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London, UK
Capital Markets – Finance & Operations IT
Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst
Professional Summary
? 12 years experience, project management and business analysis. Requirements gathering, authoring functional and interface specifications documentation, testing, workflow configuration, trade blotter, compliance , authoring RFP and RFI questionnaires and vendor management and SDLC front to finance.
? Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst, Capital Markets, OTC Derivatives, Commodities, Precious metals, FX, Equities and Fixed Income, Front-office, Treasury, Finance and Operations, and trading
? Experience with Money Markets, Interest Rate Derivatives, Mortgage-backed securities, Equity, Total Return Swaps, Inflations Swaps, Equity Derivatives and Fixed Income using Calypso and Murex
? Extensive experience gained at asset management firms, banks, financial exchanges and multinationals, Emerging Markets and globally.
? Great interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with all levels of business users and management.
? Excellent analytical skills, which have been demonstrated in a business environment.
Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst. Currently working at Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd., London, UK. Originally from an IT Development and Business Analysis background, I have extensive experience and keen, detailed knowledge of Capital Markets, Treasury, Banking and trading, along with financial Products such as derivatives, commodities, fixed income, equities, bank note, Euro Medium-term notes (MTN’s), money markets, FX, municipal, corporate and government bonds; mortgage-backed securities (Fannie Mae derivatives re-statement project); structured products, oil and gas energy derivatives, precious metals (gold, silver physical and cash settled), repurchase agreements and tri-party repos. Extensive international banking experience with work assignments in Chicago, Wall Street, the Financial District of New York City, Houston, Washington, DC, London, Brussels and Amsterdam.
Collaborative skills working across teams and lines of business in the Front Office trading floor, Middle Office and Back Office environments. Using SDLC methodologies to implement, develop, business processes and trade lifecycles in an STP platform for OTC and exchange-traded, buy-side and sell-side imperatives. I am comfortable in performing both Project Manager and Business Analysis roles within market risk, collateral, trading, compliance, asset management, operations, treasury and reporting, accounting; and currently deliver in all of these disciplines for Daiwa Capital Markets, London.
Application Experience - Technical and Systems Skills
Front Office Middle / Back Office
Sungard Martini Equity/Fixed Income platform Sungard Global One Stock, Borrow Loan
ThinkFolio HiPortfolio
Calypso Advent Geneva
Bloomberg Trading System Fidessa
Sophis Summit FT
Wall Street Systems CheckFree TradeFlow Fiserv
Murex Sungard Treasury applications
BARX – FX Order Execution System SWIFT / SWIFT Link Manager / Synergy
Fidessa / Latent Zero (Sentinel, Minerva, Tesseract) Colline / Lombard Risk Collateral System
Reuters FxFx Eagle / Pace – Portfolio Management, Data Hub
Openlink Endur MarkItServ / Swapswire
Charles River Fixed Income, Money Markets DTCC / DerivServ
Professional Experience
Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd, London City, UK March 2010 - current
Project Manager, Operations Technology – Finance and Operations (Contractor) – Responsibility for delivering a Cost of Carry 2010 project to give the bank global reports on funding costs of Positions and trades. To build a centralized system that calculates funding on all positions of the firm. The new Cost of Carry platform will be such that it can handle any trade types across all product types. The new funding database will calculate funding on a daily basis. Responsible for hands-on project planning, reporting, authoring business requirements, business analysis, functional specifications, development and implementation of the new Cost of Carry extracts.
Managing a team of business analysts and Developers, this role also requires close liaison with Business personnel to Division Head level in Product Control, Front Office, Compliance, Treasury, Derivative Middle Office, Global Equity Finance and Settlements.
Business Analysis and Project management for projects in the Equity Finance and Derivatives middle office. Migrating 2.11 to MX3 for FX options. Migrating all FX products into Murex for model validation, pricing and hedging of complex FX and exotic financial products. Authored RFP and RFI for the Sungard Clearvision Tokyo-hosted solution.
Utilized sound project and programme management for a global, multiple time-zones project team consisting of resources in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. Performed as senior business analyst on the project, also assembled the team and resources. Business analysis experience for multiple IT projects within financial services, using Microsoft Project, Visio, Office, Sharepoint, etc.
