Vp Business Financial Analyst
Resume:
RICHARD B. RATTEY
WHITE PLAINS NY 10606
**.****@*****.***
LINKEDIN.COM/IN/RBTRYK/
QUI AUDET ADIPISCITUR.
Financial analyst turned former Silicon Valley business development dot.com entrepreneur turned Wall Street proprietary trader turned quantitative analyst turned Web3 in an ever-evolving career in information technology. EXPERIENCE
TRYK LLC, New York NY, Quantitative Analyst / Trader / Managing Partner, January 2017 to Present
● Portfolio management and development of algorithmic intraday long/short strategy trading of SPX / SPY index and derivative ETF options, futures, and equities.
● Complete transition away from manual trading methodology to developing an automated based trading system using real time CBOE data and brokerage platform TWS on Interactive Brokers.
● Windows, Python 3 and Libraries, SQL, JSON, Excel, FIX, other APIs.
● Pivoting to integrate a Defi blockchain cryptocurrency derivative strategy using Solana NFT and Ethereum / Avalanche / Fantom / Polygon.
CYRC LLC / CUNY NYCCT, New York NY, SEO Consultant, January 2012 to January 2016
● Search engine optimization centered on Google AdWords.
● Primarily financial services sites and news and content provider blogs to generate traffic and advertising referrals to and from major financial institutions.
● Brokerages, hedge funds, software providers, newsletter distribution, from social networking, industry directory, specific market news and data web sites such as the WSJ, CNBC, Bloomberg, Google and Yahoo Finance, CNN, FT, MSN, MarketWatch, Benzinga, Business Insider, et.al. LinkedIn, Twitter, StockTwits, MarketWatch, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, message boards and community networks.
● Keyword research and list development into SQL, XML, Excel, Tableau, and Power BI.
● Created metatags, keywords, redirects, pop-ups, banners, etc..
● Link mediation, indexing bots and site crawlers in PHP HTML source code.
● Extensive experience with Google Webmaster Tools and Google AdWords, AdMob.
● Google Analytics Certification, Lightbox JS, BrandLab.
● Experienced with cookie and visitor tracking tools, auditing, referral tracking. ASSENT CAPITAL / SUNGARD FINANCIAL / TRYK TRADING LLC, New York NY, January 2007 to 2010
● Proprietary trading focused on equity, forex, commodity, ETF/ETN, futures and options trading, mostly high-tech and internet stocks, oil/gas sectors.
● Primarily options and futures hedging, algorithmic high-frequency equities trading (HFT) using an integrated group of software platforms.
● Leveraged capital intraday $1M-20M+ from 2:1 to 200:1. Sharpe Ratio > 3.0.
● Highly proficient with Bloomberg, Reuters, Sterling Pro, Mad Scan, MatLab, eSignal, other trading platforms and analytical software.
● Experience mentoring and managing a group of proprietary traders at the graduate college level.
● Extensive experience with top level brokerages and various platforms. 1
RED MOUNTAIN BAR GRILL, Telluride CO, Co-Owner Manager, January to December 2010
● Rescued out of bankruptcy, recapitalized, refinanced debt, obtained US Small Business Administration loan to fund restoration and renovation.
● Expanded into extremely successful wood oven pizza business competing with Dominos, locals, etc. generating more revenue and higher gross profit margins than the rest of the restaurant menu.
● Breakfast buffet had locals lined up around the block.
● Sold interest back to executive chef and business partner. Ongoing concern. RED SCARF EQUESTRIAN, Toronto CA, Business Development Consultant, January to December 2007
● Development of its business plan, marketing partnerships, product manufacturing, costing, web marketing and ecommerce strategies.
● Financial analysis and budget planning, distribution network to stores and wholesalers.
● Closed over $2M in first year sales, and secure $500,000 CDN in start-up funding.
● Assisted Marketing Director in fundraising for equestrian events, funds used for advertising, marketing, and property upgrades for shows and facility billboards and riding school promotions.
● Advertisers included Mercedes-Benz Canada, Kubota, Wahl, Royal Bank of Canada, John Deere, and local farms and businesses that supported facility. VELLO, INC., Oakland, CA, Consultant, April to October 2004, January to September 2006
● Consulted to Chief Technology Office and Co-Founder on business development plan, partnerships, venture capital funding.
ESPEED, October 2000 to December 2001, Boston MA
● Business Development Consultant to co-founder on development of the eSpeed bond market trading network.
RESPORTS LLC, Mountain View CA, Founder, SVP Business Development, November 1999 to December 2000
● Sports industry business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce start-up focusing on defragmenting supply/distribution channels.
● Led development with key technical, financial, and industry strategic partners adidas (advised on team sports extranet project built on pandesic, SAP, Oracle.
● Developed supply chain proposal (in partnership with i2). Easton (advised on B2C and B2B extranet strategy), K2 (supply and channel distribution proposals), Reebok (B2C marketing proposals), Collegiate Pacific (financial investment, distribution and B2B marketing partnership), Global Sports
(financial investment, B2C alignment of B2B distribution initiatives), Sportmart/Gart Sports (supply chain and B2C strategy proposals).
