Will W. Email & Phone Number

Sr Trading - Sales Assistant, NON-LINEAR RATES

United States

• Primary Trading Assistant for NA Credit Volatility and Global Credit Indices Correlation desks covering traders in London and New York.
• Collaborate with EMEA & NA CIB Application Developers on enhancements and building new platforms to automate front office to middle office workflow and STP functionality.
• Monitored front to back trade life cycles in terms of client adoption, trade capture, documentation, settlement and ongoing maintenance.
• Manage monthly CDX Swaption Expiration for NA Dealer Desk, coordinating with counterparties on ITM OTC Credit Option Exercises, ensuring clearing and settlement of OTR CDX Index trades.
• Booked and reconciled e-Mini S&P 500 futures, US Treasuries, UST futures and options on futures for NY trading desk supporting five traders in New York.

United States

• Captured transactions for various products including structured rates products, rates swaps, total return swaps, municipal swaps, treasury spread locks, treasury locks and asset swap transactions – employed various.
• Oversaw testing and redeployment of proprietary system architecture for blottering, trade capture and risk/PnL production across several systems and product lines to comply with Dodd-Frank trade capture and reporting.
• Participated in OTC Swap compressions and netting for LCH, CME and TriOptima packages – netting large trade populations into fewer trades with same or similar economics.
• Reconciled clearing, documentation, settlement and cash break trade populations for weekly conference call for USD Swaps Flow, Exotic, Swaption, Municipal, Index, and Inflation Structured rates desks.
• Liaison between sales/trading along with various back office groups to achieve trade price verification, as well as responding to queries from operations, compliance, accounting, documentation, counsel, corporate.
• Booked and reconciled US Treasuries, Eurodollar and Treasury futures and options on futures for NY trading book averaging 3,500 transactions daily – managed middle office hedges PnL for over 18mos.

United States

• Responsible for daily trade inputs for systematic and discretionary commodity futures portfolio.
• Evaluate automated trading system performance and risk; adjust strategy risk and leverage with recommended settings for current market conditions.
• Adjust and evaluate back tested performance for version enhancements to production strategy automation models.
• Meet with system engineer daily to discuss implementation of changes to automation models based on risk weighted portfolio standards.
• Run platform strategy automation walk-forward optimization program; implement optimized strategy settings to enhanced program performance.
• Responsible for monitoring automation trade capture, matching and notating performance during overnight markets remotely three days a week.

United States

• Worked with front and middle office staff to draft confirmations (“Deals” as their called in Markitwire) and helped submit trades to full affirmation and cleared status.
• Collected and audited daily OTC derivative IB Dealer trader mappings and distributed data to all major inter dealer brokers including ICAP, BGC Eurobrokers, Cantor Fitzgerald and GFI.
• Participated daily in working group assigned to improve Client Clearing, Interoperability between DTCC and Markitwire and C=C (Consent = Confirmation).
• Increased trade flow by working closely with engineers to more quickly solve network and programmatic connectivity issues.
• Familiarity with use of all ISDA Master Agreements for equity, interest rate swaps, commodity, credit default swaps and FX OTC derivatives.

Richmond, Virginia

• Provide research and internal policies to advisers across all 5 Wachovia Securities business channels regarding Managed Money and Fee-Based Products, Mutual Funds, 529 Plans, Money Markets, Offshore Mutual Funds, UITs.
• Front line broker inquiries; high call volume area answering 65-100 calls daily requires detailed understanding of sales/operational aspect of Managed Money/Fee-Based Products.
• Work with Operations Managers during Wachovia Securities and A.G. Edwards merger – product integration (June – December 2007).
• Participated in committee with operations staff that created integration model for over 75,000 client accounts valued at over $8 billion USD for conversion related to Court's decision on Rule 202(a) (11)-1, which.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Chi Phi Fraternity, Interfraternity Council President 2004-2005, Investment Club, Information Systems Audit and.

Aviation Management, Flight Option, Aviation/Airway Management And Operations

Certified Flight Instructor Multi-engine Land Commercial Pilot

Emergency Medical Technician (Emt, Emergency Medical Services

Paramedic training

College Preparatory, A.P. English

Activities and Societies: Retan Rifles Drill Team, Journalism Staff, Orienteering Team, Lacrosse and Cross Country.

Education record