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New York, United States

Manage consulting engagements on investment process automation, emerging technologies, and data management for the asset management industry, specializing in fixed-income investment services.

New York, NY, US

Nashville, TN, US

• I oversaw a global technology and operations organization responsible for portfolio implementation and for the technology delivery of strategic business initiatives, investment process maintenance and support, and the.
• We launched industry leading municipal investment capabilities, enhancing our proprietary OMS/EMS to support a tenfold increase in municipal trading volume. This innovation established a next-generation SMA platform.
• We developed and delivered infrastructure to launch AB’s first active ETFs. We also significantly improved the insurance client and ESG investment capabilities, expanding the investable universe, enhancing risk and.
• I successfully led the relocation of my organization's headquarters from New York to Nashville, overseeing the seamless transition of services through the strategic hiring and onboarding of 60 new team members.

Nashville, TN, US

• The fixed income data infrastructure teams, charged with the acquisition, retention, enrichment, and distribution of data and analytics, were added to my mandate.
• We developed and delivered technology and processes to launch the CLO securitization business.
• We delivered AbbieX, a new proprietary OMS/EMS with industry-leading functionality. We created low-touch, no-touch, and bot-to-bot trading across several asset classes, making up 25% of all trading.
• We extended the architecture to incorporate CI/CD using Azure DevOps. Created a new browser-based framework for use in all future builds.

Nashville, TN, US

• Municipal and Quantitative Research Technology was added to my mandate.
• We created Abbie, Fixed Income’s Virtual Portfolio Assistant. Abbie suggests trades to Portfolio Managers based on pricing, fundamentals, availability, and client needs. Abbie has been featured in Bloomberg, Financial.
• We created ALFA, a bond liquidity aggregator. ALFA consumes data from various channels, including Bloomberg, Neptune, major dealers, and inter-dealer brokers. This allows traders to quickly scan the market to see if.
• We created PRISM, a standard framework for the analysis of issuer credit. PRISM offers a means of comparing the value of different asset classes. Serving as both a workflow and presentation tool, PRISM enables the.
• We developed ARIO, a portfolio management and order creation tool for external clients to use AB for derivative trading and middle- and back-office operations.
• We collaborated with Portfolio Managers and Quantitative Research teams to establish strategic portfolios, introducing a new investment approach aimed at optimizing risk bets and portfolio positioning. We created the.

Nashville, TN, US

• I led a team focused on providing the front-end technology for over $300B in Fixed Income products, including investment grade, structured assets, high yield, emerging markets, global, and multisector. The architecture.
• We delivered technologies facilitating record profits for Fixed Income during difficult market cycles by creating solutions that enabled the acquisition of thousands of new accounts and a $100B expansion in AUM.
• We created Fixed Income’s portfolio management system and IBOR. Portfolio managers can monitor their portfolios using over 1K metrics and attributes. This enterprise solution is also used for order creation and the.
• We designed a derivative OMS and an industry-leading structured asset modeling and surveillance system. In addition, we added many other modules to the proprietary enterprise system, transforming the roles of Research.

Nashville, TN, US

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Arts, Physics, Economics