Nicolas Vautier

Current

• Trading Connectivity at Millennium Partners

Past

• Trading Application Support - Assistant Vice President at BNP Paribas
• Trading Application Support Engineer at Societe Generale
• Web Developer at Edatis

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Education

• Stevens Institute of Technology
• EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique

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Industry

Investment Banking

Nicolas Vautier’s Experience

• Trading Connectivity

  Millennium Partners

  (Privately Held; Investment Management industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

• Trading Application Support - Assistant Vice President

  BNP Paribas

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BNPP; Financial Services industry)

  November 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 3 months)

  • Assistant Vice-President
  • Application Support - Trading tools
  • Support of the main OMS (Order Management System) of the Equity Derivatives Branch of BNP Paribas. This OMS is an international application replicated in both Europe and Asia.
  • Full re-design of the technical architecture of the application (Migration to new servers, DR architecture, Automatic replication and backup)
  • Daily contact with Front Office (Sales and Traders), Middle and Back Office, as well as internal and external clients, and development teams in Paris.
  • FIX connectivity testings and roll-out.
  
  Keywords: Order Management System, FIX, IOI, OATS & ACT, ADP, Front-to-back, Booking, Back-office, PNL, Disaster Recovery Planning, Architecture

• Trading Application Support Engineer

  Societe Generale

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

  January 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 11 months)

  • Application Support - Trading tools and Market Access support
  • Strong business interaction: Support of the Equity Derivatives Branch. Understanding of the business line activity, daily interaction with traders.
  • Testing, Roll-Out and support of new applications – Gathering of new requirements/bugs. Communication with the development teams in Paris and coordination of the local Desktop/UNIX/Server teams in NYC.
  • Managed the replacement of one of the major application of the floor (Basket Trading Application)
  • In charge of numerous other non-businesses related applications for New York: Reporting infrastructure, Email/Live Alert systems - In charge of New York’s Support website: Reporting, Deal Search, Volumes, Monitoring, etc. Sizing of the infrastructure following the analysis of the information gathered.
  • Communication with markets on markets breaks, new connections, etc.
  
  Keywords: Automatons, Basket Trading / Arbitrage desk, Performance Improvement, High-Availability

• Web Developer

  Edatis

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  August 2001 — February 2002 (7 months)

  • Development of an Administration Interface for the CRM activity of the company.
  • Development and Testing of the company’s main administration platform. Edatis works in CRM and Online Marketing. This platform is mainly used to control the execution of the different emailing jobs.

Nicolas Vautier’s Education

• Stevens Institute of Technology

  MS , Information Technology Management , 2003 — 2003

  Master of Science in Information Systems Management
  Management skills and methods – Prof. Jerry Luftman’s Course: Management of IT in the company structure (IT Governance, Role of CIO, Outsourcing, Organization, Change Management…) – Numerous assessment methods – Prof. Nickerson’s Course: System and Process Design

• EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique

  MS , Telecom , 1998 — 2003

  MS, Network and Telecommunication
  Strong technical background, atypical education in a top school.

  Activities and Societies:

  Co-Founder of "Amadeus", the school's investment club

Additional Information

Nicolas Vautier’s Groups:

•    EPITA Alumni