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EXPERTISE Management Advisory, Project/Program Management and Solutions Delivery leadership for financial services and media firms, specializing in Analytics and Strategic Sourcing. Experienced both as internal Executive or Program Manager and within Management Consulting Advisory partnerships.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Analytics PMO and Practice Development for Legal Counsel and Education.

Enterprise Analytics (including predictive and behavioral modeling) Technology Working Group leadership at Prudential.

Enterprise Architect for Analytics, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for New York City (Homeland Security 9/11 Grant recipient)

Lead PMO and Metrics Solutions Architect for Fannie Mae, Washington, DC.

Over Sixty Media and Financial Services clients served (see References below).

Global Project and Pipeline Manager for SunGard Data Systems, Inc. Extensive Industry Expert Committee Membership and Independent

Research (details below). Numerous ($tens of millions) winning proposals and grants written. Enterprise Architecture Council Member for Prudential, JPMorganChase,

DoubleClick, Hearst Media, Questus, Dennis Publishing, Merrill Lynch, Questrade, Cablevision, Fidelity Investments, Sandler O’Neill, Marsh & McLennan/OWG, FannieMae, SunGard, Perry Capital and technology strategy for numerous startups.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRUDENTIAL

ENTERPRISE ANALYTICS PMO AND TECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP CHIEF

[2014-present]

Leader of firm-wide Analytics (predictive, behavioral, machine learning, modeling, “big data”, etc.) “Hub” service creation, oversight, PMO, and implementation teams. Management of Technical Working Group and Line of Business Architecture and PMO teams, Relationship and Vendor Management. Platform standup of analytics reference architecture and use cases. Strategic Application Sourcing and Modeling.

Liaison to Prudential CIO Roundtable and reporting to

“Leveraging Opportunities” (Enterprise) Executive Management.

Advisory to all vertical business lines (Annuities, Group, Investments, Retirement, Individual Life, Digital, etc.) and horizontal units (EARB, COE, Privacy, Procurement…) on use of platform, data science, data management, tooling, and managed services within analytics projects.

Project Manager for Digital Analytics core implementation team.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER FOR NEW YORK CITY

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICER FOR ANALYTICS

[2013 – 2014]

Member of Advisory Board. Dual reporting accountability to both the Mayoral Office of New York City and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (for disaster operations).

Operational, Application and Data Solutions Architecture for:, Medico-Legal (crime scene) Investigations, Pathology, Forensic Bio, Identification, Anthropology, SIDS/SUID Research, NYPD Missing Persons Reports data clustering, Communications and Transportation.

Analytical models for missing persons clustering, antemortem/postmortem matching, time series of case arrivals, operational and management metrics, system utilization, among others. Application sourcing transition leadership.

LOGATOME CORPORATION

PROJECT SDLC AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR - ANALYTICS

[2007-2013]PMO and Architecture leadership for Financial Services (hedge funds, banks,

exchanges, brokers, software firms) and Media (agency, digital, print, marketing, social

and search) software and analytics delivery.

● Product Development of eReceipting platform, cloud-based services (bought by

Barclays Bank), and attending web and mobile applications (iOS, Monotouch).

● Multichannel Responsive web and app architecture for Universal Orlando vacation

planning digital property.

● Auction and Bank IPO delivery platforms in C#.NET.

● Analytics platform for web / app purchase & behavior models.

● Core Architecture and Delivery team member (one of four) for FannieMae Enterprise

(wide) Architecture (software, delivery, Testing as a Service, and Cloud

Infrastructure).

● Instrument trading, execution, reporting and analytics architecture for industry

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leading online broker.

● Strategic Sourcing for upstream procurement activities including supplier evaluation

and selection, RFI/RFP processes, quantifying and reducing supply risk, negotiating

and managing contracts, tracking ongoing supplier and category-level performance,

and monitoring downstream procurement (requisitioning, ordering, payment

processes).

● Business Intelligence architecture and development and Business Process

Management for large Asset Managers.

