Lauren Simmons

Manage customer order flow with a notational value of $150+ million dollars daily and verify routing rules. Assist with trade orders, executions, and clearing services. Reconcile trade breaks and billing mismatches with the firm. Ability to navigate Fidessa, Bloomberg, and Thomson software systems. • Maintain high-frequency trading order flow through NYSE/third-party vendor algorithmic system. • Developed investment ideas and trade execution advice to clients in APAC & LATAM. • Observe industry trends to provide stock execution and industry forecasting advice to investors. • Monitor the research budget and find best ways to trade with 15+ research firm. • Obtained positive customer feedback from 95%+ of customers. • Executed trades for major institutions and retail brokers over 100 different stocks. • Provide account coverage for institutional equity trading desks of premier global investment banks. • Conduct interviews, due diligence meetings, and create pitch books for client presentations to understand their goals and determine the suitability of each investment strategy. • Execute orders across 10+ financial sectors on behalf of buy-side and sell-side institutions utilizing eBroker handheld technology.

Supervised and directed 11 employees engaging in sales. Developed and implemented performance improvement programs and addressed compliance while maintaining customer relationships and selling over $15,000 daily and building brand awareness increasing to customers by 45% under the age of 25 to enter the store. • Engaged staff to gather software/business rules and ensure alignment with development teams. • Assisted with recruitment and training of new staff and organized weekly schedules. • Communicated client’s business requirements constructing data & process models. • Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.

Six Flags White Water: Promoted twice and into a leadership role as the supervisor. Restructured employee training procedures for all new hires within my area. Recruited, trained and managed a staff of more than 200 associates and facilitated biweekly new hire orientation. Developed tools and spreadsheets to efficiently streamline preparations of budgets and proposals.