J B Lee
Manalapan, NJ *****
Cell. 732-***-****
E-mail:*****@*********.***
BUSINESS SUMMARY
As a financial technologist and strategist in the banking/financial
industry (FX, Interest Rate Derivatives, Energy, Equity, Commodity and
Credit Derivatives and Private Funds), I have continuously delivered
solutions over decades. The implemented emergent technology aligned with
strategic management included IR derivatives, FX, equities, commodity,
portfolio management and risk management to maximize operational
efficiency, identify trading opportunities and perpetuate profitability in
the markets. There were seven financial systems designed, delivered and
supported to cover operations across front, mid and back office operations
at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi-UFJ, Refco and ATM. In addition, I also managed
the implementation of two non-financials in Pension and Health Funds (AFTRA
H&R Funds).
Proprietary Application Systems developed/delivered/supported:
. Interest Rate Derivatives (arbitrage and speculation on IRS, FRA,
futures/options) and Structured Deals at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
. FX (spot, forward, swap, listed futures/options) at Bank of Tokyo-
Mitsubishi and, Refco
. Cash Equities with algorithmic trading at ATM
. Energy (Power, Nature Gas, Coal, Emission, Oil, etc. listed/OTC
markets) at NRG, AES
. Treasury Loan and multi-company, currency GL system at Refco
. Precious Metal, Coffee, Soy Bean, Sugar, Live Cattle/Hog
(futures/options) at Refco Inc.
. Government Securities, CMO/MBS at Refco Inc.
. Health Eligibility System at AFTRA Health & Retirement Funds
Retirement Funds
. Integrated Health and Pension system at AFTRA Health & Retirement
Funds
Professional Skills:
. Managed overall operation aligned with systems architected to maximize
the efficiency
. Production support and Service management
. Change Management: conduct continuous improvement process (CIP)
. Vendor and Service Management
. Established professional IT environments composed of Infrastructure,
Systems, Network, Security and Compliance Audit
. Procurement, Evaluation and Deployment of 3-rd party software
. Project management for development, infrastructure, DR, integration
. System capacity planning
. Applications software development and/or production support:
Energy Commodity (Power, Coal, NG, Emission)
Interest Rate derivatives (OTC IRS, FRA, listed financial
futures and option): pricing, portfolio mgmt, arbitrage,
speculation, hedging operation, yield curve distortion FX (Spot,
Forward, derivatives)
. Risk modeling, Stress test, Convexity/Bias evaluation, market
and credit risk analysis, VaR, MaR, DV01, daily net present P/L
evaluation and reconciliation
. Fixed Income (government securities, Repo), MBS, ABS
. Enhancements of Algorithmic Trading strategies in Cash Equities
markets
. Health and Pension system
. Commodity (Precious Metals, live hog, Coffee, Soybean)
Technical Skills:
. OS: Unix (Solaris, AIX, HP), Windows, Linux, VMS
. Databases: MS-SQL, Oracle 10g, Sybase SQL, Progress, MySQL,
. Languages: C#, C++, C, Java, ASP.net, VB, PERL, UML, XML, HTML,
cshell, korn shell, CGI, Java Scripts, COBOL,
. Network & Storage: Grid Computing/Cloud Computing, TCP/IP, Citrix,
VMware, DECnet, SNA, SS7, Novell, ISDN, NetApp, EMC, Veritas
. Data/Tele Communication: NT, VoIP, T3, Radian, Cisco PIX, firewall,
trading turrets (BT, Etrali, V-band, IPC)
. Others: Visual Studio, ASP.net, Eclipse, MS Office, Citrix, FIX, MS
Project, Visio, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, MQ, ERP, CRM, Calypso,
Murex
Third-party software: SunGuard (Siera, SAM, Zainet, Zainet Analytics,
Devon, Opus, Infinity, GLtrade), Bloomberg, Fxall, EBS, EBS-FRA, Summit,
Wall Street Systems, CCRM, FNX, Calypso, ADP/OMR, Thomson, Impact, Reuters
Dealing, AVT, Cognotec, TradeWeb, BrokerTec, Blackbird, EBS-FRA, FIX,
Reuters Tibco, Globex, Bridge, MDM, FITS, GLOBEX, PeopleSoft, FIX, ECN,
MDA, InfoReach, CRD, Tora, LAVA, Portware, FlexTrade, UNX, Brass, Fidessa,
Tora, MS CRM, SX.e, Kronos, Solomon, Aegis, Data Synapse (Grid/Cloud
computing)
EDUCATION
Stevens Institute of Technology
Candidate of Executive Master of Technology Management - Hoboken, NJ
New York Institute of Technology
Master of Science in Computer Science - Old Westbury, NY
Northeast Missouri State University,
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Computer Science - Kirksville, MO.
