Cassandra Mancini

CASSANDRA MANCINI (马春妮) 9 D'ARCY ST, TORONTO, ON M5T 1J8, CELL:- E-MAILS:-LINKEDIN PROFILE My Value Proposition: • To act as a trusted, reliable information professional and apply the efficient and innovative management of information and data to provide insight, improve business processes, cut costs and enhance system designs. Rapidly applying my resourcefulness, surpassing strategic business objectives and helping others stay informed and organized is what I do best. Quick facts: • Honours degree status since 2007 • Trilingual (English, French, Mandarin Chinese) • 2 + years’ experience in legal field • 4 + years’ experience in data, technology, financial field • 6 + years’ experience in customer service and relationship management • 4 + years’ experience in the information management field Work Experience: Senior Analyst, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, (CPPIB), Enterprise Data Services, Toronto, Ontario: January 2018 - present • Consistently keeps the team organized by managing monthly contract review meetings, coordinating inventory software upgrades and system implementations. • Spearheaded company-wide inventory reviews ahead of fiscal budgeting processes that results in over $700,000 CAD of annualized cost savings. • Independently configured new communication tools to enhance team metric gathering and workflows. • Contributed to firm-wide knowledge management and sharing initiatives by enhancing the metadata of the data inventory tool for all products. Analyst, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, (CPPIB), Enterprise Data Services, Toronto, Ontario: January 2017 – January 2018 • Manages and analyzes market data products, user access and contract inventories to ensure alignment with budgeted and contracted amounts for over 400 products. • Accounting and budget management (accruals, cost re-classifications). • Leads projects and initiatives for process improvement as assigned; ie. revamped Bloomberg terminal ordering process resulting in over 1 Full Time Equivalent/year of time savings Administrative Assistant/Coordinator, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, (CPPIB) Systems Infrastructure, IT, Toronto, Ontario: Sept 2015 – December 2016 • Managed processing for over 300 invoices per month as well as purchase order processing, review, tracking vendor communication/follow-up alongside daily assistant tasks. • Inventory management and reporting for IT services, products, software licenses and hardware support licenses. • Creation of in-depth technical training documentation for department-wide distribution. Legal Executive Assistant, Spiegel Sohmer Inc., Montreal: May 2014- August 2015 • Aided 2 attorneys in the legal area of tax planning, specifically voluntary foreign asset disclosure. • Independently organized, systematized and coordinated the workflow for 300+ client files to ensure smooth progression of client matters • Considered the go-to advisor/ambassador of the voluntary disclosure department for other attorneys in the firm. Additional Positions: • • • • Software Support Administrator, Dexco Corporation, Montreal: March 2014 – May 2014 Legal Executive Assistant, Oiknine & Associates, Montreal: August 2013 – March 2014 Account Executive, Insight Enterprises, Montreal: March 2013 – May 2013 Server and Assistant Manager, Mikado Monkland, Montreal: January 2009 – June 2014 Education: University of Toronto – Master of Information Studies, Fall 2015 – Fall 2018 • Concentration in Knowledge and Information Management and Information System Design. • Course content consists of: business administration/entrepreneurship, data science, database/system modeling, programming, project management, information governance, business process/systems analysis, requirements gathering, user experience design, information architecture, program evaluation, metadata schemas/standards, • G.P.A.: 3.83 McGill University, Montreal – Bachelor of Arts, Graduate, Fall 2009 - Fall 2012 • Honours Major in International Development Studies - Concentration in Economics, Political Science and Environment. • Minor in Supplementary East Asian Language: Mandarin Chinese. • G.P.A: 3.54. Shandong University (山东大学), Jinan, Shandong, China, Summer 2011 • Completion of an intensive Mandarin Chinese language and culture course at the College of International Education. Skills and Extracurricular Activities • • • • Trilingual: English, French, Mandarin Chinese (reading, speaking, writing, listening). Software: o Database and Data Analytics (Tableau, MicroStrategy, Excel, Dataiku, MS Access) o Accounting/Information Management (SAP/CRM, Visio, SharePoint, Quest, JIRA, DMS Workite, Oracle, Acumen etc) o Graphic/UXD Design (Adobe Photoshop, Axure RP, Balsamiq, Power Point) o Market Data Systems (Bloomberg, MDSL-MDM) o Cloud Services (MS Azure). Computer languages and Notation: HTML/CSS, Python, SQL, Business Process Modeling Notation, Data Flow Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams Extracurricular: Member of the McGill University Chinese Language Society, University of Toronto’s Language Exchange Initiative, Mentor to two mentees at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information.