SUMMARY:

• A development manager with over 17 years of experience building systems in the financial services industry. Proven track record in driving development efforts aligned to strategic business needs in order to remain compliant with regulations, meet customer demands, and remain competitive in the marketplace. An enthusiastic leader with a track record of bringing out the most in people, managing local, near - shore, and offshore teams.
• Develops excellent working relationships with project stakeholders across the organization, aligning technology outcomes with business goals.
• Manage local and global development teams simultaneously to meet changing needs of the business and the IT delivery model.
• Follows a simple management principal to enable success of my teams: To provide them with the clarity and resources they need in order to be successful at their jobs.
• Strong understanding of equities financial markets, with a recent focus on single-stock and index-based Synthetic Equity instruments, equity swaps, and ETFs. Specialties include risk management, pre-trade analytics, trade preparation, trade capture, hedge portfolio management, and index static data mastery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, Visual Basic (5.0, 6.0), Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications (Excel and Access versions 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2010), Unix Shell Scripting, Oracle PL/SQL, Sybase ASE.

Operating systems: Windows (XP, 7), Sun Solaris, HP Unix, Linux

RDBMS (all current versions): Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, Sybase

Data modeling: Thorough understanding of designing data models for systems integration applications, including data mining, data marts, and data warehousing

Messaging: Swift, Tibco, Reuters DDS

Banking systems: Misys OPICS 5.2, Devon 6, Bloomberg Trading Systems, Reuters 3000 Xtra, Reuters Power Plus Pro, various proprietary systems

Financial products: Fixed Income instruments and derivatives: foreign exchange (deliverable and non-deliverable), interest rate swaps, cross-currency swaps, credit default swaps, money market, repos, OTC foreign exchange options.Equity instruments and derivatives: equity swaps, futures, options, ETFs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Front Office Delta One Equity Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development manager responsible for directing and coordinating the activities of a global development team of 15 employees and consultants responsible for delivering systems to our Global Prime Finance trading desks in New York and London. I am located on the trading floor to respond to immediate support issues and to foster a strong working relationship with our traders and middle-office support staff. Work with senior business management and IT management to develop plans for both tactical and strategic development for our Equities Pricing and Trading Platform.
• The global development team is divided in four smaller teams, two front office teams in both New York and in London, a team responsible for an inventory management system, and a team responsible for a global data platform. As manager of four teams, I oversee the specifications, maintenance, and roadmap for our applications. I make architectural design decisions and manage code reviews across the group.
• The New York front office development team develops and maintains small and medium-scale applications that are designed to automate workflows, reduce manual risk, provide analytics for, and drive revenue for a set of trading desks. Primary business partners include Synthetic Index Trading, ETF Market Making, Index Arbitrage (Inventory Trading and High-Frequency Trading), LATAM Synthetic Trading, Program Trading Sales, Single-Stock Swaps, and Securities Lending. Programs are designed to be interactive using MS Office or batch-based or on-line in a Unix environment. Major deliverables include the following:
• An analytical program that consumes dividend projection data points from Markit and projects them forward across options expiry dates up to 20 years in the future using index compositions.
• A fully automated locate management tool to allows trading desk to automatically or manually request security lending locates from our Security Lending desk and track what has been located throughout the day.
• A suite of desktop and batch applications to allow the Synthetic Index Trading desk to manage its Custom Index portfolio that includes the ability to create, price, trade, and manage corporate actions in their portfolio of custom indices.
• Batch Borrowcost Pricer, a replacement for a manual pricing process done on the Synthetic Index Trading desk which creates a daily set of indicative rates for Equity Swaps on various sector indices based on static index data, indicative and known security borrow costs, and a set of rules based on types of securities.
• A delta-risk management spreadsheet that currently manages all delta risk analytics and trade preparation for a synthetic hedge portfolio over USD 13bln.
• A trade preparation spreadsheet for the hedge trades of our leveraged ETF swap clients. It has been used to trade over 2 trillion in USD notional since it was rolled out in 2009.
• Index Rebalancer, a small-scale application that predicts divisors for listed indices based on upcoming announced changes to indices
• Dozens of small-scale spreadsheets and processes designed for one-time or persistent use to meet our trading desks most urgent needs
• The London front office development team has a similar remit to the New York team but with a focus on London local priorities. Some deliverables include:
• A workflow management for South African Rump trading along with a customer confirmation module.
• A delta risk management system for exchange trade s.
• The global data platform team is responsible for a system named ATOM which is a capture, repository, and distribution system for listed and internal index and ETF constituent data. ATOM is a crucial upstream component of every application in Synthetic Equities platform in the bank. My responsibilities include:
• Management of the development team which is located across several development centers, both on and off shore.
• Aligning with business partners in front offices across the globe to gather and capture requirements.
• Liaising with the global support team to ensure 100% uptime for the system.
• The inventory management system team is responsible for a system named Delta1 Trader, a three tiered application used by the Synthetic Index Trading desk to analyze and maintain their index and ETF based synthetic equity positions. Products supported include Equity Swaps single stock and index), Index Futures, Index Options, ETF, and Dividend Swaps. Complex trade types include creation and redemption of hard-to-borrow ETFs, rolls, and combos.
• Other responsibilities and s at Deutsche Bank include the following:
• Ownership of an Index-Arbitrage, ETF, and Index Trading platform which allows desks to automatically trade and synthetically price index swap hedges and ETF creation/redemption baskets. This system is developed in Moscow and deployed in New York.
• Ownership of a swaps booking platform designed to allow automatic and manual swap trade capture in the front office and forward the information on to middle-layer Swaps and risk platforms. System was developed both in Montreal and London.
• Work with the Execution Platform development teams to improve their systems by help with requirements gathering and communication with the trading desks to understand their most urgent requirements.
• Work with production support to help troubleshoot issues and follow through on their resolution with the development teams.
• Liaison between IT and the trading desks, leveraging a unique position to sit close to both sides of the operation. Use over six years of expertise working directly with trading desks to understand trading operations within the IT organization in order to help understand where their strategic priorities should be. Part of over a dozen committees and regular global meetings both IT-centric and joint IT and business focused.
• Equity Index, ETF, and dividend static data specialist. Understand mechanics of index and ETF data and how they are created, distributed, and captured. Create validation models to check for inaccuracies. Understand intricacies based on index or ETF family.
• Manage global development and support teams in Montreal, London, Cary, Moscow, and Mumbai as appropriate. Deliver requirements to various development teams and take responsibility for local testing, rollouts, and post-implementation checks. Work with support teams to refine their techniques and understand how they should operate to support the business and their systems.
• Learned about managing both organically and through several management programs offered by Deutsche Bank. Focus on sound and easy-to-follow management principles that give my team a chance to succeed in a difficult and changing environment. Use coaching and mentoring techniques as appropriate for any given situation. Provide a clear set of goals and maintain them as they change throughout the year. Engage the team and allow them to feel like they are part of an important function to the bank. Delegate as many tasks as possible in order to give them a chance to learn and develop their skills, and allow myself to focus on strategic developments.

