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OPERATIONAL RISK SPECIALIST

Operational Risk Management at Business Unit Level, Control Self Assessment, Scenario Analysis, Key Risk Indicators Development, Operational Risk in Payment and Settlement Systems, Quantitative Modeling, Development of Causal Models, Basel II Oprisk Regulatory Requirements, Provision of Consultancy Services.    

PROFILE:	Dynamic interdisciplinary experience that combines analytical and consulting skills from an earlier engineering career with management skills and an in depth knowledge of a wide range of operational risk issues.   
•	Exceptional knowledge in developing models for managing operational risk at the business unit level.
•	Extensive knowledge in consulting business and establishment of excellent client relationship.
•	Exceptionally well organized with a track record that demonstrates self-motivation, creativity and initiative to achieve both personal and corporate goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb. 2006 – Present:	Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra, Ghana
	
	LECTURER
	Lecturer in Finance and Strategic Management Courses at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels.

	Key Achievements:
•	Imparted knowledge to over 150 participants and obtained excellent evaluation from participants.
•	Provided consulting services in areas of business strategy and finance to financially depressed Small and Medium scaled Enterprises.
•	Designed and coordinated short courses for training of middle and top level executives under the Business Support Executive Program.

GIMPA/Unilever Ghana collaborative project
•	Assisting in the evaluation of Business risk for Unilever Ghana for year 2007
•	Participated in the documentation, assessment and evaluation of SOX (financial risk assessment, control assessment and Entity level Assessment) compliance for Unilever Ghana Ltd.

Drimkaar Risk Management Institute

PART TIME CONSULTANT
 	Part time consultant in risk management advisory and training.

			Key Achievements:
•	Provided advice to a bank on the formulation and implementation of operational risk management framework.
•	Provided training to students pursuing the PRMIA risk managers’ certification program.

June 2003 – 2005:	Dresdner Bank AG, Group Risk Control, Operational Risk, Frankfurt, Germany 

	Student Worker/Operational Risk 
	PhD dissertation was a collaborative project with the Bank and thus worked for several months during the period as an analyst.

			Key Achievement:
•	Developed a model based on Bayesian network for the management of operational risk within the Foreign Exchange and Money Market settlement process of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein – Global Business Operations.
•	Designed and conducted a control self assessment and elicitation of subjective data.

2001 – 2002:	Deutsche Bank AG – Risk Management Services, Stuttgart, Germany.
 			
			Student worker/MBA project
Assessed and analyzed the risk management practices of some selected Medium Sized Enterprises in South West Germany. The assessment included the categories of risk faced, internal structure for managing the risk, tools and instruments used and the challenges faced in managing the risk

HypoVereins Bank, Global Project Finance (Water & Regenerative Energy, and Transportation & PFI Teams) Munich, Germany.

Student worker 
Appraised new financing opportunities in the water supply sector. Reviewed and prolonged existing projects – IVPC4, 283 MW wind energy project in Italy: The Connect Project, Citylink Telecommunications Ltd, new transmission systems for London Underground Limited under the UK Private Finance Initiative (PFI): West Toll Concession, real toll road in Portugal.  Provided assistance in project evaluation and cash flow analysis.


1996-1998	Colan Consult/Burgeap Consulting Engineers, Accra, Ghana

Water Supply/Civil Engineer
Planned, designed, implemented and managed several water supply and sanitation projects sponsored by the European Union and World Bank/IDA for several small towns in Ghana. 

Key Achievements:
•	Supervised the construction of 18 rural water supply schemes. Project was delivered on schedule and within budget.
•	Managed the World Bank/IDA small towns water supply project till completion
•	Provided Hydraulic analysis for the EU sponsored 22 small towns water project.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
			
PhD in Business and Economic Sciences – Operational Risk Management	(2002-2005)
University of Goettingen, Germany.

Certificate in Applied Statistics and Empirical Methods (2002-2005)
Center of Statistics, University of Goettingen, Germany

MBA – International Management/Finance		 (2000-2002)
Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology, Germany

M.Sc. – Water Resources Engineering and Management (1998-2000)
University of Stuttgart, Germany

B.Sc. (Honours) - Civil Engineering 			(1996-1998)
University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

TECHNICAL SKILLS
			
Skilled with Microsoft office tools, LaTeX and statistical packages like “R” and statsgraphic.