SUMMARY:

IT Project Manager who has extensive experience in the development and support of electronic and legacy front, middle and back office trading and sales systems for investment banks, banks and hedge funds. He has traded and sold swaps, rates, otc derivatives, hi - yield, corporates, fx and exchange traded derivatives electronically and by voice and he has had a series 7 and 63 (2016-renewable) and has a current series 3.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SYSTEMS/APPLICATIONS: NICE Actimize, SWIFT Protocol, Aladdin, Confidential OATS, Summit, Db Trader, Calypso, SunGard, MUREX, Bloomberg, Confidential, IB, Confidential, ECN’s, Dark Pools, ADP and countless other systems. FIX PROTOCOL, REDI, Market Vision, CATS, CQG, Futuresource, Bridge, InfoReach, Fidessa, FlexTrade, Portware,Triton, JIRA

Environment: UNIX, LINUX, SYBASE, NT, AIX 400, SOLARIS, WINDOWS,DOS

Microsoft Office Tools: SharePoint, Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, MS Project

Languages: C, C++ development Sybase, Oracle, Cobol, SQL,Visual Basis, PERL, JAVA programmers and Internet/Intranet applications development.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Stamford, Ct

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for developers for electronic trading systems (including automated trading systems) for the front, middle and back office, infrastructure implementations and compliance and regulatory issues and gathering and documenting business functional and non-functional requirements, managing scrums and utilizing agile methodology
• Project manager for internal systems upgrades and legacy system conversions for risk, fx, rates, equities, commodities and exchange traded derivatives in conjunction with all domestic and international exchanges and oversaw testing teams and environments
• Project manager and business analyst for systematic trading development: algo, stat arbitrage.
• Project manager and business analyst who wrote specification requirements for trading and middle-office functionality for systematic trading and oversaw quality assurance and functional and regression testing utilizing historical market data to back test systematic trading strategies (algo, high frequency and any strategy developed by traders)

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manager responsible for ensuring that IT projects were managed to the highest quality and were on-time, on-budget and in-scope upon completion. Also responsible for organization of the project team, coordination of delivery within the various IT teams, status tracking and stakeholder reporting and for the overall success of the effort. And project manager who managed
• Project manager responsible for infrastructure of client IT system needs for systematic trading (electronic trading systems: stat arb, algo, etc.) and viability with BGC execution software
• Project manager and business analyst who gathered and documented project specific functional and non-functional requirements in the functional specifications document template and adhered to firm’s SDLC and established and continuously facilitated appropriate communication amongst the business stakeholders, ensured the proper documentation of priorities and ensured that the requirements were in line with the overall scope of the project by managing meetings and executing agile process
• Project manager and business analyst who co-coordinated and helped in the creation of test cases, test scenarios and test data for all levels of testing, including integration testing, system testing and user acceptance testing for electronic/systematic client trading modules
• Project manager who advised clients, including insurance companies, on systems to measure risk, wealth management and capital markets and gathered and analyzed requirements for electronic trading and execution systems for client implementation

CONSULTANT: IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Project manager (simultaneous and multiple projects) for Confidential, Basel, Volker Rule compliance and swap execution facility ( Confidential ) implementations and managed the analysis of all issues for the above mentioned and managed business analysts in the writing of business requirement documents (BRD’s) for these projects. Managed the Implementation of all phases of the DMA (direct market access) project for swaps. Project managed functional and regression testing for all projects
• Project manager for quality assurance in the testing and release into production of IT system enhancements for existing software and replacement of legacy systems for swaps in rates, fx, commodities, exchange traded derivatives and oversaw and coordinated for Confidential, Basle, Volker and Confidential compliance issues
• Project manager for international stakeholder meetings and maintained issues list for all of these projects
• Project managed overseas (India) development teams for front and back office systems

Confidential, Stamford, NYC

IT Project Manager consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for Confidential, and regulatory projects
• Project manager for Integration of new systems to replace existing system for trading, post-trade clearing and settlement
• Project manager of business analysts who gathered and wrote specifications for trading and middle office system requirements for rates and equities and project manager for all testing who oversaw QA and system enhancements for front -office and middle office development

