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Profile ofPierre KOVACS
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Summary
TitleIT Team Lead - 12 years in Investment Banking and Investment Management
Description
I had the opportunity to cover the various aspects of the Front Office on the sell side and the buy side: pricing & risk analysis, trade capture & Straight Through Processing, electronic markets, fund monitoring, trade construction.
Technical skills:
●Architecture of applications for large IS
●Agile programming, continuous integration, software factories, TDD
●Real time environments, multi-threading, performance monitoring
●.Net (1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5), C#, C++, WPF, WCF
●Market data distribution RMDS
Skills
Skills in .NET: Web Services, Windows Forms, C#, .NET 1.x, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5 and UML
Location
LocationUnited Kingdom (UK) / London
(NW3 5NS)
This expert accepts to work remotely.
This expert accepts to work as a freelance.
Experience
Positions are listed in chronological order, with most recent at the top.
Software Engineer Manager in Investment Systems - Vice President
for
BlackRock (previously Barclays Global Investors)
May, 2008 - Present
(Still in this position)
Location
United Kingdom (UK) / London
Industry
Finance / Assets management
I develop a system for the portfolio managers of the Liability Hedging team. The portfolio managers monitor, rebalance or invest in the funds through this application. The system is implemented in .Net 3.5, WCF and WPF.
I also hold an Investment Management Certificate.
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IT Team Lead
for
SOCIETE GENERALE
March, 2007 - April, 2008
Location
France / Ile de France / Paris
Industry
Finance / Banking
Developing the new trading core platform in C# .Net 3.0
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Head of the Global Technical Architecture Team
for
SOCIETE GENERALE
2006 - March, 2007
Industry
Finance / Banking
●Set up a team of 15 senior developers to support software quality and application design over a 600 people department
●Delivered a desktop application framework based on Composite UI application block
●Evangelized agile development
●Setup a global software factory team for supporting continuous integration
●Deployed service hosting framework
●Elaborated a component repository
Collaborated with great experts: Fabrice Marguerie, Patrick Smacchia, Bob Powell
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IT Architect for Electronic Trading Fixed Income & Derivatives
for
SOCIETE GENERALE
2004 - 2006
Location
France
Industry
Finance / Banking
●Led the architecture for the global electronic trading platform (30 people)
●Managed technical experts and junior architects
●Deputy of the business line architect
●Defined yearly technical roadmap, quality process, tools and practices
●Represented IT business line with electronic brokers (Bloomberg, Eurex, Liffe, Euronext, MTS, Brokertec ICAP, eSpeed, TradeWeb, MarketAxess, etc) and vendors (Reuters)
●Streamlined market data distribution (3.000.000+ data updates per day)
●Built a distributed pricing system (1000+ man days) and D2C trading automaton (300+ man days)
●Setup automatic and continuous integration for 30+ projects
●Supervised migration to .Net1.1 then.Net 2.0
●Introduced project management cycles focused on testing, performances and application monitoring
●Elaborated frameworks for services and desktop applications development
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IT Project Manager, Electronic Market Places on Fixed Income
for
SOCIETE GENERALE
2003 - 2004
Location
France / Ile de France / Paris
Industry
Finance / Banking
●Responsible for order management system, trade capture and pricers on electronic platforms for Fixed Income
●Managed up to 14 persons, 2400 man days
●Maintained 15 market connections, 60 users
●Integrated new commoditized products : bonds trackers, IRS, CDS
●Automated hedging on a deal by deal basis
●Benchmarked the in-house system against 8 leaders vendors
●IT contact for electronic markets
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IT Project Deputy, Front/Middle/Back Office for Rate Derivatives
for
SOCIETE GENERALE
2001 - 2002
Location
France / Ile de France / Paris
Industry
Finance / Banking
●Responsible for pricing and trade capture applications deployed worldwide on front, middle and back office desks
●Managed 9 developers with a € 1 300 000 budget
●Took part in defining new business process
●Attended VSLive Conference on .NET in San Francisco
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Software Engineer, Front Office Trading Rate Derivatives Operations
for
SOCIETE GENERALE
1997 - 2001
Location
France / Ile de France / Paris
Industry
Finance / Banking
●Responsible for pricing and trade capture applications for traders and salesmen of swaps and options (swaptions, caps & floors).
●Technical environment: C++, MFC, Ole Automation, COM with ATL, Sybase stored procedures, UML under Rational Rose, Clearcase source control.
●Dual platform deployment: Windows NT and Unix Solaris
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posted Monday, April 16, 2007
updated Friday, November 27, 2009
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