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Manuel Stagg
Financial Crime Systems Architect

Manuel Stagg

Senior SME · Full-Stack AI Solutions Architect

Senior subject-matter expert bridging 25 years inside the Banking Industry — compliance, risk, KYC/AML and sanctions — with the design and delivery of production AI systems built on the Model Context Protocol.

Wesley Chapel, FL(656) 600-1400manuelstagg@gmail.com
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Professional Profile

Senior subject-matter expert bridging 25 years inside the Banking Industry — compliance, risk, KYC/AML and sanctions — with the design and delivery of production AI systems built on the Model Context Protocol.

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Core Competencies

Banking
Risk & Compliance
KYC/CDD/EDD
AML
Sanctions Screening
OFAC
Transaction Monitoring
SAR/Investigations
Fraud Analytics
Regulatory Reporting
Risk Modeling
Controls & Audit
Model Context Protocol
Multi-Agent Orchestration
RAG/Retrieval
Prompt Engineering
LLMOps
Claude/Anthropic
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Professional Experience

Full-Stack AI Solutions Architect
MCP Neural Intelligence
— Present
  • Architect and ship MCP Neural Intelligence — an AI reasoning layer wired directly into clients' live CRM, telephony, financial and compliance systems through the open Model Context Protocol
  • Designed and operates an 83-agent MCP workforce (8 always-on core agents + 75 senior specialists on demand) that converts natural-language requirements into deployed, production systems
  • Engineered the diagnostic-plus-prescriptive pattern — every finding ships with the fix and the workflow that executes it — with human-in-the-loop approval and full audit trails
  • Owns the full lifecycle end-to-end: requirements, data model, backend, voice/agent layer, front end, SIT/UAT and continuous deployment
  • Built multi-tenant SaaS with strict tenant isolation, cost caps, model routing (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku) and observability across every deployment
  • Delivered 20+ production systems across banking, freight, healthcare, retail, education and B2B chamber networks — fully bilingual EN/ES
Financial Crime SME
Citigroup · SolomonEdwards (Silicon Valley Bank contract)
  • Individual Contributor SME partnering with Financial Crimes teams — Fraud, Sanctions, KYC and AML — on a wide range of initiatives to build new and incremental capabilities
  • Ensured the bank adhered to legal and regulatory requirements — OCC, OFAC, UK HMT, UN and FinCEN
  • Over three years, enhanced and optimized OFSAA (Oracle Financial Services Analytics), FircoSoft Continuity, Appian OnDemand Party Screening, Silent Eight machine learning, Oracle Mantas transaction screening and Actimize
  • Tuned OFAC (Specially Designated Nationals) rule sets for North America, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) rule sets under United Nations Security Council regulatory requirements
  • Delivered aligned with the Modern Solutions Framework (MSF) and Agile/SCRUM principles
Data Services SME
Citigroup · Citi Technology Infrastructure (CTI) · Enterprise Architecture (CEAM)
  • SME partnering with multiple Tech Teams on building new and incremental capabilities and integrations into the Citi Enterprise Architecture Methodology (CEAM) services and business processes
  • Designed and delivered tooling to perform periodic attestation of Conceptual and Target-State Process Models and Application mapping
  • Supported Citi Consent Order remediation — delivered CEAM capabilities providing consistent taxonomies aligned to the desired conceptual and target-state business-process models
  • Enhanced development of Citi Process Management (CPM) tooling, DataVerse, MetaVerse, Operating Fact Manager (OFM), Oracle Financial Services Analytics (OFSAA), Oracle Mantas transaction screening and Actimize
  • Tuned OFAC rule sets for North America and EMEA under United Nations Security Council requirements
  • Delivered aligned with the Solutions Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Modern Solutions Framework (MSF) and Agile/SCRUM

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