Assisting Tower's Data Services team in data discovery, evaluation and sourcing. Working closely with data and investment professionals to manage numerous alpha sources.Managing relationships with global exchanges/vendors while ensuring data compliance, and handling the audits.

Collaborate with various other internal groups to coordinate/implement procedures in support of data compliance across all Bloomberg Media products and services.

Accountable for Market Data contractual compliance obligations globally, budget tracking for all market data services, and point person for Internal, External Audits and Negotiations related to Market Data Services.

Managed Jordan & Jordan's Audit Practice. Clients include Major North American, European and Asian Exchanges, Data Vendors and Index ProvidersConducted compliance reviews of market data and reference data distribution systems for two of the four major North American banksCreated and successfully implemented a Data Compliance Audit program for a major Index ProviderConducted in-depth analysis of Market Data usage by - reviewing P2PS server logs, - mapping of Financial Instrument Codes to Exchanges, Specialist Data and Vendor products,- grouping usage by various trading desks- analyzing data usage and re-distribution in data vendor, third party and/or proprietary applicationsTrained internal employees and external clients in conducting data compliance auditsKnowledge of market data infrastructure such as Thomson Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) and TIBCO RendezvousExperience in administration of Thomson Reuters’ market data entitlement system, Data Access Control System (DACS) including running various reports like Audit Trails, Usage, Active Permissions, System Users, etc. Experience in analyzing DACS reports, TIB reports, P2PS user logs, NYSE DART reports for Exchange/Vendor data usageKnowledge of MDSL’s market data inventory system, MDM, which includes maintaining inventory of market data services, expense reconciliation and preparing inventory reportsCompiled level 1&2 bundling, netting, waivers and unit of count business rules as per major US and Europe-based exchanges Experience in completing and updating Exhibit A’s, System Descriptions and other exchange/vendor documentsConducted numerous internal audits for clients to assess their potential liability exposure in case of exchange/vendor auditsCompiled business rules, used to design proprietary software to analyze DACS audit trails and eDAD XML filesDesigned Database/scripts for processing client’s Metering Data, and submitted monthly reports needed for reporting to Exchanges

Configured Cisco 2800, 2600, 1800, 1700 series routers; 2950, 3560 POE switches; 1100 and 1200 series wireless aironet access points and PIX 501 firewall Segmented the network into multiple subnets using the concepts of VLAN, trunking and OSPF routing to improve performanceConfigured site-to-site VPN with pre-shared keys (GRE Tunnel over IPSEC) to acquire multicast data from remote site using Cisco routers.Implemented site-to-site VPN using Juniper Netscreen 5GT Well versed with networking concepts of VRRP, HSRP, GLBP, MPLS, Multicasting, WLANs, VOIP, QOS, EIGRP, BGP etc.Installed and configured Windows 2000/2003 Servers, including Active Directory Services, WINS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, IIS and Group Policies Designed Database/scripts for processing client’s Metering Data and provided periodic reports needed for reporting to Exchanges.Maintained Business Rules in the database that needed updating annually and whenever they changed