1. CLYDE GERMOND
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Languages spoken: English
South African citizen and resident
(ID: 791009 5221 08 4)
CLYDE.GERMOND@GMAIL.COM
+27-(0)82-856-1012
SUMMARY
More than 10 years of experience in Financial Markets IT. This includes Murex system and
infrastructure support, member of numerous Murex implementation, migration and project teams
across a number of asset classes, general software development and scripting work, technical
performance testing, systems integration design, development and support. Valuable business
knowledge across FXD, FX, IRD and EQD product classes with international bank experience.
EXPERIENCE
Standard Bank 03/2004 – present
System Specialist – CVA implementation 06/2014 - present
General system specialist for the implementation of a CVA platform, Markit Analytics (MA) for the
structured solutions desk. Key points include:
 Validation of product pricing in MA for: FX, interest and credit products
 Generation of FpML as a proof of concept for importing into the Markit CVA portal
 Iterative reconciliation and improvement of these trades
 Development of Murex extracts for: volatility data, FX spot rates, curve hierarchies, market data
meta information
 Generation of the majority of the portal inputs using Markit EDM as the ETL layer
 Getting the system production ready, including the EOD and maintenance procedures
As part of the CVA project the more vanilla trades from an in-house exotics system (Alchemy) were
migrated to Murex. My responsibilities here included:
 Converting the FpML from Alchemy into Murex MxML
 Reconciling these trades
 Setting a back-to-back procedure in Murex
Murex System Specialist – IRD trade and system migration 07/2013 – 06/2014
Part of this project included moving the IRD business from one instance of Murex to another.
Responsibilities included:
 Development of a process to modify exported Murex configuration (including curve, rate sheets,
etc) for importing into a different instance
 Development of MxML workflow in both systems for exporting and importing trades.
 The alignment of past cash on a trade and portfolio level
 Development and execution of reconciliation between the systems
The remaining part of the project was moving the remaining trades from Infinity to Murex.
Responsibilities included:
 Extension of the previously developed migration tool to include: options; inflation; prime; and OIS
 Enhancement of the reconciliation process to include these and adjustment of the configuration in
both systems to assist with understanding differences
 Iterative migrations and executions of the reconciliation to adjust the trade extract, Murex
configuration or even book / trade errors in Infinity
Murex System Specialist – EQD platform update project 10/2012 – 07/2013
This project was the upgrade of the EQD Murex instance from 2.11 to 3.1. Key responsibilities
included:
 Testing of PnL variance. This was done on a trade level initially and then as a comparison with the
previous version. The various bugs were raised and worked through with Murex

2.  Validation of the Murex consolidated database. This included an automated process to be used in
the testing phase that compared the consolidated and detailed databases and raised exceptions.
 Provided some emergency assistance in reworking the deliverable workflow and consolidating
payments. This included a payments reconciliation.
Murex System Specialist 11/2011 – 10/2012
Murex 3.1 system specialist in a large project to move an international balance sheet to South Africa.
Key responsibilities include:
 Creation of portfolios, entities, processing scripts for day end
 Development of an automated back-to-back and mirroring mechanism for trade migration and
reconciliation thereof
 Part of investigation and setting up of a proof of concept for the development of a real time
interface between MarkitWire and Murex
Technical lead for IRD business support team. Work including:
 Setting up of bond netting procedure and logical trade purging as part of ongoing maintenance
 Investigation and early implementation of an automated Murex patch testing procedure
 Implementation and testing of a VAR stress scenario as a workaround for PDH problems
Murex System Specialist / Murex Technical Lead 03/2009 – 11/2011
Technical lead for system migration project from Infinity to Murex 3.1 for IRD trading including the
following responsibilities:
 Re-development, re-work and testing of a trade migration tool written by 3rd
party consultants
 Design and development of a Java based trade reconciliation tool for the trade migration
 Development, testing and maintenance of Murex end of day in Control-M
 Murex patch implementation and testing
 Murex environment maintenance and configuration; including scripting and production
environment cleanup
 Close involvement with the end to end system testing to implement enhancements and fixes
 As system expert provide other team members with help on various areas:
o MxML workflows: pre-trade and post-trade
o Datamart reporting: feeders, extractions, Actuate, batch set up and execution
o Dynamic tables: set up and usage for reporting and reconciliations
o Static data: set up, importing, clean-ups
Infrastructure / Murex Specialist 05/2007 – 10/2008
 Second line support and maintenance of a number of business critical Front Office treasury
systems.
 Optimisation of numerous Murex processes, with on-going performance enhancements.
 Improvement of existing system configuration with an effort to follow best practices.
 Transfer skills and knowledge to newer members of the infrastructure team.
 Technical lead for a team of 6 system engineers. Managed work prioritisation for the team.
 FLEX API developer. Coding in C++ and testing for an interface between a pre-developed Matlab
window barrier model and Murex - 2.11 (EQD) and 3.1 (FXD).
 Structured and implemented the weekly, monthly and ad hoc Murex maintenance plan. This mainly
included the logical and physical trade purges, MxML purges and market data purges.
 Murex performance improvements including:
o report optimisation
o database configuration enhancements
o end of day restructuring

3. Murex / System Specialist (In Hong Kong) 08/2006 – 05/2007
 System specialist in a project for the migration and upgrade of a Murex EQD trading environment.
 Development (Java and MxML) of a real time trade feed.
 Skills transfer to local support team.
Feeds developer 03/2004 – 10/2005
 Sent to the Standard Bank London office to train technical resources working on the international
Murex FX project.
 Worked in Paris in conjunction with the Murex personnel to resolve major performance issues.
 Technical lead of the team developing a bi-directional trade interface for the FX Cash business.
This enabled real-time trade position updates in Murex with information from the retail branch
network (approximately 15000 transactions per day).
Entelect Solutions 12/2002 - 03/2004
(Reason for leaving: was offered a permanent position at Standard Bank)
 Design and development (C++) of an end of day credit risk feed for IRD products at a South
African investment bank.
 Resolved numerous performance issues with an IRD end of day market risk feed. Enhanced the
functionality (Java and C++) of this feed to enable the processing of all traded IRD products.
 Development (C++) for a proof of concept project to include convertible bonds in Calypso for a
South African investment bank.
 Design and development (Delphi) of the software for an integrated biometric access security
system.
 Development (VBA) of a risk management dashboard for monitoring the activity across a large
number of suspense accounts.
 Design and implementation (VBA) of a project management and tracking system for the project
office in the treasury division of a South African bank.
 Lead programmer for the team development (VBA) of an automated suspense account
reconciliation system.
SYSTEMS PROFICIENCY
Operating systems (ordered by experience)
Solaris & Linux (usage and scripting in bash, ksh, csh); Windows (usage and batch scripting)
Programming Languages (ordered by experience)
Java, C++, C, C#, Delphi, VBA, VB
Database experience (ordered by experience)
Sybase, Oracle, MS SQL Server
Trading platform experience (ordered by experience)
Murex, Infinity, HOOPS, Calypso, Front
Other System Experience (no particular order)
SeeBeyond, Actuate, Veritas Cluster Management, Control-M
Technologies (no particular order)
SQL, XML, XSD, XSLT, JNI, RMI, Corba
Murex modules
Front office pricing; simulations (including PnL Variance); eTradePad and pricing templates; MxML
workflows; MxML data-dictionary; VaR; Reporting; MDRS; MDCS; Flex API;environment maintenance
EDUCATION
M.Sc. (Eng) Electrical
University of the Witwatersrand
2003
B.Sc. (Eng) Electrical
University of the Witwatersrand
2001