Experience

BlockQuake

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Partner | Chief Strategist - Cryptocurrency Markets

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  • Communicate and work closely with CEO on a daily basis to grow and scale the business across many different global regions including North America, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa, etc. • Responsible for managing all activities related to regulatory, legal, and compliance requirements from Financial Regulators to ensure successful launch of BlockQuake’s digital asset trading platform. This includes the following, but not limited to: SEC, NYDFS, CFTC, FINRA, FRB, etc. • Coordinated the initiation of license applications for Money Transmitter, NYS BitLicense, Broker Dealer/ATS for purposes of adhering to regulatory policies, procedures, expectations, and standards. • Heavily involved in communicating with various legal firms to seek proper regulatory, legal, and compliance guidance on all related jurisdictions that will be able to operate the BlockQuake digital asset trading platform. • Engaged in building relationships and future international partnerships with third party vendors in order to facilitate growth of BlockQuake’s business. • Secured and created a partnership with a U.S. regulated custodian and bank, providing our future customers with the ability to process fiat and credit/debit card deposits on the BlockQuake digital asset trading, all while having an FDIC insured account. • Direct and coordinate with internal developers to implement effective and efficient proposals to the digital asset trading platform. • Orchestrate fundraising efforts with managing members of the team in order to scale up business operations and strategic initiatives. • Execute public interviews and speaking events focusing on Fintech, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and Finance.



Barclays Investment Bank

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate - Treasury Liquidity Risk

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Worked closely with clients within the Treasury Liquidity Risk department analyzing large sets of complex data associated with 5G Reporting Framework, Liquidity Coverage Ratio, and Stress Testing business drivers for the company. • Executed, managed and performed investigations on Barclay’s Secured Financial Mismatch Report sent and communicated to front office traders in order to appropriately strategize the liquidity funding limit threshold for all trades occurring within each business entity and/or asset class. • Facilitated various projects for development of the Stress Engine tool providing extensive stress testing data analytics, amplified granular information, and proper risk controls for data quality purposes. • Oversaw the Liquidity Coverage Ratio short-term resilience of liquidity risk profile ensuring adequate amount of unencumbered high quality liquid assets required in order to absorb any shocks arising from financial or economic stress. • Executed strategy reporting for Combined U.S. Operations’ Early Warning Indicators to track and monitor business metrics that could potentially signal the onset of a liquidity stress event. • Developed daily slide decks and dashboards outlining the firm’s liquidity profile related to 5G, Liquidity Coverage Ratio, and stress testing for U.S. Intermediate Holding Company.



AIG

• Egypt
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Analyst - Actuarial, Science, and Modeling

  • Jun 2013 - Oct 2017

  • Worked as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the Actuarial, Science, and Modeling Department with a thorough understanding of the company’s business units. Provided data analytical and strategic expertise to AIG’s Property and Casualty clients within the Internal Audit Group (IAG) relating to actuarial science and quantitative risk management.. • Analyzed large sets of raw and complex data for analysis, data clean up, and management reporting – actuarial pricing, reserving, and model validation of catastrophe models. • Utilized R and Python coding set forth for model pricing of travel claims insurance as well as personal lines insurance within AIG to optimize performance. • Performed in-depth review and testing to ensure excel documents used by the business clients were forecasting proper financial statements relating to Financial Lines Reserving and Risk Adjusted Profitability metrics for incentive purposes. • Engaged closely Collaborated with the Global Legal, Compliance, and Regulatory Corporate Department to manage projects including data governance oversight for Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) and compliance of Financial SOX requirements for internal controls. • Oversaw project financial expenditures by monitoring short term incentives provided to employees within AIG to benchmark progress against prior quarters. • Partnered with the Corporate Accounting team to aggregate, compile, and summarize financial data for Stock Salary report portfolios.



Samsung Electronics America

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Operations Internship

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  • Worked with the Financial Operations Strategy and Planning division to conduct P&L analysis and prepare presentations for senior management. • Processed and audited information across departments utilizing the P&L analysis reports to project gross sale deductions, net sales, promotions within the firm. Created a channel margin presentation and spreadsheet utilized in the Customer Material Mapping report. • Aided in the execution of the Management by Objectives Process (MBO) by gathering and auditing information from various departments within Samsung Electronics America.



World Culture Organization International

• Program Director Internship

  • Jun 2011 - Sep 2011

  • Assisted/mentored a program in which students prepared and delivered a research paper on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its relevance on the current nuclear situation in North Korea for the United Nations. • Research included traveling to the Ukraine (mainly Kiev) to access essential sources from museums, lectures at the University of Kiev, and hospitals in regards to the disaster. • Developed guidelines to writing a comprehensive research paper for the program’s use.