I most recently served as the technical director for a professional services wing within our organization. This role involved managing and expanding our team of consultants, serving as the technical lead, and analyzing how to drive our company forward from a professional services perspective.I also served as a developer for OptionsCity’s Freeway platform: a low-latency, multi-asset, algorithmic trading platform. Developing in this space means squeezing out every last bit of performance from a solution where microseconds make or break a deal. The platform included a proprietary visualization engine for monitoring algorithms, an algorithm lifecycle and management console, an API for interacting with the core trading system, and market playback capabilities for historical and simulated back-testing.Along with development, I initially helped establish many facets of the Freeway product life cycle including technical sales, client onboarding, both external and internal training, technical support plans and general product management. I am also the lead architect of many of the company's web initiatives, including OptionsCity’s CityStore, an online trading algorithm store and development community. The goal of the CityStore is to build a community of experts, minimize development costs, and allow companies to seamlessly transition toward an efficient and cost effective platform.[Java, Low-latency Computing, Electronic Trading, Option Pricing, Trading Strategies, FIX, Hibernate, JMS, Swing, Javascript, CSS, JSON, XML, Python, REST, NoSQL, SQL, MongoDB, Technical Sales, Public Speaking, Product Management]

Primary focus was on high performance computing and scalability for distributed services used by the public brokerage's trading application. I also provided development efforts for the transition to a newer web-based front end platform built on ExtJS and a proprietary web framework.[Java, J2EE, Javascript, Ext JS, CSS, XML, JSON, Spring, Hibernate, Electronic Trading, Option Pricing, MongoDb]Was the lead developer for the firm's real-time margin system: An event driven, distributed architecture capable of scaling out and handling thousands of queries or requests per second.[Java, J2EE, Spring, InfiniSpan, NoSql, Low-latency Computing, JSON]

Developer for a distributed, in-memory database. We focused on extreme horizontal scaling, object to relational data mapping, and enterprise level patterns for the partitioning, replication, invalidation and high availability of distributed data.[Java, GC Tuning, Mutli-Threading, JMX, JMS, XML, JSON, Flex, Dojo, Javascript, Eclipse, Rational Architect, SVN, Hibernate, NoSQL, Map-Reduce]J2EE, dynamic HTTP trafficking (routing / shaping), distributed systems, and on-demand server utilization (precursor to cloud).[Jython, Java, JMS, EJB, XML, Eclipse, SVN]Client facing role helping with the sales and evangelism of eXtremeScale and WebSphere product stacks. My primary responsibilities included writing technical papers, presenting for customers or conferences, and generally promoting the product at a technical level.