LORA LEVITCHI

Address: River Vale, NJ, 07675

Phone: +1 (310) 245- 9736
Email: [email protected]
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/loralevitchi
Status: U.S & Romanian (E.U.) citizenship

SUMMARY
Innovative and highly effective FinTech performer with over 15 years of working experience from Europe and USA with
Fortune 500 firms. Proven expertise in developing global software financial solutions (including Cloud and App based),
strategic roadmaps, plans, and procedures to streamline corporate and client operations in alignment with regulatory
mandates and market dynamics; skilled with Agile, waterfall and iterative methodologies with current focus on
automation, AI/ machine learning and digitalization. Successfully supervised and developed cross functionally, globally,
teams ranging from 5-100 members.
RELEVANT WORK

• Retail Risk Financial Transformation with the focus to increase controls, reduce risks and digitalize the firm- Citi
• Prime Brokerage CSW project to streamline operations for Corporate Investment Banking - JPMorgan Chase
• 1st on Wall Street Firmwide Data Glossary based on Wikipedia concept - Collibra - JPMorgan Chase
• CCAR project enhancements to alleviate firm market risk - JPMorgan Chase
• North Star Financial Transformation Project - NYLIFE Insurance & Investments
• TradeBook ultra-low latency-trading platform- Algorithmus LLP/ Bloomberg LLP

EDUCATION
• Columbia University, NYC, Master in Mathematics of Finance, Feb. 2014, GPA 3.78
• California State University, Long Beach, M.B.A., Business Administration, August 2009, GPA 3.3
• Technical University Cluj-Napoca, Romania, B.S., double majors in Mechanical Engineering &
Business Administration, June 2006, GPA 3.6
• Psycho- Pedagogy Teaching Degree – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Romania, June 2006
• Collibra Data Governance Certification

EXPERIENCE

Senior Vice President/Senior Transformation Lead- Financial industry- Citi Bank –2021 – Oct 20st,2023
• Built Oversight Analytics Platform with streamlined commune functions and capabilities required by Personal
Banking Wealth Mgmt (PBWM) Risk (Tableau dashboard visualizations with 1st and 2nd LOD entitled views);
• Worked to re-engineer current Retail Risk Mgmt. Reporting with mix of Arcadia+ MicroStrategy visualizations,
leveraging common GENESIS data sourcing, standardized calculations/ aggregation to better adept to increased
demanding regulations (BCBS 239, Solvency II, HIPAA, MACRA, CMS Star Ratings), CCAR & CECL.
• Offered continuous design and build out of consumer banking Salesforce financial services cloud ecosystem
adhering to the overall architecture blueprint.
• Built Retail Risk Technology Control Management (RRTCM) process to suffice for Public Consent Order ask,
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Internal Controls, and Policy governance programs, performing Health
Check, Spot Check and PQA reviews; (2021-2022- 38 Programs: $60M +; 2023-18 Programs- 30M+).
• Collaborated cross functionally with EO&T Controllers/ Senior Program Managers, RRT DMs, PMs, Delegates,
to ensure Citi PPMP procedures and Industry standards are adequately followed in RRT. (e.g.: GFT PTS/ CAO
PTS alignment).

Adjunct Professor – Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) - NYC –2019

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• Taught graduate students, part of Master of Public Administration Program,” Public Economics” course- study of
government policies (government taxation, debt, and expenditures).

Senior Program Manager/Business Analyst, CIB, JPMorgan Chase &Co, NYC 2017 –2018
• Managed a team of 7 business analysts to work seamlessly with business stakeholders and US, UK and offshore.
• Key contributor to improve functionality of JPMorgan Chase CSW (Corporate Service Workspace), to centralize
and displays globally info from multiple upstream systems for Prime Brokerage Client Facing (Trade Manager,
Money Transfer, Corporate Actions, Global Proxy, Options Exercise), Custody and Fund Services space;
• Used Agile methodology and JIRA to track progress of the work, decommissioned some of the old systems,
upgraded others systems, and proved overall integration of approx. 2500 software systems within CSW platform;

