -2008)
Comtex Information Systems, New York, NY
Client Manager, Tech PM (1989 -1993)

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E D U C A T I O N & C E R T I F I C A T I O N
Project Management Institute (PMI) Long IslandChapter Member – PMP Certified
SUNY Empire State College – B.S., Business Management w/ Information Systems (16 cr. to degree)
ITILFoundation Examination – Loyalist Certification
Developing Your LeadershipVoice &Public Speaking – Learning Tree Certification
St. Johns University - Courseworkin Business Management
IBM Information Systems Management Institute - Project Management I &II Certification
Grumman Data Systems Institute - Computer Programming Certification
CUNY Queens College – Computer Science
C U R R E N T T E C H N O L O G Y
Platform IBM Power 7 P795
Operating System IBM AIX 6.1
Database Oracle 11g (11.2.0.3)
Application Runtime Environment WebSphere Application Server8.0.0.5
Java Interface Utilities jQuery, JDBC, GSON, DWR
Framework Struts2, Spring
Remote Procedure Calls SOAPover HTTPS protocol
File transfer Connect Direct 4.0 on AIX
Middleware Messaging &Queuing IBM MQ Series 7.0 on AIX
Java Messaging Service MDB
Reporting Business Objects
Dashboard MicroStrategy
Web Browser Microsoft IE8/11
Document Management EMC Centera
Data Replication Shareplex 6.x
Secure IPSockets SSL, TSL, HTTPS
Document &Image Viewer Snowbound Ajax, Adobe Ghostscript
Portal/ Authentication SSO, SAML
Batch Processing Efficiency IBM Compute Grid
Job Scheduler Autosys
Entitlements Management LDAP
J2EE IBM JDK 1.6/1.7
C++ Compiler AIX 10.1
Pro*C compiler Oracle 11.1
OpticalCharacter Recognition (OCR) Kofax KTM