● Application functionality clustering and matching skills clustering, and assessments

for cluster application sourcing Suitability (technical, business, and strategic),

Readiness, and Risk Profile.

● Technical Due Diligence for Digital Media Private Equity firms. Clickstream, time

series, and complex network analytics. Data Modeling and implementations in

R/Splus, SQL Server and KDB+. Mergers and acquisitions integration fitness and

valuation. Social Networking metrics and architecture design incorporating affiliate

marketing data collection as well as Google analytics, Adwords, FacebookAPI,

Webtrends, Coremetrics, iOS, Android and Windows Mobile App, predictive

modeling and buyer behavior models, and data auctions.

Media Clientele: Itemize LLC, Questus Inc., NBC Universal, Nielsen Ratings / G4

Analytics, Questrade IQ, Halyard Investment Partners, Empirisoft, Marsh & McLennan.

Financial Services Clientele: Perry Capital, Sandler O’Neill and Partners, FannieMae,

Guardian Investments, Questrade IQ, Oliver Wyman Group, IS Group, Barclays Bank,

DAC, Man Financial.

SUNGARD DATA SYSTEMS

GLOBAL SOLUTIONS MANAGER, ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT, AND PMO DIRECTOR

[2002 – 2007]Executive Management, PMO and Architecture Council Member overseeing over

$100MM in annual software and service delivery globally to financial services and media

clients.

● Established global PMO for delivery and professional services, including

standardized offshoring models and ratecards.

● PMO initiation, evangelization, and implementation for PMBOK-based process

models and complete metrics-based risk assessment framework.

● Lead architect for compliance and regulatory benchmarking (client facing) projects,

(STAC, ORX and Kriex based) and business process reengineering for operation

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risk metrics.

● J2EE Architect for NYBOT eCOPS project (www.nybot.com/pressRelease,asp?

releaseID=485), commodity exchange and cash market content, document

management and supply chain integration.

● Enterprise Architecture on CSA program, SOA and ASP based APIs in C#.NET, C+

+, and Java. Peer review of 4-level standardization, code reviews of architecture

and FLOSS-based methodology for trading, data feed, and analytics.

Clientele: JPMorganChase, Wachovia, TIAA-CREF, Citigroup, New York Board of

Trade, Meridian, Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, AlphaMetrix LLC, Lattice

Trading, Pentwater Capital, New Vernon Capital.

ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND CLIENTELE

Hearst Media, Doubleclick, Yannacone and Yannacone, JPMorgan, Halyard, Bigler

Investment Management, Mathematical Sciences Corp., Ross School, Ross Institute,

Cablevision Systems, Micro Focus, Health Services Software Inc., Micro Focus, The

Shareholder Services Group, The Leverage Group, New York Life, Hearst Business

Media, North Atlantic Life Insurance Company, Sun Life, John Hancock, Chemical Bank,

Chase Bank.

EDUCATION STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY

§ PhD candidate, Applied Mathematics, Stony Brook University, current. Research in Agent Based Time Series and Liquidity / Market Microstructure Risk Models for Financial and Media Markets, and Complex Networks; under Pradeep Dubey, Yale University, Coles Foundation; and Robert Frey, Renaissance Technologies.

§ Post Graduate research in Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics,

Game Theory, Complexity Theory, Music Theory, and Economics, SUNY Stony Brook,

2005-2008. GPA 3.7.

§ 99.9 %-ile standardized tests. Member of OATH and ISPE.

§ BS, Statistics, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1987.

§ Society of Actuaries Exams 100 (Calculus & Linear Algebra), 110 (Probability &

Statistics), 160 (Interest Theory).

§ MBA Internship, Venture Capital Research, Bigler Investment Management Co.

Graduate Assistantship in Dept. of Public Administration at U. Connecticut.

SKILLS AND TLAs Without unduly clogging the above, here are the acronyms in one place…

Legal Analytics Program and Practice Development (see http://yannalaw.com/services/counsel-advice/digitally-literate-lawyers/).

