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Los Angeles, California, United States

Improved the scalability of proprietary trading platform, enabling trading desk to fast track orders to the market with on-going growth demand. Resulted in average compliance runtime improved by 51% while daily trading volume went up 68%. Automated trading with Bloomberg EMSX and TRUMID, providing trade room with access to more liquidity. Enabled rates desk to replace future clearing broker(s) with multi‐million dollars savings. Ensured smooth transition for TCW to adopt T+1 settlement with DTCC. Leading application support to existing ecosystems for trading floor, Generalists PMs, Securitized Desk and Sustainable Investment Group. Concurrently developing future state by adopting Blackrock Aladdin for portfolio monitoring, construction and trading capabilities.

United States

2019 - 2023, Product Owner IV, Client Services & MarketingLed agile teams in product manager role to build cloud-based client data platform to pipe governed accounting data and cohesive investment management data into client reporting. Managed client reporting and presentation team with the responsibility of the entire product life cycle from strategy to delivery. Collaborated with business partners, vendors, and third parties to deliver business value in support of WAMCO’s global sales, services, and marketing strategic priorities.2009 – 2019, Project Manager, Portfolio ManagementManaged a global investment management (IM) tools team (10+ technology professionals) with product ownership to build a world-class global multi-asset trading platform that powers the company's entire investment management cycle. This is fully integrated with the order management system for global fixed income, stock, FX, TBA/pools, municipal, liquidity, NRMBS, ABS, CMBS, whole loan, Repo, ETF, and derivatives trading with real-time compliance functionalities, 'fair-allocation' auditing capabilities, and 'what-if' analysis features.2006 – 2009, Project Lead, Trading & Order ManagementManaged domestic teams (10+ technology professionals) to expand the trading system after Citigroup Asset Management acquired by WAMCO. Designed the firm's proprietary trading system to enable Investment Management to trade additional $300 billion AUM with all product lines acquired from Citigroup Asset Management (New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, and Sao Paulo) and to trade new $50 billion insurance AUM with gain/loss calculation and lot-relief selection features.

Pasadena, California, United States

Contributed to the first generation of earthquake monitoring solution for nuclear power plants

Master Of Science - Ms, Civil Engineering

Mba, Accounting And Finance