Managing projects

Managing multiple projects from IT and business perspective. Expertise in business processes optimization.  Gathering business demands, Project request form creation and approval with business stakeholders and IT (scope, success criteria).  Project team organization (analysts, developers, QA and testing, Infrastructure engineers).  Project analysis and possible solutions presentation to business and IT (project profile creation with scope, business pocess changes, architecture changes, budget, timing, success criteria, risks).  Architecture and budget approval with IT and Business  Project timelines, budget, quality and implementation control  Project status reporting  UAT and pre-production tests.  Project finalization approval with business.  Post production project support. ___ Achievements:  New business starting: Prime Brokerage (acting as IT and one of business project managers). - New business processes creation and approval for Accounts opening, Trading, Allocation, Reconciliation, Fees calculation and allocation, Accounting, Client Reporting. - Development in different applications for new type of client accounts, correct trade processing, fees calculation and allocation, reconciliation and reporting.  Product Control projects: creating and implementing universal procedure and algorithms for local offices (South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and any other office in the future) for automatic P&L reporting and Sales Credit reporting. - Procedures for clients and instruments reconciliation. - New trading schemes creation. - Order Management system modification for correct representation of local agency trades. - P&L and Sales Credit calculation algorithms modification for Order Management system and for BackOffice system. - New reports creation for BackOffice systems (most profitable clients in each region for each period of time, daily SC and P&L reports modification etc).  Internal order management system modifying with additional functionality - Implementing “Send to MICEX” functionality in Order Management System (just few clicks over the order to have it sent to exchange, ICEBERG orders, executions from the exchange filling orders automatically in order management system).  Market expansion and improvement program: access to Russian markets improvement; International markets for russian domestic clients; US clients access to russian markets; Implementing automated monitoring system; LSE sponsored access. High frequency/low latency trading infrastructure and order flows creation for RTS, MICEX, LSE. - Proximity services in London and Moscow. - Exchange collocation in London and Moscow. - Low latency Infrastructure for arbitrage and algo trading . - Low latency risk pre trade controlls implementation for London and Moscow. (Whole solution creation!:hardware, software, lines, new order flow creation for sponsored and broker access, development in FO and BO systems, new bulking for settlement). As the result - Renaissance became the fastest broker on MICEX and fastest Russian broker providing clients trading access from Moscow to LSE! http://www.highfrequencytraders.com/news-wire/1095/renaissance-capital-and-gatelab-launch-hft-software-lse-iob Due to this work clients are now more and more attracted. As the result - Renaissance had became #1 by Client Turnover on MICEX in February. http://www.micex.ru/markets/stock/members/topoperators/639  Smart Execution program: USD priced products; Dark pool; Internal crossing; Smart order routing.  Multiple information terminals, broker and trading terminals were successfully implemented on the trading desk regarding to different Front Office projects.  LSE, REUTERS, Internal audit issues fixing and reporting. Multiple cost cutting initiatives successfully completed (about $50K potential monthly loss saved).  Multiple trading floor moves and production environment moves successfully organized (RTS migration from SQL to PLAZA II and many others). ___ Uninterruptable trading process guaranteeing:  Controlling the timeliness and quality of Front Office requests execution (Traders, IB, Research)  All Front Office applications support: trading terminals, broker terminals, information terminals, Microsoft Office etc. Assistance in Middle office and BackOffice applications support.  New applications implementation (approval with risks, security, infrastructure and legal teams).  Controlling user’s requests relating to cost cutting initiatives.  Disaster Recovery plans/procedures preparation. Participation in Disaster Recovery tests.  Preparation and participation in trading floor migration to another office

 Leading IT support team during the head of support absence (conferences, illness, vacations etc.)  VIP support (TOP1, TOP2 management)

 Receiving user calls, consulting over the phone, technical/software problems investigation.  Different applications installation and support, print server administration.  Accounts and groups administration in Active Directory.  Hardware problems investigation.  Participation in server’s backup process.  Trading desk problems investigation and resolving

Graduated from IT engineer to the head of advertising department. 06.2004-07.2005 The head of Advertisement department working group  Organizational management, tasks delegation and control.  Scientific publications and presentations preparation.  Business trips and meetings planning with Siemens, Drehmo, Camozzi, SibNeft and other companies.  Advertisement brochures, catalogues, CD disks creation.  Seminars and lectures preparation in leading State Design Institutes of oil and gas industry, chemical and metallurgical industries.  Participation in the largest of oil and gas, chemical and metallurgical exhibitions: MIOGE2004 and MIOGE 2005 (Moscow), Chemistry 2005 - (Moscow), KIOGE 2005 (Almaty), Oil-Gas-Chemistry 2004-2005 in Perm, Ufa, Tyumen and other cities of former Soviet Union. 10.2003-05.2004 IT engineer  Web site creation.  Software installation and support  Printers, faxes, phones maintenance.  New office preparation (3 floor building) for company moving: phone lines, Ethernet, hardware installation (phone station, PCs, Faxes, Printers etc.)

 Physico-mathematical calculations and modeling  Project results documentation preparation  Web site creation.

Banking, Finance

Quantum Optics devices and systems, holder of a Master's degree

Applied Learning (Peter Leahy):, Front office, sles and trading; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Accounting; Back Office

IT professionals

ITIL Foundation courses

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, console operator, spaceships configuration specialist