Steven Roth

Architect Lead, specializing in enterprise and solution architectures in the retail banking space. Work is concentrated in creating target-state architectures and governance procedures with a team of top-notch IT architects of varying specialties.

Senior executive in charge of business development, sales and consulting activities, focusing primarily on finance sector businesses, risk management and supporting technologies. Business analysis for the financial services sector related to client and counterparty onboarding, KYC, AML and fraud detection. Internal research and development for Android-based analytic mobile applications for the financial services, as well as open-source cloud-based services.

Responsible for the management and oversight the HP Enterprise Services CTO office at one of HP's largest non-government clients. Accelerate strategic technology programs for this global client. Managed the EDS client account CTO office. In my first four months, completely eliminated consistent 7-figure (USD) SLA penalties related to support performance. Team size was over 1,000 technical staff, located in the US, India and Italy.

Consulting Enterprise Architect to Hewlett Packard’s finance sector customers. Served as HP’s Enterprise Architect at Bank of America with architectural oversight responsibility on all consulting projects at that customer. Also served as Enterprise Architect at Merrill Lynch. For HP’s Financial Services Industry vertical, created the reference architecture for low-latency trading, complex event processing, and algorithmic trading. Performed consulting engagements in this space.

Brought into the firm to spearhead solutions in the financial markets, with a strong focus on trading, risk management and compliance. Spent much of my tenure here in the development of the Financial Services practice for the eastern United States, including the definition of technology solutions and the positioning of NEC expertise in our target market. In addition, developed intellectual capital and marketing collateral in support of bringing NEC technical consulting solutions to market.

Founder of the firm’s Linux Platform Consulting Practice. Responsible for creation, marketing and sales of all solutions for the new practice, including methodologies and management seminars, architecture and design workshops, proofs of concept, and entire project lifecycle from vision through rollout. Solution creation also included the creation of white papers, presentations, training materials, brochures and other marketing collateral. Personally built and configured Linux clusters for customers.

Responsible for the identification, selection and recruitment of, as well as development of new business through, business partners in the financial markets sector for IBM Americas. This involved the identification of financial markets-specific vendors with strategic potential, both in terms of product offerings and technology positioning. Instrumental in winning a $30 million services sale to a leading credit risk management service bureau, the largest risk management-related engagement in IBM’s history.

As the risk management solutions leader in IBM’s Americas region, I was responsible for the creation, marketing and sales of IBM’s risk management offerings, as well as promoting the awareness of IBM’s capabilities in the area of risk; this included the entire sales cycle, from initial call through proposal creation, resource identification, etc. This role included channel development and the creation of business partner relationships with trading/risk software vendors.

Consultant to the securities and banking industries, specializing in capital markets businesses and technologies. Responsible for selling, as well as managing consulting engagements and for the design, development, implementation and validation of client-server solutions for a wide variety of business and technological needs. Served as the consulting engagement manager over a multi-project consulting engagement at Deutsche Bank, one of IBM's largest customers in the financial services industry.

Founding technologist of this bank derivatives subsidiary with enterprise responsibility for computer and trading technology infrastructure construction and support, including Sun/PC clients/servers/LAN/WAN, as well as market data suppliers and delivery vendors. Worked closely with the Quantitative Analysis unit in the development of quantitative models for deal pricing, hedging and risk management. Developed front-office system modules for pricing derivatives, related sensitivities and risk management.

Directed a staff of systems analysts and consultants and actively participated in the development of quantitative models and systems to support all functions related to the General Financial Markets Division of MHT, with risk management being my primary focus. Developed MHT’s core market risk management systems utilizing the RMU methodology for quantifying and tracking the proprietary and counterparty market risk inherent in FX and fixed-income trading, investment and repo portfolios.

Responsible for managing a highly skilled staff in the development of quantitative and real-time applications for all divisions within Marine's Capital Markets Sector, especially Marine's and Hong Kong Bank's traders. Provided the in-house technical guidance, including requirements determination, vendor selection and contract negotiations for the technological components of Marine Midland's new trading room and associated data center.

Geophysics - Seismology Quantitative Methods Physics - Mechanical, Electrical, Quantum

Quantitative Methods Application Architectures Algorithmic Efficiencies Operations Research / Optimization

Financial Markets Financial Engineering Risk Management