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Greater New York City Area

Broad based strategist with a proven track record to invent and maximize applications and personnel for speed to market. My fields of expertise include Fixed Income - Municipal and Corporate Bonds, CDS, Interest Rate Swaps, Treasuries, Emerging Markets, Equity Indices & Options, MMD Rate Lock Swaps, etc. My departments of expertise include Software Development, Market Data, Q&A, Business Analysis, Project Management.

Greater New York City Area

Managed accountability of cross functional software groups pertaining to systems in the US and EuropeDirect high-performing teams in delivery, reporting and risk mitigation of roadmap priorities with precision communication of strategy throughout the project lifecycle

Greater New York City Area

Municipal Fixed Income expert able to see the big picture with broad based knowledge across the IT spectrum. ● Multi-functional role in providing Leadership, Business Analysis, Project Management, Contract negotiation, Quality Assurance and integration of Fixed Income Municipal E-Trading Platform ● Main deliverables included Reference Data, Market Feeds, Calculations, Indicators, Trading Flow (Pre/Post trade), Clearing & Settlements ● Metric based management to track milestones and overall health of project components ● Created working models to assist in analysis and creating data mappings, including source, target and transformations of Reference Data, Price Evaluations, Ratings, Credit Enhancements and Scales ● Lead and collaborated with cross functional groups to strategize on all Municipal Product requirements ● Created Calculator Screen to provide detailed documentation and validation on Fixed Income calculations relating to custom built and Third Party FINCAD libraries● Negotiated Third Party contracts

Elmsford, Ny

* Reorganized workforce to maximize efficiencies through training and personnel restructure to increase proficiency to completing Projects* Responsible for automating communications for internal and external users through a custom web portal allowing the Firm to be more competitive with focus on attracting new customers* Streamlined Project Management process for real time views of task completion by Phase with relating percentages* Statistical tracking of Billable hours by Installer/Project of contract hours versus actual hours

Greater New York City Area

* Orchestrated Back Office integration and helped monitor Clearing and Settlement costs through reconciling Daily trades on day of execution * Strategically integrated Bloomberg RUNZ into Trading System to speed up distribution of data from 5 minutes to 5 seconds * Released New Quadrant Based Municipal Trading Platform to increase Trading functionality * Responsible for creating exclusive Client relationships and increasing annual revenues through design of custom API to exchange full lifecycle of Trade information

Greater New York City Area

* Instrumental in implementing Chapdelaine Credit Partners venture that grew over 100 million in a 2 year span for Front, Middle and Back Office services * Received InfoWorld Top 100 IT Projects in 2009 for building an SOA infrastructure of our Pre and Post Trading Data Exchange maintaining a 98% Client retention * Responsible for creating Business Intelligence Waterfall performance tools for in-house producers to track and manage revenues and be proactive in Managing Client business * Responsible for decreasing Vendor costs through exchanging our data to provide valuable tools to our Clients and also meet new Regulatory requirements * Inventor and creator of ChappyLive ATS website and expanded architecture to include 3 contributors Merrill Lynch, Solomon Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley & Dean Witter that grew revenues by 18% and after 2 years became TheMunicenter.com * Responsible for creating a Municipal Bond functionality design that is Trademarked called Top 3 known as a process common to Bid Wanted Trade Flow* Responsible for numerous revenue producing Directed Business Web Based Systems that included Credit Derivatives, Equity Indices, Equity Options & MMD Rate Lock Swaps that increased annual revenues by 38%* Strategic Lead responsible for all development, Regulatory policies, maintenance and coordination of an integrated IT architecture which included offices in New York, Chicago, Florida and California