Senior-Level IT Executive eager to contribute excellent project leadership expertise

toward supporting a dynamic company in optimizing productivity and performance.

 

 

         Adept at leading and participating in full life-cycle software development; able to expertly direct and supervise senior-level development professionals in achieving high-quality deliverables.

         Specialized expertise in managing and partnering with front/middle office business users in high pressure environments to deliver critical systems.   

         Exhibit proficiency in RAD (Rapid Application Development), business and system analysis, project leadership, architecture design, and data warehousing. 

         Considerable financial acumen and business savvy, and particular experience with credit derivative products and fixed income securities.         

         Highly skilled at making an application stable, sustainable and easy to maintain; substantial talents in implementing critical, complex large-scale Global Trading Systems.   

         Member of JPMC Billion Dollar Savings Club and winner of several employee recognition awards.

         Proven ability to work in fast-paced environments, balance competing demands and priorities, and quickly adapt to new roles, responsibilities, technologies, and environments. 

         Analytical, methodical and focused problem solver with an exemplary track record of executing innovative, systematic, and strategic solutions to meet assigned goals and needs.

 

 

JP Morgan Chase (JPMC), New York, NY, 2000 to Present

Senior Technology Officer, Credit Market Technologies

Key Projects:

Rapid Application Development Team Lead

         Spearheaded RAD (Rapid Application Development) team initiatives including on-boarding of JPMC to CDX Trading on Bloomberg via JPTE page; resourcefully developed pricing tool and price submission process to enable JPMC Credit Index Market Making trader to trade electronically via Bloomberg.

         Successfully eliminated use of paper blotters and enabled Single Name CDS and Index traders Real Time Risk and PnL on a per trade basis through introduction of Electronic Trader Blotters which also evolved into pricing and quoting tool for traders due to accuracy and effectiveness.

         Built P/L Explain Tool to clarify P/L and risk level; integrated Full Curve PnL, Proxy Skew Explain and Index Skew Explain.  

         Demonstrated sharp multi-tasking expertise in engineering Credit Risk Manager tool and Flash P/L application.

         Developed Credit Index/Single Name CDS sales-to-trade double-blind matching tool to save company an estimated $1M against DTCC amendment costs during market downturn.

         As Transact Murex IRS Migration RAD Project Manager, ensured seamless transition of IRS trades.

         Efficiently on-boarded team to version-control platform (Subversion) for all applications.

 

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Professional Experience continued

 

Lead Analyst, MUREX Trading System Implementation / TRANSACT

         Directed and conducted comprehensive system analysis for on-boarding of Global Fixed Income Bond trading business to new platform for Risk Management and P/L generation.

         Leveraged strong project management talents to direct globally dispersed team in bond reference/trade feed implementation, prepare milestones and timelines for integration into master project plan, and precisely determine bond data reference and market data requirements.

         Established global process to achieve environment control across all project workstreams.

 

Developer, CDS Credit Events Task Force

         Participated in strategic hybrid project to create a repeatable methodology for automated handling of credit events, successfully translating to reduction of 480 man hours per credit event.

• Proactively partnered with key stakeholders to define bulk extraction process of Credit Default Swaps contracts related to specific event for analysis by middle office.
• Innovatively devised robust RAD application to handle assimilation of target trade population and auto-generate CENs, NIPS and NOPS documents for distribution to appropriate counterparties.

 

Project Manager C CTMIS / PaRIS Technology Refresh Project

         Outsourced upgrade of PowerBuilder/Oracle/Unix components of CTMIS/Paris applications to an offshore firm with full accountability for choosing vendor, managing and assigning resources, and facilitating weekly status meetings.

         Successfully navigated project from requirements phase to come in ahead of schedule and under budget.

                   

 

Prior Background:

Senior Programmer, IS Department, Panasonic Industrial Company, Secaucus NJ

Systems Programmer Analyst, IS Department, Bracco Diagnostics Inc., Princeton NJ

 

 

B.A. Degree in Psychology, Minor in Computer Science, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ

 

 

Intro to Fixed Income Securities                         Advanced Credit Derivatives

UML Methodology C IBM                                   Six Thinking Hats Methodology 

Business Management Discipline                       Project Management Principles

 

 

MUREX, Bloomberg Systems, RMDS, Reuters Power Pro Plus, MS SQL 2000, Oracle 7.x/8.x/9.x, Sybase 12, PL/SQL, UNIX Solaris, PHP, ASP.NET, XML, C#, HTML, Perl, C, PowerBuilder 9.0, Java/Jdbc, Business Objects Reporter/Designer/Supervisor 6.x, Excel, Access, PowerPlay, Impromptu, Cognos