Summary of Qualifications

• Versatile Senior Business Analyst with over twenty years of Investment Banking and Capital Markets experience
• Nine years as a proprietary trader in Fixed Income, FX, Repo, Equity and Debt Syndicate underwriting
• Transitioned from trading to technology during the 1998 Russian financial crisis
• Strong front-office functional and operational background fosters ability to bridge between trading desk and technology groups in order to ensure technology solutions meet business objectives
• Experienced in gathering and prioritizing requirements, performing extensive analysis and documentation in the form of the Business Requirements Document BRD , Functional Requirements Document FRD and Use Cases for effective system implementation
• Extensive work experience in analyzing and defining Business Process Modeling, performing Data Analysis, Data Warehousing, Data Mapping, and managing UAT User Acceptance Testing
• Experienced in traditional SDLC Waterfall Project Management , knowledge of Rational Unified Process RUP and Agile software development methodology
• Adhere to BABOK Business Analysis Book of Knowledge Standards
• Accustomed to fast pace and multiple projects, fulfilling priorities and meeting deadlines while maintaining high customer service levels and tight financial controls
• Excellent communication, facilitation and elicitation skills. Creative and flexible problem solver who identifies inefficiencies in a process and drives change
• Created and conducted demonstrations and training for senior management and end users
• Familiarity with Dodd-Frank surveillance reporting such as front running, cancel and corrects, off-market trades, restricted accounts/counterparties, and mandatory clearing

Areas of Expertise

• Excellent knowledge of Bloomberg and other relevant market and analytical software
• Prime Brokerage experience providing Latin American and other Hedge Funds with financing, execution, custody and reporting services
• Fixed Income instruments include: Brady Bonds, US Treasuries, US Treasury Futures, local currency T-Bills Turkey, Lebanon, and Ukraine , EUR corporate and government debt, Russian MinFins Ministry of Finance , Russian Prins Principal bonds , Russian Corporate Debt Gazprom, TATNEFT and City of Moscow . Also traded French Government Bonds of all maturities OATs, BTFs, and BTANs , German BUNDS, United Kingdom GILTs, Ireland PUNTs and bonds of some Commonwealth nations including South Africa and India
• Traded all Brady Bond types
• Traded fixed income derivatives credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, bond futures, interest rate forwards, forward rate agreements
• Institutional Equity, Fixed Income and Repo Trading, including products such as Brady Bonds, US Treasuries, US Treasury Basis, CD's and Commercial Paper, L Eurobonds, IPOs, Private Placements and money market instruments
• Wall Street Systems, provides treasury management trading, and settlement software solutions and services for workflow, control, and productivity for corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, forex trading, and back office operations
• GLOSS Gloss is a real-time, multi-currency, transaction processing engine which automates the trade processing lifecycle from trade capture through to confirmation, clearing agency reporting and settlement Gloss currently processes trades executed in 90 different countries and provides connectivity to over 250 custodians internationally
• GIFTS Global Integrated Funds Transfer and Telecommunications System GIFTSWEB is a comprehensive anti-money laundering OFAC, e-banking, and customer relationship management payment system. GIFTSWEB has extensive functionality to meet regulatory requirements of the U.S Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Asset and Control OFAC , The Federal Reserve Bank , and the USA Patriot Act of 2001
• Pega, Business Process Management software
• Swift Messing Transactions-MT540-MT549 , Reporting-MT900,910,935,940,941,942,950, MT535-MT537 , Corporate Actions-MT564-MT568
• Corporate Syndicate including IPO and secondary equity and debt offerings, leveraging corporate relationships, research and sales distribution capabilities
• Relationship building including developing new client relations and managing all existing relations

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

• SS C's Global Wealth Platform provides a suite with components, including modeling, trading, portfolio accounting, client communications and workflows. Its Lifghting automates a range of processes, including, trading, sales , funding, accounting, risk analysis and asset/liability management
• Tested FX Spot and FX Forwards in production and test enviornemnts
• Ensured the implementation of GWP and all new ancillary applications meets the needs of the business and workflows functioned properly

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Consultant/Senior Business Analyst