Documentation and testing of equity and equity derivative processing - such as Credit Derivatives, FX Swaps, Spots and Forward FX, NDF’s, CCy, CDS, Structured MTN’s, Options (FX, Bonds, equities), Money Markets (including CD, CP), Deal Payments, ETF's, CFD's Warrants, Futures, Options, callable Bull Bear Certificates. Extensive implementation and requirements, functional specifications of front office Horizon and Murex systems for Global Equity Finance.
Authored functional specifications and mapping attributes for Daiwa Calypso RISK RFP and calypso High-Level Requirements, calypso Architecture and Systems Evaluation Matrix.
Under the Derivatives programme, the main deliverables I am tasked to complete are the functionality to provide more accurate Cost of Carry by using individual trades to extract pricing information, and in addition, failed trades information, P&L Attribution, FSA Regulatory Reporting, Liquidity Asset Buffer and Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) transparency and allocation. This includes calculating funding on a daily basis, exporting and posting funding daily to the general ledger, Bond coupon accrual calculation and branch-off/week end calculations of cost of carry.
Responsibility for building extracts that provide funding costs extracts of data from Finance core applications Martini, Global One (stock borrow and lend), Fidessa, Murex, Colline for collateral, mainframe, and an in-house Settlements application, as well as the handling of OTC Derivatives through our UBIX application.
Products, at the trade level consists of:
? Bonds, equities, repos, bank notes, Euro Medium Term Notes (MTN’s)
? Total Return Swaps, Asian Equity Derivatives, CBBC’s, warrants, Barrier Options
? FX, FX Swaps, FX Rates (Reuters FxFx), Futures and Options, Forward Rate Agreements, Asian barrier options, Hong Kong Warrants, structured products, and Equity options.
Fortis Investments Brussels, Belgium Jan 2008 – March 2010
Fortis Bank, Brussels, Belgium
Project Lead/Senior Business Analyst Contractor/Consultant
? Process Re-engineering for Calypso FO (Front Office) Configuration Documentation; Calypso Catalog and Products and Asset Classes and the Calypso to NPB (Nostro Posititie Beheer) and P&L Attribution. OTC Derivatives and Listed ETD Derivatives Project using a Derivatives platform Implementation of vendor solutions, short-listed to Murex and Calypso.
? Write upstream and downstream interface documentation for all Sophis products, Sophis, Swapswires, T-Zero, Murex MxML, Murex Balance Sheet Management, Decalog and FIBIS (Structured products (primarily Equity options).
? Work along side users performing Forecasting, Scheduling, Nominations, Bookouts, Actualization, Volumetric Exposure, EaR, VaR, P&L attributions and P&L Explain..
? Create custom "end of day" calculations in the simulation framework, and modified canned calculations in Endur for M-T-M, Cash Month, P&L granularity required by trading and risk control analysts.
? Analyze trade processing revaluation and post cash flow to Fortis position-keeping systems for Inflation Swaps, Volume Swaps, Loans CDX, Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Swaptions, Cross-Currency Swaps.
? Gather historical market data for end-of-day positions, vaR calculations and out of the box Calypso reporting (delta buckets, Vega buckets. Connecting Calypso to all Fortis upstream and downstream systems, designing, implementing interfaces from a business analysis requirements perspective, to include ThinkFolio for swaps (CDS, IRS, CCS and Total Return Swaps, Minerva (Latent Zero) for bonds, equities and FX.
? Define risk management systems strategy: Market Risk functionality for initial phase, then Credit Risk as currently company wide credit risk done in a separate database aggregating various systems output.
? Configure Murex MxML connectivity module for messaging interfaces with brokers, agents, counterparties and legal entities, uploading asset classes transactions Nostro payment and receipts, settlements from exchanges or prime brokers into positions as soon as they are acknowledged.
? Define workflow for Murex messaging interfaces.
? Configure and defined specifications for messaging protocol for SWIFT, flat files, COBOL copy format, FixML , FpML and XML integration with Murex MxML trade insertion mechanism based on the Murex XML- based trade descriptor MxML and Murex Balance Sheet Management.
? Define workflow for all products for daily trading in Calypso and Decalog (Portfolio Management System), ThinkFolio (OMS) and DTCC (matching).
? Integrate Calypso and Murex to T-Zero and SwapsWire to be used for trade pre-matching.
