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• Collaborate globally with Hedge Fund Accountants and Software Developers to optimize system performance across locations like the UK, New York, Hong Kong and India. • Contribute to Quality Assurance (QA) by assisting in test development, participating in ongoing testing activities, and clarifying acceptance criteria and use cases to align with team objectives. • Work collaboratively with UX/UI teams to contribute to the design and testing of new features and components, ensuring a seamless user experience. • Identify systematic, data-related, and logical vulnerabilities across various applications. Combine data based on provided logic and document logical processes, summarizing tasks for Hedge Fund Accountants. •Act as a proxy Product Owner for Agile squads, guiding teams through the development lifecycle, ensuring user stories are clearly understood, and that projects meet business needs. • Create JIRA tickets to advance the strategy for features, user stories, and acceptance criteria, fostering streamlined development processes. •Introduce innovative solutions to address business gaps, ensuring new processes and technologies are aligned with operational goals and improve efficiency. •Additional ad-hoc projects as needed in partnership with different stakeholders.

• Collaborated with professors and fellow students to support various courses. • Reviewed and assessed problem sets for undergraduate students, delivering timely and constructive feedback.

• Acted as support specialist for IT/AV multimedia technologies in Learning and Teaching spaces, aiding professors and staff in the effective delivery of classes across multiple schools and courses. • Ensured seamless software operation and managed technical aspects of classrooms using Panopto and MS Teams, employing autonomy and independent judgement to escalate issues as appropriate. • Generated weekly reports documenting common incidents for future reference and to enhance the success of technological systems

• Conducted audits for 39 bank branches, including the Treasury Department, ensuring adherence to financial regulations, government laws, and internal policies. • Autonomously generated comprehensive audit reports outlining recommended actions. • Facilitated preliminary debriefs and reviews with auditees, providing education to correct any misconduct appropriately and in compliance with regulations. • Identified and documented instances of fraud and embezzlement, initiating thorough investigations and proposing preventive solutions to mitigate future risks. • Modeled and proposed new systematic IT controls to the Audit Committee. • Evaluated employee performance by surveying and assessing achievements of goals relevant to their asset size.

Conducted comprehensive integrated audits, scrutinized operations within branches and subsidiaries, assessed fraud risk, and identified systematic vulnerabilities. Delivered detailed findings directly to the Audit Committee.

Conducted root cause analysis, executed and validated timed studies on various processes, and provided support to manufacturing operations as required. Systematically organized study data and presented detailed findings to the Department Supervisor.

PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction (withdrew)