gaby mourad, Senior Quantitative Financial Analyst R&D

gaby mourad

Senior Quantitative Financial Analyst R&D

Algotraders

Location
Lebanon
Education
Master's degree, electrical engineering
Experience
23 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 4 Months

Senior Quantitative Financial Analyst R&D at Algotraders
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since March 2015

Development, analysis and implementation of trading models for Stocks, Futures & Forex
Dynamical mathematical, statistical and regression modeling with Python
Risk analysis and arbitrage trading algorithms
Head of quant HR

Summary at Summary
  • Canada
  • December 2016 to December 2016

Quant Analyst, Technical Architect R&D - Financial, Software, Electrical, Optical, RF & Telecommunication Systems
Qualifications Summary
18 years combined engineering R&D, management and financial experience
Quantitative analyst. Financial markets trading strategies, risk models and algorithms development and implementation for Stocks, Options and FOREX portfolios
Electrical engineering, technical design, simulation, manufacturing and quality control, for telecommunication, networking, RF, software, optical and real-time embedded systems components
Technical manager, lean manufacturing, operational processes management and business development

Personal Skills
Advanced analytical and practical skills with an innovative problem solving capabilities
Team player, open-minded, communicative, flexible, patient with an initiative and results driven attitude
Comfortable working in a changing environment as a permanent or contractual engineer or manager
Continuous self improvement & fast learner
Languages: English, French, Arabic

Technical Architecture Skills
Algorithmic trading and investments strategies for Stocks, Options, Precious metals and FOREX
Technical understanding of financial markets and instruments and ability to read and understand corporate financial statements and fillings
Advanced computation algorithms development, optimization and implementation
Real time signal processing multitasking embedded systems design and instruments automation
Design, modeling, simulation and manufacturing of RF, electronic and optic systems components
High speed secure networks architectures R&D
Lean manufacturing, quality and RF EMC/EMI control and measurements

Management Skills
Organizing, coordinating, leading and mentoring development and manufacturing teams
Simultaneous management of lean operational and manufacturing multidisciplinary projects & processes
Creation and evaluation of new value added business opportunities and sales channel development
Project risk exposure minimization and cost reduction
Advanced contract negotiation and outsourcing skills
Complex technical and manufacturing specifications, test procedures, schedules, budgets, logistic plans and tax subsidies documents preparation, execution and monitoring

Equity Trader at Proprietary
  • Canada - Quebec
  • September 2015 to March 2016

Equity Trader, Proprietary Trading,
Development, analysis and trading Stocks, Forex, Precious metals and option strategies on US and Canadian markets

Manager at Tessellation
  • Canada
  • May 2013 to September 2015

Quant Analyst, Technical Architect R&D - Financial, Software, Electrical, Optical, RF & Telecommunication Systems
Qualifications Summary
18 years combined engineering R&D, management and financial experience
Quantitative analyst. Financial markets trading strategies, risk models and algorithms development and implementation for Stocks, Options and FOREX portfolios
Electrical engineering, technical design, simulation, manufacturing and quality control, for telecommunication, networking, RF, software, optical and real-time embedded systems components
Technical manager, lean manufacturing, operational processes management and business development

Personal Skills
Advanced analytical and practical skills with an innovative problem solving capabilities
Team player, open-minded, communicative, flexible, patient with an initiative and results driven attitude
Comfortable working in a changing environment as a permanent or contractual engineer or manager
Continuous self improvement & fast learner
Languages: English, French, Arabic

Technical Architecture Skills
Algorithmic trading and investments strategies for Stocks, Options, Precious metals and FOREX
Technical understanding of financial markets and instruments and ability to read and understand corporate financial statements and fillings
Advanced computation algorithms development, optimization and implementation
Real time signal processing multitasking embedded systems design and instruments automation
Design, modeling, simulation and manufacturing of RF, electronic and optic systems components
High speed secure networks architectures R&D
Lean manufacturing, quality and RF EMC/EMI control and measurements

