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RMBS and ABS Securitization Professional with 20+ years experience. Thoroughly ingrained intuitive and programming level understanding of the nuances of asset cashflows and liability waterfalls of nearly all securitization asset classes.Some of my accomplishments:* Managing and training cashflow modeling teams;* Managing client support;* Designing specifications that developers implemented into cashflow engines;* Designing the quality control algorithms for the monthly updating of deal models;* Creating and supporting a flexible and robust reverse engineering platform in Excel with VBA to facilitate efficient and accurate modeling of RMBS and ABS securities, including a set of VBA subroutines that create compile-able cashflow waterfall scripts in C based on the modeler's inputs.Specialties: Demonstrated mastery of Microsoft Excel and VBA. Working knowledge of C++, Python, PHP and SQL.

Listed skills include Structured Finance, Financial Modeling, Securitization, Valuation, and 15 others.