Fu Jen Catholic University
Bachelor of Arts - Taipei, Taiwan
Credentials: Secret Clearance
EXPERIENCE
IFTI, New Jersey 4/2013- Present
Product Manager/Business Analyst/Support/QA
Designed, implemented, QA and support Interest Rate Derivatives and FX
proprietary portfolio management trading systems of global Treasury and
Capital Market operations.
. Short and medium-term Interests Rate Derivatives Products: IRS, FRA,
OIS, futures (Euro Futures, Bond futures, Fed Fund Futures), options,
FX Spot, Forward, Swap
. Engineered and implemented Arbitrage Process on Interest Rate
Derivatives trading (OTC products hedged with listed futures) covered
on-balance sheet and off-balance sheet portfolios trading.
. Enhanced and support L-T Interest Rate Product (IRS, Swap option,
structured deals) traded in Capital Market
. Enhanced Risk Management to automate daily MaR, VaR, EaR,
CashFlow@risk,Yield Curve Bias, Risk Exposure of actual vs.
theoretical positions, NPV, DV01 changes
. Supports cover Risk Management, front office portfolio trading and
back office operation, database administration (MS SQL, Sybase,
Oracle) and network configuration (UNIX, Windows)
. The implementation of Money Making System (MMS) facilitated management
of hundreds of portfolios across front, mid and back office in NY,
London, Tokyo sites
Trade Station, 2011 - 2013
Consultant/Sr. QA Engineer
. Self-constructed real-time spread-sheet based portfolio monitor to
benchmark existing FX OMS trading activity, in position, P/L, margins
calculations
. Verify individual functionality of newly in-house developed FX system
. Conduct unit test, system test, integration test and End-to-end test
on newly developed FX back office with the enhanced IBFX (OMS)
. Provide du-diligent research to resolve inconsistent scenarios of FX
behavior in risk measurement
. Provide findings and recommendation
. Test and support Sungard FX systems (Siera, SAM)
L3 Communications - Eatontown, NJ 2010 - 2011
Consultant/Head of Operation Specialists
. Conduct overall strategic planning, evaluate technological risk,
financial risk, operation risk and development risk
. Design and implement the project plan to coordinated the relocation of
system facilities exist in two campuses, 81 units Generate test plans,
cases to conduct Quality Assurance on applications, infrastructure,
DR, etc.
. Manage a classified project involved various technologies and their
adoption
. Executed Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan
NRG Inc., AES Corporation, Energy Trading and Global Risk
2008- 2010
Princeton, NJ / Arlington, VA
Consultant/ Commodity Trading and Risk Management
. Initiated, architected, designed an integrated a global trading system
to manage portfolios of Energy (Power, NG, Coal, Emission) with
Interest Rate derivatives, FX deployed by 6 countries, 12 locations
. Project management for the implementation of Consolidated Global
Commodity and Risk Exposure system cover IR, FX, and Energy
commodities (Power, NG, Coal, Emission)
. Deployed and supported Zainet, an Energy Trading System
. Implemented various front-end subsystems of Coal and Actualization
process with integration of Zainet, SAP
. Conducted risk measurement, VaR, MaR, Cash@Risk, Earning@Risk on
consolidated global commodity (Energy, FX, IR)
. Production support for Power, Fuel, Emission, trading operations
across front, back office and risk management departments
. Solely supported Counter Party Risk Management System
. Supported Overall Risk Management department including operation risk,
development risk, models evaluation (Monte Carlos, Stress Test)
. Daily support in P/L, Portfolios values, Curve Feeds, M-T-M,
reconciliation, etc.
. Implemented and supported Grid Computing Environment to accelerate
calculations of VaR, MaR, Earning at Risk, etc., Risk Analytics models
. Initiated Continuous Improvement Process to improve daily trading
operations
. Project Management: conducted full life-cycle of trading application
projects
. Conducted change management to control production releases
. Established process control across front, middle and back offices
. Implemented DR plan to sustain national-wise trading operations around
the clock
American Federation TV and Radio Artists Health & Retirement Funds 2004 -
2007
New York, NY
COO/CIO
Responsible for implementation of overall tech savvy operations and IT
service: strategic planning, application systems development and project
management aligned business processing with IT.
