Investment Grade Credit Trader

• Fintech startup Advisor helping to develop new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for the bond market.• Coordinate new product creation of Corporate New issues and secondary bond trading applications.

•Telecom Media Technology Flow Credit bond trader.•Coordinate with Research on Credit ideas, earnings, and M&A.•Trade New Issues and Secondary bonds across all maturities to help manage client flows.

• Telecom Media Technology Flow Credit Bond trader.• TMT, Autos, Finance, Insurance, Reits, Paper, Package, and Chemicals CDS trader• Coordinate with Research on Credit ideas, earnings, and M&A.• Proven risk management skills in corporate bonds, credit default swaps, indices, individual credit risk, recovery rate risk, and interest rate risk. • Continue to build the Customer Franchise in the TMT space. • Manage the Undergraduate recruitment program for the Investment Grade Desk.

• Focused primarily on trading TMT sectors.• Collaborated with research and sales to help facilitate better trade ideas to clients.

Investment Grade and High Yield Corporate Credit Trader • Established flow credit trader with career PNL over +$340MM (lowest year +$9MM, and highest year over +$100MM). • Consistently one of the top PNL producers on the desk every year.• Market making products include 8 different cash and CDS single name sectors, and both IG & HY CDS indices. • Experienced in trading both liquid and illiquid High Yield and Distressed credit products. • Typically one of the top volume CDS traders on the desk. • Strong client relationships with real money, hedge funds, prop desks, and correlation accounts. • Volumes based on flow trading, credit views, and research desk calls.• Managed and trained desk analyst and associates on how to manage credit risk, hedges, basis risk, credit derivative annuities, and index arbs. • Coordinated with IT to help build out real-time risk monitoring, risk collapsing tools, and PNL tracking.• Worked with HR to help recruit top talent for fixed income. Regularly participated in super days, interviews, and summer intern fulltime hires.Municipal Credit Trader • Managed and traded all CDS single name and MCDX indices for all of Municipals. • Responsible for cross asset and monoline hedging for desk positions.

Assistant Trader • Executed foreign exchange trades with value less than 1MM. Constructed new excel files to calculate futures, swaps, and forward prices. • Executed money market over nights, commercial paper, and Eurodollar future trades for the money market trader. • Assisted the bond desk in researching technical analysis charts of Eurodollars, currencies, and yield curve movements.

Foreign Exchange Trading Assistant • Executed spot and futures trades with values less than $1MM. Designed and constructed Microsoft Access databases to compute daily, monthly and yearly statistics reports for senior management.

Mutual Fund Department Associate • Compiled yield analysis for over $600MM in money markets, to establish maximum returns for customers and Lazard Freres & Co. LLC. • Executed and monitored all mutual fund trade confirmations and settlements, PNL, and trade corrections.