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Salem Nh

Wayne, Pa, Us

Managing new product development and existing product lines to increase the profitability and market position of the Loanet product set. To introduce new products to address the changing marketplace and to meet new market needs>

Wayne, Pa, Us

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

developed a fully paid lending program

Design and build new financial products to increase the revenue and profitability of the Securities Finance business at Fidelity

Responsible for the development of new business product that generating major revenues for both the Prime services and Securities Finance areas. Role included research of market opportunity, building and presentation of the business case, product definition and design, overcoming regulatory hurdles, identification of risks, execution and implementation. Specific products include:Borrowing fully paid securities from customers on the NFS brokerage platform.Introducing new collateral management products including cash pools and tri-party equity repo.Enhanced leverage finance via an affiliate broker dealer.Comprehensive P&L modeling including funding.Automation of the daily mark to market processOther achievements in the risk management area:Lead analyst and architect for new credit risk system covering all Fidelity Capital Markets and National Financial trading and settlement risk. Designed and developed new risk model for Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives and Repo. Designed program and block trading performance analytics applications for traders and clients.Business product manager for the development of a new correspondent / customer market risk system utilizing real time value at risk model across 15 million brokerage and retirement accounts.

Project management of new product development for Securities finance Business

Burlington, Ma, Us

2003Charles River is the leading market software vendor of investment management software including portfolio analysis, trading blotter, and compliance systems.Product manager of order compliance moduleDefined and managed the development of a new FX module including links to FX ECN's.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for development and support of Putnam's trading and position keeping applications.Major achievements and responsibilities at Putnam:Managed front office fixed income and derivatives systems.Responsible for a development group of forty people.Developed Java based, firm wide, real time position server and an order / execution matching server.Built a Java/web system to automate collection of OTC prices from international brokers.Grew trading systems development group from 15 to 45 with significant reduction in turnover through motivation mentoring and coaching and the introduction of new standards and process.

Derivative and Risk Management Systems Manager EuropeManaged the support and enhancement of all London trading systems for Smith Barney and following the merger with Salomon responsible for the desk top integration of all trading applications for the new Salomon smith Barney European headquarters in Docklands. Managed 15 staff with a $3m project budget and $1m capital expense.Major achievements at Salomon Smith Barney:Built trading floor applications architecture for merged Salomon, Smith Barney, Citibank and Schroders.Implemented Fixed Income Repo and Reverse Repo functionality as a new application.Defined user requirements and enhancements to address specific European functionality. Ran day to day operations to provide traders and back office a reliable and integrated application infrastructure.

Misys is a large UK based software vendor and one of the FTSE 100 companies.Risk Management Product managerResponsible for development strategy for enterprise credit risk management application. The application was based on an enterprise data model and a high performance rules based on deterministic, historical and Monte Carlo models.Major achievements at Misys:Responsible for product development of all Misys Risk management Designed new enterprise wide credit risk product as a joint venture sponsored by five major international banks. Identifying core requirements managed expectations and developed product.

B.Sc, Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics