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Erik H. Oskamp

"impressed with his professionalism, adaptability, and quality of work"
"superior to any consultant"
Credit Lyonnais

"highest recommendations"
"exceptionally competent, committed, thorough and accurate"
Citibank

Experience
Summit Implementation Specialist
November 2002 - January 2003
Société Générale, New York, NY, USA (as a consultant for Leotel)
  • Responsible for Summit 3.4.1 & 3.4.2 Installation, Conversion & Rollout
  • Managed all technical issues and relationships with SG infrastructure groups
  • Normalized the existing technical environment for development, testing and the business
  • Created reusable utilities to extract GIC information
  • Resolved Orbix issues for both the GIC Front Office and Risk
  • Investigated existing support environment, in particular the batch, for Risk (and eventually the Front Office) and made recommendations for improvements
  • Researched and documented the existing underlying Summit technical implementation of the GIC module.
  • Made several Summit extensions (filter, screen & database) to the GIC module to prove that the internal development team can provide value-added services for the GIC FO business
  • Provided a technical prototype for Customers & Contacts to fill a gap between existing IAU functionality and missing functionality in Summit.
  • Created a standalone application (prototype) to demonstrate draw and deposit capabilities with existing GIC deals.
  • Investigated the ability to use Summit SDL to generate tickets for GIC trades.
  • Built a report with existing GIC deals to prove the ability to internally develop custom reports for the business.
  • Provided detailed documentation of all work completed to date.
Summit Implementation Specialist
September 2002 - November 2002
Reference..
WestLB, New York, NY, USA (as a consultant for Leotel)
  • Implemented Summit upgrade from 2.6 to 3.2
  • Managed technical issues and relationships with user and infrastructure groups
Summit and Kondor+ Implementation Specialist
May 1999 - June 2002
Reference..
Credit Lyonnais, New York, NY, USA (as a consultant for Leotel)
  • Modified Summit accounting to incorporate specific client accounting rules using Perl, Sybase and Kornshell.
  • Implemented Kondor upgrade from 1.8 to 2.0
  • Set-up night cycle processing for Summit and Kondor+
  • Built Summit/Murex trade interface to data warehouse
  • Built counterparty risk system
  • Replaced existing TUFFS reports with Summit reports and with new reports using parts of existing Summit reports, Perl, Sybase and Kornshell.
  • Designed and implemented iMark interface using Perl, Sybase and Kornshell
  • Designed and implemented SWIFT interface using C++
  • Built general reconciliation tool for trade and static entities using Perl.
  • Built Acbs to Kondor+ trade interface
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Summit Implementation Specialist
August 1998 - March 1999.
Reference..
Citibank, New York, NY, USA (as a consultant for TSC through Leotel)
  • Installed Summit and migrated from legacy system using shell scripting, C++, Perl, SQL.
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Systems Analyst Programmer, August 1997 - August 1998.
Credit Suisse First Boston, Front Office Technical Services, New York, NY, USA. (as a consultant for Computer People, New York, NY, USA)
  • Installed and maintained Summit including setting up nightcycle and batch processing using Summit API, C++, SQL, Perl, Autosys at locations in New York, London and Tokyo.
  • Supported Fixed Income derivatives traders.
  • Developed Bond Option Trading Application using VB, SQL, C++.
  • Developed Summit Trade Interface using Summit API, C++.

Software Consultant, August 1996 - August 1997.
Reference..
Amsterdam Option Exchange, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (as a consultant for CMG Finance BV, Amstelveen, The Netherlands)
  • Developed SWITCH (System Which Incorporates Trading CHoices) electronic derivatives trading system using Visual C++.
  • Ported SWITCH trading front-end to Win32
CMG Finance BV, Advanced Technology, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Designed and implemented demonstration application of VASP (Value Added Service Platform) connecting internet, Interactive Voice Response and GSM Short Message Service with third party information suppliers using C++ and shell scripting

Senior Programmer, June 1994 - August 1996.
Reference..
Stockdata, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (as a consultant for Insight Options, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Designed and implemented SFINX (Stockdata Financial INformation eXchange) real-time option price information system using Borland C++.
  • Maintained critical large real-time price information system feeding over 500 customers using C++ and shell scripting.
Dols Beheer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (as a consultant for Insight Options, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Supported option traders
Bedrijfsnet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (as a consultant for Insight Options, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Implemented internet search engine using HTML, SQL, C++.

Manager Computer Department, January 1992 - November 1993.
Reference..
Fight For Life, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • As volunteer responsible for information retrieval, data processing and statistical research using C++, Excel.

Programmer, January 1990 - June 1994.
Insight Software, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Designed and implemented MPT system for ABN Amro investment research implementing the Modern Portfolio Theory investment model using Turbo C.

Programmer, January 1989 - December 1989.
Mabel Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Designed and implemented investment models using Turbo C.
Technical
Skills
C++, C, Unix Shell Scripting, Perl, SQL, VBScript, HTML, ASP, CGI.
Windows NT/95/3.11/3.10, Unix (SunOS, Solaris), MS-DOS
Summit API, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Autosys, RogueWave, BoundsChecker, Visual SourceSafe, SCCS.
Business
Experience
Swaps, equity/Index Options, Swaptions, FRA's, Bonds, Bond Options, Cap/Floors.
Education
1986 - 1992 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Computer Science
Languages
Dutch native German fair
English fluent Japanese beginner
Extra-
Curricular
Activities
1992 treasurer Student Aids Conference
1985 - 1986 founder and president Henk Kuijpers Fanclub
1983 - 1984 youth champion chess club 'De Amstel'
Hobbies
Traveling (59 countries until now)
Flying a Cessna 152
Investing (survived the '87 crash and the dot-com meltdown)
Life (so no computer games...)

E-mail: erik@oskamp.com URL: http://www.oskamp.com