Data Manager

Contact

Christopher J. Lomauro Tel : 732-***-****

e-mail : *********@***.***

Address

** ******** *******, *** **, New York NY, 10040

Profile

Objective To Obtain a challenging position within IT with growth opportunities.

From June, 2009 (Negotiable)

Availability

Key Skills

Proficient or familiar with a vast array of programming languages, concepts and technologies, including:

Volmeister Cisco, Java, Endur Windows, UNIX, BSD ICE

Fenics SQL Server MDS, Bloomberg, Reuters Network fundamentals

Languages

Spanish (Not Fluent)

Work Experience

JP Morgan Chase, New York

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Senior Technology Officer June 5 2005 to June 30th, 2009

Provided trader support for FX Options, GCCG (Global Currencies Commodities Group), Energy,

Corporate sales desks

Various trading platforms included Volmiester (FX volatility analysis), ICE and RLOMS (Reuters Limit

Order Management System), Endur.

Identified, diagnosed, and resolved functional and technical problems and business critical incidents

through research and analysis of trends, root causes, and business impact.

Highlighted functionality issues to Business Analyst and the Plan teams while developing and utilizing

appropriate tools to perform daily work.

Management of the end-user client relationship on day to day basis.

Supported and continuously improved knowledge sharing while being responsible for tracking change

requests and high severity incidents in accordance with defined service levels.

Provided and supported application services that best fit client’s current and future needs while

communicating status with end users at all times.

Involvement in a Rota to ensure adequate coverage across for all desks.

Improved and built relationships with the Investigate and Infrastructure Teams while building a strong

partnership with the IRFE (Interest Rate Front End) Team Leader.

Provided support and knowledge of advanced application functions, configuration options.

Fulcrum Global Partners, LLC.

Market Data Manager January 2005 to June, 2005

Managed all of the domestic market data operations, overseeing 60+end users.

Negotiated contract terms and pricing with vendors sales representatives.

Created the customized solutions for the market data end-users based on their requirements.

Translated the business requirements into functional requirements for the development team to create a

market data order management system and inventory database.

Analyzed the yearly budget reports and ad-hoc cost data for upper management.

Facilitated the network/server upgrades and maintenance with network administrators and vendors.

Maintained the disaster recovery infrastructure for 24/7 redundancy.

Performed the research, testing and evaluation of the new market data applications and inventory

tracking databases (i.e MarkatDatalnsight, FITS, MDSL, Infomatch, and Finoffice)

Reduced the annual market data expenses by over $ 1 million through contract negotiations, vendors’

consolidation, usage optimization, and infrastructure upgrades.

Performed the daily maintenance and support of firm-wide (Asset Management, Banking, Fixed Income,

Equities, Equity Research) real-time front-end applications and back-office infrastructure.

Reconciled the vendor invoices against the inventory database, allocated departmental costs and

payables.

Tracked and updated the market data and entitlement inventories with moves, ads and changes.

Documented the installation instructions and network diagrams for the Help Desk and Desktop Support

personnel.

CitiGroup

Market Data Analyst/Consultant June 2003 to November, 2005

Interfaced with the outside vendors including: Verizon, AT&T, MCI and various ISP providers for the

purpose of establishing primary and secondary communication lines.

Performed the Recovery backup (Redundancy) testing.

Evaluated the in-house procedures and methods for the established companies to determine the cost

effectiveness.

Implementation of new Market Data Systems.

Worked closely with Market Data infrastructure team, and with other groups (networking, security,

desktop systems).

Assisted Business groups to analyzed and define requirements and recommended potential solutions.

Conducted contract negotiations with market data vendors.

Inventory management and reporting to end users to provide cost transparency.

Billing administration and user charge back in association with Accounts Payables and IT finance staff,

and reliability, which often included making necessary changes/or recommendations.

GFI Group Inc

Market Data Manager November 1994 to February, 2003

Managed a team which consisted of twelve to fourteen employees and consultants.

Responsible for coordinating all of the aspects of implementing and maintaining the Market Data

communications to the external clients, as well as the internal ones.

Evaluated the products based on the business need, project or cost cutting initiative, and drawing upon

past experience.

Utilized Project management experience in order to deploy systems firm-wide, while being able to

troubleshoot technical issues that may have arisen during deployment.

Worked with other technical members of the market data team and directly assisted in the development

and deployment of the internet Market Data Feeds (ECN’s)

Responsible for deploying the Enterprise Java/J2EE trading applications in the financial industry. The

Data feeds included: GFInet FX Options, GFInet Energy, GFInet Enspace, GFInet Eurocal, Fenics.

Possessed the working knowledge of both voice and data products, including: (voice, private line,

SONET, and DWDM, IP Transit, VOIP, IP convergence, Frame/ATM, IPVPN accessing any channel.

Established the firm’s new business communication routes to South America.

Interacted daily with management, outside vendors and business heads to supervise the contracting,

procurement, tracking, reporting, allocating and budgeting of all firm-wide Market Data and research

services.

Handled all areas of external and internal Market Data support, Reuters Triarch, Ribco Teknekron,

Bloomberg, etc.

Supervised and delegated all troubles calls for the trading support help desk for 300 brokers, including

voice and data, networking, internally as well as externally.

Client/Vendor liaison, conflict and problem solver.

Identified & implemented the cost reduction & revenue recovery initiatives.

Conducted the monthly/periodic client status meetings.

Acted as a key contact between GFI Group and Client Company.

Achievements Activities and

July 2000 Internet Microsoft TCP/IP Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Object Arts, New York

July 2001 Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices

Global Knowledge, New York

Building Scalable Cisco Networks

July 2001

Global Knowledge, New York

November 2002 UNIX Level I and II

Global Knowledge, New York

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