• Work in a fast-paced environment to execute trades in FX, rates, and credit products.• Assist team in covering about 20 accounts, consisting of hedge funds, pension funds, and asset managers.• Synthesize overnight market activity from London and present daily writeups.• Series 7 (General Securities Representative Exam) and Series 63 (Uniform Securities Agent State Law Exam) licensed.

● Oversee the effort for distribution of EM FX / Vol as well as fixed income obligations of government and corporate issuers in developed Europe, Latin America and Turkey with a focus on derivatives with institutional investors throughout the U.S.● Delivered 2.5x YoY growth in the first year of launch.● Coverage includes macro strategy Real Money and Hedge Funds.● On-boarded top 20 multi-billion hedge funds for derivatives and FX trading.

● Traded local and external debt of Latin American and Iberian issuers with clients throughout the Americas, principally in the U.S.● Coverage of several of the top 25 U.S. real money managers, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds.● Organized several investor trips to Latin America and Iberia and dozen roadshows per year with various BBVA analysts, corporates and government treasuries.● Experienced in building BBVA’s New York franchise in Sales from ground up involving marketing new product (internally and externally), credit lines, settlement and coordinating with various BBVA subsidiaries across Latin America and Europe.

● Main contact for relative value analysis in EM Research focusing on global sovereign external debt and CDS.● Recommended and published relative value trade ideas to sales and trading for EM external and local debt.● Marketed derivatives and other less frequently traded products with the help of primers. For example, first-to-default basket swaps, options on CDS and tranche products.● Modeled complex bonds and structures such as inflation linked amortizing and capitalizing bonds, bonds with embedded GDP-linked warrants, long dated oil-linked options and covenant heavy corporate bonds.● Designed tools for relative value analysis and tracking the markets in Excel/VBA.● Implemented Econometric model using Eviews to value EM spreads using Econometrics

● Enabled data-sharing between heterogeneous file systems by making them inter-operable.● Adapted cryptographic theory to solve real-world security problems arising from data- sharing.

● Co-invented method to integrate new product with customer legacy systems incurring no downtime.● Presented findings at conference of industry and academic professionals.

• Chief Markets Strategist and Head of Global Macro Research• Determine overall capital market investment strategy for Bulltick, a financial services firm servicing Latin America-based institutional investors.• Lead team in producing independent analysis: macroeconomic forecasts, global portfolio allocations and investment strategy. Serves as a valuable resource for clients of our trading desk, as well as for our own in-house asset management team.• Conduct and publish research across asset classes: fixed income, equities, and FX, covering major markets such as the US (including sector strategy), Japan, and the EU, as well as the Latin American region.• Verbally communicate my strategies and analyses to our institutional clients, internal clients and media on a daily basis, in person, via telephone or conferences.• Experienced keynote speaker on global economic outlook and investment strategies in high profile public forums and conferences. Audience size 50 - 700. In Spanish and English.• High-frequency contributor to financial television networks with open invitations to Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, CNN en español, CNN International, El Financiero.

• Analyze sovereign macroeconomic fundamentals and market dynamics in portfolio allocation making fixed income and FX strategy recommendations for institutional clients.• Identify specific trade opportunities and timely relative value recommendations across asset classes using a top-down macro strategy approach.• Frequent contributor to and maintain established relationships with major television networks Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNBC, CNN International, CNN en español, El Financiero/Bloomberg Mexico.• Maintain existing and forge new institutional client relationships, hosting conference calls and research trips with buy-side clients.• Established and generate a daily publication of economic data analysis for the U.S. and Latin America, providing economic views and recommending market positioning.• Produce and publish in-depth macroeconomic research reports for client use, analyzing economic, financial, and political factors on Latin American sovereigns and bond valuations. Primary coverage of Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Peru.• Publish articles in various Latin American financial periodicals and serves as panelist in economic conferences.

Part-time Adjunct professor of Global Economics at University of Miami.

• Generated trade ideas and credit analyses views on external and local currency debt for Latin America on a daily basis.• Interacted heavily with sales and trading and buy-side accounts: strategized investment opportunities.• Produced and published in-depth research reports for client use, analyzing economic, financial, and political factors on Latin American sovereigns and bond valuations on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.• Maintained active relationships with high-ranking government and financial officials, economic consultants and rating agencies via due diligence trips and daily exchange of information.• Initiated the inclusion of relative value trade recommendations in publications.• Established and generated a daily publication for internal clients for Central America and the Caribbean.• Developed economic models and made frequent use of statistical methods in deriving views and recommendations.

• Generated trade recommendations and took credit views that immediately influenced the portfolio manager’s trading decisions, working closely with the traders• Primary analyst, providing fundamental credit and economic analyses for Central and Eastern Europe• Primary analyst for all Central America and the Caribbean credits. Backup economist for Latin America for total coverage of 19 sovereigns and total assets under coverage in excess of $800 million• Produced extensive research reports on these credits and assigned annual internal ratings• Travel to Central America and Caribbean for due diligence; regular attendance of Latin American investor conferences• Developed economic data models to make peer credit and relative value comparisons.

• Aided in security selection of $10 billion ABS portfolio.• Projected and analyzed cash flows for over 900 securities for use in credit analyses and investment decisions.• Generated cash flows, calculated monthly analytics and coordinated write-downs based on said projections.