Kenneth X. Zheng
Phone number: 201-***-****
*********@*****.***
Professional Experience
**** - *******: Consultant, JPMorgan Chase, CIO.
. Developing new functionality for an exist system which was built in C/C++
and used for portfolio analysis and risk management in fixed income
products.
. Providing production support such as working with users to identify
issues, investigating the root causes of the abnormal results, etc.
2002 - 2012: Programmer/Analyst, HSBC Global Risk Technology.
. Leading the implementation of a limit and exposure management system to
monitor the limit usages and to manage the limit excess.
. Responsible for supporting and maintaining several credit risk management
systems which were developed with RiskWatch, C++/Java, Shell/Perl scripts
and Sybase. The systems are running on both Unix and Window platforms.
. Responsible for developing and integrating new products such as callable
swaps, IR options, FX options, CDS so that the systems can calculate the
risk more accurately.
. Responsible for market data management such as converting delta
volatility surfaces into strike volatility surfaces.
. Responsible for migrating IR products from a legacy system to SUMMIT.
2000 - 2002: Programmer/Analyst, Bank of New York, New York
. Responsible for supporting a market risk management system composed of
RiskWatch, UNIX shell scripts, Perl scripts and executables to run an
overnight batch to calculate risk measures such as VaR, Theta, etc. and
to perform stress testing.
. Responsible for updating and maintaining a FAME database for HistoRisk
which is used to generate variance-covariance matrices among the risk
factors chosen to create Monte Carlo scenarios for RiskWatch.
. Responsible for developing new preprocessors for new data feeds and
adding new products to the system, using C++, Perl, etc.
1999 - 2000: Software Engineer, Liberty Brokerage Inc. New
York
. Responsible for maintenances and enhancements of LTS (Liberty Trading
System) which used UNIX for its server platform, Sybase as its back
office and NT as its front office.
. Responsible for the development of a swap GUI on the LTS front end, using
MFC.
. Responsible for supporting traders using LTS and fixing the bugs when
they were identified.
1997- 1999: Programmer/Analyst, Reuters Analytics Group,
Connecticut
Responsible for the development and the maintenance of Warrant Analytics
Library using C/C++ in both UNIX and NT. This analytic library provides a
broad range of analytical tools for users, such as calculating option
prices, implied volatility, delta, gamma using different models (binomial,
Black-Scholes, etc.).
Responsible for development of Equity Analytics Library using Excel and
VBA. This library provides the fundamental analytics for stock market.
Responsible for the Y2K tests against those analytical libraries under both
NT and UNIX environments
1995- 1997: Actuary/Programmer, Swiss Re Services Corp., New York
Responsible for the development of a stochastic model for insurance
products, using APL on the server side and Visual Basic on the client side.
This model utilizes weighted linear regression methodology and Monte Carlo
simulation to estimate the future loss.
Applied the model to analyzing customers' data from all lines of
Property/Casualty insurance business for premium pricing, projecting loss
reserves or for simulating the volatility and the distribution of the
future loss
Computer Skills
C/C++, Java, JSP, Visual Basic, Perl, APL, RiskWatch, UNIX/Linux/Windows,
Sybase, Oracle, Fame, SVN.
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1995
Areas of Study: computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics and
finance