Reaz Ahmed
Sr. Product Manager Financial Technology
Jericho,NY
Summary
Product Management | Strategic Development & Analytics Diligent Senior Product Manager offering [Number] years of success in product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Product Manager – Rates and credit (Global)
BLoomberg
06.2000 - Current
- Establish accountability as the Product Owner, managing electronic trading, pricing, and quoting, and the API Integration
- In the last 2 years, led the strategic development of 4 key features in Fixed Income Electronic Trading and Pricing Application, uniquely addressing critical gaps in Credit EMS Space
- Establish the product roadmap to maximize short-term opportunities, while delivering key strategic initiatives
- Oversaw the strategic initiatives that resulted in a 28% growth in the application’s market foothold
- Improve productivity by effectively training in global - sales, implementation, and production support teams
- Provide a Go-to-Market strategy that sets up the product road map for global regions and build ETOMS integration solutions for Tier-1 Private wealth clients
- Spearhead efficiencies in the D2D (Dealer to Dealer Markets) and D2C Client Market Dealer
- Influence Infrastructure improvement to accommodate business growth, designing products to bring efficiency in operational workflows
- Develop policies, generate product vision, maintain regulatory compliance and deliver product enhancements
- Interact with eight different engineering teams globally, accurately collaborating on client commitments, strategic roadmap items
- Stabilized Global Electronic trading platform, decreasing severe system outage by 63% YOY by implementing new build, test, and roll out model
- Improve operational effectiveness and provide impactful data analytics and business intelligence
- Increased overall systems performance by 42% YoY and enhanced integration speed and machine capacity by 59% YoY.
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER - Fixed Income, Money Market, Repo, Sec Lending
Bloomberg
06.2015 - 06.2020
- Facilitated the Engineering and UX teams to develop an adoptable Client Interaction Framework used by various groups
- Introduced a knowledge transfer process for Test Engineering teams, allowing rotations in different roles
- Presented challenges that permitted employees to think out of the box, removing previously detected testing barriers and issues
- Enhanced training in the entire European Accounts and Sales on MiFID-II and SFTR reporting and data management
- Recognized for managing most number of products among all TOMS product managers, covering Cash, Repo, Money Market, CUTS, Trade Lifecycle, FX ticketing, MiFID-II Trade, and Transaction Reporting
- Led the first team to adopt the Agile Build and Go to Market Frameworks
- Built and released Strategy ticket (MT), Multi Ticket Entry(MTE), Strips Ticket (STKT), Hedge Ticket (HTT), Repo ticket (RPX), FX ticket (FX B/S), and Exception Blotter (EXBL).
PROGRAM MANAGER - Global Fixed Income, Repo, Securities Lending & Enterprise Collateral Management
CIBC World Markets
02.2013 - 06.2015
- Facilitated the Engineering and UX teams to develop an adoptable Client Interaction Framework used by various groups
- Introduced a knowledge transfer process for Test Engineering teams, allowing rotations in different roles
- Presented challenges that permitted employees to think out of the box, removing previously detected testing barriers and issues
- Enhanced training in the entire European Accounts and Sales on MiFID-II and SFTR reporting and data management
- Recognized for managing the most number of products among all TOMS product managers, covering Cash, Repo, Money Market, CUTS, Trade Lifecycle, FX ticketing, MiFID-II Trade, and Transaction Reporting
- Led the first team to adopt the Agile Build and Go to Market Frameworks
- Built and released Strategy ticket (MT), Multi Ticket Entry(MTE), Strips Ticket (STKT), Hedge Ticket (HTT), Repo ticket (RPX), FX ticket (FX B/S), and Exception Blotter (EXBL).
Director of FI Applied Business Solutions
Scotia Bank, Bloomberg TOMS
01.2010 - 01.2013
- Successfully built lean, high-performing Global Fixed Income & Funding Trading Business Systems
- Spearheaded efficiencies in the Analysis and Execution team within eighteen (18) months
- Recorded Zero employee turnovers in two (2) years at the role
- Reduced IT operational budget by $1.8M and directed FI annual business analysis, development, and infrastructure budget.
Head of FIC Support Canada & Development Lead and Architect
RBC Capital Markets
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Migration & Implementation: Managed RBC US Book migration from the legacy trading system (BATS) to Bloomberg TOMS
- Architecture & Development: Led the RBC Development and ION Integration teams on MBS business, successfully winning the FITS migration project.
