David Ferrigno
Whippany,NJ
Summary
A highly motivated financial services professional with the technical expertise and business acumen necessary to translate business requirements and objectives into scalable, highly resilient and successful solutions. Effective at developing and implementing operational processes and systems. An articulate, energetic and results-oriented individual with exemplary passion for developing relationships, cultivating partnerships. A solid team player with an outgoing, positive demeanor who has a proven record of establishing rapport with stakeholders.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Product Consultant
Fenergo
New York, New York
07.2020 - 09.2021
- Provide innovation, leadership and influence in the design of a client-centric Fenergo delivery that is aligned with the core product offering and industry best practice
- Prepare and lead client requirement workshops
- Take responsibility for the documentation of functional artefacts
- Take responsibility for the distribution, review and sign-off process of functional artefacts by the client
- Prepare and deliver training sessions and demonstrations to the client’s business users
- Serve as a key point of contact for the client throughout the project delivery to ensure client is given appropriate functional support
- Become a trusted advisor for clients
- Provide oversight and input to multiple concurrent and complex projects
- Provide support, leadership and mentoring to junior team members
- Drive internal process-focussed initiatives ensuring consistent standards are adopted across the practice
- Build strong relationships within the project team, client team and cross-functional teams
- Identify product-enhancing opportunities, working closely with R&D to support prioritisation and delivery
- Champion new initiatives focussed on driving best practice in the Functional space.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing within the practice on product and regulatory developments
Business Analyst
Nice Actimize
Hoboken, NJ
03.2017 - 06.2020
- Managed client engagements to ensure project milestones were met, exceeding client expectations while delivering solutions and service
- Participated in product development by communicating client requirements to development teams bringing new and improved product suites to market
- Identified sales opportunities by assessing customer needs, regulatory mandates, and identifying pain points the business stakeholders face
- Leveraged Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the real time payments platform; enhancing the performance capabilities in the most efficient, practical way possible
- Implemented Actimize models leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence. Enhancing the performance capabilities in the most efficient, practical way possible for real time interdiction, sub-second processing of transactions, and detection / interdiction
- Lead BA on projects in several lines of business, Financial Markets Compliance, Communication Surveillance, Fraud and AML
Systems Analyst
Millennium Systems International
Parsippany, NJ
02.2016 - 03.2017
- Utilized feedback from development team leads, documented business requirements and proposed several software suites that would provide their requested functionality. Once selected, assisted in implementing the solution and gave employee training sessions on the product.
- Interfaced directly with customers to identify customization options in our software package for their environment. Once the technical requirements were established, development made the requested changes and put them in a test environment. After user acceptance testing yielded the results the customer requested, the customized code was deployed to production.
- Managed several projects that required extensive documentation, analysis and communications with external customers.
Director of IT, Operations & Compliance
CG Capital Markets, LLC / Capital Guardian, LLC
New York, New York
02.2014 - 02.2016
- Reviewed and resolved customer and firm account sellouts, exception reports relating to open fails, short positions, and margin calls. Created institutional COD and DVP accounts from settlement instructions obtained from OMGEO/ALERT and dealer to dealer accounts via Bloomberg
- Managed and monitored the daily trade blotter in Bloomberg TOMS to address trade breaks / reconciliation, also providing trade support for DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream international settlement
- Interfaced with the Chief Compliance Officer to ensure the broker dealer conformed with all regulatory requirements in the Fixed Income, Equity, and Investment Banking divisions
- Oversaw and implemented all technology, networking, servers, trading platforms and other systems
- Implemented compliance modules for trading ahead / insider dealing / front running and conducted daily reviews against private brokerage accounts to ensure compliance in our retail and institutional business
- Setup the firm AML (anti-money laundering) module and gave compliance presentations on REITs, front-running, fraud detection and reporting, and email reviews
IT & Operations Consultant
Miles Technologies
New York, New York
01.2012 - 02.2014
- Lead onsite support & operations at C&CO PrinceRidge, collaborating with the trading & investment banking divisions supporting the operation of C&Co PrinceRidge, JVB Financial, and IFMI on a daily basis
- Managed, delegated and resolved fixed income and equity trade breaks via Euroclear, Clearstream, local markets and DTC. Managed TRACE, RTRS (Municipal trades) and ACT order entry reporting
- Booked and allocated muni, high yield/investment grade corporate bonds, structured notes, and options/equity/syndicate trades in TOMS/Bloomberg / NETX360 to ensure timely settlement. Reviewed and reconciled Pershing/Bloomberg out of balance positions report for firm and customer accounts
- Approved Fed wires and resolve Pershing inquiries via Work Corner and Service Center and exception reports. Ensuring all trading systems were functional, trade settlement and risk were executed, and supporting trading platform
Director Of Technical Support & Compliance
Layer 7 Consulting
Whippany, NJ
02.2009 - 01.2012
- Collected and analyzed business requirements to establish the best IT solutions for each customer
- Established professional relationships with customers and became the onsite lead (CTO service) for several financial firms trading on the NYMEX
- Created extensive documentation for customer environments and in several cases went onsite to give formal training to those customers regarding security best practices
- Setup controls and provided compliance documentation for two publicly traded customers with a global presence. Ensuring all weekly, monthly, quarterly controls were completed and signed off by management
Senior IT Auditor
Loews Corporation
New York, New York
06.2008 - 02.2009
- Reviewed IT policies, guidelines and procedure documents to determine levels of operation, management controls, end user expectations and commitments to service level agreements.
- Reviewed technical documentation and observe technical processes to identify problems and potential weaknesses.
- Interviewed process owners and assessed their compliance with company standards, policies and regulatory/legal requirements.
- Prepared, organized and archived all reviews and SOX Audits following industry standards for IT auditing.
Associate Security Analyst
Assurant Solutions, Inc
Miami, FL
06.2007 - 06.2008
- Performed risk audit assessments for security compliance and mandates for North America, South America and the European Union to ensure operations are compliant
- Managed Segregation of Duty Matrices for Assurant applications and worked with Risk Audit Services and PriceWaterhouseCoopers to complete our bi-annual compliance reviews
- Reconciled disparities of access rights and investigated security breaches and access control lists for internal applications
- Provided technical support for departments, end users, and external customers by completing requests and supporting more than 250 applications
Systems Analyst/Altiris Team Leader
Schindler Elevator Corporation
Morristown, NJ
05.2002 - 06.2007
- Lead the planning and implementation of Lotus Notes deployment which involved creating an installation package of Notes to 155 field offices across North America.
- Strengthened relations with multiple vendors by aligning the business needs with their business processes to improve turnaround time.
- Managed group policies, active directory, remote access, role based access control, and helped implement best demonstrated security practices for Schindler Zone North America.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science / History
Rutgers University
05.2004
Skills
- FINRA Series 7 License (CRD: 6379888) (not active)
- Energetic and proactive
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Key accounts development / Consultative sales support
- Account management
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Exceptional customer service
- Strong technical background
- Bloomberg Technical Training Certified
- VMware Certified Associate: Data Center Virtualization
- VMware Certified Associate: Cloud
- Workflow analysis / Gap analysis
- Data mapping / Data Science
- User Acceptance Testing / Validation
- Business artifacts documentation
- Business Requirements / Business process mapping
- Project management - Agile / Waterfall
- System Development LifeCycle
- Office 365 / JIRA / Windows Server
- Algo Trading
- SQL / Python / Tableau
- AWS / Cloud Solutions
- Capital Markets / Hedge Funds / First Tier Banks
Timeline
Senior Product Consultant
Fenergo
07.2020 - 09.2021
Business Analyst
Nice Actimize
03.2017 - 06.2020
Systems Analyst
Millennium Systems International
02.2016 - 03.2017
Director of IT, Operations & Compliance
CG Capital Markets, LLC / Capital Guardian, LLC
02.2014 - 02.2016
IT & Operations Consultant
Miles Technologies
01.2012 - 02.2014
Director Of Technical Support & Compliance
Layer 7 Consulting
02.2009 - 01.2012
Senior IT Auditor
Loews Corporation
06.2008 - 02.2009
Associate Security Analyst
Assurant Solutions, Inc
06.2007 - 06.2008
Systems Analyst/Altiris Team Leader
Schindler Elevator Corporation
05.2002 - 06.2007
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science / History
Rutgers University
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