Ivana Wright
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal member since September 17, 2022
Ivana is passionate about applying new technologies like machine learning and AI to solve business problems. With extensive experience in the financial industry (particularly capital markets) across product management, project management, and business analysis domains, she has a proven record of successful execution and delivery to your organization.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Product Management
- Business Analysis
- Estimation & Planning
- Jira
- Machine Learning
- Product Management
- Product Roadmaps
- Requirements
Work Experience
Product Manager
Borealis AI
- Worked with AI researchers and trading quants to develop a stock return prediction model.
- Defined the product roadmap, clarified business requirements with the trading desk, and managed product backlog.
- Led and organized all the Agile ceremonies as part of a team of ten people across engineering and machine learning researchers.
- Managed relationships with the business and led the preparation of all the presentation materials.
Product Owner
Royal Bank of Canada
- Served as the product owner for an MVP that leverages natural language processing (NLP) to extract entity names from textual data and machine learning to detect entity relationships with significant economic interdependence.
- Created and maintained product backlog and oversaw the implementation of a cloud-based application that leverages elastic search technology to automate the analysis of 30,000 documents and identify duplicate content.
- Defined the methodology and sourced the data required for the climate risk prototype to calculate RBC’s finance emissions for the business loans portfolio.
Project Manager
Scotiabank, Global Banking & Markets
- Led the US regulatory approval workstream for the initial margin (IM) program for uncleared OTC derivatives.
- Successfully delivered the variation margin workstream for Asia-Pacific.
- Successfully delivered the Volcker Metrics project by building project roadmaps and plans, working cross-functionally across departments, overseeing the drafting of business requirements, and organizing the UAT testing process.
- Conducted trading desk-level Volcker assessments across GBM's business lines and served as the Volcker Rule subject matter expert in the regulatory initiatives project management office (PMO).
Product Owner/Project Manager | Derivatives Business Analysis
Scotiabank, Capital Markets Technology
- Planned, managed, and led multiple technology projects to support the interest rate and credit derivatives businesses: OIS discounting curve methodology project, inflation curves, and enhanced product capability (NDFs, CDS, CTRS).
- Hired, trained, and mentored junior staff to build teams with strong subject matter expertise, capable of delivering high-value technology solutions to the business.
- Led the business analysis and testing effort to implement a new (vendor) loan system to support the CTRS business.
Project History
Time Series Prediction Model
Served as the product manager for this R&D machine learning model.
MVP: Machine Learning for the Detection of Significant Economic Interdependence Between Companies
Built a machine learning solution under tight regulatory timelines in coordination with data scientists and two different IT teams.
MVP: myDocCompare for the Policies and Procedures Library
Oversaw the end-to-end implementation of this solution by prioritizing and maintaining the product backlog in Jira, broken down into epics, sprints, and user stories.
POC: Public Funds Risk Assessment
Oversaw the end-to-end delivery as a product owner by creating and maintaining a prioritized backlog and analyzed model outputs.
Prototype: Financed Emissions Dashboard and Calculations Methodology
Built a financed emissions dashboards in record time to assist the organization in understanding its climate risk exposure.
Variation and Initial Margin for Over-the-Counter Derivatives
Managed key work streams to ensure regulatory requirements and timelines were met as a project manager.
Volcker Rule and Metrics Implementation
Ensured that the organization met the regulatory requirements and timelines related to the implementation of the Volcker Rule and Volcker Metrics reporting. Acted as the program manager.
Multi-project OTC Derivatives Trading Technology
Provided continuous enhancement of in-house OTC (IR and CR) derivatives trading technology.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Physics with Minors in Computer Science and Professional Writing
University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada
Certifications
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Data Science
University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies
Tableau Desktop II – Intermediate
Tableau
Management of Enterprise Data Analytics
University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies
Skills
Tools
Jira, Slack, Tableau, QuickBooks Online
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile Product Management, Agile Project Management, Agile, Kanban, Team Development, Design Thinking
Industry Expertise
Capital Markets
Platforms
Unix
Other
Product Management, Agile Sprints, Project Management, IT Project Management, Business Analysis, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Regulatory Compliance, Backlog Management, Backlog Grooming, Webex, Requirements, Product Owner, Product Roadmaps, Cost Estimation, Business Cases, Estimation & Planning, Excel Expert, Microsoft PowerPoint, User Stories, Communication, Agile Leadership, Team Management, Trading Systems, Business Requirements, Agile Product Delivery, BRD, Regulatory Reporting, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Cross-functional Team Leadership, Business Plan Consulting, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Data Analysis, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Machine Learning, Writing & Editing, Derivatives, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Executive Presentations, Scrum Master, Macros, Languages, Feature Roadmaps, New Product Development, Project Scoping, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Product Coach, Presentations, Quality Assurance (QA), QA Testing, Labeling, Data, Climate Risk Mitigation, Data Analytics, Programming, Regulations, Elasticsearch, Cloud, Financed Emissions, Physics, Mathematics, Stock Market, Dashboards, Python, Research, HTML, R&D, Feasibility Studies, Data-driven Dashboards, Data Cleaning, Big Data, Python 3
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