Anthony Aceves
Downey,CA
Summary
Senior Project Coordinator with 9 years of aligning diverse teams into laser-focused task forces. Committed to helping project participants reach maximum potential while meeting all deadlines and exceeding all goals. Adept at balancing strengths and weaknesses of individuals and teams to generate ceaseless momentum towards business objectives.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Investigative Auditor - Project Manager
Bank Of Hope
08.2018 - Current
- Task to optimize performance and mitigate risks by implementing efficient process and policy reviews.
- Develop and implement change management processes to measure, track, and identify risk and train external auditors that optimize operations.
- Create analytics tools that enhanced executive data-driven decision-making, resulting in notice of memorandum waiver and postponement of next audit.
- Prepared working papers, reports, and supporting documentation for audit findings.
- Partnered with auditors on annual audits and realized compliance with governmental guidelines.
- Applied Agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and others to define solutions and drive progress.
- Worked closely with management teams to plan, develop and execute technical strategies aligned to client's vision.
- Guided activities to maintain project scope, schedule and budget baselines based on anticipated system development lifecycle.
- Delegated tasks to key personnel based upon expertise and skills set, monitoring progress to meet project deadlines.
Senior Project Coordinator
Bank Of Hope
01.2015 - 08.2018
- Created project roadmaps for staff, defining specific milestones and timelines to encourage timely project completion.
- Coordinated with finance department to deliver timely billing for milestone events during project development.
- Coordinated, compiled, and gathered data per request of FDIC via excel pivot tables and tracking methodologies.
- Used Lean principles, reengineered outdated processes; identified and eliminated gaps, inefficiencies, and obsolete processes; implemented centralized systems.
- Handled risk management and change management duties on projects with active liability concerns.
- Managed full-cycle project development execution, maintaining strict quality control parameters throughout.
- Defined onboarding process for new project members, communicating regularly with other departments to coordinate schedules.
- Evaluated success of fraud detection systems to identify areas for improvement.
- Performed risk assessments to determine level of fraud risk and prioritize investigations.
- Produced and filed reports to inform senior management of current activities and progress with investigations.
- Coordinated ongoing efforts to strengthen risk culture and fine-tuned risk appetite for lending and funding activities.
Department Supervisor
Wells Fargo
08.2013 - 01.2015
- Led underperforming team of 140+ contractors to #1 rank in production vs. goals backed by 60% increase in workflow by creating six Agile project teams.
- Assessed risk at initial client onboarding and throughout duration of client's relationship.
- Offered hands-on assistance to customers, assessing needs and maintaining current knowledge of consumer preferences.
- Worked with CIO to addressed loss in productivity by providing business case scenarios to senior management, and by implementing new project management software.
- Conducted multiple work trips to train over 400 team members nationwide.
- Recruited and retained top talent, with focus on completing timely performance evaluations, providing positive feedback and rewarding superior performance.
- Analyzed data on price, stability and other factors affecting investment programs to incorporate into investment decisions.
Education
Executive Masters, in Health Administration (MHA) - Healthcare Administration
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA01.2022
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
California State University - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA03.2014
Skills
- Financial Projections
- Vendor Contracts
- Critical Thinking and Analysis
- Audit Inspections
- Spreadsheet Development
- Financial Research
- Change Management Process
- Regulatory Issues
- Strategy Implementation
- Operational Efficiency
- Project Oversight
- Project Maintenance
- Advanced Microsoft Excel Use
- Software Expertise in ClickUp, Basecamp, and Asana
Timeline
Senior Investigative Auditor - Project Manager
Bank Of Hope
08.2018 - Current
Senior Project Coordinator
Bank Of Hope
01.2015 - 08.2018
Department Supervisor
Wells Fargo
08.2013 - 01.2015
Executive Masters, in Health Administration (MHA) - Healthcare Administration
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
California State University - Los Angeles