Execution Trader at a Quantitative Global Macro Manager: Bonds, Commodities, Equity Indices, FX, and Rates

• I have been a full-time stay-at-home dad and household provider for our first child for the last two years

• Performed a client facing sales trader role selling ADR's, equity cash, ETF's, single name equity derivatives, and over-the-counter equity index options to broker dealers, buy-side firms, endowments, family offices, hedge funds, private banks, sell-side banks, and wealth management firms located domestically and internationally

• Performed a client facing sales trader role selling equities to institutional and broker-dealer clients from the Trading Floor of the NYSE

• Evaluated a commercial bank's treasury and foreign exchange trading department's risk management practices • Assessed a foreign exchange high frequency market maker’s risk management practices • Assessed the Americas and EMEA fixed income and equities trading activities of a major global investment bank in relation to the Dodd-Frank Volcker Regulations• Conducted a fair independent valuation of derivative products using PwC proprietary pricing models and Bloomberg for a client base of global institutional asset management firms and hedge funds. As a member of the Financial Instruments, Structured Products, and Real Estate Team (FSR), I gained exposure to credit default swaps – corporate / index / loan, equity total return swaps, equity options and warrants, foreign exchange forwards and options, interest rate caps and floors, swaps, swaptions, variance swaps, and warrants• Provides a broad range of complementary treasury solutions for Fortune 500 companies in the New York Metro Area

• Performed a client facing coverage role for the London based foreign exchange sales and trading desks. This coverage encompassed the Global FX Spot, Forward, Option, Emerging Market, and NY Hedge Fund Prime Brokerage businesses.

• Managed day-to-day operations of a family practice that was established in 1960’s. This involved overseeing and managing the financial operations and the coordination of a number of customer social functions.

• Performed a client facing sales and trading role as an institutional sales representative selling foreign exchange and interest rate products to banks, brokers, Fortune 500 companies, fund managers, high-net-worth individuals, IFSC companies, NYBOT floor traders and private clients. Customers were located throughout the Asia-Pacific, EMEA, UK, and US marketplaces• Executed trades for currency future brokers on the Dublin FINEX Floor for Exchange for Physicals in all major (Euro, Dollar, etc.), non-major and exotic currency pairs, as well as CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) trades • Built a live EFP Quotation Pricing Engine for Institutional FX customers. Performed regular stress-testing to manage the capability and reliability of the system• Gained experience on the Inter-bank spot execution desk that manages the foreign exchange risk exposure of the FX Sales Desks. Also gained experience in currency options sales and other fixed-income structured products

• Helped craft campaign message for Senator in helping him target first time voting audience• Led brainstorming sessions with a campaign team for ideas to benefit the people of North County Kerry• Campaigned in the North Kerry Region of Ireland for Senator Kiely, which involved regular door-to-door campaigning and handing out of public relations and marketing material to constituents