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25+ year veteran of the derivatives markets with extensive experience as a market-maker, sales-trader, broker and consultant. Buyer, trader and miner of Bitcoin and other crypto-assets. • Head of Bloomberg Tradebook’s options trading desk. Act as consultant internally with sales force and externally with buy-side and sell-side clients to conceive and implement hedging and speculative derivative trading strategies. Guide clients in optimizing Tradebook’s electronic DMA platform and high touch services most efficiently and effectively. Capitalize on relationships with liquidity providers and inter-dealer brokers to create efficient and superior order execution. Work with developers and programmers to modify and improve existing tools and algorithms and create new ones to enhance and expand the product offering.• Option Specialist for the largest market making firm on the trading floor of the American Stock Exchange, responsible for providing and maintaining fair and orderly markets in some of the busiest and most volatile trading crowds on the exchange, including Apple Computer Inc., Amgen Inc. and Yahoo Inc., while simultaneously trading the firm’s capital.• Designated as Senior Post Supervisor, responsible for monitoring the daily trading activity of all traders to assure compliance with all rules and regulations of the exchange and SEC• Represented AGS Specialist Partners at internal and external events as Option Specialist Unit Head.• Created and conducted structured workshops to teach option pricing theory and trading strategy.• Created and implemented marketing strategies to solicit and retain order-flow provider’s business.• Recruited, interviewed and hired new employees as a member of firm’s hiring committee.Specialties: Equities, Equity Derivatives, Options, Volatility Trading, Proprietary Trading, Sell-Side Market Making, Flow Trading, Portfolio Risk Management, ETFs/ETPs - Licensed FINRA series 4, 7, 55 and 63

Listed skills include Options, Derivatives, Trading, Financial Markets, and 13 others.