Resume : rasheqrahman.com

Work Experience

KBC Financial Products New York, NY

Vice President | Insurance Derivatives
January 2006 - Present

  • Led project to create Insurance Derivatives business website: wrote all marketing copy; created front end Excel driven user interface to web pricing engine
  • Wrote VBA app to generate loan documents using data from Microsoft Excel and which was merged into Microsoft Word for formatting and printing as PDFs
  • Key point of contact for loan closings; responsible for due diligence and approval of wire instructions. Authorized signatory for firm at loan closings.
  • Coordinated documentation for regulatory filings submitted to state insurance agencies
  • Managed sale process for portfolio of 500 plus premium finance loans

Senior Analyst | Structured Credit
April 2004 - December 2005

  • Led firm-wide project to create credit derivatives reference database aggregating data from Markit, rating agencies (Moody’s, S&P and Fitch) feeds, and internal reference entity data
  • Redesigned CDO group website to increase user accessibility and provide visitor tracking info to marketing team
  • Wrote VBA macros which summarized CDO transactional data for investor reporting
  • Developed process to manage multi-million dollar invoices paid by three global units to several dozen external vendors

Data Analyst | Convertible Bonds
April 2003 - March 2004

  • Built Microsoft Access database to track corporate action and SEC registration information
  • Wrote SQL queries to extra data for verification and scrubbing
  • Instructed outside counsel to register firm’s private placement holdings with SEC
  • Liaison between traders and outside prime broker on equity and debt corporate action matters

Goldman Sachs Group New York, NY

Analyst | Fixed Income Operations
August 2000 - March 2003

  • Maintained proprietary fixed income data in Sybase database
  • Participated in developing Straight Through Processing (STP) metrics for fixed income trades
  • Developed Microsoft Access database using Visual Basic to automate fail reporting and catalog MTN prospectus documentation. (This saved the firm $90,000 per year in administrative costs)
  • Liaison between sales and trading desks to resolve trade discrepancies

Education

University of Chicago Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Arts | Economics / Environmental Studies (with honors)
Graduated June 2000

  • B.A. Honors Thesis - “Towards a ‘Greener GDP’?: A Critique of Environmentally Adjusted Economic Indicators”
  • Overall GPA: 3.67 out of 4.0. Dean’s List (all 4 years)

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) London, United Kingdom

General Course | Geography
September 1998 - June 1999

  • One year study abroad course
  • Grades (included in Chicago transcript): equivalent to 2:1

Skills

Web Development

  • HTML (10 years) - I can hand code HTML
  • PHP (3 years) - I have contributed codes for Open Source projects
  • Javascript (3 Years) - Modified basic AJAX scripts
  • CSS (2 years) - I can handcode CSS
  • XML (2 years) - I have modified PHP scripts that generate XML
  • OPML (2 years) - I have modified improved an open source script to convert OPML into HTML

Computer Applications

  • Microsoft Office (15 years) - Advanced
  • Bloomberg API (3 years) - Intermediate
  • Adobe Photoshop (5 Years) - Intermediate
  • Adobe Illustrator (5 Years) - Intermediate
  • Adobe Dreamweaver (2 Years) - Beginner

Operating System

  • Windows NT (7 years) - Intermediate
  • Macintosh (10 years) - Advanced
  • Unix (5 years) - Intermediate

Other Programming

  • VBA (7 years) - Wrote complex VBA macros automating Excel, Word & Access
  • VB.NET (1 year) - Helped port VBA code to VB.NET
  • BASH (2 years) - Wrote script to do batch rename of text files

Databases

  • MySQL (2 years) - Wrote PHP scripts/MySQL queries to sync MySQL databases
  • SQL (2 year) - Wrote advanced SQL queries to extract data for reporting
  • Microsoft Access (10 years) - Wrote VBA macros to automate data exports to Word mailmerges

Special Projects

Rasheq Rahman Personal Website
http://www.rasheqrahman.com
Launched March 2005

  • Installed custom configuration of Wordpress open source blogging platform (current version 2.0.x)
  • Customized Hemingway Wordpress theme
  • Rewrote FlickrRSS Wordpress plugin so that it would work with Plogger

NYBAP Online Website
http://www.nybap.org
Launched July 2005

The Network of Young Bangladeshi American Professionals (NYBAP) is a non-profit networking and career development organization for Bangladeshi American professionals which I co-founded in 2005. I developed the website and served as its first president.

  • Customized Joomla installation to include member profiles, events calendar, photo gallery, and forums
  • Wrote php scripts to sync data between Joomla and external membership tracking database
  • Integrated Mailman mailing list with membership registration process

Leadership

Network of Young Bangladeshi American Professionals (NYBAP) New York, NY

President/Co-Founder
Launched July 2005

  • Co-founded the first networking and career development organization for young Bangladeshi American professionals in the United States
  • Led and recruited the Core Committee responsible for governing the organization
  • Developed the NYBAP logo and branding strategy
  • Forged partnerships with other Bangladeshi organizations to host events and sponsor initiatives