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Pierpaolo Pisapia

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Mob-075********- London

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A proactive, dedicated and methodical Business Analyst within physicals and metals who combines advanced IT and technical skills with fully developed articulate qualities to engage and influence key stakeholders and clients. Demonstrates a strategic perspective on improving operational performance and adds commercial value through outstanding analytical, organisation and planning capabilities.

I am now completing my Honours Degree in Business Technologies and looking for a challenging role within a large organisation in northern Europe as a Business Analyst, Commodities Trader or Futures Trader where existing skills and experience can be used to their best advantage. Key Skills and Achievements

• Successfully developed a range of commodities portfolios over 4 years which continue to operate with 10% yearly growth outcomes

• Competently delivered 4 major refined application development projects through the full BA lifecycle, a ‘go live’ upgrade and 2 software implementations for concentrates software users

• Elicited requirements including the understanding of the AS IS situation, identifying current business problems, analyzing their causes, determining benefits and capturing the business requirements and/or business rules. Analyzed the requirements from the raw data.

• Created the sequential flow of the functional requirements by creating the use cases. Personal Attributes

• Maintains a calming presence in this fast-paced and dynamic environment

• Patient and relentless with a real team player attitude

• Committed Futures Trader with a determination to achieve excellent results for any employer Career History

Brady plc Metals HQ, Cambridge – Business Analyst - Client Executive Support Nov 2013 - Nov 2014 Acted as Client Executive Support within metal commodities trading by being proactive in identifying and resolving technical issues related to client performance requirements.

• Fostered mutually beneficial working partnerships with major clients including HSBC, SBL and Louis Dreyfus, Glencore, Mitsubishi, MRI, Traxis and many more.

• Worked alongside software developers to support the development of technical solutions and applied Agile methodologies to ensure project performance against objectives.

• Demonstrated extensive SQL experience to identify and extrapolate current trades affected by issues by running virtual simulations of client environments.

• Liaised with traders to calculate the risk management of specific trading transactions and identified risks related to external factors that could affect the share price or the market.

• Undertook testing related to concentrates trading software reproducing the client’s environment on virtual servers and analysing issues through exported databases to enable delivery of appropriate solutions. Pierpaolo Pisapia - Business Analyst / Commodities Trader / Futures Trader / Senior Business Analyst Additional accomplishments included:

• Proactively participated to the UAT testing, development and requirements elicitation for the latest Commodities Management Solutions for Metals and Mining (Fintrade) and the newly released New Hedge Manager solution (CTR).

• Developed a comprehensive troubleshooting procedure for 2 clients with robust attention to detail

• Total management of upgrading risk management tools and trading software versions on 200 machines.

• Coordinated between clients and technical staff to fully realise implications and impact of software change requests on Trinity by using Agile methodology

• Tasked as Kanban Scrum Master for final 6 months organising workload and prioritising tasks

• Identified technical issues with Company trading software applications (Trinity, Aquarius, Opval, CTR)

Italgenio Ltd, City of London - Commodity Trader Jan 2009 - Jun 2013 Commodity Trader primarily tasked with buying and selling physical Metal Commodities –Refined,Concentrates

(Zinc, Copper, Aluminium, Steel and derivatives ) as well as managing API order placements. Devised innovative commodity strategies, managed implementation across all business functions and delivered contract reviews. Cultivated productive working relationships with suppliers and contract partnerships. Provided direction to commodity buyers and interfaced with clients to determine investment goals, constraints and risk tolerance. Used mean-variance optimisation to determine favourable products to fit parameters.

• Achieved 10% price reductions on real commodities by operating a complex and insightful market analysis then developing and implementing successful strategies

• Conducted relative value analysis and monitored news flow and macroeconomic fundamentals

• Operated with TWS, interfaced with Excel and Matlab and monitored an EC2 virtual machine Genworth Financial Inc, Shannon - Claims specialist June 2010-July 2012 Sykes, Shannon, Ireland - Systems Analyst Customer Services Officer Mar 2008 - Dec 2008 Education and Qualifications

• Honours Degree in Business Technology –LIT Limerick –Ongoing until 2018

• Fundamental analysis LME (2014)

• Hedging Options with LME SWAPS (2014)

• Introduction to LME and Warehousing (2014)

• Thomson Reuters Complinet Administrator Market Abuse course (2013)

• General and car insurance claims managing certificate. (Gruppotoro)

• Foundation Degree in Education, Italy (1996)

IT Skills

Certiport Certified Microsoft Office Specialist (MICROSOFT CERTIFICATION ID: 12687585); SQL Server 2008; Windows, DOS, Unix; SDLC methodologies; Agile; Tracking Management tools: JIRA (Scrum-Kanban) Trading Software - TT; Stellar; ICE; TWS; CQG; Trinity; Aquarius; Opval; Dinamyte, CTR, Fintrade. Skills Matrix

Business analysis commodities trading futures trading requirements gathering operational management market trading stakeholder management stakeholder engagement stakeholder development portfolio management portfolio performance strategic planning technical management Agile methodologies JIRA Waterfall methodologies SQL functional specifications software development IT development project management project delivery project planning process planning systems analysis tracking management supplier development supplier engagement risk management risk assessment problem resolution issue resolution troubleshooting service delivery team building CRM Languages - Fluent English and Italian -Full driving Licence- References are available upon request Pierpaolo Pisapia - Business Analyst / Commodities Trader / Futures Trader / Senior Business Analyst

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