Olga Timofeeva

• Managed configuration, upgrade implementation, testing, business sign-off process, and deployment for vendor trade system market risk and limits control modules for critical business workloads such as bilateral initial margin and variation margin exposure calculation.
• Saved approx. $50,000-$100,000 on vendor build cost by implementing initial margin back-testing solution attuned to 10+ last-minute Executive Market Risk manager requirements.
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipeline in Atlassian Bamboo and BitBucket for 20+ vendor system configuration changes implemented in ant XML, Python, and Linux shell scripts.
  Analyzed data from 2 major vendor systems and ETL feeds using Python pandas, NumPy, seaborn, and Matplotlib libraries.
• Communicated data findings and UAT results or 3+ projects in Powerpoint presentations as well as Jupyter notebooks to executive decision makers. This resulted in $5,000-$10,000 cost savings on vendor fees per year.
• Developed 6 custom reconciliations in Python to verify data migration from legacy collateral system to new solution and vendor implementation of initial margin exposure calculation. These reconciliations were driving 'Go' decision for production deployment.

• Developed 100+ business requirements for 3 systems for OTC global regulatory reporting framework encompassing 8 geographic regions.
• Provided detailed technical guidance to software developers on trade lifecycle, collateral management, 5 major product classes, and 200+ trade attribute mappings to FpML format for real-time messages as well as mapping to CSV format for end-of-day batches.
• Documented new design and implementation details for 10+ project deliverables for team knowledge base

• Developed 100+ functional requirements in form of Agile user stories and organized them into epics for transparent and reliable release planning for 4 major regulatory regimes in US, Hong Kong, Australia, and Europe.
• Created solution design, performed SWOT analysis and proposed options for trade reporting reconciliation tool UI and functional enhancements.
• Provided technical guidance to developers on reconciliation application UI and functional enhancements closely attuned to end-user needs. New solution eliminated distractions, improved end user case management time to resolution and saved 20+ hours per week on manual labor.

Global OTC Reform Program

• Conducted workshops for external and internal business stakeholders and Australian inter-bank working groups focused on building industry-leading current cross-jurisdictional regulatory reporting solution.
• Executed analysis of ASIC trade reporting regulatory requirements, produced functional design specifications for 5 major derivative asset classes with 50+ detailed vendor system data to FpML and CSV mappings for real-time messaging and end-of-day batch reporting implementation

Balance Sheet P/L Application Replacement

• Analyzed key legacy system aspects to evaluate factors driving P/L figures as well as opportunities in target state solution and summarized results into functional design specification and comprehensive workflow diagrams.
• Derived conceptual designs from business objectives to deliver new strategic balance sheet P/L solution with enhanced usability, performance and functionality.

• Interviewed key stakeholders in business in technical departments, documented scope, and business and functional requirements for critical $95M budget program to onboard best fit vendor solutions for Credit risk Valuation Adjustment (CVA), Value at Risk(VaR), and limits control capabilities.
• Formulated challenges and conducted workshops with 5+ vendors to demonstrate quant libraries capabilities according to business objectives and user requirements.
• Delivered 4 practical training spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel demonstrating how to use vendor quant libraries.
• Established change management, defect management, and release management processes for CVA vendor implementation.
• Increased business users satisfaction by handling UAT execution, devoting special attention to accurate daily progress reports with sharp simple visualizations, and promptly addressing found issues to vendor experts.

• Gained knowledge of Basel II and BaFin regulatory requirements and maintained business rules of 500+ critical data elements for 30+ upstream and downstream feeds to ETL pipelines, as well as for business-critical Flash RWA (Risk Weighted Assets) and FCL (Feed Consolidation Layer) program for Deutsche Bank.
• Created functional design specifications for 4+ projects for daily/ monthly Potential Future Exposure (PFE) and Expected Positive Exposure (EPE) credit risk calculations and reporting for 7 major derivative products.
• Proactively designed solution options for data retention policy and workflow orchestration to boost ETL processing and risk metrics calculations to meet performance benchmark.
• Completed analysis promptly, escalated road blocks appropriately, and kept internal and external management up to speed

• Provided Support Level 3 for Oracle DB, Oracle PL/SQL, and 30+ Informatica ETL workloads.
• Found root cause and resolved 50+ production issues under SLA.
• Coordinated SL2 and SL1 team members to ensure risk exposure metrics calculated per schedule reliably

• Developed high-performance SQL, PL/SQL and Java code for BSS/OSS platform for Tier 1 and Tier 3 telecom providers in US, Europe, and New Zealand.
• Delivered detailed implementation specifications for developers while collaborating directly with Solution Architects, Sales Managers, and Project Managers.
• Led teams of 3-7 software engineers geographically distributed in 2-4 time zones.
• Performed code reviews and verified that functionality and respective APIs were implemented as per business requirements and best practices to ensure that production workloads were running efficiently and reliably.
• Programmed 30+ JUnit tests to ensure at least 80% code coverage that yielded 99% QA and UAT acceptance for initial code submissions

ISO Technologies transferred its R&D Department and related staff to PRONIT JSC in December 2004.

• Performed SWOT analysis for legacy order fulfillment and inventory system replacement after interviewing 15+ stakeholders including executive managers, sales team, card equipment engineers, and inventory management team
• Derived 20+ Use Cases, and UI/UX requirements and directed new application design to software engineers
  Assisted Oracle DBA in designing new database schema and data migration from legacy Microsoft SQL database to Oracle 9i
• New solution streamlined sales and item reservation processes, addressed overselling issue via preventative controls, made inventory operations transparent; these features gained 100% satisfaction from end users