George Berger
VP, Application Owner - Markets Risk Management Platform (on Prem and Public Cloud) @Citi
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WORK HISTORY
VP, Application Owner - Markets Risk Management Platform (on Prem and Public Cloud) @Citi
London, GB
Responsible for all aspects of technical application management of large application platform (120 components, 25 application teams of 200 globally distributed members)• In close collaboration with Business Analysts, Project Managers, CISO, Production Support ensure continuous alignment of the platform to stakeholders’ priorities, bank’s technology strategy, risk appetite and controls frameworks.• Responsible for application compliance with bank’s policies and regulatory requirements, performing various IT risk assessments and proactive threats detection, patching, change management, CoB/DR testing, information security, supporting internal and external audits.• Business Data ownership: catalogue, mapping to taxonomy, protection, analysis of dependencies and quality. • Managing technology-driven projects, vulnerabilities remediation, application lifecycle events, managing up-/downstream dependencies • Providing weekly metrics and KPIs for stakeholders
EDUCATION
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Masters degree in Engineering
Moscow State Technical University
Masters of Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT GEORGE BERGER
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS-More than 20 years’ experience in IT Management in various fields (Corporate & Investment Banking, Insurance, Finance) and roles (application owner, release manager, project manager, product manager, technology risk manager)-IT Product management, application owner – Service Delivery Excellence Award -• Able to act as the “CEO” of the product accountable for all aspects and stages of its lifecycle: vision & strategy, functional/non-functional requirements, development, delivery, production, compliance and cyber security, capacity planning, continuity of business, retirement.• Focus on delivery a business value. Working closely and in partnership with senior stakeholders on designing of strategic roadmap to ensure constant product alignment with business priorities and maximization of business value• Business Data Governance to meet consumers’ requirements in terms of availability, timeliness, integrity, access and protection. • Building collaborative relationships with business, development, QA, DevOps and support teams• Technology and compliance risk management in highly regulated environment under complex controls framework (FCA, ECB, FRB, MAS)• Balancing risks, benefits, costs through collaborative decision-making process-Release management – Rapid Quality Delivery award (2020)-• Skilled in planning and execution of large releases through the full release management lifecycle: from scope and managing dependencies to ensuring all pre-requisites are satisfied and approvals granted before deployment-Other skills and experience-• Background in system design, application development, databases, SDLC, Agile and DevOps• Skilled in enterprise tools: JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, SDLC stack (BitBucket, TeamCity/Jenkins, Artifactory, uDeploy), Archer, Ariba.• IT Project Management - PRINCE2 Practitioner certificate, PMI Certificate program• Strong communication skills, both written and oral. Can use different communication strategies as appropriate to audience and express myself clearly and effectively in interactions across various levels. • Proved effectiveness in driving changes, leading discussions and bringing groups to agreement and decisions. • Providing Mentoring and Coaching to team members-Business-specific knowledge-• Lifecycle of trade, Trade Processing, FX, money market and derivatives, Payments, Money Transfer• Mathematics and statistics background, research, analysis and problem-solving skills • Risk assessment and risk management skills.
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