? Define specifications for Calypso/Murex slice of Fortis production database for demo and "proof of concept" at the operational view.
? Ensure that work with counterparty and novational fail processes remains intact with integration with Calypso and Murex and that the original trade and new deals remains intact and unwinds have operational transparency.
? Perform detailed gap analysis to determine where Calypso and Murex vendor "implementation templates" failed to meet the growing needs of Fortis Investments for TRS, IRS, CDS, and CCX front, middle and back office specifically.
? Author detailed business requirements for Sophis equities, Sophis credit derivatives, Sophis Risque, Base Metals, Sophis for equity derivatives, commodities module of Sophis for futures and options deals and Structured Products.
o Extensive knowledge of the life cycle of exchange traded instruments (e.g. Futures, Equities, Bonds) and OTC products including FX, Rates, Swaps and Credit. Calypso Data and Event servers, Engines and engines log files, Workflow functions, Reference and market data, Calypso database schema
? Write detailed business requirements documents (BRD) and perform assessment of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes for front, middle and back office.
? Author "road-map" and assessment and integration requirements with Swapswire, DTCC, DerivServ and Bloomberg pricing data.
? Implement project plans and business requirements including configuration and trade blotter for Calypso, Murex, Sophis Risque, Sophis Value for Risk utilizing SQL for Toolkit.
? Write workflow documentation for downstream systems Decalog, Heliograph, Corona, ThinkFolio, T-Zero and Bloomberg.
? Develop and maintained testing scenarios and scripts.
? Recommend strategic initiatives and analyze OTC derivatives protocols and practices around DTCC, and Advent Geneva Global Portfolio Accounting System's RSL reports and instrument coverage including cliquets, CFD's and first to default for Fortis Bank, SWIFT, Swapswire, FpML, DerivServ, and ISDA.
? Configure trade capture and risk management system Calypso WebICE and (Openlink Endur) as the system of record for Natural Gas financial and physical trading.
? Authored business requirements for LDI liabilities replication framework consisting of Risk Reporting matrix, matching LDI NPV of liabilities through Zero-Coupon Swaps, Credit Spread, Duration Matching and Return Portfolio and Swaps in combination with bonds and pooled funds solutions.
? Create custom "end of day" calculations in the simulation framework, and modified canned calculations in Endur for M-T-M, Cash Month, P&L granularity required by trading and risk control analysts.
? Create custom instrument types in Endur in the user-defined interface which allows for separation of similar deal types. This allowed for an ENGY-SWAP to be traded execution venue agnostic, OTC or through ICE.
? Gained experience with exchanged-traded and OTC Interest Rate Derivatives, OPUS OTC derivatives and Listed Derivatives pricing, Equity Swaps, Interest Rate Derivatives, Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Foreign Exchange Swaps, Equity options, Swaptions, Foreign Exchange Options and Equity/Index Derivatives and Structured Credit Derivatives.
Shell Trading Houston, TX Apr 2007 - Jan 2008
Senior Business Analyst Contractor /Consultant
? Performed assessment of current Openlink Endur v.5 to implementation of Endur v.8 and directed integration with AcuRisk, Nucleus, Triple Point, Advanced Analytics, performance evaluation for remote locations.
? Prepared Cash Month Position Management, tactical tradebook, SENA, TPORT, Endur center of excellence workflow requirements.
? Led integration of Openlink Endur v. 8.x business requirements.
? Exposed to the following commodities: Crude oil, Natural Gas, LNG, heating oil, Naptha, Distillates, Natural gas liquids: including ethane, propane, butane and condensate.
? Performed Cash Month P & L Reporting
? Assessed Openlink and environment needs as it replaced DealView
? Met with OLF developers for review sessions to integrate Nucleus into Endur and write extraction requirements; review dBase logic and Endur GUI.
? Managed gMotion, Deal management, Deal Entry, Deal Capture and Deal modeling and transaction history, power, gas, scheduling, front office and gained mid-back operations experience.
? Implemented Daily Volume cuts and Price Changes, position monitoring, scheduling as well as oversaw tactical tradebook.
? Wrote short charter for financial reconciliations and built roadmap for Openlink Endur 8.x implementation, testing and extraction of Nucleus archived and real-time data.
