Stephen
Tsui
Contact details
** ********* ***, ****** ****** NY 10309 917-***-****
*******.******@*****.***
Technical skills
Sun Unix, Shell scripts, Perl, Apache, MQ, TIBCO/RV, Windows, Sybase SQL,
Remedy and
HPOVO tools, TCPIP, Reuters and EBS trade feeds, DEC MVS, PL/1, FORTRAN,
COBOL
Investment Banking business product knowledge
Strong product and front-to-back trade flow knowledge in Foreign Exchange
cash and derivative
products, FX Prime Brokerage business, Fixed Income and Rates products
including Bonds,
Mortgage Backs, FRA, Treasury Bond Futures and Options.
Professional experience
UBS AG Stamford, CT
06/98 - 07/11
04/04 - 07/11 senior FX Applications Support Analyst
. Worked on the day to day support functions of a FX Risk Management
system
and a set of Global e-commerce applications with external facing
portals delivering
FX Prime Brokerage, reporting and research services.
.Together with other regional teams in Zurich, London and Asia,
provided a 24 by 5
global support service.
. Demonstrated hands on proficiencies in troubleshooting, root cause
analysis, incident
management and proactive service delivery improvement.
. Experience in handling critical trading application crisis
situations. Able to escalate
and assemble expertise from different areas including development,
network,
Unix admin and DBA's depending on issue at hand to emergency calls
and restore
services to traders in the shortest time possible.
. Worked directly with FX sales and traders, Operations, and Business
Control
users, understanding and resolving their issues and requests in
timely matter.
. Expertise in Reuters and EBS Straight Through trade feeds via
Dealhub.
. Developed a trade delay analysis tool using Perl to extract trade
flow and time stamp
details from various logfiles allowing us to identify trade
processing bottlenecks which
eventually led to app changes that greatly improved overall trade
booking speeds
and peak volume capacities
. Continuous improvement and created ad hoc scripts and cron jobs for
early detection
of potential system and trade flow issues
. Created Perl scripts to easily monitor progress of End of Day jobs
and Month end
file generation status. Greatly improved early problem detection and
reduced
manual monitoring effort.
. Participated in the provision of all UBS FX applications access to
the UBS -
Brazil startup business despite many technical challenges and tight
deadlines.
. Technologies used - Sun Unix, Shell scripts, MQ, TIBCO/RV, Windows,
Apache,
Sybase SQL, Perl, supported applications written in Java and C++
06/98 - 04/04 Senior FX Applications Support Analyst
. Day to day support functions of a Global FXMM Cash trading system
providing
Risk Management and Analytics to Sales and Traders.
. Created many ad hoc user reports relating to trade queries using
Perl
. Participated in two major replacement migrations of the system:
a) from a Windows based regional system to a DEC MVS based global system
b) from DEC to a Sun Unix based system (MOR)
. Quickly and successfully adapted to the technology changes. .
Swiss Bank Corp. (UBS), Singapore Branch
02/94 - 06/98
FX applications Integrator
. Successfully installed a Windows based FX trading system (FX Trader)
in Hong
Kong, Singapore and Tokyo offices despite limited available
resources, ambitious
deadlines, and language barriers (in Tokyo)
. Implemented Straight Thru Processing to back office systems.
Established single
ticket input resulting in huge efficiency gains in the Operations
areas.
TCAM Consulting, New York
05/93 - 02/94
Development Consultant
. Completed development of an Equities Program Trading Application.
. Corrected a deficiency in the communications module enabling the
application to
meet the requirement of sending at least 30 orders/second speed to
Exchanges.
. Technology - IBM system 88, PL/1 coding language
Swiss Bank Corp (UBS), New York
01/87 - 05/93
01/92 - 05/93 Applications Integrator
. Installed a Windows based FX trading system (STORM) in a number of
medium
sized Swiss Bank trading centers to support FX trading activities.
08/09 - 12/91 Application developer
. Developed an FX options back office system, included Black Scholes
formula.
. Also wrote the full functional specs, with precise payment and
accounting entries
. Installed completed system in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and
Frankfurt centers
01/87 - 8/89 Development Team Lead
. Participated in the development of a Global Fixed Income trading
system.
Stratus based, used PL/1 Languages
Citicorp, Capital Markets Group, New York
01/80 - 01/87
Developer
. Worked on a number of Front and Back office systems supporting Money
Market
Products such as Govt. Bonds, TBills, Mortgage Backs, BA's and TD's.
- Designed a Stratus based front office trading system for Fixed Income
products
- Business Analyst, expertise on Bond yield curves, pricing, duration
calculations
- Initially joined as a FORTRAN programmer
Education: New York University. B.S. Accounting (1980), + concentration in
Computer Science