GEOFFREY READ

Verona, NJ, *****

Home: 973-***-**** acsc5b@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 973-***-****

SUMMARY

Versatile IT professional with experience in Financial Services Industry, designing, implementing and maintaining back office systems in a mainframe environment. Effective in developing and enhancing systems that automate processes, and reduce staffing costs. Seeking contract or full-time opportunities.

KEY SKILLS

Applications Development Client/Server Interface Business Analysis

Foreign Exchange Trade reporting User Interface Payment Entry Systems

Retail Brokerage Systems System Troubleshooting Database Design

TECHNICAL SKILLS

COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, TSO, MVS JCL, VSAM, SYNCSORT, EXPEDITER, Microsoft Excel and Word.

EXPERIENCE

J.P. MORGAN CHASE/BEAR STEARNS, Whippany, NJ 1994 – 2014

Senior Applications Developer

Designed and implemented a payment entry and approval system to process mail checks, fed wires, ACH pushes/pulls and Money Market Fund purchases and redemptions.

•Developed automatic approval process, resulting in up to 70% of eligible payments being approved without manual review.

•Logically segregated payment database, by department, to allow for customized approval and processing options for each department.

•Payment entry could be made directly through CICS screens or using several client/server applications communicating via MQ series or DB2 Stored Procedures.

Designed and implemented a system to track and calculate margin requirements on Initial and follow on public offering trades/positions, thereby eliminating the need for manual monitoring and margin calculations.

•Created a database of IPO equity and debt securities using a data feed from third party vendor.

•Developed CICS modules and DB2 stored procedures for use by the margining systems to calculate house and regulatory requirements

•Produced daily reports of IPO activity

Designed and implemented a consolidated reporting/margining system for foreign exchange instruments.

•Reporting of daily FX activity.

•Reporting of open FX forward contracts and net positions along with unrealized P&L by contract.

•Reporting of open FX option contracts and net positions along with associated regulatory margin requirements.

•Reporting of cash balances and security positions being used as collateral.

Replaced a time consuming manual monitoring system by designing and implementing an activity tracking system in day trading accounts.

•Provided daily reports of day trade activity in accounts

•Performed margin calculations on the day trade activity and automatically notified the retail and prime broker systems of any margin call or restriction requirements

•Provided a method for external broker/dealers to supply trade execution times.

Provided maintenance and enhancement support for company’s existing back office margin and reporting systems.

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GEOFFREY READ

Home: 973-***-**** acsc5b@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 973-***-****

SMITH BARNEY, New York, NY 1983 – 1994

Lead Analyst

Replaced a manual entry process based on paper tickets by designing and implementing an on-line system to automatically process securities receive and deliver notifications from the Depository Trust Company.

•All transactions were received/transmitted via a direct LU6.2 link to DTC

•Receive notifications were matched against the cage and stock loan databases. Matching items were processed automatically and others queued for manual processing.

•Screens were developed to monitor transaction volumes, throughput and provide intra day balancing with DTC for numbers of transactions and dollar value

Designed and implemented a batch mutual fund ‘networking’ system.

•Provided balancing of customer positions between mutual fund groups and Smith Barney’s stock record.

•Booking mutual fund activity (buys, sells, exchanges) transmitted from the fund groups via SIAC.

•Processed dividend entries (cash and reinvest) transmitted from the fund groups

Designed and implemented an on-line mortgage backed securities system.

•Permitted trade input and correction for TBA and specific pool trades

•Provided a subsystem to allocate individual pools to TBA’s during the allocation process

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CARDIFF - UK

Bachelor of Science, Pure Mathematics and Computing Mathematics

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