| Craig
Kemnitz |
4533 N.
Kedzie
#1
R
Chicago, IL
60625
773.463.2867
CELL:773.278.5806
FAX:607.299.9290
SKYPE:Kedzie Avenue Capital Management,Inc.
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Chief Information Officer (2006-2007) Contract position to run Information Systems for Forex Dealer. Moved 20 person office, set up networking and communication in Midtown Manhattan. Helped run backofffice function for trading platforms. Procured all equipment purchases.
(2005-2007) Trader and programmer of trading systems on MetaTrader and Trade Station in foreign exchange.
Chicago Board of Trade Contract Business Analyst on Denali Handheld Device project. (2005)
(2003-2005) Trader and programmer of trading systems on MetaTrader and Trade Station in foreign exchange.
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| The Options
Clearing Corp. |
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Business
Analyst(contract) |
Chicago, IL, USA |
| Wrote Approach,
Design, and Requirements documents for web-enablement and
rewrite of one of the world's largest securities and
derivatives clearing systems. |
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| International
Business Machines (IBM) |
| 1999 - 2001 |
Executive
Consultant |
New
York, NY, USA |
| Projects: |
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Large Risk Project:
Develop Analysis for web-based Prototype for Risk
Consulting Firm, New York, NY. Business Analysis, Case
Studies, Use and Test Cases, class diagrams, mappings,
sequence diagrams. Analysis included commodity, foreign
exchange, rate and equity quantified
risks. |
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Bank Futures
Division--Project: ODS (Operational Data Store),
Chicago, IL Systems Assessment and Current Environment
Determination. |
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Large Equity Discount
Brokerage Firm, Detroit, MI |
Straight
Through Processing (STP) and Current Assessment on web
based trading and brokerage for equity, foreign
exchange, and securities units.
State Street Global
Asset |
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Conducted end-to-end
business analysis project for equity, foreign exchange,
and fixed income trading units of the same Advisory
firm. Developed business flows and extensive business
and technical documentation for Portfolio Management
Units. |
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| ABN
AMRO |
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1998 - 1999 |
Business
Analyst (Contract) |
Chicago, IL, USA |
| Business Analyst
and Technical Writer. Designed business requirements,
specifications and analysis for interface and systems
migration projects. Focus on back office
systems. |
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| Commerz
Futures, Inc. |
| 1996 -
1998 |
Programmer
(contract) |
Chicago, IL, USA |
| Developed on-line
American styled options pricing calculator for securities,
FOREX, stocks, and indices. Model followed is the Whaley
modification of Black. (J++, Perl scripting,
C). |
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| ABN
AMRO |
| 1997 -
1997 |
Business
Analyst (Contract) |
Chicago, IL, USA |
| Designed business
requirements and analysis for the addition of American Style
and multi-collateral repos for the London and Amsterdam
treasury securities back office
unit. |
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| Panasonic
(Mieco) |
| 1996 -
1996 |
Programmer
(contract) |
Elgin, IL, USA |
| VB 4.0 for GUI
design and Access for a point of sale project. Panasonic was
contracted to develop software which is now in use at over
8000 Amoco sites. Developed GUI and utilized touch-screen
interfaces, in NT 3.51 OS. Designed OLE's and custom controls
unique to project in C++ and interfaces for use in VB
4.0. |
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| KACM,
Inc. |
| 1992 -
1996 |
President
(Self Employment) |
Chicago, IL, USA |
| Contracts
with the following companies to do
coding/Analysis: |
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Mike Bergen &
Associates, C++, foreign exchange options,
Johannesburg, South Africa |
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Nikko Securities,
Interest Rate and forex derivatives accounting package,
Chicago |
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Fuji Securities,
LOTUS Macros, Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate
Forward Pricing, Chicago |
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1st Federal S&L
(Ocwen), VB Foreign Exchange and Interest
Cash Options Pricing West Palm Beach,
FL |
| Seminars Constructed and Conducted |
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January 1994 for MKS
Bullion Trading, Geneva, Switzerland Week-long seminar
on trading, risk management and systems for physicals,
foreign exchange and interest
rates. |
August 1994
for Dealing Technologies, Johannesburg, South
Africa
(one month) Financial Engineering and Hedging.
South African Rand Forward Curve Pricing
February/March 1995
MB Associates, Boland Bank , Johannesburg &
Capetown, South Africa, (two months) Financial
Engineering and Hedging, Dollar/Rand
Hedging
August 1995 for Fuji Bank, Brussels, Belgium and
London, England
(one week) Options Trading and
Risk Management, Foreign Exchange
Desks |
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| Virginia
Trading (Kleinwort Benson) |
| 1990 -
1992 |
Research
Analyst-(Employee) |
Chicago, IL, USA |
| Conducted fixed
income research at securities trading desk for securities
trading. Also worked on various projects relating to automated
technical trading. Wrote software to calculate various basis
trading applications relating to risk
analysis. |
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| Elders
Futures |
| 1989 -
1990 |
Options
Analyst-Institutrional Sales |
Chicago, IL, USA |
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Foreign Exchange and Eurodollar desks on the floor of
the Chicago Merc providing strategy and hedge information to
NY cash desks for DM, SF, ED in futures and
options. |
| Chicago
Mecantile Exchange |
| 1984 -
1988 |
IOM Member,
Independent Options Floor Trader |
Chicago, IL, USA |
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FOREX futures options and futures for own account.
Maintained delta/gamma neutral portfolio and traded in cash
and forward markets against position. Expanded into Eurodollar
and Equity Options. |
| Rudolf Wolff
(Merged into Elders Futures) |
| 1982 -
1984 |
Options
Analyst and Trader |
Chicago, IL, USA |
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FOREX futures options and futures for firm account.
Maintained delta/gamma neutral portfolio and traded in cash
and forward markets against position. Was one of the first
foreign exchange futures options traders at the
exchange. |
| Chicago Board
of Trade/Chicago Mercantile Exchange |
| 1980 -
1982 |
Runner/Phone
Clerk/Programmer |
Chicago, IL, USA |
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currency and Eurodollar markets. |
| Education |
University of
Chicago |
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M. Sci.,
Computer Science |
Chicago, IL, USA |
Computer Science
course work including C, Object Oriented Architecture,
Java, PHP, Database, SQL, Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics,
JSP, UNIX, Linux, Project Management etc.
Projects included
Multi-Tiered web sites implementing Sybase&My SQL on Apache
platform
and
utilizing Orion/Tomcat web servers,
XML.
Degree Awarded
9/2003. |
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| Illinois
Institute of Technology |
| February
1998 |
M. Sci.,
Financial Markets & Trading |
Chicago, IL, USA |
Course work in
numerical methods, financial engineering, forward
pricing, modeling,
structured products, exotic options
pricing. |
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| Northwestern
University |
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B. A.
Economics |
Evanston, IL, USA |
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| Skills |
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Proficient German, some
French & Spanish. |
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Visual Basic.NET, C,
C++, C# ,Linux, Java, JSP, SQL |
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UML, PHP
etc. |
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| Licenses |
PRMI Sustaining Member and Designation Candidate
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| References |
| Available upon
request. |
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