Quality Assurance Sales

Robert C. Tweeddale

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Mobile – 917-***-****

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Summary:

Solid grounding in equities, general prime services, market principals, trading technology and significant analytical skills. Ability to engage clients and build relationships to successfully coordinate the on-boarding of new clients and then identify further sell opportunities. A contributor to the development of sales pitches and commercial discussions. Interface with all levels of management including internal and external management Build internal relationships with various business units to facilitate lead generation and referrals. Prepare reports and resolution of client queries related to reports. Deep knowledge base of the Trading Life Cycle. Big proponent of using SharePoint to organize team documentation and data

Barclays Capital - New York, NY July 2011 - Present

BARX Client Services for Futures and Options – Implementation and Support Consultant

US Project lead for new proprietary BARX Futures and Options application

Manage client and business expectations throughout the product implementation lifecycle

Lead for North America on boarding for all new and existing clientele

Provide trade support for all internal & external traders for futures & options trading

Process an array of requests such as risk limits, market data and web access for all internal and external users

Create and maintain clear and concise technical documentation, aimed at internal IT audience via SharePoint and MS InfoPath.

Currently plan, design, configure, test and implement SharePoint 2007 solutions for BARX Futures sales and tech

Work with quality assurance teams and developers to design and implement features with client requirements/needs in mind.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. – New York, NY April 2010 – February 2011

Equities Electronic Trading – Senior Vice President

Primary client point of contact for electronic order execution, implementation and support.

Ensured all customer requirements were met with every on boarding project

Trained and provided demonstrations for clients using REDI Plus and RealTick. Very good knowledgebase in Neovest, Fidessa, Eze Castle OMS, Knight and Bloomberg

Created and maintained relationships with various broker dealers in which we used as executing brokers. Involved with negotiating execution rates

Collaborated with operations to identify the best back office solutions on a client by client basis

Configured risk parameters for each client based on AUM and strategy

Monitored trading flow and alerts daily, recommended strategies to traders based on the system they were using.

Monitored risks and issues for a project’s successful outcome.

Report project progress at regular intervals to management and produced key documentation for distribution.

RBC Capital Markets – New York, New York February 2009 to April 2010

Electronic Trading Coverage/Business Analyst

Executed single stocks, futures and options for hedge funds and institutional clientele

Monitored cash and positions across investment strategies and product platforms

Partnered closely with quant developers to design and test new algorithms

Recommended trading strategies on a daily basis to seek best execution and liquidity for all clients

Conduct demos for the RBC Accel product to prospective Institutional accounts along with third party OMS’s

Goldman, Sachs & Co. - New York, New York September 2004 to November 2008

Electronic Trading Coverage

Managed and maintained an annualized 10mm book of business consisting of both Buy and Sell Side clients

Recommended trading strategies on a daily basis to seek best execution and liquidity for all clients

Consistently drove market share with Sigma-X and the GS Algo offering to existing and future clients

Customized REDI Plus workspaces to enhance trading productivity on a client by client basis

Presented and illustrated Goldman’s liquidity landscape to new and existing clients

Issued and reviewed post trade evaluation reports

Active involvement in prime brokerage, technology and back office issues

Identified areas of exposure and determined levels of risk

Worked closely with top OMS vendors such as EZE Castle, Fidessa, and Moxy to ensure seamless FIX connectivity into REDI

Equity Trading Production Support – US Shares

Provided all levels of technology and business support to Equities trading

Interfaced regularly with development staff with an understanding of multiple programming languages

Proficient in UNIX and SQL queries and identifying problematic FIX logs

Troubleshoot position discrepancies and trade breaks

Exercised strong research, investigation and evaluation skills.

Work closely with development and compliance on OMS systems and daily trading issues

Lead trade support for New York Stock Exchange technology and liaison between the business and technology

Deutsche Bank. – New York, New York October 2003 to September 2004

Equity Swaps Application Support- IT Consultant

Provide application support to US & European based traders in an Equity Swaps environment.

Primarily supported the business by trade lookup via SQL

Goldman, Sachs & Co. - New York, New York March 2001 to December 2002

Equity Trading Support – IT Consultant

Trade support for NASDAQ, Listed and Sales traders, regarding order flow to the exchanges, ECN’s and DOT.

Liaison’s between Compliance, Operations, Market Data and Technology.

Assisted in merger with Spear, Leads, & Kellogg software integration for NASDAQ traders.

Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette/ Credit Suisse First Boston - New York, New York September 1998 to March 2001

Equity Trading Support – IT Consultant

Managed data migration and user relocation due to merger with Credit Suisse First Boston.

Bankers Trust Company New York, New York December 1996 to September 1998

Trading Floor Support

Conducted first level problem determination and solution for hardware, software, and network issues in a trading environment

Licensure:

Series 3: National Commodity Futures Representative

Series 7: General Securities Representative

Series 55: Equities Trader Representative

Series 63: Uniform Securities Agent

Education:

DePaul University – Chicago, Il

Brookdale Community College - Lincroft, NJ

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