Blase Sacus

*** *** *** *****, ***** Knolls, NJ *7927

917-***-****

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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

References Available Upon Request

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