Daniel Poon

Background

About Daniel Poon

Academic background in statistical mathematics, data analytics, medicine, and physics. • Strong experience with BI and MI reporting and analytics, primarily in the finance industry dealing with OTC fixed income debt securities, money markets, and derivatives. • Skilled in data analysis, cleansing, manipulation, and performant database querying of large data sets, often with sensitive information. • Cultivated strong relationships across the interdealer and dealer-to-client markets in the fintech/electronic trading space, as well as with data vendors, OMS/EMS providers, benchmark administrators, and regulators. • Brokering/alleging trades via MarkitSERV SwapsWire/MarkitWire, and first responder to submission failures. • Implementation of ETL solutions to retrieve data from various sources/third party vendors and streamline into centralised system that facilitates analysis of complex, big data sets. • Developed data contribution systems utlising the FIX messaging, FpML, MarkitSERV SwML, Thomson Reuters (Refinitiv) Insertlink/Marketlink IP/TRCC, and Bloomberg MPF protocols. • Liaison between the business, development, compliance, and infrastructure teams, bridging any gaps in technical or business domain knowledge to facilitate communication and understanding across teams. • Main technical languages include SQL (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MySQL), VBA, HTML, CSS, XML, Velocity, Powershell, and FIX. • Working knowledge of Java, Python, and R. • Proficient in UNIX, Linux, Ubuntu and Apple OS, in addition to the standard Windows OS. • Experienced with data stewardship, business intelligence, analysis, governance, and reporting. • Implementation of instruction-wide knowledge base using MediaWiki, adding customised PHP extensions/plug-ins, and integration with third party tools to suit business requirements. • Administrator of Atlassian Confluence and JIRA, Sisense, as well as Salesforce. • Managed enterprise-level websites with Wordpress and Squiz Matrix, with Google Analytics integration. • Skilled in other programs such as generative AI tools, the Microsoft Office suite, Google suite, Eclipse (with the business intelligence reporting tool BIRT), LaTeX, Adobe Photoshop, Bloomberg terminals, Reuters Kobra/Power Plus Xtra/Eikon, MATLAB, Audacity, SPSS, Atlassian Service Desk, BitBucket, Sisense, Anaconda, sTunnel, and Mathematica. • Developed and maintained relationships with external data vendors, such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, IHS Markit, ICE, ASX, Factset, and S&P. • Qualified warden, certified first aid, and mental health first aid officer.