Manager Project

Burton G. Cutting

SUMMARY

Results-oriented business analyst and solid technologist with extensive and

diversified experience in financial services, 15+ years of hands-on

experience in trading and management projects covering a wide variety of

capital market segments (equities, equity options, fixed income, futures,

forex, and economic/reference data; both domestic and global) and delivery

platforms (PC, client-server, mainframe, web). Successful achievements in

delivering projects to front office/middle office/back office business

units; excellent research skills.

Financial and Quantitative Competencies

. Knowledge of equities, equity options, fixed income, forex, and

economic/reference data products

. Option pricing, sensitivity analysis and Greeks

. Bond and yield curve math, duration and convexity, cashflow fundamentals

. Technical and fundamental market analysis for futures and equities

. Data visualization, statistical techniques, time series analysis,

quantitative simulation/modeling, econometrics

. Reference/economic data research; domestic and global

. Presentations: MIT Conference on Information Quality, program committee,

2000-2003, 2006-2007, research paper 2007; Beltwide Cotton Economic

Conference, research papers, 1996 & 1999

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: MS-Project, Primavera Project Planner, Xplanner, Remedy

Change Management

Business Analysis: Microsoft Office Professional (Access, Excel, Outlook,

PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Visio, Word), Primavera,

ClearQuest, SharePoint, BusinessObjects

Financial Software: YieldBook, OMR's TradeThru, FIX Protocol

Financial Data: Historical Prices, Reference Data [trade, clearance,

settlement, classification (NIACS, ISO CFI), reporting,

ratings, Calendar], Security Master (equity, options,

futures), Data Quality, Data Visualization

Languages: APL, C, Excel/VBA, Fortran, PL1, VB

Operating Systems: UNIX (SUN Solaris and HP-UX), Windows/NT/XP, MAC, Mainframes

Software Tools: Toad, Embarcadero

Statistical Tools: SPlus, SPSS, Visual Numerics, Mathematica, RATS, TSP

Databases: Sybase, Oracle, Informix, SQL, Time Series, Teradata, Golden

Source (data warehouse)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

BNP Paribas (Consulting)

4/2010 - 10/2010

Responsibility involves

. SME on referential data for Global Execution Services (electronic

trading, LT/HT) of BNP Paribas, NY office; assigned to middleware

project; SOA environment supporting equity, options, futures trading.

Additional projects included cleaning ISIN/SEDOL code issues in the

OMS/algo database, designing a statistical reporting template for the

Referential Services, reviewing global derivatives repository design, and

analyzing Dodd-Frank reform bill.

Software/Platform: C++, Java & Java Servlets, Tibco Rendezvous, CORBA, FIX

Protocol

Royal Bank of Canada, Capital Markets

5/2006 - 4/2010

Responsibility involves

. Equity options product manager for RBC's Accel electronic trading

platform; manage full SDLC; wrote business requirements (BRD),

workflows, wrote option analytics, designed UI, acquired real-time and

EOD data services; handle supporting vendor services.

. Product manager for Options Symbology Initiative (OSI): wrote business

requirements (BRD) and functional requirements (FRD) for Accel;

participated in OSI committees; wrote workflows, wrote client release

notes.

. Commodities/futures product manager for RBC Accel; wrote business

requirements (BRD) and workflows, designed UI, created futures

security master (US, Canada, England), acquired data services; handled

vendor services.

. Manage domestic and international market data acquisition for Accel

platform - reference data, historical series, real-time; coordinate

with RBC's contract team.

Software/Platform: C/C++, SQL, Windows NT/XP, MS Project, ClearQuest,

SharePoint, FIX Protocol (options)

Princeton Information Management, Consultant

2/2004 - 05/2006

. Senior Business Analyst - Consultant to Bank of America Securities:

Electronic Trading Services (ETS) projects.

. Project Manager - Consultant to Pershing LLC: eCommerce asset transfer

project.

. Senior Business Analyst - Consultant to Bank of America Securities:

Bank-wide marketing system (campaign tracking, payment of customers,

and analysis).

Caxton Associates

2/2001 - 2/2004

. Analyzed workflows/processes/data flow problems within and between

Operations, Accounting, and Treasury Departments; suggested solutions

implemented by IT; documented automated trading system and all

associated data flows for CIO.

. Lead business analyst and report developer on (a) wash sales analysis

program for Tax Department, (b) operations trade checkout and

reconciliation system for Operations Department - data warehouse of

trades (equity, fixed income, commodity) and all supporting accounting

information, and (c) general ledger monthly feed program for

Accounting Department. Report development was done in BusinessObjects,

including freehand SQL development; responsible for full SDLC.

. Excel/VBA: Developed fundamental market data trading model done for

senior manager and supporting performance statistics and graphics;

developed statistical analysis routines for Accounting Department.

. Word/VBA: Developed routine for distribution of client reports through

email/fax.

Software/Platform: Oracle / Solaris, BusinessObjects, Access, Windows NT,

VBA (Excel, Word)

Merrill Lynch, New York

5/1999 - 1/2001

. Budgetary, tracking, and forecasting responsibilities handled for all

projects; full SDLC responsibility.

. Project leader for global assets allocation web-based analytics & SQL

dB system using state-of-the-art optimization techniques applied to

international equity and bond indexes; developed site for ML Global

Strategy, also delivers ML research publications; (NT platform-based

using tools from Oracle (8.1.6) and MathSoft; the site is functional

in NetScape and IE).

