STEWART A. BERMAN
sab@saberman.com
www.saberman.com

OBJECTIVE

· Software Development as an Independent consultant

TECHNOLOGIES

· Expert: MS Access/VBA/ODBC, Visual Basic, Office Automation (Excel/VBA, Outlook/VBA)

· Working Knowledge: SQL Server, C++

· Technical Team Project Management

INDUSTRY – INVESTMENT BANKING

· Risk Management (Value At Risk, Data Mining) Software Development and Support

· Front Office Equity and Fixed Income Trading and Sales Software Development and Support

QUALIFICATIONS

· A career Information Systems Consultant/Problem Solver with an extensive record of leading projects to successful completion, on schedule and under budget. Equally capable of contributing as an individual or as a team leader. Excellent technical and interpersonal skills.

Profession History

• Credit Suisse First Boston - 2005 – 2008. Director – Market Risk Management.
• Managed the Risk Reporting function that processed risk data for the Americas and produced reports covering the Americas and globally consolidation of the Equities, Corporate Fixed Income and Structured Products business lines. 
• Managed the New Business function responsible for risk management review and approval. 
• Project Manager for analysis and development of a Synthetic CDO Risk Management system including full revaluation of CDO Tranches on a 2000 node calculation Grid.  Developed MS Access based system to import and clean MarkIt Data spreads to produce historical time series.

• Credit Suisse First Boston - 1999 – 2005. Contractor.
• Developed system for calculating and reporting on value at risk for fixed income and equity proprietary trading.  Results were improved productivity (2-3 FTE reduction), improved delivery (4 hours earlier), improved controls and more transparency in risk analysis. The system had 40 users in NY, London and Singapore.  The system extracted data from Credit Derivatives spreadsheets and Sybase databases into a Microsoft Access database.  The Risk Analysts then calculate and report on risk factors using market shocks, correlated risk and historical simulation.  The system integrated the use of Microsoft Outlook and Excel through the Access VBA code. 
• Led Credit Default Risk - Credit Risk Plus rollout for Fixed Income risk clusters.
• Developed combined risk reporting for senior managers in the CRO function.
• Managed system support and testing for many rollouts of systems and Y2K system upgrades and testing for NY.
• Interfaced directly with 50 Market and Credit risk analysts in NY providing support and training on internally developed applications.

• Deutsche Bank - 1998 – 1999. Contractor.
• Developed an interface between a proprietary custody system and Portia using MS Access.
• Developed EMU conversion system for Portia in MS Access.

 

• Bankers Trust - 1995 – 1998. Contractor.
• Developed a real-time P & L tracking system. (VB 5, VC++ 5.0,  MS SQL Server).
• Managed the installation of a program trading system with direct links to major exchanges and developed interfaces to the back office systems.
• Developed a P & L explanation system for arbitrage trading and a delta trading system for derivative trading. (VB, VC++, MS Access, MS SQL Server).
• Installed, configured and supported Win/NT 3.51/4.0 Servers/Workstations and MS SQL 6.0/6.5 Servers.

• Executone Information Systems – 1994. Consultant.
• Developed a system that monitors communications lines, analyzes messages, updates information in a database and displays caller history for call center operators. (VB, DDE, MS Access).

• Citibank - 1993 –1994.  Vice President - Corporate Audit/Business Systems Review.
• Directed the development of a complete personnel management system for a 600-person internal audit department. It provides a full set of human resource, training, scheduling and time keeping modules for capturing, analyzing and reporting information. (VB, MS Access).
• Led the development of a case management system for a legal/investigation department. It provides complete tracking and cross referencing of cases. (VB, MS Access).
• Managed technical support worldwide including equipment purchases and network installation.

• AST & Epson – 1992. Independent Software Vendor.
• Customized a proprietary system to automate the distribution of diskette images. The system generates diskettes for licensed software shipped with AST and Epion computers. (VC++, SDK).

• Lehman Brothers - 1991 –1992. Contractor.
• Provided technical expertise in the use of Microsoft Windows as a front end for Unix applications. Responsible for package selection and system integration of X-Server, TCP/IP, Local Area Network, and Microsoft Windows. Set up test environment. Installed and customized software and Local Area Network. Developed test drivers in C on Sun Workstation (Unix and Open Look).

·         Coopers & Lybrand – 1975 – 1990. Partner – National EDP Development.

o        Established function built and directed an in-house staff of 30 developers and quality assurance personnel.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

· SAB Diskette Utility.  Designed, developed, and marketed a product to provide copying, comparing, formatting, and verifying of diskettes in a well-behaved Windows 3.x application. The product was developed using the Microsoft Windows 3.1 SDK and Microsoft C7. It was re-written using VC++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). The product has over 2,000 licensed users. Portions of the product were also licensed to Tool Technology for inclusion in WinTools. The entire product was licensed to Epson America for inclusion on all microcomputers shipped within the United States.

CERTIFICATIONS

· Certified Data Processor (CDP)

· Microsoft Product Specialist (MCP)

· PRINC2 Registered Practitioner

EDUCATION

· M.B.A. Professional Accounting, Fordham University

· M.E.E. The City College of New York

· B.E.E. The City College of New York