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French passport
10 years Investment Banking experience in Interest Rate Derivative and Cash Markets IT solutions:
- 7 years of core experience in Summit API development, project management and business analysis.
- 3 years third-level support for Summit, Bloomberg TOMS and in-house production systems.
Seeking a role, which allows scope for me to improve my personal, technical and business skills. Positions that incorporate interest rate derivatives and associated business topics would be particularly interesting.
- More than 8 years experience mentoring and providing guidance to bank staff in Summit systems usage, extension, configuration and support
- Nearly 2 years Bloomberg administration and development
- Excellent front and risk processes understanding
- Strong interest rate financial products knowledge
- Strong OO-Design skills using industry standard Design Patterns and refactoring techniques
- Strong programming experience with C++ [STL], C# [1.1], Java [Servlets, JDBC] and MS Office VBA
- Extensive experience in relational database design and use
- Extensive experience with Unix tools (Solaris & System V) to analyse system issues and ensure their availability, reliability, maintainability and performance
- Strong experience of IT information management best practices
- Proven record of rapid problem resolution skills
- Strong experience with inter-application interface implementation best practices
- Large overnight batch process monitoring and problem solving and resources management
- Strong understanding of release management best practices
- Coordinated multiple regression tests for major software releases
In the last 10 years, I used various applications, tools and technologies. The following lists the ones with more than a year intensive experience:
- Sun workshop (C/C++) with xemacs - MSVS.NET 2003 C# - MSVC++ 6.0
- Summit API - Misys-Summit FT4.2, FT5.0 and FT5.1.1 Extensions - Summit eToolkit API - Infragistics Netadvantage GUI components
- Unix tools (Python, awk, sed, shell scripting) - Excel and Excel VBA
- Transact SQL (Sybase SQL extensions)
- Bloomberg ActiveX data control
- Excellent stress handling record on trading floors and with difficult users
- Excellent communication skills with management, teams, users and software providers
- Strong writing skills gained through multiple analyses, change proposals and technical guide authoring
- Strong ability to work on own initiative
- Excellent tutor and mentorship skills
- Enjoyed management trust throughout all the projects and employment experiences
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Professional experience |
| Jan 2008 | JPMorgan Chase - GDS | London/Bournemouth, UK | |
| May 2008 | Technical consultant and co-project manager for Summit FT and Distribution Server |
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- Documented required steps and mentored staff in implementation process
- Built diverse Proof of Concepts for project needs
- Recommended solutions for multiple general Summit usage and extension queries
- Coordinated and wrote large amounts of the project processes and technical reference documentation
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| Used technologies: Misys Summit FT5.0, MSVC 2003 (C# and C++) and Netadvantage Forms |
| Nov 2006 | Misys Banking - Treasury Capital Markets | Hong Kong/Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Nov 2007 | Implementation IT consultant |
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- Prepared technical pre-sales sessions for potential clients
- Assisted in technical matters for definition and negociations of "Scope of Work" documentation
- Provided training and mentoring for the Summit client on technical topics:
- Summit administration
- Summit e-toolkit module extension
- Summit toolkit and special API (Report, Curve Generation, Addin and Product Functions)
- Implemented Taiwan domestic market specific pricing and cashflow models in Summit (including Product Function Summit FT Front-ends)
- Helped define and implemented interfaces including special products and MUST specific trade data
- Coordinated and wrote large amounts of the project processes and technical reference documentation
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| Used technologies: Misys Summit FT, MSVC 2003 (C# and C++), Summit financial APIs, Summit MUST APIs |
| Jan 2006 | Summit Systems International/WestLB AG | Dusseldorf, Germany | |
| Oct 2006 | Co-project manager and technical lead for first Summit FT rollout phase (v3.8.3 with FT4.2) as a Summit Associate |
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- Technical analysis used for effort estimation and phase rollout plan
- Provided training and menthoring for the Summit client on technical topics:
- Summit FT extensions development
- Infrastructure required for the Summit FT Framework
- Release management possibilities
- Coordinated the development effort of 4 developers assigned to the project
- Coordinated FT related questions, issues, fixes and development work with Summit Systems International
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| Used technologies: Summit, MSVC.NET (C#), Sun workshop (C/C++) with xemacs, Zope and ZWiki |
| Aug 2005 | Summit Systems Paris/Far Eastern International Bank | Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Dec 2005 | Functional and Technical consultant for new Summit Treasury installation (v3.8.3 with FT4.2 and most RT services) |
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- Conducted interviews with the Front-Office, Risk, Middle-Office and IT to discuss about potential workflows. The financial products concerned were FX Spots, FX Forwards, FX Swaps, FX Options and Money Markets.
