Information Technology Consultant for TD Ameritrade at SightSpan, Inc
Greater New York City Area
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- Information Technology Consultant for TD Ameritrade at SightSpan, Inc
- Owner at Cocchi Tech Systems
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- AVP - Legal & Compliance Technology at IDB Bank
- AVP - Legal & Compliance Technology at Israel Discount Bank of New York
- Mainframe Application Programmer - DB2 Enterprise Data Services at Morgan Stanley
- Mainframe Programmer - Internet to Mainframe Applications at ADP
- Mainframe Programmer - Internet to Mainframe Applications at Automatic Data Processing
- Mainframe Programmer - Internet to Mainframe Applications at Broadridge
- Data Entry Supervisor - Imaging & Workflow Solutions at ADP
- Distribution/Warehouse Manager at Millbrook Distribution Services
- Series 7 & 63 Registered Rep at Roan Capital Partners, LP
- Line Cook at Ground Round
- Series 7 & 63 Registered Rep at Royce Investment Group
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- Chubb Institute of Technology
- State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Morrisville
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Damion Cocchi’s Summary
Successfully Managed the entire life-cycle (RFP through Post-implementation) of multiple BSA/AML Systems, OFAC Systems, General Counsel Systems in a variety of roles: Business Analyst, Project Manager, System Administrator, Developer, Data Miner, Vendor Manager, Budget Manager.
Successfully helped IDB Bank terminate its 2 C&D's for BSA/AML deficiencies; managing and implementing 2 BSA/AML Systems from RFP through post-implementation as a Solutions & Project Manager.
Systems Include Mantas AML, Metavante Prime Compliance Manager, Norkom's Digital Harbor, Bridge-Way Suite Manager (eCounsel & Secretariat), In-House Developed database solutions.
Prior Designation General Securities Registered Representative (Series 7).
Prior Designation Uniform Securities Agent State Law (Series 63).
Projects & Experience:
• Technology Strategic Planning
• App Design, Development & Implementation
• App Support
• Integration Management
• Business Continuity Planning & Testing
• Documentation & Training
Damion Cocchi’s Specialties:
COBOL; CICS; DB2, JCL; DB2/SQL; REXX;CLIST; AFP; OPC/ZEKE; CA-11; Mainframe TCP/IP FTP; NDM; NJE; EasyTrieve; INSYNC; InterTest; Stored Procedures; File-Aid; HTML; JavaScript; MQ
Microsoft Office (including Visio & Project)
O/S: WinXP/2000/NT/98/95; OS/390; Unix; AIX
Definition and implementation of Mainframe to Distributed Applications.
Requirements gathering, project planning and SOW's.
Technical and Functional Spec writing of projects.
CMM level 2 & 3 implementations of SDLC processes.
Damion Cocchi’s Experience
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Information Technology Consultant for TD Ameritrade
SightSpan, Inc
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
December 2009 — Present (1 month)
Corporate Technology:T2 department.
Compliance Systems solutions: Mantas upgrade and new scenarios for BSA/AML BC & TC. -
Owner
Cocchi Tech Systems
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)
Home IT services professional:
Performing a variety of functions including security audits of home networks; network configuring of shared internet connections; vendor comparison, selection and negotiation of TV/Satellite, broadband, wireless providers and PC/laptop manufacturers; software/hardware upgrades and training.
• Currently providing technical support for 15 residential customers, in 4 states. Providing first and second level support both remotely and on-site.
• Provided continuing training to parents in Social Networking “Web 2.0”, as well as safety audits, and profile reviews regarding these services. -
AVP - Legal & Compliance Technology
IDB Bank
(Privately Held; Banking industry)
January 2006 — November 2009 (3 years 11 months)
• Head of IT team for design, implementation and testing of Prime & Mantas AML System software for Compliance, KYC-Client On-boarding Systems
o Project Manager of 2 $5 million BSA/Patriot Act Surveillance System Programs.
• Business Analyst, Data Miner, Vendor Manager, Project Manager of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Transaction Monitoring System Surveillance covering all the banks needs and departments:
o Document Systems/Business Requirements for Patriot Act/BSA Compliance regulations.
o Managed an overall Legal & Compliance Budget of $10 million/ year.
• Document existing Patriot Act/BSA compliance procedures; identify functional systems gaps, and present findings and recommendations to upper management, steering committees and the Board of Directors.
o Project Manager for the full scale process reengineering project for the KYC-Client On-Boarding, CIP initiatives.
o Direct experience implementing Metavante’s Prime Compliance Suite and iFlex/Oracle’s Mantas surveillance systems.
• Facilitated process improvement and adoption across business, IT, and regulatory constituents, including executive level communications with the Federal and State Regulators, steering and executive committees.
o IT Liaison to the Federal and State Regulators.
o IT Liaison to the Legal & Compliance Departments.
