Jim Faulkner Email & Phone Number

Somerville, Ma, Us

Greater Boston Area

Lightkeeper is an innovative platform designed specifically for investment professionals providing visual insights to portfolio P&L, risk, liquidity, attribution, contribution, exposure,and other metrics. Instead of generating and relying on static reports, Lightkeeper allows your portfolio data to become dynamic, interactive, and mobile.

Greater Boston Area

Fina Technologies is a quantitative trading advisor that develops trading strategies across multiple asset classes executed through sub-advising relationships and proprietary investment vehicles.

Greater Boston Area

Managed trading and operations of an investment advisor with market neutral equity, statistical arbitrage, and custom hedging strategies in onshore and offshore master feeder pooled vehicles and managed accounts.* Executed trading in global futures contracts, foreign exchange, basket equity trading, and options on futures.* Implemented OMS systems to facilitate trading across foreign exchange and futures contracts including FXAll, Redi+, and Morgan Stanley Passport. * Developed and supervised automated daily trading reporting, reconciliation, and valuation including corporation actions, settlements, and swap calculations.* Oversaw weekly and monthly NAV production, produced annual financial statements, and coordinated audit and tax preparation.* Maintained broker and custody bank margin and collateral accounts and managed $450M cash investments.* Reviewed and ensured term compliance with ISDA documentation for equity swap and FX trading and developed the firm's compliance program.* Planned and oversaw the build out of the firm's technology platform including two data centers with 120 servers, an offsite recovery facility, and redundant telecommunications systems and managed relationships with data and software service providers.

Greater Boston Area

Reporting to Senior Management, worked with two product analysts to provide insights into the bank’s retail products through quantitative analysis of marketing and cost accounting databases.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Member of a team of economists and statisticians producing The Survey of Consumer Finances, a triennial survey of consumer wealth, noted for its detailed data and rigorous approach to sampling and imputation for non-response. The Survey is used extensively in public policy and social sciences research. Developed applications for data QA and evaluation using SAS and Splus/R in Unix and MVS environments.* Developed data QA routines in SAS, including automation using macros and SAS/IML, to verify appropriate and consistent answers to survey questionnaires.* Using S-Plus, wrote data visualization software using parametric and nonparametric estimation techniques to identifying response outliers.* Assisted in policy analysis and published reports analyzing changes in the distribution of consumer household finance and the effects of changes to FDIC deposit insurance.

Education record

B.A.