Barbara Strang
Concord
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
MAGISTRATE JUDGE
JUDICIAL DISTRICT 26A
07.2023 - Current
- Evaluate requests for criminal charges and issue criminal process and search warrants.
- Conduct initial appearances, including bond hearings, for defendants upon arrest.
- Determined proper sentencing, monetary fees and damages to be paid on basis of case facts and established guidelines.
- Understand North Carolina Court Systems procedures; Odyssey/eCourts in-house trainer and mentor.
- Upheld ethical standards through impartiality and integrity in all aspects of judicial responsibilities.
- Presided over various types of cases, ensuring fair and impartial administration of justice.
KYC/AML Consultant
Key Bank - Dominion Advisory (contract)
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Identified emerging trends in money laundering activities by analyzing industry data and sharing insights with stakeholders.
- Facilitated the implementation of enhanced due diligence measures for high-risk clients, mitigating potential financial crime exposure.
- Reviewed internal controls periodically to ensure their effectiveness against evolving financial crime typologies and emerging risks.
- Participated in industry forums and conferences, staying informed on the latest trends and regulatory developments in AML compliance.
- Studied economic information and read historical data to evaluate soundness of operational practices against business framework.
- Mentored junior team members, fostering a collaborative learning environment and contributing to their professional growth.
- Monitored financial transactions and immediately reported suspicious activity to authorities.
US Small Business Administration PPP Loan Fraud
Guidehouse
07.2020 - 07.2021
- Review financial documents, such as tax documents, legal documents, loan docs, or financial statements.
- Determine if the borrower is an established and active entity.
- Review payroll records to find any misrepresented information that would allow the borrower to fraudulently receive Payroll Protection Program (PPP) loans and potential loan forgiveness.
- Verified authenticity of information and documentation received.
- Calculate and verify the number of employees to determine the maximum loan amount a borrower was eligible for forgiveness.
- Escalate all fraud-related activity to the Small Business Administration fraud department.
- Detect and identify potential fraud and other financial crime indicators and mitigating factors; Hold federal security clearance.
Insider Trading Fraud Consultant
LPL Financial (contract)
03.2020 - 07.2020
- Applied a combination of AML, EDD, and KYC regulatory requirements to insider trading alerts.
- Escalated accordingly all fraudulent insider trading activities.
- Compared trading patterns to determine any patterns in the investor’s portfolio.
- Verified frequency of trading activity as well as trading within similar trade class.
- Utilized various financial crime detection software, i.e
- Mantas, Actimize, SAS, or transaction monitoring systems to validate and verify trade activity.
Transaction Risk & Intelligence Group, AML ADVISORY BUS Risk & Control Sr Assoc
Wells Fargo
08.2019 - 03.2020
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to the enterprise concerning the Complaints Management Policy and related governing documents.
- Program Lead in the implementation of the Information Sharing 314(a) and 314(b) Procedures.
- Lead the establishment of major policy requirements.
- Provides subject matter expertise, and issue resolution guidance for enterprise-wide projects and initiatives, including regulatory commitments.
- Reviews and credibly challenges policy exceptions, exemptions, and related risk acceptances.
- Analyze and mitigate Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) related risks in existing processes, policies, and procedures.
- Evaluate risk factors and conduct gap assessment analysis as required.
- Built strong partnerships and collaborated effectively with lines of businesses, compliance, and operational risk officers.
- Oversee Policy Implementation Management (PIM) for all lines of businesses under WCOO CAO.
- Facilitate guidance and approvals for Roles and Responsibility Agreements (RRA)
- Consulted and provided support while interpreting policy guidelines and governance programs to the front-line liaisons.
- Facilitate guidance and approvals for Inherent Risk Assessments (IRA)
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to process multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external business partners; Strong communication skills with the ability to partner and influence across the organization; Experienced in preparing written reports on analytical findings.
Financial Crimes - Front Line Monitoring Operations Officer
Wells Fargo
07.2018 - 08.2019
- Conducts in-depth assessments of alerts on Wholesale Banking customers, particularly shared and high-risk customers.
- Assist with the development of alert assessment guidelines, procedures, and training.
- Investigates and analyzes complex transactions and referrals across multiple lines of business looking at potential risk-related activity across multiple customers and/or accounts to prevent and detect financial crime activities, policy violations, and/or unusual situations.
