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Toronto, On, Ca

Advise capital market clients on strategy, technical direction, and best practices surrounding their electronic trading and IT processes. Provide analysis and subject matter expertise on financial products and business processes. • Provide technical direction and expertise in Swap Reporting for CFTC Part 43/45, SEC, EMIR.• Develop Global Engineering teams for Tier 1 Investment Bank. Provide target engineering resources for firmwide unified client initiatives.• Enhanced Custody and Principal Securities Lending - Provided subject matter expertise and analysis of the current business processes and technology platform of a Tier 1 securities lending institution to advise on the introduction of a new Conduit Lending business line. Provided quantitative analysis on P&L projections for trading strategies.• Build Process Re-engineering - Recommended changes to a large regional bank to conform to ITIL build processes.• Legal Entity Rationalization - Analyzed the legal entity and portfolio structure of a Tier 1 investment bank to comply with Dodd Frank orderly dissolution.• Regulatory and Risk Reporting - Managed the build out of a global end user reporting platform for a large foreign bank to comply with IHC Dodd Frank regulations. Provided strategic development services to create a Master Data Dictionary of IHC wide reportable metrics.• Reg. 871(m) Assessment - Provide expertise an assessing Reg. 871(m) strategy and build out for Prime Brokerage and equity business units of a large multi national bank.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Provide the strategic direction, leadership, and innovative thinking to create a global synthetic finance platform. Manage the business relationship as a trusted partner. Deliver on projects that move the business ahead, meet client expectations, increase revenue, and improve the workflow of the desk.• Designed, implemented, and coded the strategic migration of the Java synthetic finance code base to Python, preserving the investment in GUIs and tools.• Deliver on the high frequency low latency Direct Market Access(DMA) platform to allow clients to directly execute trades on the market as principle and create a swap from the resulting fills on a low touch basis.• Define and architect next generation booking strategy for sectors and single stock swaps leveraging disparate trading systems.• Modify the platform to conform to the current Dodd Frank/HIRE Act regulations regarding dividend tax withholding, confirmation matching, and trade reporting.• Build out a Pricing Service to generate spread based quotes for swaps in anticipation of electronic SEF markets.• Define the strategy and integrate the platform with the new Quartz based risk framework.• Enhance analytics and reset processing to allow arbitrary and ad-hoc spread changes in pre defined schedules.• Design and build out reporting infrastructure to provide consistent reporting functionality and reduce time to market.

Zurich, Ch

Manage the ongoing NY Equity swaps platform to deliver on key business initiatives. Provided solutions to ongoing customer requirements on both a strategic and adhoc basis. Developed new products for the Delta One desk to address market opportunities and new trading strategies.• Analyzed both business and systems flow to produce a strategic Swaps Over Futures process and then managed the development lifecycle through to delivery. • Developed a Total Return Index system to allow the creation and management of equity indexes that allow dividends and corporate actions to be automatically reinvested. Provided a process to represent indexes in both front and back office systems to allow the index to be uniformly booked and controlled. • Conceived and managed the development of the Swaps Over Bank Loans system to incorporate the Bank Loan product into the process flow of the PrimeSwap system.

Zurich, Ch

Analyze the trading work flow to integrate new business processes and provide solutions into the current Listed Option Trading System(LOTS) application. Provide ad-hoc derivative knowledge to other members of the team.• Designed and implemented business processes and technical solution to bring on a new Margin Loan business by expanding Interest Rate Swaps to accommodate loan paydown and spread change features.• Developed C# API to expose internal valuation model functionality to 3rd party applications to provide position, valuation, and market object management. Provide strategy and plan to re-architect the strategic LOTS application to provide a single point of entry for all valuations.

Zurich, Ch

Delivered on key front office drives to automate manual processes and improve efficiency in loaning equity and fixed income securities from customer portfolios. Incorporated new technology into the product base to increase the desk’s offerings to clients. • Implemented an improved fund instruction system to prevent manual back office intervention when securities are delivered to an international counterparty.• Leveraged LoanNet Contract Compare system to simplify loan deliveries from an operational standpoint.• Integrated Omgeo OASYS to prevent delivery breaks when securities are sold intraday while a loan in pending.

Zurich, Ch

Provided solutions to the Fixed Income Prime Brokerage desk to facilitate the real time booking of fixed income, repo, and FX trades. • Developed Done Away Repo booking system to allow customers to give up repo trades, split them into multi leg buy and sells, route them through the back office, and recombine them back to the original repos.• Crafted technical solution to allow FX giveup trades to be routed to appropriate back office systems. • Incorporated the Triana FX processing system to provide high volume FX trade flow

Zurich, Ch

Provided expertise to implement new customer specific features into a production code base of a Debt Capital Markets application. Architected technical solution for multi platform single sign on problem.• Designed a web based Treasury Auction System to facilitate moving people off Unix to NT and to smooth workflow between geographically disparate trading desks.• Implemented client specific changes to a production Capital Markets Syndicate system.

Designed and implemented key enabling technologies to support the introduction and rollout of innovative services for the wireless consumer marketplace. Developed patented approaches for linking user interaction on wireless devices to call centers and fulfillment applications to provide shopping, entertainment and information services. • Managed the ongoing development and enhancement of core mobile commerce technologies to enable additional robust services to be offered to consumers.• Acted as a thought leader and catalyst in the conception and incubation of technologies to support rapidly emerging service offerings in the wireless consumer marketplace.

Us

Provided technology solutions to support the business objectives and workflow of an investment grade fixed income trading desk. Gathered and analyzed business requirements, architected solutions, and managed the development and national rollout of a suite of trading tools to enable traders to trade faster and with better information. • Designed a completely new position system offering the following features: Position Matching, Offering Sheets, Risk Analysis, and Statistics.• Provided a method for analyzing desk exposure to interest rate risk using dollar duration and greeks on an account and desk basis, including functionality to display aggregated amounts by industry and group, identifying where potential losses could occur.• Rearchitected government trading system to a Corporate trading system.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Directed the development of decision support and reporting software on the Windows platforms. Managed and directed a team of 18 development professionals. Defined product delivery strategies in support of customer expectations and divisional revenue objectives.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Managed the team development and timely delivery of significant new products. Worked closely with product management and quality assurance to ensure the delivery of products that met functionality and quality standards.

Mba, Finance/Management

Ba, Computer Science, Math