? Supported a highly diverse portfolio of applications including: electric wholesale and retail trading, scheduling, risk management, settlement and accounting.
? Documented business and technical requirements, along with developing design specifications, test plans, and use cases for business requirements. Experience supporting Openlink's Endur application (version 8.0)
? Working knowledge of Openlink Endur base simulations (e.g., P&L), and the ability to create and debug user defined simulations. Ability to create and modify deal entry templates and deal skins.
? Ability to create and modify Endur reports using SQL, Business Objects and Crystal.
? Supported Endur ICE, Power Market Gateway and pMotion power scheduling interfaces.
? Experience supporting Endur in an electricity and power generation market environment.
? Strong SQL and relational database skills, using SQL Server 2005 or Oracle 10.
? Knowledge of electricity markets and operations and ISO, PMJ, FERC.
Bank of New York, New York City, NY Jan 2006 - Apr 2007
Project Lead/Senior Business Analyst Contractor
? Gathered business requirements and assessed of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes, reference data, data attributes and security master database.
? Asset classes covered include Interest Rate Derivatives, OPUS derivatives pricing, Equity Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Foreign Exchange Swaps, and Equity options, Swaptions, Foreign Exchange Options and Equity/Index Derivatives.
Recommend strategic initiatives and analyze OTC derivatives protocols and practices around DTCC, SWIFT, Swapswire, Wall Street Systems for treasury and asset management documentation; FpML, Advent Geneva Global Portfolio Accounting System, DerivServ, and ISDA.
Wachovia Bank/Evergreen Investments, Charlotte, NC June 2005 - Jan 2006
Senior Business Analyst -- Contractor
Long/Short Hedge Fund Derivatives Senior Business Analyst
Wrote business requirements and interviewed portfolio managers and traders to implement a new International Small Cap Long/Short Hedge Fund. The hedge fund seeks to take long positions in undervalued and under-followed international equities. BA responsibility is to map and test data requirements for futures, options and other derivative instruments into existing trade order management system and back-office accounting. Documented pricing methodologies for the funds unitization including fixed unit allocation, fluctuating unit allocation, cost distribution and daily balance method with back-office accounting for NAV, Pnl and reporting.
Created cash flow models for Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Currency Forwards, Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swaps, Equity options, Structured products, Currency Futures, Options, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), and indexes on commodity futures, i.e., the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) and the Dow Jones Commodity Index (DJ-AIGCI) and non-dollar Bond transactions on SimCorp Dimension's investment management software; diagram swap accruals, payment cash flows, and settlement scenarios to show gains and losses of hedge.
Documented how the following applications will be used in the hedge fund initiative:
Fact Set, Derivative Solutions, Thomson PORTIA, Macgregor Fixed Income Order Management and DTCC (Depository Trust Clearing Corporation).
JP Morgan Chase Columbus, OH Dec 2004 - Jun 2005
Senior Business Analyst -- Contractor
Latent Zero Implementation Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst
Tasked with documentation deliverables for the Latent Zero asset management front office trade order management system. Integration documentation for JP Morgan and Salerio stock trading algorithm tools for both asset and funding desk, and Asset Liability Management (ALM). Created test cases, test plans for Charles River compliance rules for the algorithm tools. Documenting all asset classes and instruments that portfolio managers and trade desks will be trading. Reconciliation from trade order management system to portfolio accounting system, and calculating NAV and pricing of assets on Advent Geneva. Implementing interfacing to DSTi's HiPortfolio and Check Free Trade Flow to clients, SWIFT and Accounting systems
Latent Zero Capstone suite consisted of Sentinel, Minerva and Tesseract. This application was complemented by Yield Book, CMS Bond Edge and Salerio and CheckFree Trade Flow.
Documented trade order lifecycle for all instruments: equities, equity options, structured products, equity derivatives, Fixed Income, treasury bonds, Auction Rate securities including corporate and municipal bond debt instruments, Variable rate Demand and Preferred, Dutch Auction Securities, OTC derivatives, energy derivatives, Structured products, Money Market instruments, FX, mortgage-backed securities, Asset-backed securities, alternatives investments, Collateralized Debt Obligations and the agencies (e.g., FNMA, GNMA, and FHLMC).
