WILMER E. HENAO
Tel. 201-978-0980                                      wilmer.henao@courant.nyu.edu
                                           SUMMARY
Finance Professional with excellent mathematics and economics background. Integrates hands-on
software development and integration, statistical analysis, risk assessment and strategic creation:
  •Quant. Research           •Development Maintenance of Software              •Programming
  •Risk Analytics            •Mathematics/Statistics/Finance                   •Team Oriented
                                        COMPUTER SKILLS
 Programming                 SQL, Excel VBA, VB, HTML, C/C++ (certified), C#, Java, caml, scheme
 Operating Systems           Windows, UNIX-like
 General Applications        R, Matlab, Splus, FACTSET, Bloomberg, MarketQA, Mathematica, TeX,
                             GNU Tools (emacs, cygwin, etc)
                                      WORK EXPERIENCE
ING INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT New York, NY
Quantitative Research Analyst, Quantitative Research (2005 – Present)
 Development of tools for quantitative construction, optimization and calibration of portfolios including
   backtesting engine, simulations, installation and calibration of optimizers, Integration of third party
   libraries (Mosek, APT Optimizer, APTxVAR dll's) into production processes. Testing of constraints
 Author of research articles highlighting portfolio analysis, investment ideas, and trading opportunities,
   using economic, fundamental, financial, stochastic and statistical tools
 Time series analysis, Kalman Filter, econometric and statistical arbritage techniques in general.
 Calculation of risk and exposures for the different equity portfolios using orthogonal and/or fundamental
   factor techniques
 Calculation of turnover and cost reduction strategies
 Enhanced equity portfolios utilizing “plain vanilla” derivative instruments (Closed end funds)
 Process automation resulting in reports and files critical to portfolio managers and research analysts
 Coordination with IT department for the creation and maintenance of processes
 Creation of proprietary strategies
DAVIVIENDA Bogota, Colombia
Assistant Actuary, Risk Department Intern (2001 – 2002)
 VaR Analysis, Creation of a Credit scoring model using Discriminant analysis
 Calculating price of exotic fixed income derivative instruments

                                            EDUCATION
NYU, COURANT INST. OF MATHEMA Sc. MSc. Scientific Computing New York, NY (2009-2010)
 Numerical Methods, Programming Languages, Open Source Tools.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, MA in Mathematics of Finance New York, NY (2004 – 2005) GPA = 3.8
 Numerical methods for PDE, Stochastic Methods in Finance, Sec. Pricing: Models and Computation
 Research Project: solution of partial differential equations for Asian options.
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES Bogota, Colombia
   BS. in Mathematics (1998 – 2004) Thesis on Information Geometry and Discriminant Analysis
     Multivariate Statistics, Measure Theory, Stochastic Differential Equations, Stochastic Processes
   BA. in Economics (1997 – 2003)
 Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics
                     GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT (Universidad de los Andes)
Calculus 1: Fall 2001, Fall 2003
Calculus 2: Spring 2002, Spring 2004
Introduction to Linear Algebra: Summer 2004

                                      COLLEGE ACTIVITIES
President of the mathematics student body at Universidad de los Andes (1999-2001)
Reached final stage at the National Mathem. Olympiad for 4 consecutive years (1998 - 2001) at U. level
Recipient of ECOPETROL sponsorship during undergrad studies, awarded to only 32 students in the
country
Achieved the best ICFES scores (similar to SAT) in Colombia in 1995 among 300.000 other students
MEMBERSHIPS
 •American Mathematical Society (AMS)      • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
                                             OTHERS
Recipient of intercultural sponsorship to study for 1 year in Denmark from AFS Intercultural Programs
Fluent in Spanish, English and Danish – Able to read: German + most Scandinavian and latin languages
GRE General           800/800 Quantitative    GRE Subject (Mathematics)      top 83 percentile
                      690/800 Verbal

Wh Resume

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    WILMER E. HENAO Tel.201-978-0980 wilmer.henao@courant.nyu.edu SUMMARY Finance Professional with excellent mathematics and economics background. Integrates hands-on software development and integration, statistical analysis, risk assessment and strategic creation: •Quant. Research •Development Maintenance of Software •Programming •Risk Analytics •Mathematics/Statistics/Finance •Team Oriented COMPUTER SKILLS Programming SQL, Excel VBA, VB, HTML, C/C++ (certified), C#, Java, caml, scheme Operating Systems Windows, UNIX-like General Applications R, Matlab, Splus, FACTSET, Bloomberg, MarketQA, Mathematica, TeX, GNU Tools (emacs, cygwin, etc) WORK EXPERIENCE ING INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT New York, NY Quantitative Research Analyst, Quantitative Research (2005 – Present) Development of tools for quantitative construction, optimization and calibration of portfolios including backtesting engine, simulations, installation and calibration of optimizers, Integration of third party libraries (Mosek, APT Optimizer, APTxVAR dll's) into production processes. Testing of constraints Author of research articles highlighting portfolio analysis, investment ideas, and trading opportunities, using economic, fundamental, financial, stochastic and statistical tools Time series analysis, Kalman Filter, econometric and statistical arbritage techniques in general. Calculation of risk and exposures for the different equity portfolios using orthogonal and/or fundamental factor techniques Calculation of turnover and cost reduction strategies Enhanced equity portfolios utilizing “plain vanilla” derivative instruments (Closed end funds) Process automation resulting in reports and files critical to portfolio managers and research analysts Coordination with IT department for the creation and maintenance of processes Creation of proprietary strategies DAVIVIENDA Bogota, Colombia Assistant Actuary, Risk Department Intern (2001 – 2002) VaR Analysis, Creation of a Credit scoring model using Discriminant analysis Calculating price of exotic fixed income derivative instruments EDUCATION NYU, COURANT INST. OF MATHEMA Sc. MSc. Scientific Computing New York, NY (2009-2010) Numerical Methods, Programming Languages, Open Source Tools. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, MA in Mathematics of Finance New York, NY (2004 – 2005) GPA = 3.8 Numerical methods for PDE, Stochastic Methods in Finance, Sec. Pricing: Models and Computation Research Project: solution of partial differential equations for Asian options. UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES Bogota, Colombia BS. in Mathematics (1998 – 2004) Thesis on Information Geometry and Discriminant Analysis Multivariate Statistics, Measure Theory, Stochastic Differential Equations, Stochastic Processes BA. in Economics (1997 – 2003) Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT (Universidad de los Andes) Calculus 1: Fall 2001, Fall 2003 Calculus 2: Spring 2002, Spring 2004 Introduction to Linear Algebra: Summer 2004 COLLEGE ACTIVITIES President of the mathematics student body at Universidad de los Andes (1999-2001) Reached final stage at the National Mathem. Olympiad for 4 consecutive years (1998 - 2001) at U. level Recipient of ECOPETROL sponsorship during undergrad studies, awarded to only 32 students in the country Achieved the best ICFES scores (similar to SAT) in Colombia in 1995 among 300.000 other students
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    MEMBERSHIPS •American MathematicalSociety (AMS) • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) OTHERS Recipient of intercultural sponsorship to study for 1 year in Denmark from AFS Intercultural Programs Fluent in Spanish, English and Danish – Able to read: German + most Scandinavian and latin languages GRE General 800/800 Quantitative GRE Subject (Mathematics) top 83 percentile 690/800 Verbal