A trading and software development professional with over 15 years experience.
Specialist in electonic trading, trading analysis, application development, database design and implementation. I also have proven successes in delivering major projects to time and budget.
Markets: Electronic trading, Equities, Futures, and FX.
Technical: Skilled in Oracle, PL/SQL, MySQL, C/C++, Perl, shell script and many other programming
A trading and software development professional with over 15 years experience.
Specialist in electonic trading, trading analysis, application development, database design and implementation. I also have proven successes in delivering major projects to time and budget.
Markets: Electronic trading, Equities, Futures, and FX.
Technical: Skilled in Oracle, PL/SQL, MySQL, C/C++, Perl, shell script and many other programming languages.
Vice President - EMEA Operations @ Managed a team of three people to accomplish the following tasks:
- Ensure WorldQuant can trade on all supported markets.
- Develop WorldQuant's trading capabilities across markets and asset classes.
- Capture, manage and analyse EMEA trading information for the firm and manage events which impact execution such as political events, market outages, trading restrictions.
- Monitor the firms profit & loss.
- Support Portfolio Managers and help them optimise their use of the trading infrastructure. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) London, United KingdomTrading Systems Operator @ - Develop and maintain in house data processing applications, those include various raw market data processing applications and trading strategy modelling applications.
- Trouble shoot market data related problems, such as data delay, missing data, inaccurate data and coordinate with the appropriate parties to solve the problem.
- Collect statistics of various data processing applications, analyse the data for potential performance improvement and detect problems.
Monitor various market data retrieval applications for possible quality/availability issues, fix or escalating to internal or external parties for further investigation.
- Design/implement/enhance data quality to detect data issues earlier and more accurate, help users of market data get familiar with the data content, collaborate with data vendors on clarifying data formats. From October 2011 to April 2013 (1 year 7 months) London, United KingdomManagement Systems Consultant @ Hired to integrate the capacity database that I had designed, with the new PAWZ database from Perfcap (an off the shelf capacity product). From November 2009 to May 2010 (7 months) London, United KingdomDeveloper/Analyst @ Designed and developed the Reuters capacity planning environment. Re-engineered the database to provide; enhanced searching, better graphing, on-demand analytics and the ability to process large amounts of data. From January 2001 to June 2007 (6 years 6 months) London, United KingdomCapacity Planner @ Predicated utilisation levels on production systems, breeches of policies, reduced loading of those systems, and provided upgrade paths for key systems in the business. Used 3rd party products to monitor and record utilisation levels on systems; BMC Patrol, CA-TNG AdviseIT. From April 1998 to December 2000 (2 years 9 months) London, United Kingdom
Masters, Advanced Information System @ Birkbeck, U. of London From 2008 to 2009 BSc, Computer Science @ Aston University From 1992 to 1996 Andrew Nwawudu is skilled in: PL/SQL, C++, Capacity Planning, SQL, Unix, Linux, Perl, Oracle SQL, MySQL, Unix Shell Scripting, Programming, Performance Tuning, Software Development, Integration, Trading Systems, Databases, IT Strategy
Websites:
http://www.worldquant.com/
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