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Funded Justice is the leading crowdfunding platform for legal issues.Developed strategic partnerships, brand development, web site traffic growth, and monetization model.Chief Architect for the implementation of LEAN principles into business cultureCreated social media strategies to fully develop two sided marketplace

Developed Quantative trading systems- Equities, Futures and Options, backtesting protocol, and established trading relationships with Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and New Edge, to implement option, stock and futures trading strategies. • Created business unit, hired and trained staff that went from Zero to more than $10M in profit in12 months.• Successfully developed statistically based trading system for Future/Stock/Options with an emphasis on exploiting structural, event and order flow anomalies and discovering new arbitrage opportunities.• Developed Matlab and C++ option trading system that allowed for backtesting of volatility and directional strategies.• Chief architect for the development of new trading strategies that systematically exploited structural market phenomenon significantly outperforming benchmark.• Developed novel combination methods of trading systems vs. asset classes which resulted in a 20% reduction in drawdown and 30% increase in profitable months. • Created strategy testing engine that could search for repeatable and profitable strategies in record time which allowed for hundreds of hypotheses to be tested and the best ones promoted for more in-depth analysis.• Created Systematic Volatility Arbitrage Option Trading Strategy – Full PnL Responsibility • Developed option trading database which allows for backtesting of volatility and directional strategies• Responsible for firm wide risk profile and development of option strategies to maximize return per leverage unit in portfolio margin account.• Managed conversion from Matlab to C++ to maximize program reuse, reduce production development time, improve quality control and linkage to 3rd party systems• Created and implemented formal training program for new hires, which focused on market based metrics.• Currently research, Genetic Programming Regime Switching program for the targeting of optimal trading strategies and model selection & Support Vector Machine and classifications

Option Volatility Hedge Fund with $80 million under management with a focus on volatility trading strategies, event based trading opportunities and statistical arbitrage. Size: 12 traders) Proprietary Option Trader - More Than $1,300,000 in ProfitCreated, Implemented and Executed equity option trading strategies using proprietary software and Redi.Created Volatility Arbitrage Option Trading Book with more than 100 stock namesProfitable every month since inceptionOver 70% of all trading ideas were profitable with winning trades being 3 times the size of losing tradesManaged option portfolio risk within firm parameters (Delta, $Delta, Vega, wVega, Gamma, Theta)Contributed to the development of trade idea generation tools using VBA.

Option market making and proprietary trading group with offices in the US, Europe, and Korea. Size: 50 traders.)Proprietary Option TraderExecute option, stock and future orders using proprietary system.Managed option portfolio risk within firm parameters (Delta, Vega, Gamma, Theta, Rho and vDeltas)Researched new trading ideas and strategies.

Privately-held online marketing company specializing online educational lead generation. Founded by CEO of Fastweb.com, now part of Monster.com. Size: 20 employees)Director of Online MarketingBuilt, coordinated and managed relationships with key online media vendors to structure deals on CPM/CPL/CPA/CPC basis for direct response online lead generation. Developed, researched and negotiated custom solutions with online traffic partners.

Privately-held online marketing company specializing in bringing new products to an online market. Size: 18 employees with sales of $5,000,000 per year)Founder and Director of MarketingFounded online marketing company to bring quantitative focus to online marketing and lead generation. Obtain new clients, create product offers, oversee website design, implement conversion tracking metrics, negotiate with CPA and online advertising firms, and implement profitable Joint Ventures with offline companies.

Option trading and market making company that specialized in trading options on high tech companies. Size: 1 trader, outsourced programming team and a professor from the University of Chicago who served as a quantitative researcher.)Option TraderSuccessfully navigated the treacherous 2001 stock market which included the devastating DotCom crash.Traded multimillion dollar option portfolio Delta and Vega risk neutral portfolio by utilizing a combination of trading strategies and forecasting models. Determined optimal investment strategies and where to invest company funds; this resulted in 35 months of positive ROI and only one negative month. Commissioned the development of Excel Garch Volatility Forecasting model that was 65% more accurate than existing models. Expert level user of computer languages and financial software including; MicroHedge, VBA, Excel, C++, and SAS for option portfolio management.

More than 100 Option traders and market makers that trade at the Chicago Board Option Exchange with presence in all equity and index pits.)Option Trader Senior Option Trader assigned full P/L responsibility with the focus of maximizing return for given level of risk. Educated and led team of 10+ junior traders. Revamped portfolio risk management strategies to incorporated synthetic relationships; resulting in a greater understanding of true portfolio risk.Ranked in the top 1% in terms of profitability out of 300 traders. Led and formalized training program to develop option traders; all trainees that went through this program went on to have successful option trading careers. Graduated International Trading Institute Trading and Pricing for the Professional Trader.

Institutional money management firm started by two University of Chicago GSB professors with $1.5 Billion under management); Conducted programming, back testing and data validation of production trading strategies. Measured and tracked actual performance to simulated performance and determining variances. Developed method of using cluster analysis to select stocks for portfolios; resulted in 500 basis point increase in excess expected returns. Engineered the development of self learning regression model to trade a long-short equity portfolio