Dr. Michele Ravani

Moved to Italy, in the Bologna catchment area. Open to interesting opportunities

Senior IT Consultant with focus on the Finance Industry - Project mentor and solution architect in a market data and related applications migration project for a large German bank - System analysis, definition and management of projects related to the upgrade of system infrastructure, document management systems and archiving policies of the Swiss branch of a major American bank.

Head of Equities IT Support Responsible for a team of 30+ staff covering support and maintenance of development, test and production application environments of the Swiss Equities trading floor. Department interface to infrastructure, internal & external audit, business continuity management and compliance. Later Also head of the department's QA function and data warehousing team.

Head of Support Services, Trading IT Built and managed a team centralizing all non-development activities of the department, including 1st and 2nd level support, Release Management, and QA, Responsible for the banking@credit-suisse clients portal and for the CLS connectivity environments.

Head of Business Support Group, Trading IT Built and lead a support team for the company's trading floor, delivering application support, help desk and end user computing services to all business functions on the trading floor.

Responsible for the maintenance and further development of the company's in-house high frequency financial data store, used to produce high quality data sets for financial institutions.

Senior Manager in the Group Risk Technology department. Responsible for the operations and maintenance of a trade analysis system core to the regulatory and management reporting of the company.

Contracting position. Specification of data mapping between mid- and back-office systems for equity and equity derivative products for the production of regulatory reports (KWG6 Novelle). Implementation of automated tests tools to support end user acceptance tests.

Team lead and senior developer. Design and implementation of monitoring tools for mainframe operators, financial rate servers for trading applications on electronic markets, conditional trading tools.

Design and implementation of additional modules, such as automatic shapes placement on sheets, for the CAD/CAM package marketed by the company.