Projects - GigBlast

Prudential: Regulatory Compliance - CARES Act (COVID 19)

The CARES Act contains several provisions affecting retirement plans in the area of distributions and loans due to the impact and effects of COVID-19 and includes a temporary waiver of Required Minimum Distributions, the ability to request a Coronavirus-Related Distribution or Loan, and the...

Prudential: Regulatory Compliance Framework

Looking across the Regulatory Compliance spectrum (CCPA, NAIC, SECURE Act, Reg BI, etc.), the development of a framework is meant to address current and coming regulations that have to be managed across the Information Technology environment, both business as usual activities and new initiatives....

Prudential: Data Management Framework

With over 150 projects in flight and more being considered, the company wants to leverage a framework to better identify data-focused projects and apply the correct level of management and respective policies according to how a given initiative is weighed. Worked with senior executives to hone a ...

Prudential: Customer Office Data Exchange

This is a massive undertaking with high visibility. This data project was acutely focused on providing data to the Customer Office (responsible for cross-product marketing). Leveraging several systems subject matter experts, the team was able to create several feeds and services to deliver necess...

Prudential: Regulatory Compliance - California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Lead a team for the implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act. This project requires working with control partners (Privacy, Risk and Compliance) as well as other business partners and 3rd party vendors. I led the effort to analyze what applications should be accounted for and what st...

Prudential: Regulatory Compliance - SOC 2 - Data Disposition

To satisfy contractual obligations, Prudential must purge plan and participant data as agreed upon for each respective contract. Working with the business and control partners (Privacy, Risk and Compliance), We were able to leverage previous work done for a previous effort. We developed a framewo...

Prudential: Outsourced Employee Stock Purchase Plan

This is a new 3rd party implementation to support the alliance between Prudential and Computershare. Working with several areas of the business, this project integrates 3rd party data into client facing applications and statements to provide a more robust experience. The new features provide a si...

MUFG: Develop and Conduct BCBS IV

Establish a Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Independent Validation & Verification (BCBS IV) function to perform a holistic assessment of evidence submitted by reporting areas and corporate functions to attest to their alignment with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) 239...

MUFG: Times of Stress

Addressing Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) 239, the project defines and establishes a governed framework and approach, to produce times of stress reports (this will feed requirements to Enterprise Data Processing (EDP) , Report Automation and business as usual (BAU) Processes as nec...

MUFG: Metadata Content Enhancements

This project will capture key business and technical metadata for systems which are critical to risk and regulatory reporting. This includes documenting the physical location of KDE’s, which is a key dependency for the DQ integrity testing being built via the Golden Sources Identifica...

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