Robert West Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Seattle, Washington, US

• Project Leadership: Spearheaded the greenfield Core Data Platform initiative. Defining its vision, goals, and key deliverables; to create a platform that will be responsible for the ingestion and storage of customer.
• Stakeholder Management: Actively coordinated with Implementation and Product teams to establish a new data-contract paradigm within the company. Educated and aligned stakeholders on how they would interact with the.
• System Architect: Conceived and executed the project’s logical architecture, initial proof-of-concept code using Spark, and a multi-tenant system architecture on Google Cloud Platform, utilizing Google Composer.
• Independent Innovation: Developed a local development environment mimicking the cloud platform. Used Kubernetes Minikube for running Airflow with the Kubernetes executor and built a custom Python Flask app to simulate.
• Infrastructure Automation: Authored Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to establish the required infrastructure on Google Cloud.
• Agile Execution: Collaborated closely with Product Management to implement Agile methodologies, leveraging Jira for sprint planning, backlog refinement, and story-point estimation.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Leadership: Ensured all of my direct reports had a path for growth in both their technical skills and their professionalism. I always made myself available for anything from technical problem solving through to.
• Initiative: Lead the successful migration of Manual Data Pipelines from the Analytics team and into a Robust Data Orchestration system (Using Apache Airflow). This included creating a Docker development environment for.
• Creative Problem Solver: Built a Python/Flask Application to handle the deployment of code into the Apache Airflow system.
• Communication & Collaboration: I regularly needed to facilitate work that crossed multiple teams, using clear and concise written and verbal communication to ensure all relevant parties were able to do their job.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Successfully lead the migration of the Analytics PostgreSQL database from AWS single server to managed services (EC2 to RDS), including a Major Database Schema change. Provided ongoing management of both systems.
• Provided ongoing mentor-ship to junior devs. Managed project work-flows leveraging Jira to create concise and logical project plan instructions for analysts. Lead periodic training sessions for analysts to improve.
• Built numerous ETL processes and data pipelines handling terabytes of data leveraging Python's multiprocessing library to process data quickly and efficiently.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Extensive experience analyzing large volumes of Medicare claims data across the full data life-cycle ranging from raw data delivery to generating partner reports. Including: data analysis, data aggregation, munging and.
• Developed and Productionized the Analytics department's original prototype dashboard that was delivered to all partners nationwide (Python: Data Aggregation, D3/Javascript front end).

Dallas, Texas, US

London, GB

• Complex Securities Valuation & Quantitative Analytics
• Project Lead/ Model development: Headed model development and programmatic implementation in numerous large scale analytics projects. Working directly with clients to develop and implement bespoke solutions that meet.
• Derivative Valuation: Multiple years of experience in the valuation of complex derivative securities including institutional stock options, employee stock options (including suboptimal exercise behaviour), contingent.
• Independent Innovation: Spearheaded efforts to improve the implementation and automation of various models within the practice to reduce analyst and associate manual entry time by several hours per week. Introduced.

New York, NY, US

• Global Markets Intern, FX Trading (Spot, Forwards and Options) and Investor Solutions (Sales)
• Strategy Development: Researched and identified the volatility premium for scheduled market events in foreign exchange options by computing realized volatility on historical data and identifying significant shocks.
• Client Facing: Analyzed year-to-date trading volumes to determine client impact and aggregated market information from sales desks to identify current popular trading strategies for the annual counter-party review with.
• Creative Problem Solver: Independently initiated the automation of sales data aggregation by developing a software solution and writing a usage protocol; saving the sales team at least an hour a day

Boston, MA, US

• Equity Derivatives Operations
• Quality Control: Confirmed trade bookings, resolved settlement breaks and negotiated changes to equity derivative confirmations in line with International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) regulations
• Market Knowledge: Intermediary between counterparty and trading floor to ensure accurate execution of trade details. Products included equity swaps, equity options, and variance swaps
• Communication: Collaborated frequently with international counterparties, developed strong verbal and written abilities that stressed dynamic interaction and a deep understanding of client sensitivity

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computational Finance

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons), Mathematics