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Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Leading a team of global trading analysts to provide well-balanced price forecasts.In turn, these price calls aim to enable superior trading strategies, by delineating risk-reward boundaries for key opportunities.Our function facilitates knowledge sharing across regions=> Leverage in-house expertise, while cutting down blind spots.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Leading a team of global and regional analysts to provide trading insights on fertilizer and ag commodities

Singapore

Market Intelligence Analyst | Global fertilizer producerSupply and demand analysis of fertilizers, grains, and oilseedsExpertise in the Indian, NE Asian, and SE Asian markets

Singapore

• Start-up consulting in analytics and operations to enable smart building management
• Based on a 5-year stint as elected chairman of the management council of a 336-unit condominium, conceived business opportunity to provide premium cloud-based facility management services.
• Led operations consulting with several high-end properties to identify best practices.
• Developed partnerships with cloud-based solutions in accounting as well as facility operations.
• Exploring AI solutions to security systems to disrupt the condo security market.

Singapore

• US cloud-based facility management platform used by 4,500 condominiums
• Investigated unique data sources. Based on data insights, conceived a nationwide market penetration strategy down to the address level.
• Provided operations consulting to high-end condos. Identified and implemented best practices.
• Incomplete knowledge about competitors was hindering customer acquisition. Through meetings with competitors and customers, identified product gaps that led to critical feature requests and shift in marketing approach.
• Reformulated the IoT sensors value proposition, pricing and contractual terms for the target market, resulting in signed contract 70% higher in revenues and double in duration compared to previous.

Singapore

• MNC with US$ 45bi in revenues and 32,000 employees. Largest global oilseed processor.Grains, Oilseeds and Vegetable Oil markets for NEA, SEA, China and IndiaSupply and demand analysis and business intelligence..
• Established and defended a common view of the Asian situation as a basis for trading decisions by the firm. Accomplished that with concisely written reports, presentations and discussions.
• Translated the trading mindset of regional players to the global trading team. In turn, explained to regional clients how world market factors could impact their trading decisions.
• Identified emerging market developments, economic impact and evaluated trading opportunities. In 2015, the Indonesian government started restricting corn imports. Upon investigation, I called for a likely chance of a.
• Resourceful in implementing change and improving data quality. In 2017, the Chinese government banned live hog imports from Vietnam. I asked to met with hog smugglers at the Vietnam-China border to gain first-hand.
• Influence without authority. Designed and led the data flow and motivated a team of traders and local agents to produce proprietary market data and insights. My easy-going but assertive nature allowed me to gain their.

Singapore

• Ran palm oil supply prediction models for Malaysia and Indonesia and trade flow matrices for trading decisions. Managed the palm oil analyst and the crop scout teams.
• Led crop surveys in India to estimate the local soy crop and provide a range of impact to the protein and vegetable oil markets. Actively challenged information from local farmers and traders to control for bias.
• Summarized macroeconomic and commodity fundamental drivers to customers. Crafted slides to facilitate dialogue and uncover market developments.
• Ensured integrity of both dataset and supply and demand models for grains, oilseeds, vegetable oils and livestock commodities for the region.
• Mentored analysts from India, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam

Singapore

• Identified intelligence opportunity to combine distinct datasets including vessel lineups, competitor transactions and price series. It enabled more timely and robust competitor and customer insights to support key.
• Investigated new data visualization techniques to explain complex market dynamics in elegant, effective ways. In 2016, I self-learned alluvial charts to depict the impact of a potential takeover of Bunge by Glencore in.
• Led crop surveys in India to estimate the local soy crop and provide a range of impact to the protein and vegetable oil markets. Actively challenged information from local farmers and traders to control for bias
• Developed Chinese and Indian macro vegetable oil demand analysis by integrating macroeconomic, logistics and price outlook to identify the overall change in trends in vegetable oil consumption, impact to each type of.

White Plains, NY, USA

• From scratch, developed and put in production the global corn supply and demand analysis including datasets, monthly trade series and stocks prediction models. Developed visualization reports to highlight global market.
• Prepared reports to highlight supply and demand opportunities discussed by the heads of trading. Aimed to explain the thought process behind certain market features and to back it up with data.
• Responsible for the data integrity of global grains, oilseeds and vegetable oils supply and demand models
• Critically probed estimates received from offices across the five continents to test for bias and accuracy.
• Involved in projects to support strategic decisions including acquisitions and crush margin benchmarks.

Saint Louis And Chicago, USA

• Curiosity to understand drivers of the soy commodity business prompted me to develop a series of quantitative analysis on the industry such as industrial margins and export arbitrage models. Reports were noticed by the.
• 3-month assignment at the CBOT trading floor in Chicago gave me first hand understanding of order flow, players’ dynamics and role of market research to the trade.
• Traded bulk crude soy oil rail cars to food companies and hedged positions in futures.
• Developed arbitrage model of soy oil physical deliveries against the futures exchange for trading decisions.
• Predicted competitor plant downtime and overall processing volume. Compared this estimate to the market guess to identify trading opportunities within the group.

Saint Louis, MO

• Performed exploratory data analysis and inference statistics with SPSS, Matlab and excel. Also, applied data munging techniques to clean the dataset and increase the number of relevant features for analysis of customer.
• Co-founder VP found engaged in the discussion of the findings and found it useful for running the business.
• Recommended improvements to data gathering to improve insights on customer churning

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Top telecommunication and engineering firm in Brazil with expertise in project management.
• In charge of scheduling, budgeting and scope control of large-scale telecom network projects in Brazil totalling USD 300M. Youngest project management professional in charge of a project.
• Due to excellent performance, I was selected to be in charge of the scheduling and budgeting of a flagship nation-wide fibre optic network. The fast implementation allowed the firm to successfully sell the project to.
• Aligned processes and documentation for the first ISO 9000 certification in the firm.
• Actively followed up critical contractual milestones to ensure cash flow results.
• Data integration and visualisation skills recognised by senior management as the firm’s benchmark.

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