Alyce Poalillo
  354 Dell Place, Stanhope, New Jersey 07874
(Home)  [Send email to request phone number] 48-6260, (Cell)  [Send email to request phone number] 34-6073
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Summary

Senior professional with hands on working experience in Banking, Financial
Markets, Information Technology, Ratings Services, Pharmaceutical Sales and
Marketing, as well as Retail- Books, and with extensive concentration in the
areas of Brokerage, Asset Management, Trading (execution, management and
systems), Sales/Marketing (Data Warehouse, Finance), Mutual Funds, Portfolio
Management-Equity, Fixed Income and Money Markets, Customer Information (CRM),
Customer Privacy and Trust/Private Banking/Asset Management and Securities
Markets Regulatory Compliance. 
Background in project lead/management, with full project life cycle experience
(SDLC), change management and full phase testing experience. Extensive experience
in analysis, technical writing and documentation including RFPs, SOWs, business
requirements and functional specifications; SOPs; training and training
materials; data and business analysis and research; cost benefit analysis; and
gap and vendor analysis.  Small business experience in retail on-line/Internet
selling as well as Celebrant and animal/pet related experience. Experienced in
research, document preparation and validation of all kinds. 

Professional Experience
Current

State Certified Animal Control Officer, currently assisting and advising
municipality with feral cat project.
 
Celebrant-performing ceremony of all types 

AMP Books and Such LLC                                                          
            05/08-Present 

On line/virtual book seller specializing in new, used and vintage cookbooks,
metaphysical and other specialty genres. 
 
AMP Information Consulting LLC 						08/05-12/08
Owner and Primary Consultant
Virtual Assistance and Small Business Support

Providing proofreading, editing, document creation, and fact checking virtually
and locally for small business support. Independent research and consulting
business, conducting internet and print media research and personal interviews,
as well vendor analysis and consumer product and service evaluations.  
                                                                    

D & B-Parsippany							            2/07- 4/08
PMO 
Senior Business Analyst/Consultant

As a consultant working for the PMO, worked with the new data warehouse team,
creating business requirement, rules, project, quality control and testing
documentation for the staging and data warehouse, data mart and analytical mart
for the detailed trade product. Utilizing System Architect and DOORS as tools,
assisted the user groups and SMEs with gathering and defining requirements and
outlining current and future process flows, as well as loading requirements/rules
to Quality Center to assist with test correlation.  Also acted as the Change
Request Coordinator, managing the Change Management process for multiple
releases.  In addition, served as advisor to the PMO on rules definition,
collection and application.
	
Intrasphere Technologies ____                                                   
                11/06-1/07
On assignment at Novartis/East Hanover/Sales and Marketing Finance IT Support
Senior Business Analyst/Consultant

Analyzed and documented business and daily processes and workflows and made
recommendations for improvement. Analyzed multiple batch feeds, including those
from SAP, and Ariba, and recommended batch process changes to streamline daily
batch runs. Created a testing methodology and test scripts for a
Marketing/Finance system enhancement and managed UAT. Developed a new change
management process and made recommendations for its implementation. 

Citigroup-Warren, NJ							06/05-04/06
CIB Technology/ Business and Document Services Support
Senior Business Analyst/Employee

Analyzed business needs and created documentation, including business
requirements, traceability matrices, project plans and functional specifications
for software applications. Functioned as the primary analyst for enhancements,
vendor package implementations and some new development, for client server and
web portal applications.  Primary business support area was business and document
services, including implementing a mail tracking system and a document imaging
system.
 
Oppenheimer Funds-NYC					 		04/05-6/05 
CSG/Sales and Marketing Support
Senior Business Analyst/Consultant

Engaged to conduct a detailed independent analysis and feasibility study on a
Web portal application currently used for displaying and reporting fund holdings,
performance and statistics to internal sales and marketing personnel.
Responsibilities also included vendor evaluations and recommendations for future
internal and external development solutions-build verses buy analysis. Reviewed
multiple external feeds to the sales and marketing system for source of data and
inconsistencies, including pricing, general ledger, research and commissions. In
addition, a gap analysis was conducted and a data dictionary and glossary were
created. Data definitions and calculations were researched and standardized
across multiple systems bringing them in line with current market and industry
standards. Acted as a liaison between technology and business resources and as a
project manager for this initiative. Also provided recommendations and strategic
and tactical solutions for process, work and management restructuring and
efficiencies.

Morgan Stanley Trust-Jersey City						07/04-04/05
IT/Mutual Funds
Senior Business Analyst/Team Lead (Consultant)

Senior analyst, leading a team of analysts and technical resources in the
research and development of a Rules-based solution for a Mutual Funds Transfer
Agency System Renovation project. Created a Rules Repository and the methodology
and language to be utilized for a business driven and maintained rules
application. In addition, acted as a Subject Matter Expert, assisting the other
project teams in developing requirements for the System Renovation. Developed
close working relationships with the vendors and the business line
representatives as well as the technical staff and assisting in the logical
database design.  Responsible for the development and maintenance of the Gap
Analysis documentation utilized by the entire Project Team to define the scope of
work and create the functional specifications from the business requirements. 
Researched market trends and utilized these in a build verses buy analysis of
current Mutual Funds system verses other market products. Created test plans,
test cases and scripts for two major enhancements to Transfer Agency systems and
managed the full testing lifecycle.