The bank has recently had its Cease & Desist Order from Dec-2005 terminated, as a direct result of the Compliance & Legal Projects that I implemented since my hiring in Jan-2006, with this and many other successes. In the last three years at the bank I have implemented over 4 major programs/applications all $100k's under budget and delivered on aggressive and extremely tight project deadlines. -
AVP - Legal & Compliance Technology
Israel Discount Bank of New York
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — November 2009 (3 years 11 months)
The bank has recently had its Cease & Desist Order from Dec-2005 terminated, as a direct result of the Compliance & Legal Projects that I implemented since my hiring in Jan-2006, with this and many other successes. In the last three years at the bank I have implemented over 4 major programs/applications all $100k's under budget and delivered on aggressive and extremely tight project deadlines.
o IT Liaison to the Legal & Compliance Departments. -
Mainframe Application Programmer - DB2 Enterprise Data Services
Morgan Stanley
(Public Company; MS; Financial Services industry)
July 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 7 months)
Senior DB2 application database manager/developer with responsibilities for creating and supporting the Enterprise DB2 Operational Datastore (ODS). The goal of the ODS was to transition legacy application data to a centralized relational database in order to ultimately facilitate the reengineering of core broker/dealer systems.
• Managed 4 DB2 Test & 1 DB2 QA Environments for all Application Groups within Morgan Stanley.
• Reviewed relational data models to ensure that they would meet application development needs.
o Developed an ODS data access layer using DB2 stored procedures designed to insulate applications from changes to the underlying ODS data models structures.
o Developed processes to capture legacy data changes and replicate them in the ODS.
o Developed processes to monitor ODS data quality and ensure synchronization with legacy source systems.
o Developed processes to replicate data from the ODS to various data warehouses and data marts.
• Defining solutions based on business requirements; creating the documenting design for solutions; creating project plans; working with DBAs for performance evaluation, size objects, i.e. tables, MQs; application processes developed in group; creating and documenting test plans; unit and Integration testing; documenting test results; maintaining current code in production.
• Defined functional requirements for new and evolving strategic and regulatory initiatives.
o BASEL II and OTS reporting for regulatory agencies
o OFAC name searches against the ODS for matches.
o SOX testing.
• Produced data mapping and transformation matrices for legacy/ODS/data warehouse ETL. -
Mainframe Programmer - Internet to Mainframe Applications
ADP
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ADP; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — July 2004 (4 years 2 months)
Damion was with ADP (Automatic Data Processing's Investor Communications Group; Web to Mainframe Development Group) from 1999 to 2004. At ADP, Damion worked on the development of several systems including creating e-mails to be sent via the mainframe to shareholders, CMM processes, and the development of mainframe applications that communicated with front-end web applications.
- Member of a team which supported and maintained Proxy/Interim/Reorg email notification from the z/OS. This process provided a mailing cost savings of over $30 million/year.
- Key player in a multi-disciplined team that won "Web-Site of the year 2002" for ICSdelivery.com by "Institutional Investor News".
– part of their Dream Team Awards.
- Lead developer in implementing and aquiriing new methods to get shareholders to sign-up for e-delivery.
- Led multiple web-to-mainframe integration projects using SEI-CMM. Many of these projects created new revenue streams. -
Mainframe Programmer - Internet to Mainframe Applications
Automatic Data Processing
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ADP; Financial Services industry)
June 2000 — July 2004 (4 years 2 months)
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Mainframe Programmer - Internet to Mainframe Applications
Broadridge
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BR; Financial Services industry)
November 1999 — July 2004 (4 years 9 months)
ADP Investor Communications, has been spun off. Placeholder for other former ADP-ICS employees to find me.
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Data Entry Supervisor - Imaging & Workflow Solutions
ADP
(Public Company; ADP; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
November 1999 — June 2000 (8 months)
Managed, trained and evaluated 5 employees, in entering data for new account openings, and FMA services for Salomon Smith Barney.
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Distribution/Warehouse Manager
Millbrook Distribution Services
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
November 1995 — August 1999 (3 years 10 months)
Manager of a Specialty Food & Healthcare Products Vendor that delivered product to Supermarkets in the NY Metro Area.
Strengths and proven accomplishments include consistently achieving and exceeding business objectives, developing new business, customer satisfaction, growing revenue (top & bottom line), growing market share, team building through coaching and mentoring, and creating and maintaining long term customer relationships at all levels
Winner of Millbrook's Merchandising for Excellence Award.
- Managed a depot warehouse with over $10 million in sales/year.
- Managed 50 route salesmen/women; assisted them in accomplishing their daily/weekly goals. In addition helped the routesales staff build relationships with both the Supermarket Chains, and Independents as well.
- Managed an additional 10 staff for sick, vacation coverage of salesroutes in addition to warehouse help.
- Implemented cross-docking solution to retire fleet and close warehouse to reduce operating. -
Series 7 & 63 Registered Rep
Roan Capital Partners, LP
(Financial Services industry)
November 1994 — July 1995 (9 months)
Series 7 & 63 Registered Rep, that focused on providing US financial Markets expertise to International Clients (mainly focused in the UK, and Germany), and for US Clients as well. In my short period of time as a Registered Rep, I opened over 50 new accounts for the firm, which translated into about $1 million in assets under management.
Prior Designation General Securities Registered Representative (Series 7)
Prior Designation Uniform Securities Agent State Law (Series 63) -
Line Cook
Ground Round
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Restaurants industry)
June 1986 — April 1995 (8 years 11 months)
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Series 7 & 63 Registered Rep
Royce Investment Group
(Financial Services industry)
January 1994 — November 1994 (11 months)
Series 7 & 63 Registered Rep, that focused on providing US financial Markets IPO expertise for US Clients. In my short period of time as a Registered Rep, I opened over 20 new accounts for the firm, which translated into about $.5 million in assets under management.
Prior Designation General Securities Registered Representative (Series 7)
Prior Designation Uniform Securities Agent State Law (Series 63)
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