Head of Trading / Trading Technology - front/middle/back office

Christopher S. Bleuel adax4i@r.postjobfree.com

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Imperative Execution, Inc., Stamford, CT 2018 – present

Principal Trading Operations Engineer – IntelligentCross ATS

Trading technology, DevOps (complete SDLC), client facing, and data analysis skills are all utilized to provide operational excellence and a robust client experience for traders accessing a new dark pool for US equities. Heavy emphasis exploring large datasets. Business intelligence with real time focus on anomaly detection and visualization. FINRA registered 7 / 24.

Allied Standard Asset Management, LLC, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2013 – 2017

Managing Director

Provide investment services for private insurance company and offshore captives. Built a multi-manager, quant focused trading platform for a single family office. Managed all technical and operational issues including capital allocation, managing PMs, risk, P&L attribution, strategy tagging, compliance, reconciliation, and investor reporting.

UBS Investment Bank, New York, NY 2011 – 2012

Executive Director – Quant HQ Product Manager (Americas) - Low Latency Trading Solutions

Coordinate vendor and proprietary solutions for market data, pre-trade risk checks, and market access gateways for systematic trading teams. Combined execution with financing & clearing globally across multiple asset classes.

Barclays Capital, New York, NY 2010 – 2011

Director –Quantitative Prime Services Origination

Prime Brokerage Sales targeting trading teams with low latency needs. Focused on Volatility, Equity, and FX.

McNicoll, Lewis & Vlak, LLC, New York, NY 2008 - 2010

Managing Director – Head of Trading and Research Sales

Led team through Broker/Dealer registration process. Implemented execution platform and ran institutional sales.

Morgan Stanley, New York, NY 2007 – 2008

Executive Director – Prime Brokerage Quantitative Business Development

Widened target audience for Prime Brokerage by catering to the needs of quantitative teams across multiple asset classes and regions. (Risk based haircuts had just been approved in the US for options based strategists)

Amaranth Group, Inc., Greenwich, CT 2001 – 2006

Senior Trader - Statistical Arbitrage

Managed team of developers and execution traders. Adopted latest Complex Event Processing technologies to scale and reduce the time to market for model driven strategies. Led cross departmental initiatives for Technology, Compliance, Risk Management, and Senior Management reporting. Launched investment technology and cross-departmental research efforts for $9 billion multi-strategy hedge fund.

Access Securities, Inc., Stamford, CT 1993 – 2001

Managing Director - Convertible Sales and Trading

Built and Ran Desk to execute listed, and OTC derivative trades on a production based payout. Added technical analysis research team to enhance equity and correlated pairs trading opportunities.

Education:

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Bachelor of Science summa cum laude

Major: Computer Science Minors: Mathematics and Chemistry

NCAA division II baseball pitcher and Intern to University President

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