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Blase Sacus
*** *** *** *****, ***** Knolls, NJ *7927
******@*****.***
http://linkedin.com/in/blase-sacus-17a31b3
Motivated Engineering Manager with deep knowledge of Credit Risk, Prime Brokerage and Financial Data. Trusted business partner – synthesizing and delivering best fit technical strategies. Seeking an opportunity for new, transformative work – delivering business capabilities and reducing operating expense. Key experience:
Lead continuous design, development, and testing lifecycle for data-driven Risk solutions
Motivate highly skilled technical teams to produce measurable success
Deliver multiple large, complex Risk systems
Provide expert knowledge – consulting internally on Financial Products, Operations, and Cross-Asset Class data
Drive continuous business process improvement
Manage vendor relationships to ensure favorable licensing and service levels
Engage teams in all phases of the System Development Life Cycle.
Skills
Technical
Cloud and Distributed Computing (Kubernetes, Internal Cloud), Scrum and Agile proficiency, Data management and analytics, Business Intelligence and Data Visualization tools, Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Impala), Oracle, Gemfire, Java, Jira, Microsoft Office Products
Functional
Market and Credit Risk, Financial Modeling, Prime Brokerage, Collateral Management. Retirement Services/Mutual Funds, and Private Equity. Cross-Asset Class Financial Data – including Transactions, Market, Reference, Economic, News
Professional Experience
January 2004 – Present
Bear Stearns/JP MORGAN, JERSEY City, NJ
Executive Director in Credit Risk
Manage a team of 80 developers supporting four applications with development teams in three locations
Leading development, design, and optimization of various platforms
Leading multi-year initiatives:
Replace external vendor libraries with internal models that calculate Mark to Market stress, eliminating vendor risk. Expected annual savings – $8MM
Consolidate Prime Brokerage Risk systems into a single Credit Risk platform, leveraging widely used technology (Java, Hadoop, Impala, private cloud, and microservices). Expected annual savings – $4MM
Manage strategic planning for $20MM annual technology budget
Partner with Senior Management on ad hoc, business-driven, rapid change – from idea generation to pragmatic solution – employing Agile methods to manage delivery, scope and expectations
Conduct recruitment, hiring, training and performance management for the development team
Manage vendor relationships to ensure favorable licensing and service levels
Executive Director in Risk Technology
Managed a team of 50 developers supporting two applications with development teams in three locations.
Built a Market Risk platform for Wealth Management using Java, Gemfire, and Oracle
Regionalized Market Risk platform in support of new Synthetics Prime Brokerage offering
Enhanced Hedge Fund Credit Risk system to meet Dodd-Frank requirements
Managed strategic planning for Risk with an annual budget of $12MM
Collaborate with the Senior Management Team on strategic initiatives from idea generation to solution delivery
Conduct recruitment, hiring, training and performance management for the development team
Provided leadership during the development, design, and optimizations of the various platforms
Managed vendor relationships to ensure favorable licensing and service levels
Leverage a wide array of data processing infrastructure technologies (batch and real-time) and work with others across the organization to steward overall data infrastructure strategy
Associate Director in Prime Brokerage Technology
Managed a team of 16 developers to build a Market Risk platform and Stressed Based House Margin calculator for Equity Prime Brokerage using Java, Gemfire, and Oracle
Built a securities reference data platform using Oracle and Java for Prime Brokerage
Managed strategic planning for Risk with an annual budget of $6 MM
Provided leadership during the development, design, and optimizations of the market risk platform
Conduct recruitment, hiring, training and performance management for the development team
June 1998 – January 2004
Accenture, New York, NY
Project Manager
Planning, estimating, and managing workload & resources; coordinate plan with the Program Management Office
Providing regular status updates to client senior managers
Working with team members to define the project deliverables (Requirement, Detailed Design, Development, Testing and Training)
Facilitating Management Sessions to identify and prioritize enhancements
Developing Detailed Business Requirements Specifications
Managing internal and external development efforts
Managing testing efforts (Testing Strategy, Unit Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing)
Managing application deployment effort
June 1995 – June 1998
Siemens (formerly Moore Products C.), Springhouse, PA
Application Engineer
Accomplished Business Initiatives for various Resource companies to improve their operational effectiveness and technology infrastructure to achieve increased plant efficiency and reduced system downtime by implementing a new plan automation system
Responsibilities included:
Working with business & technical clients to gather, organize, analyze, & document project requirements
Developing high level system design specifications
Developing project plans, which included scope, and work estimates
Developing detailed design specifications
Implementing solutions in a proprietary programming language
Education
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, May 1995
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