JP Morgan Chase - NYC, NY							02/04 – 6/04 
Private Bank / IT Solutions Plan Group  
Senior Business Analyst (Consultant)

Senior Analyst and QA Tester supporting new releases of a Web based portfolio
management tool for the Private Bank.  Performed QA and UAT testing on the
Rebalancing and Account Grouping functionality release, creating regression test
scripts and data integrity checks. Analyzed the business rules and requirements
and prepared the functional specifications for enhancement and optimization of
asset classes and asset allocation, creating a security master, for the purpose
of implementation of new strategic model portfolios and a new portfolio
management process. Performed data analysis and provided tactical and strategic
recommendations for solutions to data integrity and consistency issues in
preparation for a new data management repository. Performed data mapping and
impact analysis on up and downstream systems utilizing the same data. Analyzed 5
different Trust Accounting systems, including OMNI, and multiple vendor products
to determine best source and attributes of security master and asset classes. 

Merrill Lynch - Princeton / Hopewell, NJ					03/03 – 02/04	
Merrill Lynch Bank & Trust / IT
Senior Business Analyst (Consultant)
      
Analyst and QA/Tester supporting Finance, Accounting (GL), Treasury
(Trading-Repurchase Agreements, CMOs, Treasuries, MBSs), Trade Operations, Audit
and Compliance and Risk Management for the Bank. Performed detailed business
analysis for new development and system enhancements, user liaison functions,
specifications and requirements documentation, workflow, scope documents and
solution proposal writing, user manuals and training, policies and procedures
manuals, test script creation, testing, and problem/troubleshooting resolution.
Worked with Use Case/Prototyping/RUP Project Management methodology on various
projects including: Summit Systems 3.5 upgrade, Oracle 11i upgrade, SILK testing
system upgrade, Bank Data Repository (BDR), G/L Accounting Reconciliation
Register (for audit/Sarbanes-Oxley compliance) and Documentum implementations.
Environment was client server and Web portal technology using SQL queries,
Windows XP, MS, Rational (Req Pro) and Silk tools to define, design and enhance
technology solutions. 	 
	
B of A/FleetBank (former Summit Bank), Cranford, New Jersey 07016		1998 – 2002
Customer Information Systems / Relationship Management Systems (CRM)
Lead Systems Analyst/Project Leader/ (Employee)

Primary user/client groups included Retail Deposits (including Demand and Time
Deposits), Brokerage, Compliance, Legal and Marketing. Project Lead and
Analytical responsibility for the daily enhancement/ development for, and
production support of, the Bank’s central Customer Information System, containing
upwards of 3.2 million customer records, and the Database Marketing system (Data
Warehouse) containing all demographic (CRM) and householding data and customer
privacy indicators. Several tools were used in the design and data
cleansing/integrity for the Data Warehouse including using FileAid and SQL for
queries and testing, as well as ISI and Trillium packages for householding and
warehousing.  This includes all functional specifications, design, testing and
report writing for all user requested enhancements/changes as well as interfacing
with 16 other Bank business lines and account files contained within the CIS
system, amounting to about 8 ˝ million accounts. Supported technology initiatives
in all Personal Banking areas including Demand and Time Deposits and all the
related work processes including funds transfer and availability, income and fees
and electronic banking.  Additional job responsibilities include the
co-ordination of the work effort of 2 other analysts, functions relating to the
back up to the Department Manager and also responsibility for the integrity of
the system’s data and improving the quality of the input/output and the
processes. 

UpTick Technologies, New York, NY 						07/97 – 01/98
General Ledger & Trading Systems
Business Analyst (Employee)

Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ 					12/96 – 06/97
Global Custody/Asset Management
Business Analyst (Consultant)

Wachovia/First Union Bancorporation (former First Fidelity National State
Bancorporation now Wells Fargo) Newark, NJ
Wealth/Asset Management 			 				11/71 – 12/96
	Vice President/Compliance Officer/Asset Management Group		03/96 –
12/96

	Vice President/Head Trader/Asset Management Group 			11/71 – 03/96

Education

Montclair High School				             Montclair, NJ		
Fairleigh Dickinson University (attended)		Rutherford, NJ
New York University (Travel Management Program)	New York, NY
New York Institute of Finance (attended)		New York, NY
County College of Morris-Animal Control Officer Cert. Training –completed and
certified
Celebrant Foundation & Institute, Montclair NJ-Celebrant Studies- in Progress

Professional Courses
ESI International - Attended the PMI program obtaining certification in Managing
Projects in Organizations, Project Leadership, Management and Communications and
Quality for Project Managers.
Rational- RUP (ReqPro) training, Business Requirements Analysis, Testing (Clear
Quest) and Change Management.
Quality Center 
Certification in MS Project
FEMA-completed certification in several disaster and animal care in disaster
modules
Reverend in the LifeSpirit Congregational Church