Ahmed Badami

Ahmed Badami

Developer, Business Analyst, Fixed Income Trading Desk

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  • About me

    Senior Director Global Risk Technology @ Citi, Thought & Team Leader, Payments Transformation Program Management, Fixed Income, Equities, ERM, Process, Credit, Ops, 3rd Party, Compliance Risk & Controls Technology

  • Education

    • University of Chicago

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      MS Computer Science
    • Missouri State University

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      MBA
    • Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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      Bachelor of Science (BS)
    • Yale School of Management

      2023 - 2023
      Executive Program - Leading Effective Decision Making

      Leading Effective Decision-Making prepares executives to provide structure and clarity to uncertain situations, incorporate a broad range of perspectives and inputs to surface previously undiscovered options, evaluate those options in a systematic and data-driven way, assess potential risks, and balance risks and rewards to generate high-return decisions for their business.

  • Experience

    • Barclays

      Dec 2004 - Jan 2007
      Developer, Business Analyst, Fixed Income Trading Desk

      Supported the Fixed Income Trading Desk, Credit Derivatives and Mortgage Technology as a consultant.• Tracked vendor trading applications, Bloomberg feeds down to clearing settlement systems. • Maintained trading desk systems and used Market Risk calculators such as Polypaths to calculate risk on a variety of fixed income securities for the desk.

    • J.P. Morgan

      Jan 2007 - Mar 2013
      Technical Business Analyst, Credit Risk Technology

      Collaborated closely with Quant Analysts and Credit Risk Officers to identify business needs and requirements in order to onboard new products.• As part of the Bear Stearns acquisition, tasked with calculating potential exposure associated with a lack of advanced modeling or Monte Carlo simulations.• Performed advanced modeling techniques, reduced internal capital reserves and took the entire portfolio over from Bear Stearns.• Supported priority projects including a Legacy System Decommissioning effort, and Front Office Onboarding. Show less

    • HSBC

      Mar 2013 - Jul 2014
      Project Manager, Lead Business Analyst, Traded Risk Technology

      Managed an Onboarding Client Cleared Derivatives Project in the Traded Risk Technology group.• Delivered a project that Onboarded Central Cleared Derivatives, FX NDFs, and ETDs into the Bank's Credit Risk engine.• Results confirmed that the bank used regulator-mandated models to price NDFs and ETDs, helping the bank avoid fines and MRAs.

    • J.P. Morgan

      Jul 2014 - Dec 2015
      Project Manager, Lead Business Analyst Capital Markets

      Built and delivered an in-house MBS Pooling Application as a consultant/adviser.• Replaced third-party applications with in-house apps creating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pools, with pre-defined rules ensuring that thousands of loans were linked to the correct MBS.

    • Bank of America

      Dec 2015 - Nov 2021
      Program Manager - Credit Risk Technology

      Program-managed and led a team of 8-10 Business Analysts, Project Managers and Developers and delivered multiple projects and workstreams in Credit Risk Technology. • Achievements included delivery of CCAR, DFAST, 14Q and other regulatory projects including IBOR Transition, legacy system decommissioning, and Python upgrades, among others. • Managed the group budget, planning, hiring, forecasting and resource allocation.

    • Citi

      Nov 2021 - now
      Senior Director - Global Risk Technology

      We hired and built a team of 15 MDs who received 50+ Citi Global recognition awards within 12 months.• Fulfill Product Management requirements for Multiyear Change programs focused on large-scale technology transformations• Manage, coach, mentor and deliver individual performance reviews increasing performance while solidifying management skills and improving confidence.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Leading Effective Decision-Making

      Yale School of Management
      Aug 2023
    • Academy Accreditation - Generative AI

      Databricks
      May 2024
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    • Professional Scrum Master™ (PSM)

      Scrum.org
      Jul 2021
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