Summary

• Highlighted Career Achievements:
• Industry Knowledge Financial Analysis
• Change Management Analytic Skills Budgeting Risk Assessment
• Solution Management Systems Design Strategy Development Consensus Building
• People Management Problem Solving Creativity Team Building
• Project Management Workflow Design Communication Skills Conflict Resolution
• Business Analysis Critical Thinking Presentation Skills Staff Development
• Combines background as economist with a trader's instinct for relative value. Effective at communicating with integrity to all levels of the organization throughout the life cycle. Translator of vision into action plans by utilizing the following skills:
• A UNIQUELY EXPERIENCED BUSINESS ANALYST / TRADING EXECUTIVE with a strong record in building and implementing state of the art technology solutions and initiatives that increase revenue and lead the industry. Strong hands-on leader who effectively led the transition from open-outcry trading to electronic trading in all financially traded derivatives markets. Accustomed to a very fast pace and multiple projects, while consistently, managing existing lines of business, and achieving financial targets.
• Business Analyst Trading Executive Financial Risk/Compliance Project Management
• Managed the entire design and build out of the trading infrastructure for 2 large proprietary trading firms Madison Tyler Trading and Fattoc this included the trading platform, risk platform and all other operations from front office through to the back office.
• Led the design of a credit, risk, and reporting system at a large investment bank so that it conformed to the new Dodd-Frank rules and regulations as they apply to the trading of financial swaps and OTC trades.
• Supervised the quantitative team in developing quantitative theories and methods of extracting data to fully automate the trading structures and developing the precise risk metrics needed to mitigate unnecessary risk. This included stress testing, Var testing as well as Monte Carlo simulation.
• Led the transition from open-outcry trading to electronic trading in all financially traded derivatives markets which included commodity futures, FX and equities.
• Developed a state of the art exchange platform for the trading of Solar Credits in the US. This included all real time data feeds, trade processing, trade confirmations and settlements. Worked with the end users and traders to make the Exchange platform user friendly to generate growth in the customer base and become the dominate exchange for the trading of solar credits.
• Supervised and managed the largest Energy trading firm on the NYMEX trading floor. Involved in the trading of financial futures, physical swaps and OTC contracts. Responsible for all management of the trade processing, P L reconciliation, ETRM, and business management.

Industry Knowledge:

• Asset Management Portfolio Accounting
• Hedge Funds Cash Management
• Broker/Dealer Foreign Exchange
• Finance Equities
• Accounting Fixed Income
• Risk Management/Compliance Options Futures
• Quantitative and Algorithmic Trading Swaps
• Software Development
• Process Improvements
• Global trade Management
• Risk Management and Valuation Corporate Actions
• ETRM
• Dodd-Frank
• Strategy Design Execution
• Technical Skills:
• MS Office Suite MS Access
• MS PowerPoint MS Project
• MS Visio SQL
• Windows XP ETRM
• MS Project OpenLink Endur
• BRM
• Summit Troubleshooting
• Calypso

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Business Analyst/Trading Support Consultant

• Working with the Front Office Traders, Development Team, and Operations team in designing and implementing new trading platforms and structures as well as risk management systems in compliance with the Dodd-Frank Regulations.
• Training traders and customers on the new systems both in person and on the phone in a clear confident manner.
• Instituting new client on-boarding procedures and working with the sales team in making sure all requirements of on-boarding customers is followed in a precise efficient manner.
• Working with the client support team in resolving customer trade breaks and connectivity issues in a professional manner.
• Consulting with the IT team and business team in building state of the art trading structures and resolving all connectivity issues as they are related to electronic execution systems. Well versed in FIX Protocol.
• Consulting with the Risk management team in building risk management systems that conform to all the Dodd-Frank rules and regulations

Confidential

Business Analyst/Trader

• Managed all electronic trading in Commodity Futures, Equities, and FX including actual trading, P L reconciliation, and risk management. Worked with the design, programming and back testing teams to implement trading strategies and built the infrastructures needed for trading. Led the reformulation and evaluation team in continually updating and improving trading infrastructures. Increased profitability by 23 in first 3 months.
• To reverse declining profit margins and stay competitive performed detailed analysis of existing and competitors models to incorporate new ideas and theories into existing models and reformulated them to be more productive. Result increased profitability and market share by 22.6 in first 3 months.
• To expand the business, investigated then analyzed market conditions and found areas in the markets which could be developed into trading strategies. With the programming team, took an idea and developed it into a successful trading strategy through the design, back testing and implementation of the model. Result: created successful trading strategies that increased profitability by 16k per day.
• To improve priority of orders when entered in market, gathered and analyzed data and researched and tested different ways to enter/seed orders in markets to gain priority over the competition. Result: increased fill ratio of orders by 7.2 within 4 weeks.
• To increase the speed of our infrastructure, worked with the connectivity team and back office to analyze the present system. Result: upgraded trading platform and increased the speed of the platform.
• To improve back testing and analysis of systems interfaced with programming and testing teams. Discussed and analyzed ways to more efficiently test trading ideas and theories and produce results that could be actively generated and seen instantaneously. Result: significantly reduced time to test new ideas and theories from 3 days to 3 hours.

Confidential

Business Analyst/ Head Broker

• Initially hired to create the infrastructure and trading platform for the trading of solar credits. In addition worked with the programming team to build the infrastructure and trading platform to trade energy commodity futures. This platform incorporated all aspects of trading including direct connectivity, real time P L, as well as risk parameters.
• Developed a functional platform for the trading of solar credits through research and analysis on exchange traded platforms. Led the technology team in designing and building a state of the art platform for the exchange trading of solar credits. Result: increased volume traded by 37 making Flett Exchange the largest exchange for the trading of NJ solar credits
• Improved efficiency and increased productivity in the commodity futures trading platform, through detailed analysis of the present infrastructure and developed an action plan to reformulate and implement changes to the trading system. Result: reduced costs and eliminated unneeded infrastructure increased business volume.
• Actively interfaced with the customer base in documenting and gathering business requirements, analyzing data flows and clearly presented this to the IT development team. Result: Completed project on time and under budget.

Confidential

Head of Commodities

• Recruited by the CO-CEOs to organize and built an electronic commodity trading team in the open outcry markets. Pioneered the transition from open outcry to electronic trading in all energy, base metal and foreign exchange commodity markets. Developed and implemented trading strategies that allowed for the trading of commodities in all available markets. Responsible for the full cycle of trading from the trade initiation to the closing out of positions this included reconciliation of P L and trade breaks as well as the clearing and risk management package for all commodities. Managed a team of 25 personnel, including traders, back office, programmers and infrastructure engineers.
• Established electronic trading in commodity markets that were exclusively traded manually, by gathering and analyzing data and information then developed an action plan on how to establish trading strategies to successfully trade electronically. Result: generated five figure P L in the first few days of electronic trading.
• To effectively trade the markets electronically led the development of the infrastructure technology needed to handle all phases of the trade life cycle from front office through to the back office. Result: able to expand into all active markets within the first 6 months generating over 40M in revenue.
• To fully automate existing models, with the programming team, devised and developed a way to built the assumptions used in the present model into an electronic model in which the strategy or program did all of the actual trading electronically. Result: able to trade more markets and develop more advanced strategies which increased volume traded and P L into the 100M range per year.
• In order to build a strong trading team from front to back office including the technology team, clearly defined personnel needs and recruited and evaluated talent, trained and educated on the type of trading that was being done and supervised all departments. Result: built a well organized structure in which all personnel felt part of the team and worked together as one