Led a credit risk systems and process diagnostic for a large US bank, assessed the systems and processes supporting credit risk management function. Identified an improvement portfolio of projects, credit risk design principles and a go-forward implementation plan.

Credit transformation SME support to a large North American bank. Provided SME support, oversight and review to a large North American bank in their credit risk transformation projects.

Completed several Basel II readiness assessments for large global banks. These assessments resulted in transformational roadmaps to assist clients to execute their Basel II program, and related risk transformation.

Worked with a large North American Bank to implement fraud management software as part of a multiyear plan to establish an IT architecture and changes to existing business processes to establish a backbone to support compliance management and risk evolution.

Worked with several banks to specify credit lifecycle data and process requirements for retail mortgages and personal line of credit as part of a credit risk transformation projects.

Conducted a comparison of an organization’s practice against Group of 30 recommendations for best practices on managing derivatives risk. Developed consideration points for the design and implementation of credit risk limit monitoring process and the related credit risk framework.

SME model development for a large Global Bank to support capital allocation and regulatory capital discussions with regulators.

Conducted facilitated workshops to develop user requirements. Scanned the vendor community to identify possible vendors. Evaluated 109 vendors to arrive at a vendor short list. Conducted scripted demos and vendor presentations to evaluate short listed vendors and arrive at recommended vendors. Evaluated existing technology footprint and architecture to make final vendor recommendations.

Developed user requirements document for a large global bank to evaluate the available vendor community. Conducted vendor due diligence. Recommended the reversal of an initial vendor selection decision and the development of an in-house system for market risk management.

Ran a large scale Algorithmics implementation for a large global bank. Worked with the user community to clean and scrub data sets and group and bucket data to populate the Algorithmics software; to arrive at consolidated VAR numbers.

Documented the current derivative transaction, mark to market and accounting processes to assess the effectiveness of the financial risk management and internal controls.

Business Need Statement Development for the Investment and Corporate Banking Operations of a Large Financial Institution. Facilitated the development of a business need statements for the investment, corporate banking and dealer operations of a major financial institution. Business need statements were used as part of a process to evaluate planned financial and management reporting processes to assess their suitability and identify opportunities for design improvements prior to development.

Developed several operational risk management frameworks for large global investment and retail banks.

Developed an operational risk policy documents to establish organizational roles and responsibilities, loss event and loss effect reporting requirements. Prepared a global rollout plan and approach to ensure organizational buy-in.

Provided executive over-sight for a global PMO for a Basel II readiness rollout at a large global investment bank. Worked with the client to structure the PMO, identify required resources, skills and manage the PMO governance process.

Conducted several AML, KYC, BSA, OFAC reviews and remediation programs.