Provides banking and regulatory expertise throughout the audit lifecycle to ensure client procedures meet regulatory scrutiny. - Review BSA related procedures and supporting sample documentation to ensure client’s programs adhere to regulatory requirements. - Review client depository and lending programs to ensure the client policies and procedures meet the requirements of the applicable regulations. - Use Data Analytics to analyze client transaction monitoring and customer risk rating models and systems to find opportunities to improve the efficiency and efficacy of the applications by reviewing Above-the-Line (“ATL”) and Below- the-Line (“BTL”) testing methodologies. - Manage the engagement lifecycle including client communications, oversight of team work to meet senior management expectations. - Work within the Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Thought Leadership team to research and report on emerging topics and trends within the industry to better position our clients for success when bringing new products and services to market. - Review the transaction monitoring alerts of a cryptocurrency ATM client to escalate any suspicious activity. - Review the Governance and Controls in place for our client’s AML Models (both TM and CRR) to ensure the policies, risk frameworks and internal validation practices meet the regulatory expectations.

Wipfli LLP | Oct 2020 - Mar 2021

Regulatory Compliance Consultant

Provides expertise throughout the BSA/AML Audit lifecycle. In the audit process my role included but was not limited to the following tasks: - Review BSA/AML policies and procedures to ensure that they meet FinCEN requirements as well as that of the audit. - Interview bank employees and the BSA officer/designee to ensure the bank's practices match those of their written policies as well as the FinCEN guidance. - Develop findings to present during exit meetings for the bank to further develop and perfect their BSA/AML program.

Deloitte | Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

Senior Consultant

As a Senior Consultant within the AML Analytics practice I work to help financial institutions improve the efficiency and efficacy of their Anti-Money Laundering programs. My roles have included the following responsibilities: •Worked to help write a Data and Systems Procedural document for how the client would need to handle specific situations within their data and systems environments. •Built a follow-on Data and Systems training guide to help train new employees on the client’s procedures. •Performed the Fircosoft Continuity model validation by writing SQL queries to assess the integrity of the data. •Developed SQL queries to check the completeness of the data that is fed to the Fircosoft Continuity model.

BMO Financial Group | May 2018 - Dec 2019

Senior Data Analytics Specialist

Joined the newly formed Business Intelligence Unit to help the Financial Intelligence Unit improve the monitoring and methods used to identify risk and control gaps. I work consistently with key stakeholders to build flags within the data to help find specific behaviors and trends within our data. - Built an end to end procedural document for the team's data exploration process. This helped to standardize practices and improve the collaborative nature of our work. - Identified emerging risk trends within the elder exploitation space and built a SQL query to identify 5 at-risk accounts. - Built a SQL query to identify anomalous peer to peer transaction data that identified 144 at risk accounts for review over 3 iterations. - Extracted and manipulated transaction data based off of a known typology for pass-through accounts and identified 42 at-risk accounts that were sent for further review. - Analyzed accounts for known elder abuse fraud typologies to better understand the nature of these trends on the clients of the bank. - Built reports based on the Numbered Canada account population to help key stakeholders to better understand the risky nature of this client base. - Collected FinCEN SAR data and used Excel Pivot Tables and Charts to explore emerging national and local Financial Institution SAR filing trends.

BMO Financial Group | Nov 2013 - May 2018

Anti-Money Laundering Analyst

Began as a contractor but quickly earned full-time employee status. Earned a senior role within the department through reliability and being willing to take on the work that needed to be done. In time, played a role in helping BMO get off of the written consent order. - Created a product-training template to help the Capital Markets AML team to understand the full array of products and services that are offered from an AML perspective. - Recognized a gap in the Quality Control check process and worked to develop a checklist to improve the results. - Helped develop a training template for incoming contractors to expedite the onboarding process.

JPMorgan Chase | Feb 2011 - Jul 2013

Relationship Banker / Small Business Specialist

- Managed a book of 200+ clients, conducting analysis of business account transactions and key documentation reviews to ensure that clients were in line with government regulation standards. - Identified KPIs and immediate needs of new business clients and created schedules to meet milestones, while performing KYC, CIP, BSA duties. - Coordinated with multiple branch partners to compile and process regulatory documents and prepare for internal audits on an annual as well as Ad Hoc basis. - Perform SARs, MIPLs, and CTRs as necessary.

JPMorgan Chase | Feb 2010 - Jan 2013

Licensed Personal Banker

- Finished in the top three in sales out of a district of 53 in 2012 and continued on pace for 2013. - Opened, maintained, and regulated personal and business accounts and associated treasury products. - Secured outstanding branch P&L growth year over year by increasing net client growth and client exposure to treasury products.

My Education

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Graduate Certificate, Business AnalyticsThe University of Chicago | 2018

Bachelor of Arts, Economics and ManagementAlbion College | 2009

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