Management Risk

LEE ROBINSON

* ******* ***** ? Middlebury, CT ***62

Mobile: 203-***-**** ? ***.*.********@*****.***

FINANCE PROFESSIONAL SEEKING TRADING, STRATEGY, OR ANALYTICAL ROLE

Innovative finance professional with expertise in trade execution, strategy

development, statistical analysis, modeling, & leadership. Eight years of

diversified and successful experience creating investment strategies and

research, as well as leading teams in delivering results across platforms.

A dedicated team player with outstanding analytical and communications

skills. A creative and intuitive thinker with the ability to analyze

complex situations, target solutions or create process improvements, and

communicate proposals effectively.

CORE COMPETENCIES

|Trade Execution |Financial Modeling |Global Finance |

|Risk Management |Strategy Development |Trade Idea Generation |

|Leadership |Statistical Analysis |Project Management |

|Valuation & Pricing |Emerging Markets |Modeling |

|Simulation |Team Building | |

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

|LEGG MASON & CO. - Stamford, CT | 2006 - 2011 |

Lead Trading Associate (International & EM Equities, Fixed Income)

Built and managed a team that handled trading in emerging market and

international equities, domestic equities, corporate & government fixed

income securities, swaps, & ELNs. Developed processes, strategy, conducted

new product research, and handled staffing, training, technology &

infrastructure issues.

. Created trade process from scratch, including establishing new

methodologies for executing, processing, & valuation of Russian

equities, Indian IPOs, & SWAPs.

. Built and led a team that provided front office services to an EME &

International affiliate, performed order-entry, follow through, and

booking of trades executed in London, NY, & Hong Kong for two separate

Legg Mason affiliates with 6.2 billion AUM in over 80 accounts.

. Worked to provide Research with information on changing market

environments via research related to specific regions, markets, &

instruments, and liquidity mapping.

. Benchmarked trades to ensure best execution and prepared report for PMs.

. Call and coordinate efforts of broker & affiliate contacts around the

world and at all hours to resolve issues regarding trading, economic

discrepancies, pricing, new issues, and instruments.

|BRIDGEWATER ASSOCIATES - Westport, CT | 2004 - |

| |2006 |

Trading Associate (Futures, Commodities, & U.S. Equities)

Executed futures, commodities, and equity trades in Asia, Europe, and North

America, at all hours and in most major markets as per the requirements of

the research department.

. Executed bond & rate futures, index futures, commodities, FX EFPs and

equity trades in accordance with defined execution strategies for a 200

billion AUM fund.

. Benchmarked executions against pre-trade, TOT, and post-trade price

levels to measure market impact and ensure that our order were not being

adversely affected by volume or manipulation.

. Researched and incorporated a system where copper and aluminum contracts

traded on the London Metal Exchange were 'competed' with multiple brokers

to ensure better pricing.

. Developed tools and techniques to minimize liquidity costs such as

establishing the best times to trade a given contract, optimal contract

size for a given market, and broker influence on pricing in multiple

futures and commodities markets.

. Executed trades in Asia, Europe, and North America at all hours and in

most major markets as per the requirements of the research department.

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|UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS - 29 Palms, CA | 1991 - 1997 |

Platoon Sergeant

Led, trained, and campaigned for the welfare of 40-50 Marines as Platoon

Sergeant during peace time deployments to Thailand, the Philippines,

Okinawa, & Norway and combat deployments to the Middle East and East

Africa.

. Conducted combat operations in the Middle East which included trench-

clearing in the Al Burgan region of Kuwait and house-to-house fighting in

the outskirts of Kuwait City.

. Received a Combat Promotion to Corporal (field) for "valor under fire" as

a member of the breach team at the Al Burgan Oil field.

. Conducted combat operations in Mogadishu, Somalia which encompassed both

combat patrols and humanitarian missions.

. Attended leadership and skills development schools including, among

others; cold weather survival, jungle warfare training, mountaineering,

dynamic leadership, desert survival, & urban combat.

EDUCATION

University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT

Masters of Science in Financial Risk Management 2011

GPA: 3.93

. Academic emphasis on both rigorous theoretical analysis and quantitative

methods, as well as practical and hands on experience addressing real

world risk management problems (i.e. credit, interest rate, currency and

market risk in asset and wealth management, arbitrage strategies,

restructuring and combinations, alternative investments, and trade

strategy generation.)

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Finance (Summa cum laude)

2004

GPA: Finance - 3.9; Cumulative - 3.85

APPLICATIONS

|Advanced Excel |Bloomberg |MS Access |

|VBA |BBG POMS |Charles River |

|R |JAVA |Salerio |

QUANTITATIVE SKILLS

Trading models (creation, statistical analysis, optimization &

implementation), full greeks (risk exposure & hedging), time series

analysis, back testing, stochastic & Monte Carlo simulation, pricing of

illiquid securities, securities valuation (equity, fixed income, ELNs,

swaps, options), credit risk modeling, bootstrapping, Markov models,

Black-Scholes, binomials, arbitrage pricing, CAPM, duration hedging.

ERRATA

INDIVIDUAL COURSES

Hedge Fund Strategies (NY Institute of Finance) Pricing

Options (NY Institute of Finance)

Intro to Hedge Fund Industry (NY Institute of Finance) Buy-Side Risk

Mgmt. (NY Institute of Finance)

Fixed Income Mathematics (NY Institute of Finance)

CHARTERS

Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (Level I of II)

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