SUMMARY

• Hybrid Project Manager and Business Analyst with over 10 years of experience on Wall Street.
• Expert knowledge of repos, borrow/loans, and pledges. Deep knowledge and experience with Fixed Income products (including US treasuries and mortgages).
• Financial areas of intervention have included trade processing of Equities and Fixed Income, settlements, stock record position keeping, and securities lending.
• Non - financial roles included PMO work and business process re-engineering engagements.
• Key strengths are excellent analytical, problem-solving, and quick adaptability skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Product Knowledge: Excellent knowledge in Cash Equities, Fixed Income, Listed and OTC Derivatives (Interest Rate Swaps). Strong knowledge and implementation experience on Repos, Reverse Repos, and Borrow/Loans

Technologies: Strong understanding of ETL Tools, FIX Protocol, XML messaging, Electronic Trading, High Frequency Trading, Swift messaging (Cash and Security instructions)

IT Languages: SQL, Java, XML, PHP, VB/VBA, Python (Basic), and R (Basic)

Methodologies: UML, SDLC, and Agile Development

Languages: English (Fluent), French (Fluent), and Spanish (Basic)

Software: Splunk, JIRA, Confluence, XMLSpy, Toad Oracle, SQL Developer, Axure, Balsamic Mockup, Tableau, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project Professional), Microsoft SharePoint, Ab-Initio, AC Plus (Asset Control), Tibco, Gemstone’s Gemfire, Fidelity’s ACBS DLO (Deal Loan Origination) & DLSE (Deal loan Servicing), IBM Rational suite (ClearQuest, ClearCase, RequisitePro, TestManager, Manual Tester)Other Interests: Structured Products, OTC Derivatives (including interest rate and credit derivatives), Order Management Systems (OMS), Direct Market Access (DMA), Energy and Commodities Trading

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New York

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Fixed Income and Commodities Business Management teams and Portfolio Managers to coordinate large-scale and priority initiatives across various systems or technology teams
• Manage and drive the implementation of new trading solutions, system, and process enhancements for Portfolio Managers
• Manage PMO Operations for the Fixed Income, Commodities, and Risk Technology team and represent the team in front of the Chief Information Officer and various groups including Treasury, Operations, Infrastructure, Compliance, and HR
• Perform business analysis on large initiatives involving multiple Technology teams and external service providers

Confidential - New York

Senior IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead the business analysis efforts for improvements and additional features to CME ClearPort
• Business and System Analysis on CME’s upcoming Repo Clearing product
• Lead the system analysis for booking, processing, clearing, and settling deliverable and tri-party repos via CME
• Provide expert and industry repo knowledge to Business stakeholders
• Facilitate technical design discussions with clearing banks
• Drive the implementation and testing of business requirements in CME’s main Repo Clearing platform

Confidential

Vice-President, Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of global liquidity and collateral management solutions to improve asset transparency for the Fixed Income Finance and Equities Funding trading desks
• Lead the design and implementation of strategic trade processing, stock record, and depository management systems
• Liaise with Traders, Operations’ users, and IT teams to identify areas for improvement, prioritize project initiatives, and gather and document business requirements and current state processes
• Lead and manage the development of program- and project-related artifacts including strategic roadmaps, business and functional requirement documentation, test scenario documents, and project plans. Manage the implementation work of development teams in North America, EMEA, India, and China
• Provide expert and impact analysis of operational issues to Senior Management
• Designed and managed the implementation of a global collateral repository platform to support Collateral, Liquidity and Funding needs of Fixed Income Finance traders
• Designed and managed the implementation of a new transaction processing flow to integrate a reporting and G/L entry system with a strategic stock record and retire a legacy sub-ledger
• Managed the implementation of Front-to-Back Office platforms using FIX protocol and XML messaging to support Front Office High-Frequency and Prime Brokerage Equity trade flows
• Designed and managed the implementation of an Equity and Bond Trade Compression platform that retired a legacy trade processing system and reduced trade volume flow between Middle and Back Office by 90%. Consumers included P&L and stock record systems
• Designed an enhanced process to improve overall performance in the retrieval of settlement instructions for Straight through Processing. Response time was increased fivefold

Confidential

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Pfizer, NY: BA/PMO in the transition of patient assistance programs to one single vendor
• Assisted Pfizer senior management in Vendor proposal reviews and contract negotiations
• The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta: (IT) Change Management process lead
• Designed an enterprise-wide (IT) Change Management process
• Eli Lilly, Indianapolis: Business Process Analyst in a process re-engineering project
• Designed new processes for Incident, Problem, Configuration, and (IT) Change Management
• Developed training materials for process owners
• National City Corporation, Cleveland: Business and QA Analyst in the testing of the ACBS loan syndication application suite