- Provided training and support for the Summit client on Summit FT extensions, Data Model extensions (with GUI changes on FT and classic) and other diverse eToolkit and Toolkit applications
- Developed credit exposure report using credit server data and based on special client requirements
- Developed an outgoing interface to in-house web based B2B system
- Assisted in specification writing for Data warehouse system outgoing interface and fully designed and implemented that interface
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| Used technologies: Summit, MSVC.NET (C++ and C#), Summit Toolkit and eToolkit APIs, Excel VBA, Oracle |
| Dec 2004 | DEPFA Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| Jun 2005 | Summit business analyst and project manager for risk area |
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- Conducted interviews with the Front-Office, Risk Middle-Office, Back-Office, Financial Engineering, and Accounting (including Hedge Accounting) departments to build an overview of all business processes and traded financial products. The financial products concerned are mostly secured loans and bonds issuance. The loans and bonds included complex coupons such as CMS spreads and Range accruals.
- Built several proposals to replace risk related in-house development with Summit standard tools.
- Documented and took over the existing in-house Credit Exposure reporting tools.
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| Used technologies: Summit, Sun workshop (C), Summit API, xemacs, ZWiki |
| Mar 2001 | Commerzbank AG | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Employer reference (german) |
| Nov 2004 | Summit C++ developer |
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- Managed and implemented a Corporate Bond Trading tool project to replace the NY Aurora system and integrate the process tightly to the central Summit System. The task included discussions with users about requirements, bug-fixing and automated tests development.
- Provided third-level support on in-house FX-Swap and FX-Outright trading tool. The task included discussions with users about requirements changes, bug-fixing and automated tests development.
- Organized User-training for the in-house MS Windows interface to Summit.
This tool allowed for easier trade entry (with template system and optimized GUIs for trades), documentation generation for CDS products, FX-swap/FX-spot automated trading and Corporate Bond Trading.
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| Used technologies: MSVC++ 6.0 (GUI builder and IDE), Sun workshop (C++), Summit API, xemacs, omniORB tools, Bloomberg ActiveX Data Control, Reuters SSL API and Summit API |
| Risk systems technical support |
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- Wrote necessary seminar material and held seminars for my technical colleagues giving them an introduction to the Investment Banking related topics theory
- Automated most monitoring and status reporting tasks of our systems.
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| Used technologies: Solaris, Unix shell tools, Python, Shell-script (ksh), XSLT, xemacs, SQL-92, Sybase Transact-SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Zope application server and the ZWiki extension |
| Bloomberg Trade Order Management System administrator |
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- Automated all monitoring and status reporting tasks related to Bloomberg TOMS.
- Developed fully automated and easy to maintain system for Bloomberg TOMS overnight reports distribution using shell scripts and Unix tools.
- Provided third-level support on Mummerts FABB/TABB application for real-time Bloomberg trade information extraction as well as interfacing to dozen of Commerzbank internal applications.
- Developed tool supporting Irish Stock Exchange regulatory reporting process using VB and the BBG ActiveX.
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| Used technologies: Bloomberg, Excel and Excel VBA, VB 6.0, xemacs, Shell-script (sh), SQL-92 and PL/SQL |
| Junior short-end interest rate trader |
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- Developed and maintained spreadsheets for automatic FX Swap/FX Outright price contributions.
- Traded on EONIA senior traders book 3M LIFFE futures.
- Responsible for direct quoting for large customers and Commerzbank AG group entities.
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| Used technologies: Bloomberg, Excel and Reuters; Excel VBA development |
| Dec 1999 | Commerzbank Securities | London, UK | |
| Oct 2000 | Trading floor Summit and Excel rapid developer |
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- Technical and developer support for dozens of undocumented in-house trader reports and tools. This included bug-fixing and coding for new requirements.
- Developed framework to import Summit Reports from Unix into Excel to replace Applix on the long-term.
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| Used technologies: Sniff+(C++), Summit API, xemacs, SQL-92/Transact-SQL, Applix ELF, Excel VBA, Reuters use, Solaris and Unix tools (csh, ksh) |
| Oct 1997 | CFP/Commerzbank AG | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | External consultant reference (english) |
| Nov 1999 | Summit and Solaris technical support consultant |
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- Technical support for the highly complex Summit architecture (the then largest Sybase replication environment in the world) as well as almost all Summit areas available at the time (Front Office, Middle-Office, Back-Office and Market Risk Management). Proven record of rapid problem resolution skills.
- Migrated crontab overnight batch to Autosys based overnight batch.
- Developed monitoring tools for replication system.
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| Used technologies: Solaris, Unix tools (csh, ksh) and SQL-92/Transact-SQL |
| French | fluent (mother tongue) | English | fluent |
| German | fluent spoken/read | Farsi | spoken |
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