. Reported financial, operational, technological aspects of the 4-
billion Funds office to 22 Trustees on board on quarterly basis
. Evaluated investment results of Funds managed by 20+ money managers
. Worked closely with Actuaries to mitigate financial shortfalls of
Funds office
. Allied with technical and financial partners (Disney, Fox, Sony, CBS,
NBC, ABC) to increase the competitive advantages and sustain business
operation to provide Health and Pension Solution for broadcasting
industry
. Initiated the Merger/Acquisition with SAG (Screen Actor Guild) Funds
office to reduce the overhead burn rate, consolidate the operating
cost
. Established IT department and management: visioning, servicing,
staffing, processes. Re-engineered in-house operations, revamped the
entire applications and infrastructure, I managed the pool of staffs
separated in seven teams to collaborate daily operation of this $3
billion private funds.
. Revamped IT infrastructure: backbone for data/voice communication,
automatic processes enabled, help desk operations, off-site DR
. Initiated, architected and implemented application systems and
support; Health Eligibility, Health and Pension Integrated system,
Collection and Pension systems
. Implemented QA and metrics to improve customer service levels;
deployed NICE, IVR, intelligent voice and data facility to increase
the quality of service
. Project Management: Managed overall Projects-Life-Cycle developments
to meet long-term objectives and short-term tactics
. Automated in-flow cash to distribute Health and Pension benefits to
members
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi - New York, NY 1989 -
2004
New York, NY
Head of Global Trading Technology Planning, Treasury and Capital Market
Responsible for Global Interest Rate Derivatives, FX portfolio trading and
production support across front, mid, back offices, risk management
operations in NY, London, and Tokyo.
Conducted SWAT analysis on behalf of bank, initiated, architected, designed
and implemented IR/FX proprietary trading systems to create the market and
make the market in Treasury, Capital Market across United States, Europe
and Asia:
. Short and medium-term (less than 4 years) Interests Rate Derivatives
Products: Architected and designed Interest Rate Derivatives and FX
system including Arbitrage and Speculation trading operations for on-
balance sheet and off-balance sheet trading operation e.g. IRS, FRA,
OIS, futures, options, FX spot, forward. The implementation of Money
Making System (MMS) facilitated management of $260+ billion portfolios
trading across front, mid and back office in NY, London, Tokyo sites
. Long-term Interest Rate Product (IRS, Swap option, Structured Deals)
Managed the implementation of Wall Street system to cover long-term IR
Swap operations in Capital Market
. Aligned with Tokyo's strategic plans, formulated global trading
strategies for Money Market and FX including derivatives products,
currency, and cash funding operations.
. European Treasury Office: Initiated and implemented the global
Interest Rate Derivatives system (MMS) across European Treasury Office
(London) and US Treasury Office (NY) to leverage arbitrage trading
opportunity, strengthen speculation sensitivity, and synchronize
global operations and system development.
. Foreign Exchanges: An alliance of FXAll.com, co-established
**@***.***:
. Participated in technological and financial alliances with
technology providers and enabled OTC FX trading service to serve
bank's customers on global basis.
. Participated to launch FXALL.com to increase the currency
liquidity
. Co-Launched **@***.*** in-house currency trading portal to
consolidate the bank's global trading operations, address the
liquidity issues
. EMU: Solely responsible for Euro conversion and reconciliation of 194
portfolios across London and NY Treasury offices
. EAI: Bridged more than 45 automatic islanders across platforms,
through seamless STP and integrated front, back and mid offices
operations
. Managed the global implementation of Wall Street System, Summit System
across NY, Tokyo, London, HK and Singapore and the integration with
MMS
. Implemented bank's global network and a $50-million trading floor
located in NY.
. Consolidated eight front-office systems and operations, adopted the
technology-hybrid trading facilities including trading turrets with
700+ brokers' lines, trading machines (EBS, Reuters and Dealing), and
market information services (Reuters, Bridge, Bloomberg, etc).
. Vendor Management and maximized the ROI: manage over 16 vendors on the
budget of $20 million/ year. Financial Results: $10 millions/3 Years
. Twice solely responsible for the implementation of trading environment
(floors) in World Financial Center with 250 positions embedded in the
comprehensive trading technologies and facilities (market data
services, Triarch platform, WAN, LAN, trading turrets) and midtown
location with 380 trading positions.
. Established Risk Management Unit to conduct daily MaR, VaR, EaR,
CashFlow@risk/Risk Exposure/M-t-Market/NPV, DV01 changes