Dan Nissanov
Potomac,MD
Summary
Experienced in product and project management with a background in AI powered applications such as Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language, wealth-management, clearing and custodian, digital Robo advisors, and proprietary trading platforms.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
2008
2008
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Associate Director, Product Management – MRTS Surveillance, Entity Net Graph Product Lead
FINRA
Rockville, Maryland
03.2024 - Current
- Led vision, strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for all surveillance initiatives under the Coordinated Trading, Front Running and Capital Raising – Reg M domains in Market Regulation as part of the RegTech Surveillance product team.
- Spearheaded product feature grooming and release planning sessions with the tech group, prioritizing work items based on business value, resulting in more efficient development cycles and improved alignment with strategic goals by converting the backlog from a waterfall to agile process using Jira Advanced Roadmaps.
- Led the product management for "Entity Net" – an MRTS innovative graph technology tool in Domino that uncovered a $12 million insider trading case, resulting in a successful referral to the SEC.
- Reduced false positive surveillance pattern alerts by an average of 50% per month across multiple surveillance patterns including Treasury Wash Trading (TS001), Options Wash (XMOP011), Option Front Running (XMOP010), and Options Intrusions (XMOP025), significantly improving efficiency and effectiveness of the pattern yield.
- Developed and communicated comprehensive product roadmaps for Front Running, Coordinated Trading, and RegM patterns to all business and technology stakeholders, successfully balancing ad-hoc requests, funded initiatives, mandatory requirements, and discretionary projects.
- Led exploratory efforts for front running insider trading stakeholders partnering with the Data Science teams to develop a working application in Domino which identifies front running instances (position build, block trades, liquidation) for NMS and OTC securities resulting in true positive rate of 70% of identified instances well above existing pattern yield metrics.
- Collaborated with interdependent teams such as Surveillance Optimization Initiative (SOI), effectively assessing and reporting on funding priorities, backlog management, and exploratory outcome strategies.
- Led Knowledge Management Board (KMB) and delivered Cross Market initiatives updates to industry exchange RSA clients, strengthening stakeholder relationships and ensuring transparency.
Lead Product Manager – Advanced Analytics - FINRA’s Knowledge Graph aka “Decipher”
FINRA
Rockville, Maryland
06.2022 - 03.2024
- Created strategic and tactical roadmaps in Jira and Confluence to ensure the product alignment and value delivery by employing “OKR’s” to lead and conduct quarterly product review presentations to various stakeholders to ensure the product strategy was finely tuned.
- Engaged, trained, and entitled new users spanning over 12 lines of business resulting in over 1700 users.
- Worked with cross functional and interdependent product and engineering partners to resolve dependencies and align tactical deliveries primarily by creating confluence artifacts, and Jira Advanced Roadmaps.
- Engaged business stakeholder on requirements to deliver graph analytics primarily by way of mining the graph data (illuminations). Highlights of illuminations in 2023 resulted in 3 Enforcement referrals, 3 Reps being terminated for cause by their Member Firms, 12 matters sent to IRG, and generating capacity gains of at least 3350 hours of time saved or future funding saved by business users.
- Decipher is FINRA’s enterprise Knowledge Graph which is powered by ~30 data sources and is highly integrated with other enterprise applications and technologies such as Text Analytics/NABU and Enterprise Search and Profiles.
Lead Business Analyst For Structured Products Desk
BANK LEUMI
Tel Aviv, Israel
01.2014 - 12.2016
- Led and managed product implementations and migrations for the structured products desk portfolio to the Calypso Trading System. Received recognition as “Employee of the Year” in 2014 for the capital markets Calypso Project division, which consisted of over 35 people.
- Implemented products included asset classes such as Fixed Income (including MBS and ABS), Equity, Futures, FX and IRD derivatives (swaps and options) both listed and OTC.
- Integrated forward and discount zero curves along with volatility surfaces enabling pricing model verification for daily NPV reporting matching either Reuters or Bloomberg.
- Handled cross asset report development, which included Cross Asset Profit and Loss, FX Exposure, Sensitivity, Scenario and Simulation automating daily, monthly, and quarterly reporting to central banks, regulatory agencies, and senior management.
- Provided trade support for all derivatives and market data on instruments mentioned above, which supported over 100 traders on various desks for real time and ongoing issues.
