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Commodities / Futures Professional

Location:
New York, NY
Posted:
May 20, 2015

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BILLY CALLOWAY

PO BOX **

Brightwaters, NY *****

312-***-****

acpsa1@r.postjobfree.com

Fora Financial; New York, NY Present

Capital Specialist

Close new business consistently at or above quota level

Understand & apply proven concepts of deal structure and strategy that are proven models for achievement

Work phones diligently to generate new business

Follow up on leads and maintain an active pipeline daily

Serve as a champion for Fora’s suite of products

Manage a portfolio of clients and maintain contact with existing customer base

Expert in Small Business Lending

Maintain timely & accurate records of all interactions with customers and internal departments via Salesforce

Allen School of Health Sciences; New York, NY 2012-2014

Executive Enrollment Advisor / Online Recruitment

• Responsible for recruiting qualified applicants for admissions to the Allen School

• Highest retention rate (76%) of all advisors for past two years

• Year to date enrolled 125 students of which 67 made the honor roll, of those 40 made ‘high honors’ (4.00 GPA with

100% attendance)

• Manage inquiries to achieve monthly application, quarterly & annual enrollment goals

• Build relationships with students to generate referral opportunities, further network contacts, and ensure highest level

of customer service

• Participate in forecasting & recruiting efforts by researching, developing, & maintaining enrollment/sales plans

• Team leader and mentor to eight junior advisors

• Strong organizational skills with ability to create effective strategies, the passion to direct, prioritize, and motivate a

team around that strategy and vision

• Display exceptional time management skills

The Art Institute of New York City; New York, NY 2011- 2012

Assistant Director of Admissions

• Responsible for recruiting qualified applicants for admissions to the Art Institute of NYC

• Managed inquiries to achieve monthly application, quarterly & annual enrollment goals

• Prospected phone contacts to secure weekly standard appointment set, interview activity & follow up with

interviewees and future class applicants

• Accurately portray Ai’s educational programs, expected outcomes, student services & financial consideration to

students, parents and educators

• Participated in recruitment & enrollment activities including: open houses, presentations, training sessions &

orientation programs

• Projected new students for Director of Admissions

UBS-Wealth Management; Weehawken, NJ 2008-2009

Associate Director of Futures & Precious Metals Trading

• Desk trader which included execution, monitoring, entry and reporting of futures, futures options, precious metals

& equity options orders.

• Monitored markets, futures & options trades, and ensured accurate quotations and reporting of prices are rendered

to the Financial Advisor.

• Executed orders and report fills for retail and institutional clients on a 24x 5 cycle.

• Reviewed orders and fills to ensure accuracy, proper record keeping, and compliance.

• Responsible for trade capture & breaks

• Sent & maintained all expiry warning notices to clients

• Advised clients of option assignments

• Processed all exercise request

• Assisted in the input, deletion & withdrawing of trades

• Ensured that the various exchange limits (CME/NYMEX-COMEX) were respected and adhered to on a daily basis

and that all positions were correctly reported.

• Reviewed daily pricing exposure reconciliation with traders

• Oversaw compliance of exchange & house position limits defined for customers

Bear Stearns; New York, New York 2006-2008

Senior Trader/Futures Execution

• Executed futures and option orders in Metal, Energy, Grain, Soft, Interest Rate, Currency, Equity Index and Exotic

Commodity markets via electronic trading platform, e-mail or telephone for Institutional clients.

• Developed, build, manage and expanded relationships with Institutional clients for execution and prime brokerage

services.

• Quoted, notified and relayed market information to clients on a daily basis.

• Liaised with domestic/foreign brokers and research departments to provide timely market information to clients.

Monitored and executed trades in Asian, Australian, European and U.S. futures markets.

• Confirmed and validated trade entry and market price verification for clients.

• Coordinated with middle and back office to resolve trade issues and breaks.

• Organized, maintain and transfer order book to subsequent shift.

MF Global; New York, New York 1998-2006

Manager of Online Execution Services

• Managed desk responsible for global order flow in US and international interest rate, equity, and commodity futures.

• Successfully created a trading desk that executed over 800K contracts per month

• Supervised desk staff of six (6) execution professionals

• Worked with sales force in the marketing of all commodity, futures and derivative products.

• Oversaw daily compliance issues in regards to trade execution & pricing

• Conducted day to day trading and execution reviews with traders and management

• Responsible for the maintenance and expansion of client relationships

• Maintained customer P&L positions, margin requirements

• Handled trade capture & settlement issues

• Worked with IT on the development, updating & implementation of trading platforms

Lamonaca Trading; New York, NY 1986-1998

Supervisor of Commodities Trade Support

• Co-managed floor trading operations for four commodities exchanges

• Arbitrage execution for gold contracts for proprietary basis

• Provided market insight and feedback for retail base

• Oversaw order executions on all commodity exchanges

• Product development trainer for all operational aspects on the commodities exchanges

• Responsible for solving all trade reconciliations throughout the day

COLLEGE: Hunter College, New York.

ACTIVITIES: Member of Dave Jordan Coaching Cycling Team



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