Senior Global Account, Relationship, and Sales Manager. Initiative-taking customer success revenue generator with 20+ years of expertise in the financial technology sector. Expert ability to source new opportunities within existing accounts, resulting in revenue growth, and expanded product footprint. Proven ability to manage global accounts, teams, and support personnel. Experience negotiating with C-Level executives and transitioning through various international business mergers & acquisitions. A leader by example, whose work rate, professionalism, and teamwork enhances the productivity of coworkers.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Technical Account Manager
Fidessa Corporation / Ion Markets
10.2007 - 01.2020
Lead a team of direct reports and serve as an escalation point for the clients managed by team members.
Serving as a liaison for clients and internal departments including sales, accounts and technical support.
Provide leadership and organization to assigned customer projects.
Manage many implementations of Fidessa’s hosted US and European Trading Platform into customer environments through all stages of the SDLC.
Work directly with sell-side broker dealers and buy-sides street wide as well as various connectivity providers to understand and spec out specific work flows for custom enhancement requests.
Gather requirements, draft technical specs and manage the development and implementation of deliverables to meet agreed timelines.
Manage daily inquiries and client expectations to maintain a positive customer experience.
Work with end users on trading floors / NYSE floor to support production upgrade rollouts and enhancements.
Manage FIX connectivity rollouts between Fidessa and various lit and Dark Pools destinations.
Appointed the DMA product expert for Fidessa’s newest technology of Direct Market Access via the ultra-low latency Fidessa XTP technology.
Manage implementation of Fidessa’s Bluebox algorithmic suite / BEAM Portfolio / PAIR’s pairs advanced trading products.
Communicate directly with client-side senior management for urgent production issues to ensure successful resolution.
Direct the rollout of Fidessa’s GTS (Global Trading Service) which deals with various foreign exchanges worldwide.
Deal with various back office and clearing firms on behalf of client to spec out custom workflow and back end processes.
Manage the implementation of Fidessa’s IOI and Trade Advertisement product while acting as the liaison between Fidessa and Bloomberg / Autex / Raptor service providers.
Senior Business Analyst for Equity Capital Markets
Dealogic Corporation
12.2006 - 10.2007
Performed a variety of technical and project management related tasks associated with security, planning, developing, implementing and deploying Dealogic’s syndicate book-building and event / roadshow - management systems.
EPM (Electronic Prospectus Manager) Global Product Coordinator for all Dealogics Equity Capital Markets department after only 5 months of employment.
Coordinated a team of 10 people instrumental in deploying the first Sarbanes Oxley compliant global book building and electronic prospectus delivery applications for various equity capital market clients.
Gathered requirements and drafted technical specs surrounding Reg. S, Reg. M, 2790, QIB, and electronic consent compliance.
Work with client IT personnel to create API’s for back-office allocation, designation and ticketing loads.
Maintained a production support role for top-tier investment banks, acting on mission critical production outages where time is of great importance.
Managed 4 business analysts in supporting a global book building management system for the largest investment banks on the street.
Organized and led various client demos and training sessions as the product expert.
QA test UAT, Development and production environments for top-tier investment banks on many Dealogic applications.
Gathered business requirements directly from Syndicate users and heads of desks at top tier investment banks and translated to technical specs following the SDLC through client delivery.
Ensure developers create reports and enhancements to applications per clients needs.
Worked closely with the migration team and developers on the conversion of clients from our Legacy Powerbuilder applications to ASP/.NET applications.
Created web-based systems in compliance with NASD/AMEX standards.
Manage the team that handles two of the most profitable clients for ACS. (Chevron/Texaco & American Express)
Work directly with clients to identify their business and technical needs.
Liaison with the appropriate technical teams to meet client’s ongoing requirements.
Create BRD’s, (Business Requirement Documents) that detail job coding, scripting, flow, and procedural updates.
Organize, coordinate and document the status of the development life cycle.
Perform all aspects of unit testing as well as regression testing on all production updates.
A key member in the “offshore” and automation team that trains our offshore staff in Cochin India.
Delegate and verify daily client tasks and requests to my team members.
Create and maintain SQL scripts in a Rapid SQL environment for stored procedures as well as special project work.
Create and maintain SQL scripts in a UNIX environment for stored procedures as well as special project work.
Create and maintain IBM-Mainframe Quick-Job programs for stored procedures and special client project work.
Prepare Mainframe Quick Jobs to be put up on OPC / Cybermation automated job scheduler.
Prepare SQL jobs to be automated through a UNIX CRON scheduler.
Active member of the “Mainframe Migration Team”. Ensured seamless transition from Mellon mainframe to ACS mainframe.
Organize and coordinate production moves during and after business hours.
Assistant Project Manager of the Unocal acquisition implementation.
Owner/Operator
The UPS Store
03.2003 - 08.2005
Manage and operate all aspects of the business daily for all staff & locations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Nyack College
Background
Vice President, Senior Client Manager
Direct book of client relationships with responsibility for client satisfaction, retention, product adoption & support
Company leader in client coverage - 19 clients totaling $2.3T AUM and $20M ACV.
Primary contact and escalation point for all client matters including interaction with other CRD business lines, revenue opportunities, and product deficiencies.
Direct teams of technical account managers (3), global production support personnel (20+) and professional services members (20+) on client projects
Contribute to management team efforts outside of primary responsibilities (e.g., mentoring, recruiting, special projects)
Collaborate to market and client intelligence for the client management group and account teams.
Facilitate discussion between CRD and client C-level audience members participating in executive management meetings, thought leadership round tables, client advisory boards and scheduled steering committees.
Troubleshoot production and project issues with global support, product, engineering, and professional services departments to ensure client deadlines and milestones are met.
Managed and negotiated firm record turnaround service for project implementation - 43% under budget.
Principal contact for escalating client global production support issues, 24x6
Company leader in facilitating production issue resolution (3.2 average days to close)
Direct sales team to identify and foster SaaS revenue opportunities including additional application modules and services (i.e., Microsoft Azure, Snowflake data warehousing, Compliance as a Service)
Facilitated firm record SaaS sales deal representing client and firm best interests – 19% beneath prior all-time low.
Team award for exceeding firm milestone - 85% over colleagues for Microsoft Azure amendments signed.
Team leader being key stakeholder in increasing clients’ ACV 85% due to new product adoption.
Maintain monthly communication with internal product, engineering, and support teams by participating in company webinars and business unit meetings.
Establish semi-annual QBRs, account plans and strategic objectives - measure success against company KPIs.
Maintain regular meeting cadence with clients, including onsite visits and project status calls.
Team leader in maintaining awareness of market and industry trends (i.e., ESG) relevant to CRD and client base.
Primary contact for all product communication to client – teams look to as a focal point in exercising good judgement.
Make sound decisions in difficult or ambiguous situations and defend positions despite the potential consequences.
Manage and maintain client data within SalesForce.com and run reports to ensure KPIs are met by each team member.
Team leader and point of contact for 7-person ESG technology team designed to perform client case studies, research, and implement ESG data into client systems.
Timeline
Lead Technical Account Manager
Fidessa Corporation / Ion Markets
10.2007 - 01.2020
Senior Business Analyst for Equity Capital Markets