. Strategy Screen for Windows (SSW): a capital markets portfolio asset

reporting system used by domestic and international FCs & is supported

by a SQL dB of all domestic equities, fixed income securities, and

mutual funds held by ML clients; also includes approximately 2000

indexes for performance analysis reporting; directed conversion of

program from DOS to Windows, along with enhancement of system

(reporting, graphics) and SQL dB; PC program based on tools from MS

(C++, Access) and Seagate (Crystal Reports).

. Equity Screen for Windows (ESW): used by domestic and international

FCs, ESW is a capital markets stock picking program for all equities

followed by Merrill Lynch Research & is supported by a SQL dB of

market, technical, fundamental, and security valuation analytics;

direct production, support and enhancement of system; developed time

series dB of bi-weekly ESW data sets that is used to support back-

testing for ML money managers, ML Quantitative Analysis Group, and ML

Asset Management; PC program based on MS C++, with proprietary dB.

. Directed development of a suite of time series dBs to support needs of ML

global research for capital markets - equities, fixed income, mutual

funds, global strategy, and quantitative analysis; using MS C++ and

Oracle 8.1.6 with SQL Analytics.

Software/Platform: C++, Access, Oracle, SPlus, Windows NT, Excel, MS

Project

Prudential Global Asset Management

1/1998 - 3/1999

. High Yield Bonds: Developed market analysis graphics package for

trading desk.

. Municipal Bonds: Wrote BRD (business requirements) & specifications

documents for dB migration project from mainframe to client/server

supporting IDS's GIMII product.

. Data warehouse study team: Developed BRD with workflows/dataflows.

. Trade Reporting Dept.: Wrote quartile graphics package in Excel/VBA

for use with Excel and PowerPoint; developed documentation on

functions for migration to a client/server.

. Equities market business analysis: member of Security Master Database

steering committee.

Software: YieldBook, Excel/VBA, GIMII, Oracle, Windows

Dow Jones Markets, Telerate

6/1996 - 1/1998

Web Delivery of Economic & Market Data

. Budgetary, tracking, and forecasting responsibilities handled for all

projects.

. Project leader of web-based analytics & database system based on n-

tier architecture using Informix Universal Server, datablades (web,

SPlus) & Java; designed data model & navigation system; directed team

of 25.

. Directed development of data visualization library, derivative

volatility index and graphical package in SPlus.

. Government Bonds: Developed economic database (using Informix)

synchronized to world bond markets, including economic indicator

release date package - both developed & emerging markets.

. Developed business plan for fundamental capital market DB, including

portfolio & security valuation analytics.

. Negotiated contracts for economic data with WEFA and FIBER; also with

MathSoft/StatSci.

. Negotiated contracts for enhancement of DJ Global Equity Indexes

(fundamental Latin American & Asian data).

. Director of the Dow Jones Global Equity Indexing Conference (23

July, 1997, NYC)

. Taught "Introduction to Capital Markets" course at NYU (fall '96) with

Gregory Kitter.

Software/Platform: JAVA, Informix / SUN Solaris, SPlus, Excel

Commodities Corporation

11/1990 - 5/1996

. Designed, developed & implemented customized computer systems for

traders.

. Developed Futures Price Index, Volatility Index & Commitment of

Traders Report.

. Developed MarketWatch Report on global futures, forex & options on

futures.

. Wrote fundamental market analysis reports on cotton, coffee, and

copper markets.

. Conducted research studies for other departments (asset management,

risk management, etc.).

. Developed 'benchmark' portfolio for managed futures department.

. Directed the development of the Informix-based Research dB (cash,

futures, forex, and technical indicators); worked closely with IT

department on design, development & documentation.

. Team member of migration project moving trading analysis and

performance simulation software (TechTrader) from mainframe to

client/server.

. Wrote user manual for TechTrader Global Market Trading Simulation and

Analysis System.

. Wrote Market Analysis & Trading Manual on fundamental and technical

analysis of futures markets, including fundamental and technical case

studies.

. Commodities Corporation Merit Awards (1992, 1993, 1994).

. Managed Futures Association, Forum 96, workshop on Performance Index

Construction and Evaluation, Washington, D.C., proposed, coordinated

and chaired (May, 1996).

Software/Platform: C, Fortran, SPlus, Informix / SUN, Windows, MAC,

Excel/VBA, RATS, TSP

Prior Positions 1/1981

- 11/1990

. Senior Business Analyst to Lehman Brothers (Taxable Fixed Income)

- Managed production of Lehman Brothers Treasury Bond Index,

supervised staff of 10.

- Served on the three year planning committee.

. Senior Analyst to Prudential-Bache Securities (Futures)

- Designed & developed options evaluation package.

. Computer Analyst to Merrill Lynch Futures

- Designed & developed Merrill Lynch Commodity Futures Price Index.

- Developed commodity portfolio trading system - CPS II; administered

for two years.

- Served on New York Futures Exchange CRB contract design committee.

EDUCATION

. Ph.D. program (Economic Geography), Rutgers University, through 1981

. M.S. (Applied Economics), Rutgers University, 1978

. B.S. (Environmental Studies), Stockton State College, 1975

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