Neil Patel

**** ********* ***** • Baton Rouge, LA 70816 • 225-***-**** • abmqjd@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Seeking a challenging senior business analyst role which engages my interests in software

development, data and systems analysis and product development

TULANE UNIVERSITY, FREEMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS New Orleans, LA

Master of Business Administration May 2010

Cumulative GPA: 3.82

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY Baton Rouge, LA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering May 2002

Cumulative GPA: 3.7

Cum Laude graduate

EXPERIENCES:

JP Morgan: Investment Banking Group New York, NY

Interest Rate Swaps & Credit Program Management - Business Analyst May 2006- October 2007

JPM’s JETS team focuses on building a global execution and trade processing front-end application work

for the Fixed Income, Credit and Interest Rate desks of the investment bank

• Expanded the JETS application to cater for increasing strategic business requirements while focusing on a process

oriented analysis leading the eSwaps initiatives for the sales traders and marketers.

• Strategic efforts to progress towards using JETS as the principal quoting and order management system for electronic

bond and swaps markets globally (e.g. further integrating with Marketview, Tradeweb)

• Gathered requirements from different businesses and communicated them to the development team

• Worked closely with the development team to define user stories and acceptance tests

American Stock Exchange New York, NY

Market Operations Business Analyst- Options July 2004-May 2006

• Senior Member of Market Operations Analyst Team. Functioned as a business liaison with AMEX

technology development members. Involved in release planning and UAT/QA testing

• Gathered and documented business requirements. Analyzed and identified the required system

functionality for options trading technology including defect management

• Developed and executed test strategies, test plans, and test cases for system verification and user

acceptance testing. Wrote and maintained system documentation, including requirements and use

cases

FXCM New York, NY

Foreign Exchange Sales & Trading Support June2003-July 2004

• Opened largest account in company history valued at $15 million. Increased quarterly sales

benchmarks from baseline of $3 million to $20 million

• Program manager for technical updates for all software releases. Managed 5 people on a team.

Managed deployment of software infrastructure and updates in a time sensitive manner

• Client Services: Senior member of a technical support and software sales staff in a FX Trading

environment

SKILLS:

• Professional & Management skills: MS Project and Office Suite, Proficient using CRM tool

Salesforce, Ruby, & VBA

• Engineering tools: Trading Technologies (Energy markets), Interests in Android Development,

GoogleMaps development, Adobe and mobile web development

• Financial research tools: Reuters, Bloomberg, Ifrmarkets: Thompson,

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES:

• Microsoft business certification for Excel 2007

• Series 3 Registered Commodities Representative with National Futures Association

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