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Location:
7090
Posted:
March 09, 2010

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Robert Xiong, CFA

Cellular: 917-***-****

*** ****** ******* ******: 212-***-****

Westfield, NJ 07090 E-mail: *******@*******.***

Summary:

Work in Citi Cash CDO desk quant group

Daily interact and support CDO/CLO secondary traders/TRS Desk/Structured

Credit Oppt. Fund with analytic and valuation tools

Provide CDO drilldown model for ABS CDO super senior valuation

Implement and improve several key Citi Cash CDO models and valuation

methodologies include simulation model based on collateral price and Gaussian

Copula

Provide monthly valuation for over 100 deals include CLO/CBO/EM/Trups for

Citi clients/sales

Be able to provide start-to-finish valuation/pricing /modeling solutions for Cash

CDO/CLO/RMBS/ABS/Leveraged loans

Strong knowledge in fixed income/structured credit area include modeling and

deal structures on cash/hybrid/synthetic CDO, RMBS (Sub Prime/Prime/Alt-

A/Pass through), CDS on CDO/ABS, CMBS, Credit Card ABS, ABX, CMBX,

LCDS/LCDX and leveraged bank loans.

Years with Moody’s Investor Service. Familiar with rating methodologies.

Proficient in using Intex API /Intex Desktop

In-depth Knowledge on Intex Dealmaker and CMO Modeling language

Be able to work independently as well as in a team. Possess solid analysis,

problem solving skill as well as interpersonal skills. Highly motivated.

Familiar with ABS CDO super senior/CLO various tranches valuation

Solid financial engineering skills

Solid programming skills include C/C++/Java/Excel VBA

Columbia EMBA expected 2011

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Citigroup CDO Desk, NYC 04/2006 present

Rapid Development Team AVP

• Implement CDO drilldown process to calculate CDO write-down depending on relevant

mortgage loans remittance status (from Loan Performance). It involves using RMBS

prepayment model to generate CDR/CPR/Loss severity curves based on HPA scenarios

and underlying mortgage loans delinquency/foreclosure/REO status. It then computes

CDO write-down levels based on RMBS write-down. This method is officially used in

Citi SPG’s ABS CDO super senior valuation and write-down amount calculation.

• Implement Monte-Carlo simulation model for cash CDO based on rating/market price

implied default probability, Gaussian copula for time to default and stochastic recovery

rates.

• Analyze collaterals for CLO/CBO, back out credit risky spreads based on

CDR/CPR/recovery rate/amortization schedule and be able to extend as a CLO

simulation model.

• Provide NAV tools to Citi Structured Credit Opportunity Fund

• Develop NAV calculator for CDO which include collateral market values, IR swaps and

accrued interest. Useful for distressed/EOD/liquidation analysis/monitoring.

• Provide and distribute month-end marks for CLO/CBO equity/combo notes to Citi sales

and clients

• Create CLO/CBO/CLO^2/TRUPS CDO issuer jump-to-default/jump-to-recovery

analytic tools for risk analysis and hedging decision

• Calculate market-value based delta for cash bonds

• Create weekly price/yield matrix for 800 corporate CDO deals

• Create Merton model-based tranche pricer for cash CDO bonds

Work on Citi structured credit quant library

Work with TRS desk to valuate total return swap on leveraged bank loan portfolio

Do break-even analysis, WAR/WAC for CDS on CDO.

Calculate key statistics include delinquency rate, REO/Foreclosure, geography

concentration from Loan Performance for thousands of subprime, prime and Alt-A deals

Familiar with Citi CDO Structuring tools.

Familiar with CDS on CDO/ABS calculators

Familiar with CDO/RMBS/CMBS bond valuation based on Intex

Familiar with Intex wrapper API and write application to do analysis based on cash flow

and waterfall structures.

Knowledge on Intex Dealmaker, Desktop and Intex CMO modeling language.

Reverse-engineering Citi Hybrid/Synthetic ABS CDO deals using Intex Dealmaker based

on offering circular and Citi structuring tools

Build Intex CDO/RMBS/CMBS/ABS database that includes over 2500 CDO deals with

data on capital structures, collaterals and amortization schedules.

Calculate CLO warehouse MTM for second loss positions using Merton Model.

Familiar with bank loans and build loan database (loanX from 2003 and LPC from 2006)

Implement LCDS MTM methodology based on cash loan spreads.

Build bond price database include corporate, ABS and MBS from Hamper and TRACE.

Generate loan ID mappings dynamically between Intex and loanX, Intex and LPC.

Build up Pari Passu mappings among CDO tranches.

Work on loan warehouse VaR project to Feds/OCC; calculate three-year risk measures

using Yield Book, conduct trade prices, market prices and block trade price analysis.

Facilitate and help identify risk breaks among different risk groups and financial control.

Do regulatory capital calculation for warehouse and syndication based on BASEL I rules

Familiar with Yield Book user bond approach to calculate risk

Tools used: Intex, Yield Book, VBA, Oracle, Bloomberg API, Access

Moody’s Investors Service, Corporate Finance, NYC 04/97 4/2006

Senior Application Developer/Business Analyst

• Implement Moody’s Issuer ratings methodologies based on multi-tier

quantitative and qualitative factors combined with weighting schema to produce

issuer ratings. It covers total of sixty-one industries. The first among

implemented are Pharmaceutical, Gaming, Chemical and Steel.

• Create Moody’s Bank Loan Report, five-B analysis

• Create Moody’s issuer rating graph.

• Implement financial statement private and public adjustments based on GAAP

and IAS standard.

• Design and Implement Financial Reporting System in Visual C++/VBA to

facilitate the process of portfolio comparison, credit risk research and financial

ratios report and financial data.

• Implement FiRST in ASP/VB .Net to integrate corporate finance credit risk

research and projection modeling. It involves financial Statement analysis and

adjustment, industry sector comparison; key indictors based on industry, pro

forma reports.

• Design, Develop & maintain WIRED Intranet to analyze and generate reports on

debt level, issuer level, upgrade/downgrade, rating outlook, issuer rating, market

share, watch list, speculative grade liquidity, industry outlook, global credit

rating front/inside page, new issuance analysis and five-B analysis.

SKILLS

Mathematics: Stochastic Calculus, Statistics, Numerical method, Linear Algebra, Calculus

Finance: CFA level III candidate, Quantitative Finance/Derivative theory, Credit

Derivative/Fixed income theory/product/application/modeling

C/C++, VB/Excel VBA/VC++, Java/J2EE, ASP .Net, VB .Net,

Language:

Sybase, Oracle 9, SQL Server, Access

Database:

Intex, Bloomberg, YieldBook

Tools:

Education:

Columbia University, NY

EMBA Expected 2011

1997

Wesleyan University, CT

Computer Science, MS

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 1990

Computer Science, BS

VISA Status: US permanent resident



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