Experiences at Reuters

A global information company providing content, analytics, trading and messaging capabilities to financial professionals.
Revenue responsibility for Reuters $90 million global energy information business

Produced global strategy and marketing plans for business expansion

Directed product development, sales, training, and customer support in a matrixed organization to achieve revenue targets, and increase leading market share

Negotiated strategic partnerships and alliances to build revenue and competitive advantage

Contributed to client sales presentations as market expert...

REUTERS - best known as the world's largest international multimedia news agency, over 90% of revenue derives from financial services - providing content, analytics, trading and messaging capabilities required by financial professionals in equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy markets around the world.

Clients: US & Global corporations subscribing to trading services - current and historical stock, bond, commodity trading prices, financial news and proprietary trading systems.

Led investigations into client accounts, sensitive negotiations, settled disputes, recovered monies owed while preserving business relationships.

* Reviewed client 10-Ks, news items, etc. identify trends, health and payment risks.
* Initiated and led efforts to eliminate resource intensive processes, automate access to financial data to reconstruct evidence from legacy computer systems.
* 33% reduction in outstanding A/R led to promotion.

* Similar positions with ADP & IPC...

Capitalized on REUTERS corporate & Financial Services industry experience to manage technical resources for sales, credit, finance, journalists in Wall Street District Sales offices.

* Led mission-critical network & facilities management projects.
* Relocation Planning for moves of corporate offices, investigated options, interviewed vendors.
* Led local Audit, Security, Privacy initiatives.
* Administration of Novell, Windows and Lotus Notes & Domino.
* Invested substantial (personal) time and capital to become certified in network administration.

* Response during/following Feb. 1993 WTC bombing - evacuated personnel & shut down systems
* Led BC Planning initiatives - identified risks and vulnerabilities in light of new threats.
* Investigated frameworks, introduced Security Governance procedures to reduce risk to corporate data.
* Organized systems using Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to rank business criticality of IT resources....

Worked in fast paced newsroom environment on international and national news coverage of public affairs, business, health etc. Worked with many different clients from all over the world.

Communicate detailed economic and financial information to clients using premium desktop products, i.e. Reuters 3000Xtra and Reuters Datascope products.
Provide exceptional customer support to clients with technical, product, or financial market data related inquiries.
Utilize in-depth financial market and product knowledge to effectively identify and diagnose problems.
Liaison for internal/external clients, contributors, and data operation centers globally to ensure the data provided is in compliance with the financial markets and Securities Exchange Commission.
Coach and guide team members to optimize the efficiency of supporting Reuters products and services.
Consistently meet deadlines while demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills to achieve corporate objectives.

REUTERS DATA OPERATION White Plains N.Y
Market Researcher, Global Equities
Collects, interprets, develops and maintains financial instruments for Reuters products as market events determine
Performs daily maintenance for Global Equities on Reuters databases prioritizing high profile critical data with immediate clients impact
Performs daily pricing on equity securities from NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, OTCBB, Pinksheets, TSE, CVE and other U.S. regional markets
Routinely monitors and cleanse intra-day charts on high profile equity securities; achieves Reuter's data production and quality standard consistent with company standard
Performs synchronization checks for perfect correlation between historical and Real-time data for Global equity markets
Conducts and presents detailed market and industry specific research using various Reuters vendors such as Telerate, Standard and Poor's, Factiva, Exchange Data International, Instinet
Responds to both internal and external queries in a timely manner

Market Ratings Analyst, U.S. and Global Bonds 01/04 to 09/04
Gathered and maintained Ratings on U.S. and Global Bonds on Reuters databases, using four major Ratings Agencies i.e. Standard and Poor's, Moody's, Fitch Ratings and Dominion
Analyzed performance of existed Bond Ratings and helped communicated Ratings rationale to Reuters customers
Researched and determined volatile and non-volatile companies and applied Ratings as recommended
Led, supervised and trained new market researchers
Conducted research projects and participated in Fixed Income Department transition to Bangalore, India...

Manage Global Project Portfolio and Operational activities (Data Centre, Infrastructure, Systems Operations) for the Search and Strategic Data, News/Content businesses of major media and global financial data/information provider.

researching and writing for a global readership on corporate events (results, M&A, etc.) and trends, financial markets, macro-economic data as well as to a lesser extent on politics and other news subjects; editing and advising on copy and contents; active participation in regular planning and job assignment tasks...