• Knowledge and experienced with Pega, BPM integration software
• Implemented and configured a STP Treasury Management Software System Wallstreet Systems Suite
• Tested SWIFT messages in production and test environments to ensure connectivity to custodian banks
• Documented system bugs and delivered reports to R D for recommended system changes
• Ensured the implementation of the Core Banking platform and all new ancillary applications meets the needs of the business and workflows functioned properly
• Participated in internal status meetings with both local development teams as well as integrated sessions with Global team

Confidential

Senior Configuration Business Analyst

Converted small business to Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 is a subscription plan that included access to Office applications plus other productivity services that were enabled over the Internet cloud services , such as Lync web conferencing and Exchange Online hosted email for business, and additional online storage with SkyDrive

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Assistant Vice President, Senior Business Analyst

• Managed software and configuration changes on Test and Production environments for fixed income and foreign exchange front office trading systems. Systems supported were Altair, Sierra and Pioneer Sales Workstation
• Analyzed causes of production problems and developed methods for improvement
• Resolved all trading issues by coordinating with clients, dealers and internal units
• Assisted in planning and support of User Acceptance Test

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Worked with Fund Administration, Information Management and Global Admin Product business users to understand and prioritize business requirements for new functionality request

Confidential

Provided customized technology provided hedge fund managers with portfolio reporting needed to effectively manage money 500 daily and monthly report templates that enabled clients to effectively manage their businesses.

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Consultant/Senior Business Analyst

• Senior Business Analyst and SME, writing business requirements and functional specifications in regards to Gloss and GIFTS Global Integrated Funds transfer Telecommunications System
• Developed detailed Functional Requirements Document FRD based on the BRD, incorporating business process flow diagram, activity diagram, sequence diagram, state diagram, flow charts, use cases and use case diagrams.

Confidential

Consultant/Senior Business Analyst

Worked with developers and technical teams with the implementation of ADP/Wilco's GLOSS STP, multi-currency settlement system. Analyzed and documented user requirements and parsed data from Gloss accounting transactional reports for risk management

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Senior Business Analyst

• Acted as SME and Senior Business Analyst between new clients and firm's sales and development staff for the gathering of client requirements for implementation of firm's Gloss trade settlement product at client sites. Contributed to successful implementation of firm's Gloss product at major brokerage companies by completion of mappings to Gloss for database of client's security attributes and requirement documentation.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to identify user's requirements and recommendations. Captured requirements through document analysis, meetings and brainstorming sessions with the users
• Involved in the following Client projects with testing and implementation of GLOSS
• Societe Generale and other institutional broker dealers

Confidential

Senior Operations Analyst, Global Institutional Services

• Monitored the daily interaction of the Corporate Action Reconciliation Management System, Global Network and S.W.I.F.T. interface with Agent Banks to assist Business Users to Identify and eliminate customer fails.
• Ensured all aspects of trade settlement, clearance, and income processing of corporate actions
• were completed

Confidential

Emerging Market Fixed Income and Repo trader

• Managed a global fixed income execution and financing desk in Miami and New York
• Traded a 1.2 billion matched repo book in both special and general collateral, financed long and short positions, adapted effectively to market conditions and produced revenue in all interest rate environments.
• Traded US Treasuries and Emerging Market fixed income and currencies
• Traded fixed income derivatives credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, bond futures, interest rate forwards, forward rate agreements

Confidential

Financial Services Consultant

Acted as an investment services representative with bank's broker dealer and sold mutual funds, variable and fixed annuities and fixed income products to the bank's customers

Confidential

Assistant Vice President, Corporate Syndicate

• Coordinated the sale of IPO and Secondary offerings to institutional investors. Leveraged CLUSA's research, sales network and corporate relationships
• Traded Credit Lyonnais proprietary products and sold French and German and other non-dollar government and corporate debt to US institutions

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Lewco Securities was a joint securities clearing company for Lehman Brothers, Wertheim-Schroeder, Mosley Securities and Hambrecht Quist. Lewco was taken over by Schroder's' Plc and the Chase Group

Confidential

E. F. Hutton Co. was an stock brokerage firm and for several decades was the second largest brokerage firm in the United States

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Deak-Perera was the world's largest foreign currency and precious metals dealer domestic and international banking, money exchange, sale of foreign drafts, remittances and travelers' checks, money orders, other monetary instruments, commercial loans, brokerage in precious metals, gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion and numismatic coins . The foreign exchange business was sold to Thomas Cook Inc.