Itay Livni 647 W. Aldine Ave. Chicago, IL. 60657. [email protected]. 312.235.2318. Education: Software: OS: Languages: Certification: Boston University. Bachelor of Arts, International Relations, 1995. Objective: An operations, automation or product management role requiring expertise in markets, technology and workflow processes. Bloomberg, MATLAB, MySQL, VBA, JMP PRO Windows, OS X, UNIX (uncomfortably) Native English, Fluent spoken Hebrew, familiarity with French. Series 7. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Oe Group. Algorithmic Trading Platform Development. Chicago/Tel-Aviv. 2009 – 2013 FOUNDER/PROJECT MANAGER: Founded to build an algorithmic trading platform and develop an ETF arbitrage event-based trade strategy with initial funding from Israel investors, in 2010 I negotiated full financial backing from Kapital Trading, a grey box proprietary trading group in Chicago. All infrastructure, logic and execution were designed and developed in-house under my supervision. Capital and Financing: Raised and negotiated financing for Oe, Kapital Trading (KT) & Kapital Securities (KS). Established relationships & reviewed contracts with clearing houses & exchanges. Systems: Deprecated legacy C++ platform and integrated Java platform. Sourced and integrated outside systems. Set release features, priorities and times with developers and vendors. Monitored system for quality control. Identified, tracked, reported, and prioritized bugs. Automated workflow. Modeling and Research: Modeled event-based strategies in Matlab, using Decision Tree, Boosting, and SVM techniques, with quants. Created, tested, and developed new factors for models. Conducted data validation, ensured system integrity and quality control. Regulatory: Created a US Broker Dealer (BD), registered with the SEC, CBSX, ARCA. Facilitated international compliance with IIROC, TSX, ARCA. Managed annual audit. Implemented compliance process for SEC, FINRA and CBSX regulations. Automated requirements into trading platforms. Business Development: Conducted new business feasibility analyses. Researched products, established and managed vendor relationships. Negotiated contracts and pricing. Leadership: Interviewed and hired for key positions. Supervised developers in Israel and the US, using Skype, JIRA, Google Docs, and XMind, mentored two full-time interns in Chicago, working in quantitative strategy development and trading principles. Integral Derivatives (formerly ASG Group). Options Specialists, NYSE. New York. 2003 – 2009 SPECIALIST/MARKET MAKER: Managed options Greek risks in a 140-symbol portfolio. Identified proprietary trading opportunities involving volatility and calendar pricing. Worked with developers on Reg Sho stocks modeling. Implemented a generic model to calculate volatility index using CBOE methodology. Developed and taught options trading classes for clerks. Tahoe Trading. Options Market Making, AMEX. New York. 2001 – 2003 SENIOR TRADER/PLATFORM DESIGNER: Traded and managed risk for a diverse portfolio, including Enron. Created and wrote Pro-Fit UI and model specifications for developers. Conducted focus groups. Developed proprietary trading strategies, and a pricing and risk platform that was acquired by Thomson – Reuters. Wolverine Trading. Asset Mgmt., Order Execution. New York / Chicago. 1998 – 2001 EQUITY OPTIONS MARKET MAKER/DEVELOPMENT: Traded and made markets in equity options. Worked with senior Traders to arbitrage volatility level between exchanges. Identified arbitrage opportunities between the SPX, SPF and OEX index options crowds. Worked with head of ETF trading and lead developer on electronic interface for floor traders and for pricing. Designed interface for on-floor options trading platform. Wrote a real-time options calculating delta program and ticket distribution system for clerks.