- Partners with frontline risk compliance personnel across all business lines to identify and mitigate risks.
- Perform analyses to detect patterns, trends, anomalies, and schemes in transactions and relationships across multiple businesses/products.
- Investigate referrals escalated to determine if the customer may be a positive match to an economic sanction/OFAC target; Conduct economic sanction/OFAC-related reviews of clients’ accounts or evidence of possible violations and escalate.
- Participate in cross-department projects and as an escalation point for lower-level specialists to resolve issues and provide training.
- Identifies and analyzes emerging money laundering and terrorist financing trends to enhance the frontline monitoring program.
- Document, debate, and manage the performance of issues and risks within the portfolio; Inspect evidence of control design and operation.
- Provides consistent subject matter expertise to lines of business on BSA/AML regulatory requirements and risk mitigation strategies.
- Assists with the evaluation of new and existing transaction monitoring tools.
- Identify opportunities for streamlining and improving risk management processes.
- Ensure escalations are managed promptly, by ensuring the identification, risk assessment, communication, and mitigation of all escalated events.
- Provides regular updates and escalates significant issues to management.
- Monitor daily the FLM and WFCRC Execution Team mailboxes, respond accordingly, and monitor the wholesale alerting and ticket platform daily.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to process multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external business partners.
- Experienced in preparing written reports on analytical findings.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Sourcing and hiring talented team members, providing ongoing coaching and feedback, recognizing, and developing team members.
Due Diligence Consultant – Team Lead & Manager
Wells Fargo
08.2016 - 06.2018
- Conducted comprehensive research and/or background investigations on individuals, entities, organizations, or locations to identify and mitigate associated sanctions, credit, financial crime, and reputational risks and thoroughly documented findings.
- Work with clients regarding Governmental Institutional Banking (GIB) investigations.
- Knowledge and understanding of regulatory compliance requirements surrounding the USA PATRIOT Act and Anti Money Laundering (AML) requirements.
- Evaluate risks to determine permissibility under sanctions, regulations, and/or BSA/AML regulations; Worked with high-risk customers (e.g. Casinos, MSBs, payment processors) to understand controls and activities.
- Experience with BSA/AML/OFAC laws and regulations.
- Subject matter expert in CDD, EDD, KYC background investigations, and news investigations.
- Identify opportunities for streamlining and improving risk management processes.
- Ability to analyze and communicate the applicability of laws, rules, and regulatory policies.
- Screen existing customers and third parties regularly to maintain compliance against the ever-changing financial and trade sanctions landscape.
- Draft unusual activity reports and global sanction violations and prepares (UARs) reports as required, and escalations to Global Sanctions
- Block accounts or suspend transactions if sanction/OFAC hits are confirmed.
- Sourcing and hiring talented team members.
- Mentored junior team members in the development of their investigative skills and knowledge of industry-specific regulations and standards.
Private Investigator
Tarheel Investigations
01.2005 - 01.2012
- Appointed Investigator for Indigent Services of North Carolina responsible for investigations involving homicide and capital murder cases.
- Analyze financial and insurance documents in fraud-related activities, and report findings to the court.
- Responsible for analyzing crime scenes, interviewing witnesses, and filing reports to various law enforcement agencies and parties involved in all legal proceedings.
- Identified patterns of behavior in subjects under investigation, enabling the development of tailored surveillance strategies that yielded successful results.
- Compiled exceptional notes on movements of individuals and collected documentation.
- Searched computer databases, credit reports, public records or other resources to locate persons or to compile information for investigations.
- Collected documentation such as witness statements, video recordings and photographs to support case findings.
Criminal Investigations Intern
Salisbury Police Department
01.2004 - 01.2005
- Examined and collected evidence.
- Responsible for maintaining custody and control over classified reports.
- Develop and design a criminal hot spot mapping program.
Paralegal
Alexander & Brown Law Offices
01.2001 - 01.2005
- Prepared in-state and inter-state, private agency, and Department of Social Services adoption court filings.
- Performed research related to estate planning and Social Security issues.
- Managed attorney calendar, scheduling client meetings, hearings, and all court conferences.
- Produced legal documents, including contracts, court orders, and real estate closing documents.
- Assessed and inventories of real and personal property for estate planning.
