Salvatore Restivo

About Salvatore Restivo

Versatile, experienced, successful manager of technology functions for top-tier financial services firms including Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Credit Suisse. Proven leader and change agent. Product Management, IT Program & Project Management, Business Analysis, and Systems Analysis aligned with Research, Sales, Trading, and Operations. Excellent communication skills, organization skills, and people skills. Track-record combining on-time and on-budget completion of strategic initiatives, with a culture of quality, reliability, teamwork, and ownership.Managed change through all kinds of weather in the industry. Understanding the market landscape, recognizing the best growth opportunities, and creating and executing strategic plans that provide the biggest competitive advantages. Recruiting top talent for world-class teams. Setting the standard for innovation, controls, and reliability. Also: Delivering results while hitting aggressive cost efficiency targets. Adapting teams to increased location diversity. Bringing clarity of purpose during organizational changes. Sustaining high morale through persistence, achievement, and recognition. Co-founder of RIXML.org. Architect and principal developer of the RIXML schema, an industry-wide standard for tagging investment research in XML. The RIXML schema is used broadly by sell-side firms, buy-side firms, market data vendors, research aggregators, and other technology vendors. RIXML is the leader in this space, and has been providing structure and richness to the process of investment research discovery for more than 20 years.Solid technical background stemming from an advanced degree in Computer Science from NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering and many years early in my career working as a software developer in C and Java on the major Unix-based platforms, plus SQL programming and schema design on both Oracle and Sybase database platforms.

Experience

1. Vice President - Research Product Manager

   Morgan Stanley

   Jan 2015 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Product Manager for Morgan Stanley’s Research Authoring platform, which features channel-neutral content creation, cross-team collaboration, advanced chart integration, and advanced layout capabilities for flagship products. My role spans strategic planning, program management, vendor management, business analysis, and information architecture.

Education

• New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

  1985 — 1989

• Carnegie Mellon University

  N/A, Computer Science

  1989 — 1992

• New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering

  Master's Degree, Computer Science

  1988 — 1989

Skills

• Banking
• Team Management
• Sybase
• Project Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Vendor Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Process Improvement
• Equities
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Team Leadership
• Derivatives
• Middle Office
• Market Data
• Business Intelligence
• Equity Research
• Program Management
• Electronic Trading
• Web Project Management
• Pmo
• Reference Data
• Leadership
• Securities
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Sybase Products
• Databases
• Product Management
• Fixed Income
• Project Planning
• Requirements Gathering
• Capital Markets
• Management
• IT Strategy
• Prime Brokerage
• Disaster Recovery
• Software Project Management
• Financial Services