Michael Weissman

Digital Services Expert

• USDS deploys small, responsive groups of designers, engineers, product managers, and bureaucracy specialists to work with and empower civil servants. These multi-disciplinary teams bring best practices and new approaches to support government modernization efforts.
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Associate Director

Big Data

• Used current regulatory guidance to develop Machine Learning Proof of Concept for Sanctions Screening dispositioning using Decision Tree with over 100 features and SVM for error training
• Analyzed current engagement shortcomings and developed Hadoop and Mongo Clusters for Custom ML Installations that client uses for Proof of Concept to improve transaction monitoring segmentation and behavioral patterning rules
• Worked cross functionally to develop MSSQL Cluster for large Transaction Monitoring AML Solution used in production by 2 money center banks
• Utilized MSSQL Clusters for Macmillan to maintain large scale relational data for all applications with redundancy and scalability
• Member of the Navigant Big Data Committee – Company Strategic initiatives and planning for big data

Client Software Solutions

• Led development on the third-party onboarding product DecisionPoint, a fully hosted solution for maintaining and assessing the risk for a given client's third party, serving over 32 clients and 22 languages
• Designed, architected, and developed internal portal for managing investigative due diligence tasks generated from DecisionPoint using MSSQL, C#/.Net, HTML/JavaScript
• Developed Regulatory Change Management tool for managing changes in Financial Regulations (e.g. NYS504, FDCPA) to replace prior manual process using MSSQL, C#/.Net, MVC5, d3js, and Bootstrap
• Developed a risk-based assessment tool for bulk screening entities against Sanction Watchlists
• Developed Sanctions Filter Testing and Analysis manual replacement tool
• Developed custom Behavioral and Patterning Transaction Monitoring rules to help clients cover more inherent/residual risk

Execution-Automation, Deployment, Delivery

• Oversaw all development activity and release management for a team of 6 developers and 2 data analysts
• Maintain ETL and Rules Code Bases for Transaction Monitoring and Transaction Filtering programs in order to maintain efficiency and facilitate cross selling to new clients
• Automated Deployments of CI/CD to reduce developer time spent on deployments to zero, propose release management and reduce time-to-fix bug metrics

Stakeholder Management

• Provided input for 20+ client proposals, estimated costs for 5+ project budgets, and participating and selecting a vendor for strategic initiatives involving Big Data and Machine Learning
• Hired, trained, and promoted members of technology team, conducted weekly training sessions and liaised with internal Big Data Committee (currently a member) and Central IT for key issues
• Participated in daily communications with client leadership, providing status updates, progress reports/general project health
• Regularly presented status updates and new ideas to senior management including VP of Compliance, Head of Compliance Technology, Compliance Data Lead, etc.
• Managed numerous vendors including Lexis Nexus, Dow Jones, and D&B to maintain adherence to activities in SOWs

Lead Developer

• Developed and designed large scale photo distribution sites for the fashion industry using C#/.Net
• Designed Enterprise C#/.Net websites for Content Management, Data Mining, and Data Presentation to centalize all information in one location for client facing sales team
• Created role-based management framework built in C#/.Net for Pharmaceutical companies to organize and track meetings occurring all over the Country
Designed, architected, and developed a full featured framework for releasing fully customizable data driven websites using C#/.Net and MSSQL deployed o Microsoft Azure to streamline deployments of new clients
• Developed framework Web Service based API to be used by clients to retrieve data using WCF and MSSQL on Azure
Designed and developed Enterprise level data tracking applications for iPad/iPhone launched on B2B App Store

Senior Software Developer/Web Programmer Analyst

• Rewrote LMS system in MVC3 using SAML2/in house WCF Services, linking new solutions with existing SSO framework
• Improved login performance through Migration of Authentication DB to LDAP from MSSQL
Migrated off Classic ASP quizzing solution to newer ASP.Net based version and integratednew Digital Library with existing eCommerce framework
• Integrated Novell Access Manager and Identity Manger into existing environment by creating custom Java modules
Developed new data source sync drivers for new Authentication Store, using MSSQL triggers and sprocs with custom Jva JDBC drivers to process triggered events

New York University