Business Analyst, Programming Division
MATRIX
Tel Aviv, Israel
02.2012 - 12.2013
- Wrote a variety of project specifications at Bank Hapoalim capital markets division for software enhancements, which involved Mysis Summit FT Trading System.
Front Office Analyst, Project “Wall Street”
H.M.S. CONSULTING GROUP
Tel Aviv, Israel
02.2008 - 01.2012
- Integrated projects successfully for pricing equity, IRD, fixed income, and commodity derivatives to “Wall Street Systems” for the propriety trading floor of the bank (over 100 traders).
Collateral Risk Analyst
COUNTRYWIDE CAPITAL MARKETS
Los Angeles, CA
09.2001 - 12.2007
Vice President, Product Management- Custody Platforms (RIA and IBD clients)
Goldman Sachs, Folio Investments, Inc.
McLean, Virginia
03.2019
- Facilitated platform readiness from a product perspective to enable a large RIA and IBD client custody conversions ($18B conversion).
- Wrote requirements and managed projects to incorporate new asset classes onto the platform such as Fixed Income, Listed Options, Mutual Funds, Equity Block trading, and Annuities.
- Led Proxy Voting and Corporate action product upgrades with external vendors such as Braodridge.
- Product team lead for regulatory reporting reports for FINRA CAT (phase 2d), CAIS, INSITE, LOPR, EBS and FDIC’s QFC.
- Managed product roadmaps, issue workflows, product enhancements, and vendor integrations for new features to enhance the custody platform.
- The GS Folio platform is an API based custody platform that is empowered by AWS and is built on Folio’s proprietary technology for custody, clearing, and brokerage operations for institutional clients.
Director, Project Management Institutional Trading Operations “Change the Bank”
Morgan Stanley
Baltimore, Maryland
04.2017
- Proactively managed all aspects of the project lifecycle using both waterfall and agile methodologies, while incorporating lean principles and was responsible to provide project status updates to all stakeholders and management on a bi-weekly basis.
- Wrote requirements and test cases for the “MBS Novation” project which changed all MBS settlement process for clearing TBA MBS pools industry wide, spanning over 15 internal systems at MS.
- Led the full project lifecycle from budgeting and business requirement signoff to production deployment for the Credit Curve automations.
- Led the full project lifecycle for fixed income trade settlement client preferences (DTC/Euro Clear/Agent).
- Managed firmwide cross department testing requirements and cases for Industry regulation “FINRA 4210”.
- Led the Fixed Income trading operation changes project regulated MBS Single Security - a Joint Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac initiative for the fixed income trading ops department.
- Led a mainframe positions engine decommissions globally at MS. This decommissions enabled newer distributed systems updates while ensuring books and records reconciliation stayed intact.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 01.1996 - 01.1999
Skills
- Custody and Execution workflows
- Asset Servicing
- Regulatory (FINRA)
- Wealth Management Digital Platforms
- Capital Markets Cross Asset Trading Systems
- API Based Products
- Amazon Q Chat in Visual Studios
- Bitbucket
- AWS Web Services Products (S3, DynamoDB)
- Kiro CLI
- Angular
- Testing Management
- Rational Database development
- Python
- MS-VBA
- Natural
- Knowledge Graphs
- Custody Platforms
- Banking Cross Asset Trading Systems
- Microsoft Office
- SDLC Deployment
- Agile
- JIRA
- Confluence
- HP Quality Center
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Networking onlyWork Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
HybridRemoteSalary Range
$240000/yr - $250000/yrTimeline
Associate Director, Product Management – MRTS Surveillance, Entity Net Graph Product Lead
FINRA
03.2024 - Current
Lead Product Manager – Advanced Analytics - FINRA’s Knowledge Graph aka “Decipher”
FINRA
06.2022 - 03.2024
Vice President, Product Management- Custody Platforms (RIA and IBD clients)
Goldman Sachs, Folio Investments, Inc.
03.2019
Director, Project Management Institutional Trading Operations “Change the Bank”
Morgan Stanley
04.2017
Lead Business Analyst For Structured Products Desk
BANK LEUMI
01.2014 - 12.2016
Business Analyst, Programming Division
MATRIX
02.2012 - 12.2013
Front Office Analyst, Project “Wall Street”
H.M.S. CONSULTING GROUP
02.2008 - 01.2012
Collateral Risk Analyst
COUNTRYWIDE CAPITAL MARKETS
09.2001 - 12.2007
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
01.1996 - 01.1999
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES