Gregory Lowe Email & Phone Number

Various

Provide specialized input on various short term projects including network site surveys, MS Access application upgrades, and IT Business documentation reviews

Greater New York City Area

• Led the conversion of the in-house trading system to the Black Rock vendor based software.
• Project Leader, Business Analyst, and Developer and directed and provided technical support for the conversion of the internal trading system for the Liquidity group to the Black Rock system.
• Created all database tables, views, and stored procedures and scripts required to maintain data used for in house reporting and analysis.
• Created Perl and KSH scripts and maintained Java code in support of the conversion of the rest of the Fixed Income group to Black Rock.
• Built and maintained interfaces between internal systems and vendor based software.
• Ensured all overnight processes were completed successfully and rapidly identified and corrected issues.

Greater New York City Area

• Spearheaded development of the Cash Availability and Trading System used by portfolio managers to accurately trade billions of dollars in liquidity mutual funds.
• Directed the IT team that provided pro-active in-house support to the Investment Management Department Liquidity Group.
• Led 4 programmers and 2 business analysts to create the Cash Availability and Trading System that retrieved and summarized total subscriptions and redemptions for liquidity mutual funds from internal sources and.
• Provided production support for the system and developed and implemented both continuous and new functions.
• Performed additional role of a Business Analyst and supported the database tables and reporting requirements.
• Maintained 7 LAN Server Domains comprising over 20 servers.

Greater New York City Area

• Created the disaster recovery plan that after 9/11 had Liquidity Portfolio Managers and the operations department at the World Trade Center up and running within 48 hours of the WTC bombing through use of off-site.
• Designed and installed networks using IBM LAN Server with fault tolerance.
• Managed a team that included 3 programmers and 6 LAN administrators focused on overseeing all networks and computers within the Investment Management department at the World Trade Center as well as 7 LAN Server Domains.
• Performed role of operational risk officer for Investment Management.
• Ensured that diverse personnel in the Investment Management Technology group met the requirements of the firms Risk Department including making certain that communications were clearly understood and that documentation.
• Developed specifications for the gathering and summary of all of Mutual Fund subscriptions and redemptions from different internal and external systems and provided production support.