Sr. Developer & Architect (Consultant) – Electronic Trading
TD Securities
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Major Project: FX Order Management integration, FX Aggregator, Position Service, and Murex Straight Through Processing
Team Lead – E-Commerce Development
Royal Bank Capital Market
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Major Project: Fixed Income E-Commerce Trading
Team Lead – E-Commerce Development
Royal Bank Capital Market
01.2004 - 01.2005
- Major Project: In House Fixed Income Trading and Pricing Systems Upgrade
Programmer Analyst/Sr. Programmer Analyst-Fixed Income
Merrill Lynch Canada
- Major Projects: DSTS Trade Feed, DebtStar (Retail Fixed Income), Y2K upgrade, DSTS Retail Role-out
Sr. Programmer Analyst, AVP, GMI Equity Business
Merrill Lynch Canada
- Major Projects: Order and Basket Order Entry, Soft and Hard Commission Management System
Education
Master of Science in information system engineering -
Southbank Universy
Post Graduate diploma in information system engineering - undefined
Southbank Universy
Bachelor of science in electrical engineering and computer science - undefined
London international college
Skills
Product Management
Program Management
Project Management
Generative AI
NLP
LLM
Application Design
Software Development & Product Launch
Agile Development
Relationship Management
Quality Assurance
Data Analytics & Technical Knowledge
Business Intelligence
Data Management
Data & Analytics Technology
Program Management Oversight
Product Management (Open-Source)
Product Development
Customer Engagement
Project Plan
Production Management
Sprint Planning
Risk Controls
Agile & Dev Ops Governance
Tech & Business Stakeholders Strategy
Customer Relationship Management
Excellent Verbal Communication Skills
Hiring & Coaching
Product Lifecycle Management
Market penetration strategy
Product positioning
Marketing Strategy Development
Strategic Planning
Product marketing
Training and Development
Problem-Solving
Websites
Technical Background
- J2EE Application Server: BEA Weblogic 8.1 and 9, IBM Websphere, JBoss
- J2EE Caching Solution: Tangosol Coherence, EH Cache
- ORM: Hibernate
- Messaging Solutions: IBM MQ, Tibco Rendezvous, Reuters RMDS
- Programming Language: Java, J2EE (EJB, JMS, Servlet, JSP, RMI, JDBC, SOAP), XML, C#, WEB-SERVICES, C++, Power Builder, C, PERL, JavaScript, Shell Script (K, C, Born Shell)
- Software & Database Design Tool: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, Erwin, Power Designer
- RDBMS: Sybase, Oracle, MS-SQL Server, Informix 4-GL
- IDE: Eclipse, IBM Websphere Studio, MS Visual Studio .NET, Jbuilder, PowerJ, Antechinus C# Editor, Oracle J-Developer
- Trading/Business Software: ION .Net, ION WinFITS, Bloomberg TOMS, DSTS (Fixed Income Trading), BATS, Gloss
- Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, AIX, All Windows
- Framework: J2EE Framework, Spring, OOAD, Microsoft.Net, MSF
- Reporting Tools: Business Objects, Crystal Reports
- Database: Sybase, Oracle, MS SQL Server
- Others: Web Technologies, UX/UI, Software Development, Experience with instrumentation, mobile, infrastructure, or developer-facing products, JIRA, Relational Databases, Electronic Trading Technology
Current Learning
MIT – SLOAN – Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy Program
Certification
Artificial Intelligence
Timeline
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER - Fixed Income, Money Market, Repo, Sec Lending
Bloomberg
06.2015 - 06.2020
PROGRAM MANAGER - Global Fixed Income, Repo, Securities Lending & Enterprise Collateral Management
CIBC World Markets
02.2013 - 06.2015
Director of FI Applied Business Solutions
Scotia Bank, Bloomberg TOMS
01.2010 - 01.2013
Head of FIC Support Canada & Development Lead and Architect
RBC Capital Markets
01.2009 - 01.2010
Sr. Developer & Architect (Consultant) – Electronic Trading
TD Securities
01.2007 - 01.2009
Team Lead – E-Commerce Development
Royal Bank Capital Market
01.2005 - 01.2007
Team Lead – E-Commerce Development
Royal Bank Capital Market
01.2004 - 01.2005
Sr. Product Manager – Rates and credit (Global)
BLoomberg
06.2000 - Current
Programmer Analyst/Sr. Programmer Analyst-Fixed Income
Merrill Lynch Canada
Sr. Programmer Analyst, AVP, GMI Equity Business
Merrill Lynch Canada
Master of Science in information system engineering -
Southbank Universy
Post Graduate diploma in information system engineering - undefined
Southbank Universy
Bachelor of science in electrical engineering and computer science - undefined
London international college