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Patrick Vaccarino
Richmond,VA
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Summary
Compliance and governance professional dedicated to developing regulatory frameworks and enhancing governance reporting. Proven success in standardizing practices across business units, improving risk-control environments, and advancing enterprise regulatory readiness.
Work History
Senior Compliance Specialist
Wells Fargo
Charlotte, USA
- Enhanced leadership visibility into regulatory obligations through production of governance reports.
- Created training materials that bolstered staff understanding of compliance expectations.
- Standardized reporting practices to promote consistency in policies and procedures.
- Established compliance frameworks facilitating uniform implementation of policy across all business units.
- Conducted compliance reviews to ensure adherence to regulatory standards.
Senior Business Execution Consultant
Wells Fargo
Remote
- Executed RCSA activities, increasing accuracy of risk assessments.
- Identified risk-control gaps and developed conduct- and insider-threat-related controls, enhancing reliability of control environments.
- Validated corrective actions tied to federal consent orders, supporting effective remediation.
- Contributed to regulatory risk frameworks, strengthening governance transparency and enterprise oversight.
Senior Compliance Analyst, Insider Threat
Citigroup
Remote
- Delivered gap analyses and remediation recommendations that strengthened insider-threat detection and response.
- Conducted insider-threat and AML investigations, enhancing accuracy and completeness of investigative outputs.
- Assessed vulnerabilities and trained staff, elevating organizational awareness of insider-threat risks.
- Performed QA reviews of reports and SARs, improving reporting quality and reliability.
Senior Business Analyst, AML EDD
Wells Fargo
Richmond, USA
- Analyzed customer data to identify potential money-laundering activity, refining due-diligence procedures to enhance alert quality.
- Reviewed escalated alerts, providing recommendations that improved accuracy of escalation decisions.
- Implemented automated EDD processes, streamlining operations and minimizing manual errors.
Contract Management Analyst
Capital One
Richmond, USA
- Conducted compliance validations for third-party contracts, implementing processes that reinforced adherence to internal risk policies.
- Reviewed vendor-contract risk controls, recommending improvements that mitigated exposure to vendor-related risks.
- Validated contract-management controls for insider-threat prevention and ethics investigations, enhancing oversight reliability.
Compliance Consultant
Capital One
Richmond, USA
- Led transaction assessments and gap analysis with IT and business stakeholders to enhance alignment with regulatory expectations.
- Validated internal fraud-related risk methodologies and produced risk reports, increasing visibility into fraud-related issues.
- Supported SOX auditors to ensure operational and enterprise control compliance.
Senior Compliance Consultant
SunTrust Investment Services
Richmond, USA
- Reviewed disclosures and marketing materials for UDAAP/TILA compliance, ensuring accuracy and regulatory alignment.
- Drafted policies and training materials that increased compliance awareness and knowledge across the organization.
- Identified and remediated improper sales practices and conduct violations, enhancing consumer protection and compliance integrity.
- Managed audit-related gap analyses and remediation plans, improving audit outcomes.
Senior Regulatory Analyst
SunTrust Mortgage
Richmond, USA
- Authored impact memoranda clarifying regulatory updates for stakeholders.
- Prepared regulatory filings, ensuring timely and accurate submissions.
- Reviewed proposed business projects for regulatory compliance and performed QA on law-change reporting, enhancing accuracy of regulatory interpretations.
- Acted as a resource for RESPA and Truth in Lending, strengthening organizational understanding of consumer-protection requirements.
E-Discovery Attorney
Partner JD / UnitedLex
Richmond, USA
- Managed ESI in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, coordinating evidence collection with IT and external vendors to bolster defensibility of discovery processes.
- Led document-review teams and developed workflows, enhancing accuracy and efficiency of review processes.
- Conducted legal research to support case strategies and arguments.
- Collaborated with clients to understand their legal needs and objectives.
- Drafted legal documents and contracts for client transactions.
E-Discovery Attorney
Brown Greer, PLC
Richmond, USA
- Managed QA reviews and oversaw e-discovery processes, ensuring thorough data collection, review, and production.
- Drafted and negotiated discovery-related agreements and protocols, enhancing legal compliance and defensibility.
- Conducted legal research and developed strategies that streamlined workflow processes.
Education
JD -
University of Richmond School of Law
Richmond, VABA -
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VASkills
- Compliance and governance oversight
- Risk assessment strategies
- Insider threat mitigation
- AML and EDD compliance
- Policy formulation and validation
- Corrective action processes
- Regulatory analysis
- Change management practices
- Process efficiency optimization
- E-discovery expertise and investigations
- Excel proficiency with SharePoint integration
- Relativity and Concordance knowledge
Timeline
Senior Compliance Specialist
Wells Fargo
Senior Business Execution Consultant
Wells Fargo
Senior Compliance Analyst, Insider Threat
Citigroup
Senior Business Analyst, AML EDD
Wells Fargo
Contract Management Analyst
Capital One
Compliance Consultant
Capital One
Senior Compliance Consultant
SunTrust Investment Services
Senior Regulatory Analyst
SunTrust Mortgage
E-Discovery Attorney
Partner JD / UnitedLex
E-Discovery Attorney
Brown Greer, PLC
JD -
University of Richmond School of Law
BA -
University of Virginia