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Profile ofPierre KOVACS
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Summary
TitleIT Team Lead - 10 years in Investment Banking
Description
I have enjoyed every position I've had the chance to take during 10 years in a major french bank: developper, project manager, architect, team lead. I am passionate about development of investment banking systems. I am mainly versed in rate derivatives and fixed income. I would like to leverage this experience to focus on commodities.
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), C#, C++
●Market data distribution RMDS
Skills
Skills in .NET: Web Services, Windows Forms, C#, .NET 1.x, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and UML
Location
LocationFrance / Ile de France / Hauts-de-Seine
(GARCHES - 92380)
This expert accepts to work remotely.
This expert does not accept to work as a freelance.
Experience
Positions are listed in chronological order, with most recent at the top.
Associate for Barclays Global Investors
May, 2008 - Present
(Still in this position)
LocationUnited Kingdom (UK)
IndustryFinance / Assets management
Strategic Solutions Group.
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IT Team Lead for SOCIETE GENERALE
March, 2007 - April, 2008
LocationFrance / Ile de France / Paris
IndustryFinance / 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
IndustryFinance / 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
LocationFrance
IndustryFinance / 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
LocationFrance / Ile de France / Paris
IndustryFinance / 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
LocationFrance / Ile de France / Paris
IndustryFinance / 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
LocationFrance / Ile de France / Paris
IndustryFinance / 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 Thursday, May 01, 2008
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