Senior Index Engineering (ISS-STOXX / Qontigo)

Sep 2019 - Current

Cloud-based development of an index management platform for internal R&D and sales teams to increase scalability and capacity for highly customized index portfolios. Usage of cloud-based high availability products, job concurrency, containerized deployments using high scalability, customized reporting. Agile project structure using JIRA with teams in Frankfurt, London and India. Tech stack: Python, GitHub, CoPilot, GHA, FastAPI, Terraform, Octopus, Deploy, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Computing Services/Jobs (GCP), Sonarqube (code quality).

Senior Index Engineer (STOXX)

May 2016 - Aug 2019

Full-stack development of an index design platform for clients to actively engage into index portfolio creation and methodology development. Collaborative project with teams in Frankfurt, London and India. Tech stack: Django/Python, GitHub, Postgres, Redis, AWS.

Senior Index Product Specialist (SIX GROUP AG / INDEXIUM AG)

May 2014 - Apr 2016

Offshore project experience with India, Key contact for client support, Development of functional and non-functional business requirements for an index calculation platform, Specification and Implementation of an index product rollout application, Parallel operation testing hand in hand with clients, automation and testing of technical acceptance criteria (Python based scripting), experience with Tosca Commander for test automation as well as HP Quality Center for Test Management, specification and implementation of business logic in a modular structure to enable business to create innovation (Eclipse/Java based).

Head Index Production and Corporate Actions (STOXX)

Team Lead (12 people)

Nov 2012 - Feb 2014

Development of corporate actions research database (CADIS/Markit EDM), Mergers & Acquisitions analysis, 2 nd level customer support, Implementation of new reporting format for STOXX composition files, MS Access VBA database maintenance, Process Optimization with VBScript, Financial Benchmark Regulation Project, Customized Index Solutions, Development of FTP Solution for STOXX, Development of fully automated STOXX Factsheet calculation process for XML/XSL-FO website process, Team Organization, Project Work (IPS) – business requirements/functional specification.

Head Index Production (STOXX)

Team Lead (3 people)

Apr 2011 - Oct 2012

Technical specifications for development of DWH and Online Monitoring systems, Process Optimization for end-of-day index production process, online process documentation, project work for research database (CADIS EDM), index implementation tasks.

Senior Index Specialist (STOXX)

Nov 2010 - Mar 2011

Responsibility for maintenance of MS Access databases for security research (MS Access VBA/SQL), reporting responsibilities for STOXX website, Indexium project involvement – business specification for index calculation, monitoring and operations.

Senior Research Analyst (STOXX)

Oct 2009 - Oct 2010

Creation of research databases with MS Access VBA/SQL connecting Bloomberg, Interactive Data and Thomson Reuters via API, index selection calculation programs with MS Access VBA for STOXX Style Indices and Benchmark Fixed Component Indices.

Research Analyst (STOXX)

Jul 2008 - Sep 2009

Research of Corporate Actions, Mergers & Acquisitions and IPOs, first level customer support, MS Excel VBA projects to optimize internal operations processes.

Research Analyst (Dow Jones Company)

Sep 2006 - Jun 2008

Responsibilities for corporate actions research, Mergers & Acquisitions, IPO and regular index review for Dow Jones Indices including Dow Jones Wilshire and Dow Jones Industrial Average.