Project Manager Quality Assurance

Kurt F. Nielsen

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Closter, New Jersey 07624

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Summary of Experience

Extensive experience with U.S. equity and fixed income (U.S. Treasury and

agency, corporate, mortgage-backed, asset-backed and zero-coupon) and

international security (equities, fixed income and foreign exchange)

trading and portfolio accounting applications, including new module

development; full software development life cycle, including business and

requirements analysis, development support, quality assurance, system

implementation, client support and project management.

Relevant Skills

ICI/ADP (impact), Wilco Systems (Gloss), Eagle Investment Systems (Pace),

Bloomberg, Shaw Data, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Lotus,

Internet, Access, SQL, Visual Basic, Visio

Experience

2010 UBS Investment Bank - Jersey City, New Jersey

Director/Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager

Technology manager for the following projects:

. Improve middleware application for U.S. Treasury and agency fixed income

security trade flow including repurchase agreements and to streamline

trade flow between front-office and back-office trade routing systems.

. Move bank's assets for U.S. Treasury and agency fixed income security

trades and repurchase agreements between custody banks and to route

settlement of such trades through successor custody bank.

. Reroute collateral movements from legacy application through existing

middleware application and back-office vendor solution, enabling the

retirement of legacy application.

2006 - 2010 Citigroup Markets and Banking -- New York, New York

Vice President/Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager

. Business manager for projects to reroute domestic and international

trades through applications with greater trade volume capacities,

enabling the retirement of less efficient trade routing systems.

o Directed quality assurance for project, including construction of

unit acceptance testing scripts, coordination of unit acceptance

testing with system users, and verification of test results.

o Constructed and maintained detailed project plan for project suite.

o Coordinated project meetings between business and development staff

and with system users.

. Successfully managed project for new module that automatically calculates

length of settlement time period for extended settlement domestic and

international security trades, reducing settlement and failed trade

risks.

o Wrote detailed requirements document for project enhancements.

o Liaison between firm's system users and business and development

staff for the gathering of client requirements.

o Directed quality assurance for project, including construction of

system integration testing and unit acceptance testing scripts,

coordination of unit acceptance testing with system users, and

verification of test results.

o Constructed and maintained detailed project plan.

. Served as business project manager for initiative that has replaced

obsolete trade matching and trade break management systems with state-of-

the-art solutions.

o Liaison between firm's system users and business and development

staff for the gathering of client requirements.

o Completed and presented to business users comprehensive analysis of

currently-used applications for trade matching and trade break

management, with proposals for rollout of enhancements to

streamline processes.

o Produced high-level and detailed requirement documents for system

enhancements, including discussion of requirements with business

users and developers; changes to requirements and communication of

such changes to all affected groups; development of enhancements,

and production of user documentation and test scripts.

o Led user system training sessions for operations and middle office

business users.

o Contributed to end-to-end testing of application infrastructure,

trade matching logic and trade exhibits.

. Acted as interim project manager for firm effort to compress firm trades

into smaller numbers of larger trades, which has reduced firm's trade

processing costs.

1997-2006 ADP Brokerage Services Division -- New York, New York/Jersey

City, New Jersey

ICI/ADP 2002-2006

Senior Business Analyst (2004-2006), Business Analyst (2002-

2004)

. Successfully managed firm's "Variable Rate" initiative to improve system

support for floating-rate and factorable U.S. fixed income security

trades. Duties include completion of enhancement specifications,

interpretation of business requirements for programmers, coordination of

quality assurance and support of product rollout. Led system

conversions, including coordination of system testing, identification and

resolution of system errors, and training clients and internal staff.

. Spearheaded firm project to combine related system enhancement requests

and develop enhancement packages as a single unit.

. Liaison between existing clients and firm's development staff for the

gathering of client requirements for enhancements to firm's impact U.S.

fixed income security trading system that support client needs.

. Responsible for production of high-level and detailed requirement

documents for system enhancements, including discussion of requirements

with business users, Development staff and Quality Assurance team

members.

Wilco Systems Inc./ADP 2000-2002

Business Analyst/Internal Project Manager

. Liaison between new clients and firm's sales and development staff for

the gathering of client requirements for implementation of firm's Gloss

trade settlement product for international equity and fixed income trades

at client sites.

. Contributed to implementation of Order Management product by completion

of quality assurance tests and test plans.

. Completed comprehensive disaster recovery plan for firm, including

procedures for system operation and continuation of company business

during periods in which firm operations must be conducted offsite.

Merrin Financial/ADP 1997-1999

Associate Product and Project Manager

. Spearheaded development, planning and marketing of firm's euro currency

system, including design and implementation of system enhancements,

conducting client and staff seminars, and authoring documentation for

company's Web site.

. Created new Windows portfolio modeling system: module screens,

specifications for new functionality and prototype.

. Improved user documentation by creating guides for new user applications

and updating existing documentation.

. Responsible for design, specification and quality assurance of Windows-

based and Sybase-based system enhancements and corrections to the

company's main trading support system (Merrin Financial Trading

Platform).

1999-2000 Technology Solutions Company -- New York, New York

Senior Consultant/Business Analyst

. Implemented portfolio accounting and trading system interface packages at

client sites and from vendor firm's site.

. Developed system interface pilots: wrote data mappings between systems,

tested data uploaders and performed data queries.

1994 - 1997 Stacey Braun Associates -- New York, New York

Senior Portfolio Analyst (including U.S. Treasury, agency and

zero-coupon fixed income issues)

. Coordinated with CEO all aspects of clients' quarterly portfolio

performance reporting.

. Significantly increased reporting efficiency by implementing system to

track and composite returns and market values.

. Produced special reports comparing firm performance with competitors for

marketing and gaining new business.

1990 - 1994 Shaw Data Services -- New York, New York

Product Manager (1994); Product Analyst (1992-1994); Client

Service Representative (1990-1992)

. Resolved client and staff issues about performance measurement theory and

company's performance systems.

. Instrumental in development of new LAN-based portfolio accounting system.

. Completed new manuals for futures and options capabilities plus

performance measurement on PC-based system.

. Conducted general and performance system training seminars at client

sites and Shaw offices.

1985 - 1990 Merrill Lynch & Company -- New York, New York

Financial Analyst (1989-1990); Junior Financial Analyst (1985-

1989)

. Calculated quarterly returns of client portfolios for which Merrill Lynch

served as third-party consultant.

. Assisted brokers by answering questions about department's performance

measurement products and gathering information about prospective asset

managers.

Education

Colgate University: Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics; Bachelor of Arts,

Russian Studies

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