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• Object Oriented Analysis and Design, iOS, Monotouch, CocoaTouch, XCODE, C++/C#, K/KDB+/Q, COM+/DNA/C#.NET, XML/XSLT, Java, modern distributed architecture design and development using emerging technologies, SOA. MTS, MSMQ, ATL, STL, IIS, ISAPI, ASP, CORBA and MOM architectures, EAI, Data Warehousing (DM, ODS, OLAP) design patterns, SQL Server, Oracle, Access, DB2/UDB and Pick ODBMS, B2B and SCI frameworks (RosettaNet/ECIX, NYBOT/NCA), Java 1.2 (RMI, Swing, Infobus (remember that one?), JMS, JNI), JINI, and JVM internals, ORM, ORBs, TCP/IP, TAPI, Sockets, STRUTS, SAX/DOM, DOM4J, ActiveX, MFC, Mathematica, R, Maple, Sharepoint (WSS and MOSS), Micro Focus Object COBOL, Rogue Wave, APL, APL2, APLPC, APL*PLUS, x86 Assembler, Concurrent Language Models, Win32 API and Win SDK and all the old DOS and some mainframe stuff. Extensive technical experience in .NET, C++/COM+/DNA, EJB/J2EE, Web Services (WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, etc.), Robomon, HLLAPI, ILog, Jlog.

• Numerous ERP, Content and Sales Force Management Systems.

• Developed executive frameworks and metrics (EVA, Balanced Scorecard) using proprietary approaches to TCO and ROI standardization and measurement. EIS and BI. UML/RUP, SEI CMM, MSF, SEI CMM, ITIL, PRINCE2, Six Sigma, ISO 9000/1/4, Agile Methodologies (XP, Scrum, MSF, AUM, etc.), Evo, BPM.

• Co-chair of new OASIS edXML Committee

• Numerous IT control and compliance frameworks COSO IC/IF, Trust Services, Cobit 4.0, Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX sections), HIPAA, GLBA, SAS 70, and numerous security standards (ISO 17799, ISF, IIA SAC, GAISP, OCTAVE, ISFetc.), XBRL-GL. SEI CMM and ISO 9000-based progressive development procedures, Change Management, Risk Assessment, and QA/Testing.

• Cardiology Medical Record System and Web-based Expert System, using .NET, Rational Unified Process (RUP), COM+ (published IEEE as "Intelligent Systems, Medical Best Practices, and Healthcare” for IEEE TCCM initiative, 2002. [Links: http://lsd.uni-mb.si/cmtcn, http://www.computer.org/tab/tclist/tccm.htm.

• AI (ANNs, GA/GP, CA, Case Based Reasoning, Expert Systems, Small World Networks) and Game Theory).

• Actuarial Programmer. Responsible for systems analysis and product development for interest-sensitive life, including file maintenance, cash value calculation, new money processing, asset-share testing and core APL, COBOL, BASIC, and FORTRAN programming. asset-liability matching and cash-flow projections of asset-backed securities and CMO traunches. Judged the daily bidding of large (>$1.5 M) annuity and state lottery cases. C and APL programming and systems design for coordination of NYS Regulation 126 Certification at year end.

Management: PMO/SDLC/Agile, Operational Process Restructurings, Business Architecture, Custom Software Development Leadership, Technical Due Diligence, Advisory and Executive Board Membership, Strategic Sourcing and Application Sourcing Transitions.

Analytics: Predictive models development and management within media/digital, operations, financial services and risk, operational, app and behavioral “Big Data” and product enhancement. Customized, novel solutions implemented at 18+ firms. Independent PhD research and numerous statistical committees membership.

PMO and Delivery Management:

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• Opportunity and demand management, requirements rationalization, project estimation, capacity and resource planning, technical architecture blueprints, SDLC project deliverables oversight.

• Liaison, relationship management and engagement direction among CXOs, standards boards (enterprise architecture, compliance, controls, centers of excellence), all-shore vendor management, Enterprise PMO.

• Delivery, delivery, delivery. Delivery.

• Client-facing engagement direction, business development, proposal writing, product development, analytics, operations, strategy, and technology evangelizing.

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