BP (British Petroleum) Naperville, IL Apr 2004 - Dec 2004
Senior Business Analyst (Contractor) APR Project (Automated Positions Reporting)
Requirements gathering with trade control analysts and traders to consolidate data repository for reporting BPs crude oil and products Futures & Options, hedges, swaps and Volumetric Exposure on the New York Mercantile Exchange up to regulatory bodies (NYMEX trade regulators and FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) regulators. Reconciling positions in IST Trade Control for APR (Automated Positions Reporting) for market and supply crude (WTI, Brent, others), heating oil (HO) and unleaded gasoline (UNL). Data, futures, options positions, EFP and Swap deals data from MOFT, US Crude Supply Exposure Model and US Product Supply exposure Model, Cantera, Camera (Houston), aggregate exposure Excel sheets from Calgary and Crude Excel sheets from La Palma. Business Objects, MOBO, MOFT (Middle Office Fast Track - position and pricing aggregator for Wet Deals), GlobalView external price feeds vendor for NYMEX, Platt's and OPIS.,Clearvision, Openlink Endur v5, v8, Allegro, Entegrate, Wall Street Systems (primarily responsible for specifications in Treasury for Credit Default Swaps booked outside of the APR project for hedge compliance) Triple Point (for deal valuation and calculation of OTC options); and PAWS (Petroleum Analysis Work Station used by the traders for M-T-M accounts, and SAP 4.6 (for operational and accounting system), and Zai*Net power trade capture system.
Responsible for business user review sessions, requirements gathering, UAT test scripts, gap analysis, data consolidation, benchmarks, metrics and attributes for Automated Positions Reporting.
Responsible for writing specifications to build data store, data assumptions, Dimensions, data fields specific to entity (hedge group), deal information fields (Market vs. Supply, Deal type: Wet, Paper, EFP, Swap); future specific and Option specific data(NYMEX open interest, IPE, OTC, option delta), and EFP specific, Swap, Market, Supply Crude (crude grade, WTI, Brent, Dubai, EOR, WOR crude categories) and product specific requirements.
Fifth Third Bank Asset Management Cincinnati, Ohio Dec 2002 - Apr 2004
Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst -- Capital Markets
Requirements gathering and project lead on initiatives to implement Straight-through processing (STP) for the Asset and Funding Trading Desks integrating Bloomberg Gateway and Bloomberg Portfolio Order Management System for data mapping trade tickets on securities and derivatives on the asset and funding desk to SunGard Middle Office Manager and SunGard InTrader and Wall Street Systems treasury application. Authored Charles River (CRD) gap analysis review sessions for order management selection. Charles River compliance module for Money Market fund and Rule 2a-7, eligible securities, ratings and alerts, warnings and exceptions documentation.
Managed project from initiation to close. SME for bank-traded Fixed Income products including Mortgage-backed securities, Asset-backed Securities, Equity options, Interest-rate and Credit swaps, structured products, TBAs, new issues, CMOs, agencies (FNMA, GNMA and FHLMC), Foreign Exchange and Interest-rate Swaps.
Effectively use PMO (Project Management Office) methodology to initiate, design, build, test, implement and close on capital budget expenditure projects, successfully and on time, while analyzing risk and issue impact on the project.
Straight-through processing project on Asset and Funding Desks. Requirements gathering. Lead review sessions. Instruments: Equities, fixed income, mortgage-backed securities (MBS), asset-backed securities (ABS), CMOs, CDO and the agencies FNMA, GNMA and Freddie Mac. Reference data workflows, FAS 133 for Hedge effectiveness testing, securitization and structured products and Derivatives Solution. Credit derivatives, commodities, futures, options, FX.
Primarily responsible for the configuration design of solutions on the Wall Street Systems Suite application solution for straight-through-processing platform for FX, Money Markets, Emerging Markets and the upstream and downstream interfaces. Engagement manager heavily interfacing with the functional design and run teams as well as with the Wall Street System vendor to provide application configuration solutions which fulfill the front - to back office trade processing and settlement.
Delivered BRD and FRD specifications tailored to business requirements for Wall Street Systems business functions and processes as well as testing and performing "proof of concepts" on WSS application functionality and capability across instrument types and sectors. Delivered "road map" and future state project initiation plans for the configuration of the application platform as well as design of any new configuration to fulfill the business requirements.
