Chrisada Sookdhis' Resume (Last updated January 18th 2008)

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Chrisada Sookdhis
Thailand

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SUMMARY

Strong understanding of investment management, commercial lending, financial risk management. Experienced in credit portfolio analysis, value at risk, credit rating, Basel II capital accord, and operational risk management.

Exceptional analytical skills. Strong foundation in science and mathematics, including statistics, partial differential equations, matrix algebra, nonlinear dynamics, stochastic processes, and numerical methods. Able to identify and apply suitable tools to solving real world problems. Highly competent with computer, including scripting, simulation, optimization, model implementation, statistical processing, and visualization with C, PHP, VBA, Excel, and Matlab.

Experienced with RiskMetrics, Algorithmics/Citigroup fundamental & hybrid credit risk model, Fermat CAD, Bloomberg Professional.Experienced in business development and project management, market intelligence, leads generation, business model design, resources allocation, and forecasting. Highly competent in managing competing priorities and meet the needs of a range of stakeholders. Proven ability to consult, drive change and influence within organizations. Good communication and presentation skill; Able to digest complex information quickly and present them in coherent and simple fashion. Specialized in visualization of quantitative information and driving decision making process.

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CERTIFICATIONS

  • Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), 2006
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level II candidate, 2008

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Bangkok Bank

July 2007
Bangkok, Thailand

  • Lead the Credit Portfolio Strategy team within the credit Portfolio Management Unit.
  • Developed risk-adjusted portfolio performance measurement and loan pricing.
  • Reviewed credit risk limits, credit policy, and credit processes.
  • Provide regular independent review of bank's portfolio risk-return profile and composition.
  • Supervise and engage in specification and validation of corporate credit rating model for Internaltional Banking Group's portfolio in 11 countries.
  • Review and prepar request for proposal for credit origination & management and risk management framework for International Banking Group.
  • Conducted internal review of Basel II risk calculation engine, focusing on quantitative validation of retail and residential mortgage contribution to total risk-weighted asset, and compliance with specific directives from the national supervisor (Bank of Thailand).
  • Modelled credit portfolio loss, incremental portfolio VaR with Excel and VBA.
  • Investigate and recommend financial instruments and derivatives suitable for risk adjustment and portfolio re-balancing, including loan securitization
  • Provided specifications for enterprise data warehouse initiative.

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Fabrinet
Lead Engineer

2005 - June 2007
Bangkok, Thailand

  • Successfully transferred a laser manufacturing operation from North America to Thailand and brought up to high volume production. Quarterly revenue of the project has grown from $0.9M in 2006 to $12.9M when I left, with per-headcount revenue increasing by more than 50%.
  • Coordinate a dynamic, cross-cultural team of engineers in United States, Malaysia, and Thailand. Maximized human and capital resource utilization by identifying core competencies and simplifying processes.
  • Lead the successful effort of attaining and maintaining international certification of product reliability (Telcordia GR-468-CORE) and operation quality system (IS0 9002 and TS 16949).
  • Managed technological risk of optical product lines by identifying key risk factors & scenarios, quantify and aggregate risks and proposing courses of corrective action.
  • Operation risk assessment, product design, quality system, KPIs analysis, and supervising and setting priorities for daily operation.
  • Directed software development projects, cost reduction programmes, and local & oversea supplier management.
  • Reviewed journal article for IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

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Nanyang Technological University
Research Scientist

2001
Singapore

  • Designed tunable lasers and wavelength-sensitive waveguide for optical telecommunication applications.
  • Authored 12 peer-reviewed journal articles and technical conference papers.
  • Co-founded the Singapore chapter of the Optical Society of America (OSA).

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EDUCATION

Imperial College London
MSc in Physics (Applied Optics)

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Mahidol University
in Physics

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CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

  • Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
  • Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA)

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