I am currently the Senior Portfolio Manager at Argent Trust and am responsible for managing personal and institutional portfolios as a part of the Senior management team.Previously, I worked for Fluent Financial, managing several different portfolio strategies designed to help client investments based on their risk tolerance. I was able to layer options strategies over several of the portfolios to help increase returns while at the same time reducing overall risk. Options proficiency brought a hedge fund strategy to the retail client and became a differentiating factor during my time at the firm.Through September of 2016, I had been working for BofA Merrill Lynch & REDI Trading on an electronic trading platform supporting both hedge fund and institutional clients. During my time there, I was instrumental in converting the BofA options trading desk from a third-party trading platform to our internal trading software, relying extensively on my options trading experience. Prior to that I traded for one of the hedge funds managed by Hunt Financial Ventures called Arbitex. My role was to trade equities, options and futures in an effort to capture intraday volatility and increase the fund's overall returns. During my time there, the fund grew from $750 million to over $1.4 billion before ultimately unwinding the positions and shutting down. I started my trading career as a market maker for Coastal securities. Here I was one of the firms most profitable day traders and I eventually began managing and training my own team of 7 traders. I graduated with a BBA in Finance from TCU in 1993 and went on to graduate from SMU's EMBA program in 2009. After graduate school I passed the Level II Certified Sommelier exam with the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2013 as well as the Advanced WSET III certification in wine and spirits and I have been coaching lacrosse since 1995 for both TCU (5 years) and with Highland Park school system (18 years).