Confidential, NYC

Project Manager IT consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for development projects for front, middle and back-office and business analysts who wrote enhancements for systematic trading systems (algo, stat arb) for institutional clients, including insurance companies, commercial banks, asset managers and investment banks.
• Project manager for all risk issues and new development for the client on-boarding business unit for swaps, rates and otc derivatives
• Conducted meetings with project stakeholders to resolve key functional dependencies and issues
• Project manager and business for front office and IT for systematic trading development (algo and stat arb)
• Project manager of business analysts who managed testing and deployment of exchange messaging and SWIFT messaging for new and legacy systems

Confidential

Project Manager IT

Responsibilities:

• Project manager of IT team in implementation of trading infrastructure and system front-office software to ensure speed of execution and reliability for 23 traders
• Project manager of IT staff for electronic trading system implementations of proprietary trading systems: high frequency, stat arb, algo trading strategies

Confidential

Project Manager IT

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for all network and IT systems development, including sdlc implementations for the front, middle and back office, and oversaw profit and loss, risk, accounting, legal and compliance functions
• Project Manager for IT risk system and enhancements for electronic and manual trading systems
• Project manager who oversaw the implementation of quantitative, algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies for the quantitative trading group
• Project manager of business analysts and qa who documented, tested and implemented systematic trading modules
• Relationship manager for Confidential and investment banking clients and managed all third party vendor relationships for the firm

Confidential

Vice-President

Responsibilities:

• Managed system administrators, data base managers, system and software engineers: managed meetings and project plans to upgrade infrastructure for major capital markets business units
• Project manager for credit derivatives, cash and equity derivatives, private client, fixed income, derivatives, portfolio management for equity IT trading systems.
• Followed Project Management Office Methodology (PMOM)
• Project manager for all system integrations in these areas for front, middle and back office
• Project manager for Confidential projects for these business groups and the setting up of disaster and recovery sites for these business units

Confidential

Project Manager IT-Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project manager (multiple and simultaneous projects) for the software development life cycle of an electronic brokerage system comprising 45 Global Project Plans and gathered requirements from business users for the development of the system
• Project manager for the Confidential chief technology officer, managing 18 project plans, for an electronic broker/dealer fixed income trading system, encompassing corporate and sovereign bonds, foreign exchange, international fixed income, futures, options and equities. System included front, middle and back office design and functionality for the U.S., Europe and Asia
• Confidential project manager for Infrastructure for Confidential infrastructure conversions for Lucent: replaced all servers (4000) and software to be Confidential compliant: In charge of west coast and 22 project plans and ran projects according to Confidential sldc and PMI templates
• Confidential project manager for replacement and porting of all software to new servers for the west coast region (4000 servers): managed development, business and infrastructure teams for these 22 projects

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for trading systems for in-house front, middle and back-office system ( Confidential ) - responsible for front, middle and back office clearing and settlement systems
• Project manager of developers, data base administrators,, system administrators, and the quality assurance staffs in the migration and implementation for new and existing system developments for multiple projects for equities, fixed income, commodities, derivatives for front (sales and trading), middle, back office systems
• Project manager for the Euro and Confidential IT system conversions and SAP integration and testing
• First line IT system support manager (24x7 support) for Japan and Asian Rim (Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia) for swaps, equities, derivatives, repurchase agreements, fixed income cash and derivatives
• Consultant in London-PM and BA for Summit Systems installation

Confidential, New York

Senior Proprietary Trader

Responsibilities:

• Proprietary Trader in foreign exchange, commodities, futures, swaps, strips, synthetics, Confidential bonds and international securities
• Designed the risk model and managed its adherence for the proprietary trading, foreign exchange and portfolio management areas for the New York branch (approximately 21 people)
• Conducted a thorough analysis of trade clearing costs, including P&L, back/front-office and systems functions, for the swap, proprietary trading and funding desks, resulting in a total cost reduction of over 45%