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Brent Sullivan

Interim Head of Technology
Seattle, WA
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github.com/brntsllvn
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brntsllvn@gmail.com
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909-297-9978
Automation-oriented investment professional currently leading the technology efforts of a $5mm annual revenue, $2.5bn AUM, fixed-income investment manager, aiming to help less people do more through software.
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Work Experience

SNW Asset Management

Interim Head of Technology
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Jun 2015 - Current

I manage our technology vendors and make sure our development priorities are clearly specified. I coded the prototype (Excel VBA) for the internal trade sizing engine and hired a developer to build out user-requested enhancements. Lastly, I launched the effort to reinvigorate the company website, tapping into my Ruby on Rails training to translate business objectives into possible vendor solutions.

SNW Asset Management

Credit Analyst
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Nov 2013 - Jun 2015

I led the charge into an automated credit assessment process by leveraging corporate bond default probability and ranking the universe of investment opportunities into percentiles.

PIMCO

Portfolio Associate

Lead trade floor associate for the head of corporate credit with $42 billion of client assets across the full suite of fixed income products, derivatives and currencies. Identified, initiated and managed interns on a fully ­automated broker-dealer availability project which saves $1 million in transaction

costs annually.

  • Built a multi-­bond, multi-­portfolio trade allocation optimization program using AMPL/OPL, IBM's CPLEX solver and VBA, which resulted in minimized ticketing costs, user error and solve time

Commerzbank AG

Relationship Manager
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Feb 2011 - Sep 2011

Modeled banking counterparty credit risk to extend term loans and revolving credit facilities. Automated (Excel VBA) reports for management.

American Express

Risk Management Intern
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Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

Using SQL, determined the overlap between American Express merchants and personal cardholders for a targeted marketing campaign expected to drive $1.2 million incremental revenue

Education

Firehose Bootcamp: Ruby on Rails

thefirehoseproject.com
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Mar 2015 - Jun 2015

Ruby on Rails intensive coding bootcamp. OOP, version control (Git), TDD (mini test, rspec), deployment (Heroku), continuous integration (CodeShip). RESTful database (PostgreSQL) connectivity to client experience. View my ongoing project here: github.com/brntsllvn/pup-share.

Cornell University

MEng Financial Engingeering
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Dec 2010

Linear Programming (Optimization), Derivatives, Portfolio Management.

GRE Q 800/800

Cornell University

MPS Statistics
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Jun 2009

UC Riverside

BS Math, honors
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Jun 2008

Skills

  • Ruby on Rails, Excel, VBA, SQL, HTML/CSS, Bloomberg, AMPL