● Technical partnerships with Moai, Microsoft, Exodus, Oracle, CTP, Yantra, WebMethods, others.
● Raised $2.25M in Series "A" funding from angels, founders, corporate investors. $15M Series "B" $60M valuation. Recruited Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of adidas USA to management team.
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NETWORD CORPORATION, Gaithersburg MD, VP Business Development, January to December 1999
● Reported directly to CEO. Developed strategic partnerships with key portals, communities, and other Internet-related companies such as domain name registrars (ICANN, Network Solutions), directory services (WorldPages, Infospace), e-commerce software and service providers (Net2Phone, RedHat), Internet service providers, and Portals (Yahoo, Snap, Lycos).
● Key role in assisting the company to raise venture capital financing and its NASDAQ OTC IPO in July 1999. Company acquired by IBM in 2002.
REALNAMES CORPORATION, Redwood Shores CA, Manager Business Development, August 1998 to July 1999
● Reported directly to the SVP, Business Development and CEO.
● Co-managed partnership development with key portals (Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos, AOL, MSN, Snap!, Inktomi). Directly responsible for heading development of My RealName product targeted to community partner sites (GeoCities, Tripod, FortuneCity, NetTaxi, TalkCity, etc.).
● Development of product definition, support, collateral, and promotional materials.
● Financial analysis of revenue projections, revenue sharing propositions to prospective partners, marketing customers.
● Coordination of all business development activities, contact, and day-to-day communications with existing and prospective Internet partners.
● Company acquired by Yahoo/Overture and Microsoft in 2000. Bankrupt 2002. ARCHOS LLC, Palo Alto CA, Founder, Business Development, January 1997 to June 1998
● Co-founded B2B company focused on construction industry.
● Co-developed business plan in conjunction with Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Sovereign Associates, Oracle Consulting, The Digit Group, others.
● Researched, analysed, development of an intranet/extranet procurement application for construction industry architects, engineers, and contractors (AECs) focused on management of internal and external procurement processes.
● Analysed business and revenue models, negotiation of venture capital valuation and assessment of funding requirements.
● Raised $1M in Series "A" funding from founders and angel investors.
● Co-developed technical architecture development specifications and engineering plan, project site.
● Co-wrote project management plan for integration into company business plan and for use in presentations to clients and contractors for use in future commercial development projects.
● Coordinated strategic partnership and technical development relationships with key industry and technology vendors and select construction industry associations and materials manufacturers. CLARIFY INC., San Jose CA, Director, Web Development, September 1997 to December 1998
● Built first Intranet/Internet site.Expedited collection and identification of departmental (Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, Customer Service) content for transfer to centralized Intranet servers.
● Managed rollout of new Microsoft Intranet technologies. Improvement and modification of the company's network security procedures, implementation of VeriSign secure Digital ID browser and email (S/MIME) system, network firewall.
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NARRATIVE COMMUNICATIONS, Waltham MA, Technical Consultant, May 1995 to July 1997
● Retained as on-site consultant to CEO/President to assist web application start-up in organizing IT structure, improve and secure the company's new offices and network, employee technical support, Windows NT, 95, Lotus Notes.
KPMG CANADA, Toronto CA, Financial Analyst, June 1987 to September 1994
● Intermittent consulting contract positions developing and maintaining accounting, technical financial analysis systems in the Private and Corporate Client Groups, using early Microsoft technologies for several leading financial and industrial corporations including: Esso Petroleum, American Express Canada, Imperial Oil, Breslube, Bramalea, TYAG, CIBC, CIBC-Wood Gundy, TD Bank, ScotiaBank, in addition to many other similar smaller projects with smaller companies in and around the Toronto area. TECHNICAL
● Highly proficient with Microsoft and Google Suite. Windows, Office, Server, SQL, Word, Excel, Outlook. Oracle database and financials experience. Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver.
● Python 3. Microsoft Visual Studio, Anaconda, Jupyter, Sublime.
● Strong knowledge of networking, DNS, IPv4, IPv6, HTML, CSS, HTML5, PHP.
● Strong hardware knowledge and networking experience with TCP/IP, VPN security protocols, wireless. Mobile. Android. iPhone Since 2009.
● Ethereum and Bitcoin mining and current Solana validator. EDUCATION
UDEMY / CODEACADEMY / COURSERA/ QUANTOPIAN / QuantConnect / python.org, Present CUNY, NYCCT, New York NY, B.Tech Program, September 2013 to December 2015 FINRA, Series 7, March 2008, Series 56, June 2013
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Bachelor of Arts, Economics and Computer Science, April 1993 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECURITIES DEALERS, Commodity Futures Trading, Series 3, August 1992 CANADIAN SECURITIES INSTITUTE, Canadian Securities Course, April 1991, SENECA COLLEGE APPLIED ARTS TECHNOLOGY, Associate Computer Science, December 1988 MARKHAM DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL, OSS Honors Graduate, June 1987 Experience USA AND CANADIAN DUAL CITIZENSHIP.
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