Confidential

Information Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and maintained dozens of in-house systems, reports, and interfaces for OPICS to supplement its existing architecture. Financial products supported: fixed income instruments and derivatives, foreign exchange (deliverable and non-deliverable), interest rate swaps, money market, repos, and OTC foreign exchange options.
• Provide desktop application support for in-house systems and reports for the front-office, including the Foreign Exchange and Fixed Income desks. Applications supported, Bloomberg Trading System, Misys OPICS 5.2, Reuters Power Plus Pro.
• Acted as a liaison between the Operations department and IT to gather requirements for several workflow automation projects.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained a NASD TRACE Rules compliance system using Bloomberg Trading System Retail Feed 8.5 and Oracle PL/SQL.
• Maintained and upgraded the interface between Bloomberg Trading System and OPICS for fixed income and futures deals using Oracle PL/SQL.
• Implemented an automated, paperless outgoing fax and e-mail confirmation system for all products processed by the OPICS middle-office system using Captaris RightFax, Adobe Acrobat, Visual Basic, Oracle PL/SQL, Microsoft Exchange, and Access 2003 VBA. Also ported the application to work with a proprietary middle-office system and also to work in other Santander branches.
• Assisted in the requirements gathering and specification phase of a project to replace OPICS with an in-house middle-office system.
• Designed and implemented a reporting system for the in-house middle-office system using Oracle PL/SQL and Microsoft IIS.
• Developed an automated documentation template creation and tracking system for all IT development staff members to use to assist them in fulfilling their documentation requirements as specified by the enterprise-wide development policies and procedures using Visual Basic, Access, and Oracle PL/SQL.
• Automated reconciliations between Murex Generation 2000 and OPICS for FX, Swaps, and OTC options using Excel 2003 VBA.
• Implemented a static data maintenance screen to automate bulk modifications to commissions rules across various legal and regulatory dimensions using Visual Basic and Oracle.
• Implemented a screen to monitor the flow of trades and allocations from the NYFix front-end trading system into the middle-office system using Visual Basic and Oracle.
• Implemented a web-based trade execution summary report using Visual Basic, Active X, IIS, Excel, and Oracle.

Confidential

IT Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented key components of n-tier web based architecture for automated client reporting system.
• Implemented various Java Servlets for Web based application with 300 users.
• Implemented data transformation process using stored procedures and JDBC to accommodate reporting needs.
• Implemented Java-COM bridge to allow servlets to access Seagate Info API and Crystal Reports API.

Confidential

IT Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented various components CORBA components for a financial planning project to consolidate insurance and banking products.
• Implemented various data access components based on enterprise wide database session manager in Java.
• Designed and implemented fully automated ftp process to print vendor including military strength encryption, server side data compression and integration into workflow system in Java.
• Prototyped several components derived from business objects in Java.
• Performed development DBA tasks on Oracle 8.0.5 for integration testing of financial planning pilot application.
• Designed application objects for interfaces of financial planning application to various systems in the company (GL, commission system, agent information database).

Confidential

IT Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented emerging markets analytic library to be used for a wide variety of risk analysis and reporting applications using C++ and Excel.
• Specified and programmed an event tracking database application for the emerging markets research team in Oracle 8 and Microsoft Access.
• Implemented a batch process to import data from a Bloomberg FTP site and load it into an Oracle 8 database.
• Specified requirements for a P&L reporting system for the emerging markets fixed income department.

Confidential

IT Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Specified requirements for a customer revenue reporting system covering all financial products of the bank. Designed, implemented and tested system, including GL and account master reconciliation.
• Assisted in day-to-day support of the RiskMart system.
• Responsible for overseeing the day to day operations of the company Data Warehouse including the federal reporting
• Designed and implemented system to track loan repayments.
• Participated in pilot project in order to customize and implement a new standard front-office system for the credit business.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented system to automate the FFIEC-002 federal report.
• Specified and programmed interfaces from client’s operational data stores to JP Morgan’s 415 market risk system.
• Designed company wide web-based phone directory.