Caleb Cha Email & Phone Number

Co-Head of Low Latency Product

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Developed automated trading platform in C# that retrieves market data and executes trades through Interactive Brokers' API service. Can be operated through custom built UI or "headless."Created and back-tested trading models with the Ninja Trader tool utilizing Esignal data feeds. Managed over $1M in assets, achieving an average of 5% return per month.

New York

• Associate Intern, RMBS trading / Equity derivatives structuring Summer 2011
• Created mortgage prepayment model utilizing internal analytics object model, which was used to predict current factor of mortgage linked debt offering.
• Priced customized accelerated share repurchase product and created corresponding pitch material which was presented to potential clients.
• Investigated and presented on value of convertible debt offering coupled with call spread overlay to panel of managing directors.

• Nominated and elected by executive management to "Hi Potential Program." Criteria based on professional performance and leadership potential. Only 4% of employees company-wide selected for program yearly
• Managed twenty-person team located in Redmond and Beijing to test the Zune social networking site, achieving 99% uptime for site receiving over 60 million hits per month across 22 markets.
• Drove development and use of standardized test specification template, resulting in consistent and complete future test plans across all web sites.
• Identified and implemented tool to manage and schedule day-to-day operations, creating more predictable workload schedule and increasing group efficiency by 20%.

• Zune
• Managed five-person team to develop new processes and tools across disciplines that improved team communication and load-balancing across constrained resources, resulting in the team achieving all milestones for target.
• Developed core documentation and coding processes, establishing operational standards for entire test group.
• Performed Release Manager functions Zune Web 3.01 including prioritizing features, setting release schedule, and directing resources, resulting in completion of all features on-time, with highest level of quality, and.

• Microsoft GamesStudio
• Established server deployment strategy and designed processes for two major server features for several products, resulting in “uptimes” of over 99%.
• Developed and built new test processes, reducing product testing time by 50%.
• Grew team from two to nine testers in eight months, developing full-service team to perform testing requirements including authoring automated tests, security validation, and performance measurements.

Mba, Finance

Activities and Societies: Finance Track Candidate Co-President: Sales and Trading Club Member of Quantitative Finance, Finance, and.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Four consecutive summer internships. Worked 20 hours per week during senior year