Ben Raskin

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Tel: 770-***-****

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benraskin/

Senior Mainframe Developer

Business Analysis – Systems Architecture – Database Architecture – Application Management

Strategic and versatile senior mainframe developer with a history of success leading complete life-cycle development of business applications that transform processes, reduce costs and increase efficiencies. Proficient at executing and delivering systems that enhance the customer experience, improve operations and modernize infrastructure. Proven ability to direct and motivate teams to achieve business goals, risk avoidance, system hygiene, client satisfaction and process improvement. Core competencies include:

Business Analysis

Workflow Design

Quality Assurance

Project Governance

Application Management

Project Management

Database Design

Change Management

Systems Analysis

Systems Design

Business Requirements

Functional Requirements

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Highlighted Career Achievements

Designed, built and implemented an Interest System for the Prime Brokerage business to calculate, and charge or pay interest accruals on client or firm multi-currency balances or positions. (Morgan Stanley)

Leveraging the flexibility of DB2’s relational database, re-designed, built and implemented a new Interest System for the Prime Brokerage business to calculate interest accruals on balances or positions. Expanded the footprint to service 25 business units globally, including Prime Brokerage and Wealth Management, allowing the database to evolve into the de facto historical balance and position keeper. (Morgan Stanley)

Designed, built and implemented a real-time Stock Loan client rate service for the Prime Brokerage business to be able to quote borrow rates in real-time to clients. Service mandated full 24/6 uptime. (Morgan Stanley)

Designed, built and implemented at Morgan Stanley

oRevenue by Client system to allow the business unit to easily track and rank each client’s profitability.

oOptimized Financing system to allow clients to leverage their long portfolio to reduce their debit interest charges.

oBespoke Calendar system to allow clients to customize their interest payment schedule.

oGeneral Ledger Adjustment system to retroactively adjust month end revenue and expense amounts using data from multiple platforms.

oJob Status system that following a request from a remote device, returns the completion status of a given job.

Reverse engineered the firm’s check digit formula into an Excel formula allowing easy desktop usage. (Morgan Stanley)

Professional Experience

Orthodox Union March 2019 – Present

Systems Analyst

Write specification documents for the OU Kosher Certification System.

Meet with Accounting personnel to gather requirements.

Prepare specifications for developers.

Test results and re-engage developer until results are acceptable.

Co-ordinate implementation with developer and user.

Post implementation follow-up.

Address Help Desk concerns affecting Accounting.

Computer Solutions August 2018 – February 2019

Founder & Owner

Offering computer solutions to small businesses.

Implemented an order processing GUI front end for a print shop.

Automated typesetting with variable population from web forms in multiple languages

Morgan Stanley Sept 1990 – May 2018

Project Manager Executive Director (2011 – 2018)

Managed the migration of the Interest System from Mainframe to Distributed.

Interest System features include:

Daily feed of balances for client debit or credit balances

Daily feed of short positions for client short market values

Daily feed of journals to retroactively adjust historic balances and positions

Daily feed of stock and bond prices to mark to market short positions

Daily feed of multiple international interest rates

100% 24/6 uptime required for Stock Loan rate service

All balances maintained in both local currency and base (USD) currency

All balances and accruals maintained in both client and firm views

All accruals maintained in local, base (USD) and posting currencies

Accrual spreads determined by multiple balance thresholds

Short rebate spreads determined by tiered or linear formulas

Bespoke balance inclusion by client for rate determination

Multiple account rollup tiers by client for rate and accrual determination

Days per year as 360, 365 or actual

Optional daily or monthly interest compounding

Daily, monthly or quarterly posting

Bespoke posting schedule by client

Continuous replication to reporting database for client reporting

Frontend GUI for rate and fee schedule maintenance and balance queries

Achieved a cost savings of $1.5mm annually after completion of the project through implementation of effective leadership and subject matter expertise.

Maintained deep involvement in the development of the project; collaborated and communicated with all levels of business to ensure clear communication and transparency.

Successfully ramped up new business units in response to market conditions (Over The Counter and Brexit).

Securely delivered data to clients from various platforms using multiple mediums (web, email, files).

Led and developed globally teams in New York and India.

Remained actively hands-on as a mainframe developer

Legacy mainframe programming in Natural and Cobol and using ADABAS and DB2.

Proficient in DB2 Stored Procedures on multiple platforms.

Project Lead Vice President (2000 – 2010)

Charged with redesigning the Interest System for the Prime Brokerage business.

Managed and monitored system, which generated 95% of the Prime Brokerage income.

Achieved real-time results; rate service required 100% reliability.

Increased efficiency: single code base and database used for over 25 business units globally including Europe and Far East.

Developed and implemented the design which allowed easy onboarding of additional business units.

Remained actively hands-on as a mainframe developer

Batch mainframe programming in Natural and Cobol using ADABAS and DB2.

Programmer Consultant (1990 – 2000)

Designed and built the Interest System for the Prime Brokerage business.

Developed and implemented the design which allowed easy onboarding of additional business units.

Maintained, supported and enhanced the system in response to business requirements and market conditions.

Programming on the mainframe in Natural and Cobol using ADABAS.

Education

KBS Computer Training, London, UK

Rabbinical College of America, Morristown NJ

Industry Knowledge

Prime Brokerage

Hedge Funds

Stock Loan

Wealth Management

Global FX Rates

Global Interest Rates

Derivatives

Over The Counter (OTC)

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Know Your Customer (NYC)

Balance Keeper

Position Keeper

Short Processing

General Ledger

Compliance and Regulatory

(Dodd-Frank, Sox)

Management Consulting

Government

Technical Skills

Languages: Cobol, Natural, Perl, JCL, DB2 Stored Procedure

Platforms: Mainframe, Linux

SQL Server, SQL Developer

MS Office Suite expert (Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

DBMS: Adabas, DB2, Sybase, MS Access

Communication: CICS, MQ

Business Objects

MS Project & Visio

ServiceNow & Jira

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