- Research statutes, decisions, legal precedence, and codes.
- Assisted attorneys with trial preparation through thorough research and analysis of relevant laws and regulations.
SERVICE ADVISOR
BEN MYNATT CHEVROLET
01.1997 - 01.2002
- Managed workflow to meet or exceed customer satisfaction.
- Assumed ownership over team productivity and quality service goals.
- Developed customized preventative maintenance plans for clients based on their specific needs, contributing to long-lasting client relationships.
- Interpreted diagnostic results to provide accurate repair recommendations.
- Strong leader of customer support staff; Manage all vehicle warranty claims; Prepare monthly service reports.
- Investigated and resolved customer inquiries and complaints quickly.
MERCHANT SERVICES FRAUD SPECIALIST
FLEET BANK
01.1994 - 01.1996
- Investigate all merchant credit card fraud claims and chargeback requests.
- Document and report all fraud claims to the Arbitration Department.
- Manage a large client base of merchant portfolios.
- File all fraudulent credit card claims and forgeries to the Federal Regulatory Office and the legal department within the statutory period.
COMMERCIAL LOAN SPECIALIST
FLEET BANK
01.1992 - 01.1994
- Manage commercial loan client portfolios.
- Maintained and managed the client's liquid assets to provide the client with the highest possible borrowing capacity.
- Liquidate, transfer, or sell stock when additional funding was needed to properly secure loans.
- Generate monthly transaction and asset reports.
- Closely monitored the performance of current portfolio of specialty loans and made changes to achieve performance targets.
Education
J.D. - Law
Charlotte School of Law
Charlotte, NC05.2015
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice and Political Science
University of North Carolina At Charlotte
Charlotte, NC05.2011
Associate of Applied Science - Criminal Justice
Rowan Cabarrus Community College
Concord, NC05.2004
Skills
- Management / Leadership experience
- Accurate and detailed
- Ethical and honest
- Decision-making ability
- Strategic planning
Software Systems
- Microsoft Office Suite
- West Law
- LexisNexis
- AvA Launchpad
- CAAP (SAS Compliance Solutions)
- SVP (Store Vision Portal)
- OIB (Operations Image Browser)
- PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records – Federal)
- RANBI
- Cornerstone
- HOGAN
- SharePoint
- COPS (Compliance Operational Process System)
- ECM Enterprise Case Management
- NEWTON (New Enterprise Wire Transfer Online Network)
- JIRA
- SHRP (Shared Risk Platform)
- Tableau
- Actimize
Activities
- Leadership skills including; coaching, training, and mentoring
- Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Exceptional skills related to problem-solving, decision making, and follow through
- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment
- Program and Project Management experience in large enterprise-wide initiatives
- Former Project Lead - North Carolina Courts ACIS/VCAP system
- Remediation Team Training and Development
Timeline
MAGISTRATE JUDGE
JUDICIAL DISTRICT 26A
07.2023 - Current
KYC/AML Consultant
Key Bank - Dominion Advisory (contract)
01.2022 - 01.2023
US Small Business Administration PPP Loan Fraud
Guidehouse
07.2020 - 07.2021
Insider Trading Fraud Consultant
LPL Financial (contract)
03.2020 - 07.2020
Transaction Risk & Intelligence Group, AML ADVISORY BUS Risk & Control Sr Assoc
Wells Fargo
08.2019 - 03.2020
Financial Crimes - Front Line Monitoring Operations Officer
Wells Fargo
07.2018 - 08.2019
Due Diligence Consultant – Team Lead & Manager
Wells Fargo
08.2016 - 06.2018
Private Investigator
Tarheel Investigations
01.2005 - 01.2012
Criminal Investigations Intern
Salisbury Police Department
01.2004 - 01.2005
Paralegal
Alexander & Brown Law Offices
01.2001 - 01.2005
SERVICE ADVISOR
BEN MYNATT CHEVROLET
01.1997 - 01.2002
MERCHANT SERVICES FRAUD SPECIALIST
FLEET BANK
01.1994 - 01.1996
COMMERCIAL LOAN SPECIALIST
FLEET BANK
01.1992 - 01.1994
J.D. - Law
Charlotte School of Law
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice and Political Science
University of North Carolina At Charlotte
Associate of Applied Science - Criminal Justice
Rowan Cabarrus Community College
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