Technical Consultant/founder - Advanfit Llc Resume
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Chicago, IL
SUMMARY:
- Seasoned finance professional, acknowledged throughout his career for capacity to cultivate strategic relationships and build trust, consistently exceeding expectations.
- An innovative leader; open to fresh ideas and championing an environment of transparent communications that welcomes feedback and inspires teams to excel.
- Corporate versatility has been honed and refined via consulting projects to a diversity of businesses - from high-profile heavyweights to family-based enterprises across all major sectors. Technically-astute, driven, and people-focused.
- Managed the timely creation and distribution of mortgage portfolio reports, reducing the historical delay.
- Comprehensive understanding of sales and trading as well as front, middle and back-office operations, specializing in fixed income, structured products, securitization, credit and market risk.
- Generated technical requirements, writing technical specifications as well as generating testing requirements and performing QA.
- Particularly interested in the implementation & coordination of new/recent regulatory developments, such as Dodd-Frank, anti-money laundering regulations, BASEL I & II, as well as standardization of data types across multiple asset classes.
- Keen ability to leverage financial understanding, with commendable roles in global fixed income finance, business analysis & project management, QA; strategy consulting, UML & database programming.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- 1 CAS, the Collateral Analysis System, is vendor-software created for and used by securitization analysts to edit data & correct inconsistencies, design stratification reports and streamline generation of rep-lines used during the structuring process. It is made by the Carlisle Group.
- Professional knowledge of CAS, Bloomberg Pro, Intex Desktop/DM, Reuters, Edgar, LoanPerformance RiskModel, 1010data, S&P Levels & SPIRE, Moody's Mortgage Metrics; Microsoft Windows & Office, UNIX/ LINUX; HTML, RDBMS/SQL Server, Visual Studio 2005 - 8, DBArtisan; VB/VBA/VBScript, RSS, WSH/AD, Murex, Crystal Reports, XMLSpy; working knowledge of Perl, WSH, VBScript, C#; extensive knowledge of computer hardware, testing methods, troubleshooting, tweaking and overclocking.
- Experienced in IBM/Rational Rose, MS Visio/Project/Sharepoint; Microsoft Office including advanced Excel skills (macros, VBA, advanced formulas, pivot tables). Working knowledge of XML & FpML.
- Fluent in Polish, Spanish, German. Comprehends most Slavic languages. Confidential English teacher in Poland; 12 yrs in Poland, 1 yr abroad in Spain, term abroad in Germany.
- Received Confidential in SQL Server 2000/2005; member of Confidential (Microsoft Developer Network).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Technical Consultant/Founder - AdvanFIT LLC
Responsibilities:
- Effectively managed all project aspects, collaborated with vendors, coordinated tasks with and delivered presentations to renown/prestigious health professionals.
- Researched, apprised and established targeted/all - in-one medical infrastructure/IT solution for an expanding and diversified medical/surgical office.
- Analyzed and improved communication system between office employees and other practices, including data management & personal heath information (PHI), enhanced information flow system and trained office members in technology initiatives.
Confidential, NY
Risk Infrastructure Manager
Responsibilities:
- Upgraded daily VaR process using SQL & Visual Studio, resulting in dramatic improvements
- Managed all aspects of the SDLC, gathered business specs, created gap - analysis reports, and performed QA.
- Streamlined Excel-based VaR update process using VBA and WSH resulting in automation of daily routine; maintained global risk factors and time series data and verified trading-desk and general VaR.
- Wrote and revised program and system design procedures, tests procedures, and quality standards.
- Formulated and reviewed plans outlining steps required to develop programs to meet staff and user requirements.
Confidential, NY
AVP-BA Whole Loan Technology
Responsibilities:
- Designed and implemented a relational database system of all Confidential MBS deals, providing investor reporting services, and forming the firm s central mortgage backed data repository.
- Established effective project plans for integration of vendor applications, including ML s global Loan Management System; administered and updated the SQL servers containing all mortgage data.
- Gathered business specs, documented functional requirements, and maintained positive project atmosphere in the face of growing adversity stemming from increasing workload and reduced headcount.
- Recommended specific terms and conditions assigning dollar credit limits and risk ratings.
- Handled research initiatives in business development, strategic planning, and marketing.
Confidential, Brooklyn, NY
VP of Data Analytics Group
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed & managed MBS deals, and reported to investors, issuers, and servicers; developed proficiency in administration of credit sensitive MBS products, and focused on loss mitigation strategies.
- Mitigated investors losses on high - risk loans by implementing the firm s Loan Management Portal.
- Analyzed potential future exposure to & loss-forecasts of problem-loans (90+ days delinquent) existing within seasoned RMBS deals.
Confidential, New York, NY
Senior Associate
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed and managed collateral for pools of automobile, equipment lease, student loan, and home equity (prime, subprime, and non - performing) collateral.
- Generated, balanced and coordinated collateral information in new-issue & seasoned RMBS & ABS deals; maintained and updated collateral information, tying out any inconsistencies between DBSI, 3rd party servicers, trust reporting; submitted cash-flows to Bloomberg & Intex; presented senior management with loan- & deal- level complications and recommended mitigating strategies.
- Devised a new method to automate the (above referenced) monthly collateral update process using MsExcel/VBA, CAS1 and Microsoft SQL Server, reducing the time needed to analyze loan-level detail from several hours to just under 30 minutes.
Confidential, New York, NY
IT & Foreign Language Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Provided technical support to professional Confidential players during the 2008 US Open at the Confidential 's Players' Lounge.
- Improved player - host relations through direct contact with international Confidential stars translating as necessary in English, Polish, Spanish, and German.
- Maintained record of daily data communication transactions, problems and remedial action taken, and installation activities.
- Read technical manuals, conferred with users, and conducted computer diagnostics to determine nature of problems and provide technical assistance.
