1. TIMOTHY C. JACOBS, PMP
Phone: (646) 469-9708 | Email: tim.jacobs@gmail.com
Address: 70 Washington Street, Apt. 2F, Brooklyn, NY 11201
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Highly qualified and well developed professional with extensive operations management and organizational
leadership experience in the areas of finance and commodities. Adept at training and supervising staff,
recommending solutions to improve commodity business processes, and implementing effective office
procedures to streamline trade operations. Experienced in product management, systems analysis, as well as
consistently assessing operational needs to impact performance. Currently seeking a management position,
bringing 10+ years of related experience and key strengths as follows:
 Operations Management
 Trade Reconciliation
 Revenue/Sales Growth
 Process Improvement
 Trading System Launch
 International Business
 Staff Training/Supervision
 Project Management
 Key Relationship Building
 Strategic Negotiation
 Derivatives/Trade Entry
 Startup Operations
 Commodity Futures
 Performance Evaluation
 System Integration
 Transaction Reporting
 Database Administration
 Ethics & Integrity
PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE
GFI Group, New York, NY · Head of Operations/Commodity Middle Office Manager Apr. 2001 – Present
 Responsible for managing 17 middle office and operations personnel across 5 markets including Credit,
Fixed Income, Equities, Foreign Exchange, and Commodities.
 Oversee team responsible for managing trade processing, exception, and reporting for a total of 700+
trades daily, as well as coordinating projects between front office brokers and back office software
developers.
 Chair monthly meetings with equivalent in London and Asia-Pacific, the COO, and CTO.
 Significantly increased revenue by 15% through negotiations of clearing arrangements with various FCMs
to facilitate Ethanol and Natural Gas Liquids business, as well as creating operational workflow from trade
execution, risk reporting, and clearing house reconciliation.
 As Project Manager, oversaw the launch of the new trading system which had approximately 50% of
GFI’s Natural Gas options clients on the screen the first week.
 Designed the layout of trading screen in effort to streamline usability for clients.
 Ensured proper IT infrastructure which included application and database server redundancy.
 Promoted use of screen and publishing of markets to those not yet logged to encourage screen use.
FENICS Software, New York, NY · Quality Assurance Analyst Mar. 1998 – Apr. 2001
 Released 10 successful versions of GFI Credit Derivative portal, a semi interactive website that allowed
customer to view historical and current Credit Derivative Swap prices across three major views.
Pepsi-Cola, New York, NY · Computer Systems Consultant Oct. 1997 – Mar. 1998
 Initiated and monitored UNIX, Windows NT, and Novell backups.
 Activated uploads and downloads for field agents.
EDUCATION &PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT
Manhattan College | B.S., Double Major in Management & International Business (May 1997)
PMI Institute | PMP Certified (May 2011)
Licenses | NASD Series 7 (Feb. 2008)