Non-profit government economic development agency with oversight of economic development for the City of Memphis and the County of Shelby.

City/county agency with management and jurisdiction over 15,000 acres of port property for industrial development along the Mississippi River. Today the Port of Memphis is the 5th largest inland waterway port in the U.S, producing $9.2B in annual economic impact.

- Currently putting together a business enablement team to tap into data strategies across Fixed Income Sales & Trading, Portfolio Accounting, Street Offerings & Public Client Portfolios (PSRT, SNL, Ipreo). Technologies: SQL Server, Python, Tableau, etc- Account mgmt. decision making, sales reviews and reporting including budget & performance reviews- Account / Prospect analysis and data mining to identify potential opportunities to develop new business- Lead technology initiatives to generate greater efficiencies in the sales management process

- Senior Strategist for Fixed Income Research include leading efficiency improvement & conversion projects, performing Portfolio & Relative Value Analysis, and recommending strategies & writing research for Institutional Fixed Income Clients.- Specialize in Total Return strategies for the Mortgage sector- Traveled with Sales as a Senior Strategist to develop client relationships and expand SunTrust Middle-markets footprint across non-depository (and depository) institutions; visited ~80 clients annually- Guided Portfolio Managers through relative valuation (including Index Comparison and Return attribution reports) and related strategies. Provided opinion on direction of the markets based on economic indicators - Brought deep industry experience, rigorous analytical capabilities to design and develop customized reports for clients (in Bloomberg, Yield Book and other systems) which are superior to primary BDs- Provided guidance and design input for FinTech startup FixtHub- Reviewed, compared and proposed for superior Mortgage prepay system – CPRCDR- Solely responsible for cost-savings by automating processes, and maximizing trade revenue by screening for executable transaction opportunities using SQL Server - Trained and moved Sales to Bloomberg-friendly single inventory file, and effectively used Bloomberg IMGR and PRTU to find matchers and street offerings (daily top 10 in various sectors of MBS & CMO)

- Senior strategist with wide-range of experience in fixed income products (Treasuries, Agencies, Corporates, Agency CMO/MBS/CMBS, Municipals, SBAs including COOFs and Whole Loans), balance-sheet management, portfolio accounting and derivatives- IT liaison, Project Lead and Subject Matter Expert (SME) on several high-profile projects like core-financial system upgrade, call report vendor conversion, Account mgmt. integration, street inventory database, SBA Pool issuance and prepay stress-test analysis, Municipal OCC compliant report, etc.- Co-lead for core-financial analytical system upgrade project which provides superior analytical and regulatory reporting to brokers and clients- Provided comparative cost-estimation and data-accuracy analysis to senior management for multiple fixed-income security pricing vendors. In addition to identifying 35% cost-reduction, have also helped vendors like Bloomberg in identifying significant pricing variant sub-sectors (BVAL beta-tester)

- Development and implementation of complex technological applications and financial calculators for use by employees and customers useful in analyzing and evaluating Fixed Income instruments and portfolios.- Sole designer and developer of FI Online 1.0 (https://fionline.suntrustrh.com), a Fixed Income Research public portal using ASP.NET (C#, VB.NET)/SQL Server/.NET Charting which provides numerous services to the clients, brokers and research analysts such as portfolio management, customized portfolio information, research & report management and bond swap simulation. 2.0 was released October 2012

Worked as a Lead Technical Support supervising 13 computing facility and technical support personnel, including assessing skill levels, assigning tasks, prioritizing projects and monitoring performance. Performed duties as a technical support, which includes maintaining physical network infrastructure, faculty computers, software & hardware installations, and provided required training for new hardware start-up.