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Western Springs, IL, US

Ventura, CA, US

Ventura, CA, US

• Responsible for delivering complex large-scale IT projects for The Trade Desk, focused primarily on new office builds, expansions, and relocations globally.
• Work closely with technical team leads to determine architectural requirements to ensure we are aligned with The Trade Desks IT Standards globally.
• Manage communications and reporting to Senior IT Leadership on IT requirements and standards.
• Manage end user technology requirements including endpoint lifecycle and data management.
• Ensure governance and best practices are adhered to on all efforts as well as suggest recommendations for process optimizations based on lessons learned.
• Manage business sponsor expectations including communication, escalations, budget reporting and deliverable reporting.

Bannockburn, IL, US

Provides consulting services to clients for IT initiatives, with primary focus on IT Project Management and IT Operations Management.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Responsible for delivering complex large-scale IT projects for JLL Americas, focused primarily on Office and M&A projects throughout the U.S. and Canada.
• Worked closely with technical team leads to determine architectural requirements to convert potential acquisitions to JLL IT Standards as part of due diligence process.
• Managed communication and reporting to Senior IT Leadership on IT requirements and gap analysis as part of sales and acquisition process.
• Created and managed CapEx and OpEx budgets based on architectural requirements and JLL IT Standards for all new offices and relocations.
• Managed end user technology requirements including endpoint lifecycle and data management.
• Ensured governance and best practices, including JLL M&A processes, were adhered to on all efforts as well as made recommendations for process optimizations based on lessons learned.

Rolling Meadows, Illinois, US

• Responsible for managing a pivotal operations team and overseeing complex large-scale divisional IT projects and directing the management of shared services between GB and corporate service providers.
• Responsible for building and leading ITSM process development needed to support the day to day activities of GB production environments and ensured that a roadmap was in place for continual improvement for multiple.
• Developed and implemented technology roadmaps, strategic plans, and cost-effective solutions for GB’s global infrastructure and delivery, while adhering to SOX governance and compliance best practices.
• Responsible for leading on-site technical support, security, infrastructure, vendors, and managed service providers.
• Worked with corporate service provider to establish and maintain real time monitoring to address performance issues and minimize downtime.
• Managed backup/recovery plans, disaster recovery plans, and capacity management for mission critical business data. Ensured business compliance to internal rules and guidance was adhered to.

• Restructured and managed processes for the development and support of Change and Incident Management.
• Managed change management activities as well as operational incidents including stakeholder communications, incident response and incident reviews.
• Successfully orchestrated projects that required working with diverse groups within the company, to determine infrastructure and resource requirements needed to successfully deliver new business initiatives.
• Global Lifecycle Refresh Program Services- Service lead. Implemented process improvements and technology enablement strategy which provided cost savings, while reducing compliance and security risks
• Managed high-profile Infrastructure vendor relationships, contract negotiations and procurement life cycle. Coordinated multiple RFP responses for multi-year and million-dollar contracts. Included ongoing vendor.

• Provided support for order routing issues for internal and external clients, included but not limited to trading application front ends, core order routing processes, hardware, or network issues.
• Worked with global teams of internal resources, managed services providers, and vendors to deliver technical solutions to address trading application issues.
• Managed process optimization for the eTrading Systems group including incident response, support matrix and project support.

Chicago, IL, US

• Headed up trading floor operations for RCG employees and external customers located at the CME and CBOT trading floors, and surrounding offices.
• Supported multiple trading applications, ensuring network connectivity, hardware troubleshooting, providing quotes, procuring, and installing new hardware.
• Helped create and maintain a catalog of customer facing applications and corresponding IT technical services that supported those applications.

Denver, Colorado, US

Started at CQG working in their customer support department and soon went into Trade Routing. Primary responsibilities in this department was maintaining the Gateway Environment. This included setting up new client connections, trouble shooting order latency between all GW components and the exchanges, adding/upgrading hardware, and all subsequent software.

Managed all incoming installation requests. Coordinated between various departments within Professional Brokerage Systems Group to ensure clients’ needs were met in a timely manner. Provided support concerning proprietary software, CTCI applications and connectivity issues with traders and management. Configured new trading terminals as well as updating.

Diploma, Mcse (Expired)

Diploma, General Studies