Consultant @ From July 2014 to August 2015 (1 year 2 months) Greater New York City AreaConsultant with experience in Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, and Operations @ Designed and implemented MIS to ensure compliance with Dodd-Frank Protocols 1.0 & 2.0 for international banking client.
Analyzed Large Trader requirements (SEC Rule 13H-1); Constructed and maintained Large Trader ID tagging database for client using advanced Excel/Access systems. Oversaw system migration to automate this system in order to ensure compliance for international banking client.
Liased between legal team and client to ensure completion of ISDA Master Agreements for international banking client.
Singlehandedly maintain The Gartland and Mellina Group website (gartlandandmellina.com).
Co-authored “Centralizing Data and Consolidating Application to Support Your Enterprise Data Strategy: Driving your Financial Services Business” From February 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 6 months) Greater New York City AreaConsultant with experience in Operations, Post-Merger Integration and Control Models @ Managed two teams of clients by organizing and leading weekly meetings to define, test, and document over 200 controls and 150 KPIs for the Electronic and Paper Payments streams. These controls are executed daily in order to ensure customer transactions are processed and settled
Designed and constructed the Policy and Procedures Manual for the Payment streams by gathering, analyzing and systematizing information from clients
Developed and implemented the Internal Control System to meet industry and SOX regulatory standards; identified SOX and high impact controls and their associated risks
Developed and implemented a governance and certification process for the Internal Control System that reduced certification process by 3 days
Participated in the integration of Fixed Income, Repos and Securitizations legacy systems. This included an analysis of system data models, definition and specification of the data mapping requirements, definition of the project plan and PMO (local and global Risk and IT - including Architecture
Lead role in the analysis of the requirements derived from Dodd–Frank titles VI and VII with special emphasis on the practical impacts of the regulations on the swap markets (Title VII - Section 2). Solely coordinated the UAT between 5 global teams to implement regulatory requirements From October 2011 to February 2013 (1 year 5 months) Research Assistant @ Assisted in primarily editing photographs for publication. Publications include the Russian national newspaper: Rossiiskaia Gazeta, and the Library of Congress and UNESCO’s World Digital Library.
Constructed an Excel database using pivot tables and macros to completely digitize the photograph library catalogue; facilitated the submission process to the Russian national newspaper and World Digital Library.
Proposed and implemented a private network between the Professor and the research team, increased transfer speed by 50%, trained the Professor and research team in using the network. From January 2009 to May 2011 (2 years 5 months) Greater New Orleans Area
B.Sc., Economics, 3.5 @ Tulane University From 2007 to 2011 General Course Program, Economics and Environmental Policy @ London School of Economics and Political Science From 2009 to 2010 Brian Grober is skilled in: Javascript, ReactJS, Node.js, Express.js, AngularJS, React-Native, Git, jQuery, SQL, MongoDB, GulpJS, GruntJS, OAuth, Management Consulting, Analysis