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Mike DeSanti
Mike has had an extensive career in providing innovative technology solutions to the volatile business areas
of the financial industry. He has developed a well-defined process for capturing business requirements, and
matching the pace of change that provides flexibility that increases ROI, and identifies and manages risk of
the entire program.
Throughout his career he has been in the vanguard of technology, being a leader in the application of object-
oriented design, and agile development to real-world business problems. His business knowledge covers
the spectrum of current issues, including
Mike has a track record in managing multi-year, multi-faceted, global projects to success in leading edge
areas of financial institutions. He has a well developed understanding of the linkages between the stages of
any program and how to manage the risks that are inherent to any major IT effort, particularly ones of
strategic impact on a firm.
Major initiatives that he has delivered are:
Mike founded and ran a major consulting firm serving the financial industry, its clients being a complete
cross-section of top tier firms. Prior to that he had senior management roles in leading edge technology
firms.
Mike has had an extensive career in providing innovative technology solutions to the volatile business areas
of the financial industry. He has developed a well-defined process for capturing business requirements, and
matching the pace of change that provides flexibility that increases ROI, and identifies and manages risk of
the entire program.
Throughout his career he has been in the vanguard of technology, being a leader in the application of object-
oriented design, and agile development to real-world business problems. His business knowledge covers
the spectrum of current issues, including
- SOA and messaging architectures,
- Hybrid and Derivatives Trading,
- Cross-Product Enterprise Risk Management & Analysis
- Cross-Product Straight Through Exception-based Processing
- Credit Derivatives
- Hedge Fund Trade Processing
Mike has a track record in managing multi-year, multi-faceted, global projects to success in leading edge
areas of financial institutions. He has a well developed understanding of the linkages between the stages of
any program and how to manage the risks that are inherent to any major IT effort, particularly ones of
strategic impact on a firm.
Major initiatives that he has delivered are:
- Bond & Index Trading System for a Hedge Fund
- Cross-Product Service base architecture for a global banking firm.
- Developed a Basle II technical strategy and implementation plan for a global financial institution.
- Design of an architecture to replace Credit Risk systems for a global banking firm.
- Development of a middle and back-office trading services systems platform for a major Hedge Fund
service provider. - Developed a SOA- based migration plan for the Trades, Settlement, Positions & Balances area of a
major Investment Bank. - Architectural schema for a global bank using a consistent SOA model using a set of XML message
definition templates. - Delivery of a global, multi-tiered, global procing and netting system for cross-product credit risk, for
one of the major derivative trading firms. - Development of a hybrid derivatives trading system for a global investment bank.
Mike founded and ran a major consulting firm serving the financial industry, its clients being a complete
cross-section of top tier firms. Prior to that he had senior management roles in leading edge technology
firms.