Detailed requirements for Wall Street Systems treasury functions and front/middle/back office standards for trade capture, pricing, valuation, risk, trade confirmation and settlement.
Functional Wall Street Systems documentation for asset classes IR and IR Derivatives (including bonds, Credit derivatives, Interest Rate derivatives) and FX and Commodities.
Mapped data and conceptual business requirements into business rules configurable and to be captured within the designated Wall Street Systems parameters/procedures, particularly for the front office Reuters data feeds.
Sungard InTrader, Wall Street Systems, Advent Geneva, Bloomberg TOMS, Bloomberg POMS, Reuters interface to WSS for data mapping; QRM (Quantitative Risk Management), Charles River Trader, Charles River Manager, Charles River compliance. RFP author for Charles River OMS evaluation.
Fuji Bank of Japan, Chicago, IL FX Trading Desk Sr Business Analyst Jan 1999 - Jan 2002
Developed applications to track risk exposure, trading positions, algorithmic models designed to capture best execution; and Monte Carlo simulations, arbitrage, and spreads and due diligence for traders on the Foreign Exchange trading desk. Utilized Excel spreadsheets and real-time trading floor applications such as Devon, Sun-Gard, DTN, Bloomberg and Reuters to manage risk exposure for the foreign currency trading room. Client/server transactional platforms utilized.
Responsible for analysis of derivatives, futures & options, foreign exchange and securities risk management.
Communicated with trading partners through e-mail and spreadsheet reports for trade
reconciliation. Remitted S.W.I.F.T. data for trade balancing.
Developed reports and Excel queries of Fixed Income securities trading and processing with emphasis on US Government securities (both outright and Repo) for bank management. Responsible for P&L reporting, confirmation with trading partners, and end-of-day reporting of positions.
Performed analysis on historical trade position data, trading trends and tendencies and opposing trade positions for fraud detection and trading limit violations. Reconcile F/X, wholesale, spot, ask and bid, cash and Euro positions.
Clarified the responsibilities of both dealers and brokers regarding collateral substitutions in Repo transactions and promoted best practices in the Repo markets for the bank.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago, IL Apr 1994 - Jan 1999
Senior Business Analyst, Futures and Options, Exchange-traded Derivatives, EuroDollar, S&P, IMM and Agriculture Futures and Options pits Trading Floor Project Manager
Successfully led and managed included extensive report creation of out-trades, trading and security violations. Responsible for investigative reporting, trading floor access and security, creation of passwords and security profiles. Analyst responsible for client/server and transactional processing. Led team of enforcement and risk personnel.
Created applications to link databases and trading floor clearing, transactions and margining applications through Reuters, Devon, Dow- Jones Telerate, GMI, DTCC, NSCC and GSCC for real-time trade matching, Bloomberg and SunGard for real-time views of ETD's, commodities, futures & options, precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium physical and cash settled), Eurodollar, Interest rate, S&P 500 Index and Commodity Index futures and options; Treasury Bonds futures, Treasury Bill futures, Federal Reserve Fed Funds Rates, Grains and Agricultural commodities, foreign exchange and derivatives for trading floor enforcement and operations. BRD specs for Globex 24-hour Asian and European markets electronic trading system and spot quote prices.
Developed applications to track risk exposure, trading positions, arbitrage, and spreads and due diligence for traders on the FX trading desk.
Education
De Paul University, Chicago, IL, 1993 - 1995
Certificate in Financial Markets and Trading in Finance - College of Commerce, 4.0 Grade Point Average
Certificates:
Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, London - Certificate in Derivatives, Feb 2011
B.A., Communications Studies (Incl) University of Detroit-Mercy, Detroit, MI
Computer Science Certificate Program, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
De Paul University College of Commerce -- Certificate, Financial Markets & Trading, Futures and Options Program, 1995
Series 3, (Commodities Brokers Futures Exam) National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), 1995
Six Sigma Green Belt, 2005
UML, (Unified Modeling Language) and RUP (Rational) Development Object-oriented development 2005
Charles River Development, Charles River Investment Management System compliance certification, Burlington, MA 2005
Project Management Institute (PMI), Dayton, OH chapter, 2005
United States Marine Corps, Marine Embassy School, Quantico, Tel Aviv, Israel, Brasilia Brazil and Beirut, Lebanon, Navy Achievement Medal
