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Project Manager Sales

Location:
White Plains, NY, 10605
Posted:
January 31, 2011

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Stephen A. Sandberg

Email: *********@*****.***

Phone: +1-917-***-****

Overview

Hands on Technical Project Manager/Business Analyst with 15 years

experience in capital markets both as a consultant and bank employee.

Areas of expertise: Structured Products, Credit, Interest rate and FX OTC

Derivatives with focus on pricing, risk, trade capture, and post-trade

workflow. Former developer, experienced dealing with C level executives,

developers, and sales/trading.

EXPERIENCE

Consultant Experience

Mid-Size web business

Project Manager

Aug 2006 - Present

. Technical administrator for well known political analyst to run

website and other technology initiatives.

. Manage relationships with hardware and service vendors, manage

outsourcing of development and manage the development and deployment

to production.

. Increased advertising revenue 170% by improving page layouts and

working with advertisers to onboard and address requirements.

. Cut page load speed by 70%.

. Technologies used: Apache, PHP, MySQL.

HSBC London

Market Risk Developer/Analyst

2010

. Supported vendor risk system used by structured products business.

. Worked with product control / reporting to investigate and fix issues

in calculations.

. Technologies used: PERL, windows scripting, LISP, Excel, SQL Server.

St. George's Bank Australia

Risk Quant / Analyst

2005

. Evaluated vendor for credit VaR suitability

. Recommended implementation and calculations for FX Options and credit

products (structured and single name CDS).

Traiana Technologies (a division of ICAP PLC)

2006 - 2009

Senior Project Manager, Program Manager, Interest Rate and Credit

Derivatives

. Managed and launched firm's derivatives platform to manage post trade

workflow between Broker-Dealers, Prime brokers, and Execution

Platforms for IRS and CDS. Clients included JP Morgan, Morgan

Stanley, Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital, UBS, and Standard Chartered.

. Project Manager for the largest contract in the company's history at

Morgan Stanley (FX and EM) to re-architect firms client connectivity

for order and post trade flow to asset managers, hedge funds and prime

brokers. Designed data flow and system architecture, wrote

specifications and managed development and reporting to senior

management.

. Managed a team of remote developers and local integration specialists

. Managed hedge fund integrations to Deutsche Bank's FX Prime Brokerage

. Managed the integration of the the FXMarketSpace FX platform

. Manage the upgrade of Credit Suisse FX Prime Brokerage Prime Brokerage

software platform providing trade matching and booking.

IT&e Limited, Sydney Australia and London, UK

2004 - 2005

Head of Sales Support

. For australian software company, supported sales support for advanced

enterprise risk and trading software.

. Responsible for offshore sales and secured company's first offshore

risk management sale to HSBC in January 2005.

. Designed Razor's credit migration methodology.

. Provided on-site business analysis at HSBC for Razor (risk management

software) Implementation.

. For ANZ Bank, Melbourne, determined the credit exposure impact of

moving to a Monte Carlo methodology from a MTM + Add-on.

Barclays Capital, New York, NY

2000 - 2004

Manager, Credit Derivatives Information Technology

. Managed a team of 10 programmers developing and supporting Barclays

global front office Credit Derivatives trading platform. Provide

system used to price and book single name and portfolio credit default

swaps and CLN's, provide reports to front office, product control,

risk and electronic confirmation matching systems (DTCC and

Swapswire).

. Supported global traders, product control, risk management, and

operations covering offices in New York, London, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Business Analyst, Risk Information Technology

. Worked with Market Risk and Credit Risk Managers to understand the

structures being used by trading desks, determine the risks associated

with these structures, and with a development group to implement the

required functionality. These were typically feeds to downstream

systems, reports, and analytics.

. Designed and implemented proprietary credit risk methodology for

special purpose vehicles involved in Collateralized Debt Obligation

transactions. This methodology examined the assets in a CDO and

allocated risk to the underlying issuers depending on the notes

retained by Barclays.

. Developed and supported NYMEX trading blotter to record daily

transactions and provide end of day checkout reports for use on the

trading floor.

MKIRisk, New York, NY

1998 - 2000

Senior Consultant

. Integration Consultant for CARMA Credit and Risk Management Analytics

software. Primary focus is risk engine analytics. Thorough knowledge

of CARMA Monte Carlo process for interest rate, foreign exchange and

spread rate simulation. Expertise with CARMA valuation models and

mapping for unsupported instrument types.

. On site integration consulting projects at Bank of Montreal, Toronto,

Salomon Smith Barney, New York, Royal Bank of Scotland, London, and

St. George's Bank, Sydney.

. Provided integration and analytics sales support for the CARMA product

for Dresdner Bank, Aetna, Westpac, and Goldman Sachs.

The Frustum Group, Inc., White Plains, NY

1996 - 1998

Programmer

. Developed Visual Basic 3 and 4 Client Server modules for the OPICS

Treasury and Capital Markets system. Senior developer for the Interest

rate and currency Swaps module.

. Developed application to create trade confirmations and statements.

. Trained customers to use and customize Access 95 application. Designed

custom confirmation templates for National Bank of Greece, ING Bank,

and JP Morgan.

. For confirmation matching project, wrote database triggers in SQL

Server/Sybase and in Oracle. For project to allow customers a post-

closing accounting window, created program to update average general

ledger balances.

Swaps Monitor Publications Inc., New York City, NY

1995 - 1996

Research Analyst

. Published quarterly Database of Users of Derivatives, tracking

outstanding derivatives of over three thousand end users. Managed data

flow and maintained database. Collected data from SEC documents,

annual reports, etc relating to derivatives exposure and holdings.

. Developed Excel interface to allow database customers to easily view

current and historical data. Designed screens and reports in FoxPro.

Programmed database crosschecks and performed database maintenance.

. Trained and directed data entry and research by assistants.

Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1995

Research Assistant

. Assisted Raghuram Rajan and Randy Kroszner gather research for

academic articles.

. Projects include article on Glass-Steagall legislation and analysis of

1930's beneficiary shareholders for comparison to modern mutual fund

holdings.

Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1992-

1993

Teaching Assistant

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

. BA, Economics received June 1995.

. Additional course work in statistics, multivariable calculus, and

computer science. Graduate level studies in population demographics.

. Completed course work in three academic years

Awards/ College Board Advanced Placement Scholar with Honor

1991

Achievements National Merit Scholarship Qualifier 1990



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