Management Skills
Organizing, coordinating, leading and mentoring development and manufacturing teams
Simultaneous management of lean operational and manufacturing multidisciplinary projects & processes
Creation and evaluation of new value added business opportunities and sales channel development
Project risk exposure minimization and cost reduction
Advanced contract negotiation and outsourcing skills
Complex technical and manufacturing specifications, test procedures, schedules, budgets, logistic plans and tax subsidies documents preparation, execution and monitoring

Engineering Project Manager and R&D System Designer at Belden
  • Canada
  • January 2008 to May 2013

- Lead strategic structured Ethernet shielded system connectivity technical design, testing and manufacturing. Ethernet components and system performance beyond TIA requirements up to 650MHz, through gate process (revenue $3.9 million/year)
- Managed Belden high quality video coaxial connectivity design and manufacture. SMTP video performance up to 3GHz
- Lead Variation Reduction (VRK) and 5S Kaizen culminating in process yield/variability improvement from 80%/14% to 99.61%/0.22% at manufacturing sites in Mexico and R&D labs in Montreal
- Revolutionized components and systems design methods shortening time to market by reducing the number of design iteration through the introduction of new methods and simulation tools
- Designed and lead R&D as well as production measurements automation and certification test bench
- Produced & maintained complex manufacturing management plans
- Applied engineering and manufacturing principles and used KPIs to ensure critical path of assigned deliverables is on track
- Evaluated new business opportunities, conducted cost analysis and negotiated costs reduction with new suppliers
- Modeled and simulated next generation telecom and RF components
- Supervised fault and performance problems diagnostic for Belden systems at the newly CHUM hospital construction site
- Administered Belden connectivity ETL certification program
- Developed technical specifications, budget, manufacturing, test procedures, logistic plans and tax subsidies documents
- Coached and oriented team members

Management
• Operations and logistic
• Belden "Gates" process
Manufacturing & QA
• VRK, 5S Kaizen, DFM FMEA
• Six-sigma, SPC Gage R&R
Technical
• CST Microwave Studio 3D modeling / parameterization
• Altium PCB design
• C/C++, VBA, MATLAB, PSPICE
• PIC microcontroller
• Hard and flexible RF and electronic PCB design
• Agilent VNA, Oscilloscope automation
• EMC/EMI
Contribution to TIA Standardization Committees
• 1183 Extended frequency task group
• Ethernet next generation fixture standardization committee

Design Engineer at Aethera
  • Canada
  • January 2006 to January 2008

- Designed, implemented and tested SONET/SDH optical communication network embedded system multiplexer packets validation, alarm management and data encryption components
- Network elements testing automation
- Reduced testing cost by 20% by automating tasks
- Coached, guided and Trained engineers
Technical
• SONET/SDH, Ethernet, T1, T3 Telecom protocols
• Embedded multithreaded C/C++, OOP, STL
• Tortoise SVN version control & Bugzilla, …

Research and teaching at Universite Laval
  • Canada
  • January 2003 to January 2006

2005 - 2006 Research Nanometric materials thermal properties, École Polytéchnique de Montréal
2004 - 2005 Research on "Aluminum fractal aggregates creation" for the CQRDA
2003 - 2004 Research and teaching: Electrical circuits, algorithms and data structure, differential systems

Senior Product Development Engineer at Cedrus
  • United States
  • January 2000 to January 2002

- Designed and implemented a multithreaded architecture, automated survey system (C++) with hardware interface for non-specialized users
Technical
• Embedded multithreaded C/C++, OOP, STL
• Assembler
• Motorolla Microcontroller

Education

Master's degree, electrical engineering
  • at Laval University
  • September 2003

Implementation of Wavelet Signal processing on Xilinx FPGA with VHDL

Bayt Tests

Management Skills Test
Score 80%

Specialties & Skills

Telecom Technologies
Programming
Engineering
Negotiation
Management
Engineering
Programming
Telecommunication
Management

Languages

Arabic
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English
Expert
French
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