Senior Architect/Project Manager, CDO, JPMorgan Chase &Co, NYC, 2016 –2017
• Designed with IT Dev, Finance and Risk: DataBook Governance Workbench which is the single source of
knowledge for definitions, responsibilities, a link to Data Quality based on Collibra Data Governance software;
• Implemented firmwide JPMorgan Data Management standards and data governance practices, Data Quality, Data
Profiling, reference data management and business glossary; Designed JPMPC DataWiki.
• Integration of Saleforce CPQ with Salesforce CRM (Configure, Price, Quate) to help business automation and
boast analytics and projections capabilities.
• Implemented CCAR Consumer Mortgage grid; Market Risk: completed significant software and hardware
expansion as part of CCAR regulatory demands;

Second Vice President, Project Manager/Business Analyst, New York Life, NYC, 2011-2015
• Implemented with Fin- Tech team, multiyear Financial Transformation Project for NYLIFE ($350MM+), re-
evaluated (e.g SAP GRC, SAP BPC, etc), Actuarial Modeling & Valuation (e.g Prophet, Triton, ArcVal),
Treasury Process/ System, Compliance and Risk Management Process and updated NYLIFE SAP; optimized
accounting systems: Geneva, Portia, CAMRA, Epicore, Investran, Wall Street Office; created Golden Copy
through standardization of the data across Sales, Assets, Headcount, Revenue, and Expenses; strengthened all
aspects of NYLIFE risk management frameworks;
• Improved firmwide Financial Reporting and Analytics performances, updated BW (SAP Insurance Analyzer),
created new ODS’s (e.g., Sales ODS, IDW ODS), implemented firmwide Data Governance and MDM;

Senior Financial Analyst, Bloomberg consultant - Algorithmus LLC, NYC, 2010-2011

• Built the ultra-low latency-trading platform that supports multi asset trading, exchange routing and order
matching for Bloomberg clients trading solutions for equities, futures, options, and foreign exchange (FX);
Designed and built the BGN filter to detect errors in database for: Swaps, equities, option prices; Designed the
specs for computing yield curve – bootstrapping method;

Business Development Manager, Technology, Western Dental, Los Angeles, CA, 2009-2010
• Developed with IT team $1.4MM Orion project to automate key business processes for 300 dental offices in
compliance with Sarbanes Oxley, HIPPA regulations with a 15% increase in sales;
MBA Capstone Project, Program Lead, AMP Research, Irvine, CA, 2009
• Successfully led a team of 7 members; Designed and led implementation of Balanced Scorecard software;
increased ROE by 29%, reduced costs by 15%, increased sales by 25%.

Financial Project Manager, European Union Programs, Animo Ltd, Romania, 2003-2007
• Coordinated teams of 40 members to negotiations for multiyear STRUCTURAL & SAPARD financial funds
sponsored by European Union; created, maintained and delivered detailed turnkey projects: Haelvoet Belgium,
www.haelvoet.be, 2005-2007; Investment value: $4MM, sustained by Ministry of European Integration;
Roughton, U.K, www.britishexpertise.org, 2006; Investment value: $27MM for TVET2004,
www.unevoc.unesco.org ; ECA Belgium, www.eca.be, 2005; Investment value: $2.8MM
Author/writer/ poet/ publicist
• Published book: 1.The Quasar Enigmas: RO ISBN: 978-1-7369435-0-2; ENG ISBN: 978-1-7369435-1-
9;WIP/Publisher: 2. The Genesis of Amber: RO ISBN: 978-1-7369435-2-6; ENG ISBN: 978-1-7369435-3-3;
WIP/Publisher: 3.New York Blues: RO ISBN 978-1-7369435-6-4 ; ENG ISBN 978-1-7369435-7-
1;WIP/Publisher: 4. New York Jazz: RO ISBN 978-1-7369435-8-8; ENG ISBN 978-1-7369435-9-
5;WIP/Publisher: 5.Sapphires and Sephirot, RO ISBN 978-1-7369435-4-0; ENG ISBN 978-1-7369435-5-7.