Joseph Amarante Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States/Nyc, Ny

• Working with NYC and Westchester based credit hedge funds, family offices, and other investment managers in providing both strategic and tactical guidance on their OMS implementations, with a focus on Enfusion integration, Broadridge and Tableau reporting. • For a 20 billion+ Credit Hedge Fund use my combination of management, deep subject matter expertise, and technology in working directly with Trading, Valuation, Risk, Pricing teams and other groups to determine reporting requirements for Broadridge Analytics Master.• Develop and implement Analytics Master reports, with a focus on customizations in C# for calculating market values, pricing waterfalls, breakdown and analysis, clean carry, accruals, and other calculations for middle and back office functions.• Developed an attribution model in SQL for use within Tableau. Prototyped client reporting using this model in Tableau.• Developed an XIRR model for security and issuer level returns in SQL for use with Tableau.• Setup and configure Tableau Bridge/Tableau Cloud for live datawarehouse access• For a NYC Private Equity based fund configured and deployed Enfusion as their OMS and Portfolio Management system. • Built custom reports in Enfusion for managing post execution workflow.

New York, United States

• Consulting for a NYC/Nashville based $500 billion+ Asset Manager implementing Enfusion for their Portfolio Construction and Order Management functions for Multi-Asset Strategy that includes Macro, Merger Arb, Soft Catalyst and Rebal strategies.• Leading the integration and testing effort for OTC, which includes Total Return Swaps, IRS, OTC Options, Var/Vols, and CDX. • Working with Enfusion and client's management team to define OTC Middle Office requirements and create detailed specifications for their development team. • Lead the planning and end to end integration testing that included integration with Calypso, Tradeweb, MarkIT, Traiana, and other 3rd party vendor systems. Worked directly with those 3rd party vendors to setup testing instances.• Working with PMs, Trading, compliance and firm’s development team to create the paradigm for testing bespoke portfolio construction platforms that integrate with Enfusion, with the main focus on their Macro and Merger strategies.

Greater New York City Area

ACA Technology Solutions provides business and technology solutions for the financial services industry, including asset managers, mutual fund managers, CLOs, credit fund managers, alternative asset managers and hedge funds. I worked with these firms in determining their trade/order management requirements, allocation and compliance, risk, valuation, regulatory, reporting and vendor integration. While the bulk of my work was client based, as a partner I also had executive management responsibility for firm operations.● Managed professional services team consisting of project management teams and direct client implementations for data management solutions utilizing the NorthPoint Enterprise Data Management platform and IMS (OMS/PMS) platform● Trained next level of implementation and project managers on implementation scoping, estimation, and overall project and client management process● Executive level consulting with investment management and hedge fund clients across the U.S. as part of larger ACA Compliance engagements in reviewing operational processing, valuation, allocation, and compliance, and provide recommendations and road maps that align with their business goals● Performed on-site business and systems analysis for U.S. and Canadian clients which included feasibility studies, build vs buy, for numerous investment management clients, 3rd party vendors (Fund Administrators, Risk providers, Compliance) covering the following areas:• Order/Trade Workflow, Allocation & Compliance (‘`40 ACT, SMA Mandates, CLO, Commingled Mandates)• Portfolio Management• Operations, Risk & Investment Data Management requirements• Operational workflow requirements• Accounting and Treasury• Vendor and 3rd party integration requirements● Create client application and vendor strategy & roadmap documents and presentations that aligned with overall business goals and strategies of those clients.

NorthPoint Financial is a technology innovation company that provides game-changing financial software and services to today’s leading investment managers. With over 150 clients served and more than a decade of deep domain experience in asset classes, investment strategies, and operational workflows, NorthPoint Financial offers a rich portfolio of products and services including Trade Order Management, Portfolio Management, Data Warehouse, Security Master, Regulatory and Investor Reporting, and Professional Services. In November of 2015, NorthPoint Financial was acquired by ACA Compliance Group.● Manage professional services team consisting of both project management teams and direct client implementations● Work with traditional buy side firms and hedge fund clients reviewing their order management, portfolio management, data management, operational processing, valuation, accounting, risk, and allocation & compliance policies● Create paradigm for creating vendor RFIs, RFPs and conducting vendor demonstrations for client project committees● Write business justifications, functional specifications, and provide recommendations and application platform road maps that align with their business goals● Subject Matter expert on a wide array of capital markets investment strategies, operational functions, and the asset types● Managed both ACA product development and other 3Rd party vendor implementation teams● Managed both consulting and product implementations across a myriad of investment management and capital market clients● NorthPoint, as a Tableau partner allowed me to become the In-house Tableau expert, working with numerous clients implement their business intelligence paradigms

● Managed Professional Services & Implementations for both custom projects and framework implementations across our Hedge Fund and Asset Management Clients● Trained implementation managers through a training framework that we developed in-house● On-site business analysis, data analysis requirements gathering and planning for NorthPoint’s client investment management and operational processing environments. This spanned portfolio management, risk management, middle market loan management & servicing, commercial loan underwriting, and other buy and sell side business functions● Lead all client sales initiatives, demonstrations, presentations through a consultative sales process● Worked with my technical team to design a reusable application framework for our .NET/SQL Server based Portfolio Management System. This was the original framework for what eventually became NorthPoint/ACA licensed products● Created sales & marketing materials for the Portfolio Management System. Onboarded and trained sales team

I started my consulting career at Bond Technologies as an on-site consultant, working with both sell and buy side firms. I spent 4 years as a full-time, onsite consultant, technical engineer, project manager, and senior project manager (multiple, concurrent projects). and completed the following engagements:● Implemented Sun Solaris based Summit Derivatives System for WestLB Derivatives desk● Designed first iteration of Seagram’s Sales Data warehouse utilizing Oracle and Business Objects● Performed Y2K verification for Goldman Sachs Asset Management group’s Unix application environment.● Data & Document Analysis for Fidelis Care and HealthFirst● Implemented Documentum based document management system for UBS loan origination group● Worked with Numerous Hedge Funds in a project management capacity

● Managed Sun Solaris/Sybase infrastructure for both their broker/dealer and proprietary trading functions● Hands on system's development● Supported Global Sun Solaris Unix environment in NY Office● Installed and supported Unix based Sybase environment in NY Office● Sr. Unix SA and Sybase DBA; Managed NY Tech team● Designed and implemented proprietary network