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Denver, Colorado, United States

Charlotte, North Carolina

Wells Fargo Securities - Delivered highly visible and performance intensive venue feeds for E-Trading projects.Key Projects:Electronic Trading Feeds - Delivered technical solutions for full lifecycle development of Electronic Trading systems. Developed frameworks for High Throughput-Low Latency Fixed Income venue feeds (Java, Off-Heap NIO, Spring, Solace, ActiveMQ, Chronicle, Disruptor, SOA).SEF Integration - Developed a derivative integration framework for ETL from Swap Execution Facilities (Trad-X and trueEx) to Calypso (Java, FIX 5.0, FpML, Stax, EMS, AspectJ). Transitioned the derivative integration framework to offshore resources for implementing additional SEFs.Treasury Pricing Engine Pipeline - Developed a pricing engine pipeline to aggregate/enrich/conflate venue data (RMDS, ICAP, Activ) and integrated with quant libraries for in-house Treasury price distribution (Disruptor, Oracle, EMS, and Coherence).Odd-lot Trading Feed - Developed a FINRA Trace feed application for distribution to the odd-lot trading system (Oracle and Coherence).MBS Cohorting - Implemented cohort mechanism for the High-Grade Mortgage Backed Security pricing system (C# and SqlServer).Sales Order Management Integration - Integrated the Sales Order Management System with Fixed Income Trading System (Java, Jython, EMS, Sybase).

Hartford, Ct

Aetna, Inc. - As a Senior Performance Analyst, captured and analyzed large-scale critical Healthcare performance data (Java, MQSeries, DB2, Rational Application Developer, Spring). Developed application probes and test harnesses for performance instrumentation. Analyzed captured performance data for business reporting using queue-based quantitative methods. Designed and developed real-time performance measurement APIs for healthcare service applications (Java & C#).

San Jose, Ca

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems - As a Senior Architect, delivered a Software Product Line assessment for the Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP) Product Line.

Durham, North Carolina

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina - As a Senior Requirements Analyst, captured and refined requirements for the enterprise simplification program. Facilitated requirements sessions and elaborated functional and non-functional requirements for re-engineering of Federal Employee Insurance Program. Built formal requirements and object models.

United States

Island Training (Durham, NC) - As an Instructor/Consultant, delivered Requirements Management, Software Architecture, and Object Oriented Analysis and Design (UML) training classes at various client sites (Banking and Aerospace) across North America.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - As a Senior Architect, facilitated definition and specification of Service Oriented Reference Architectures for a telecommunications product company using Agile processes. Implemented Reference Architecture prototypes to verify interface specifications and projected performance characteristics (Java, ActiveMQ, JMX).

Palo Alto, Ca

Agilent Labs & Semiconductor Test Solutions - As Chief Architect, provided technical leadership to senior hardware and software engineers in the discipline of software architecture. Led design and development of a Service Oriented Architecture for semi-conductor testing using Software Product Line Approaches. Developed Reference Architectures for transforming a large, complex, performance-intensive legacy platform into a component-based system. Defined iterations for the elaboration and construction phases of the project life cycle. Used Architectural Trade-off Analysis Method and Quality Function Deployment to evaluate candidate architectures. Led design activities for subsequent offshore implementation. Trained chief architect, mentored junior architects, and provided just-in-time training for project stakeholders. Performed Verification and Validation of UML work products to promote continuous quality. (Germany, Japan).Agilent Labs & Communications Solutions Group - As Chief Architect, provided dedicated support and mentoring to a large distributed development team in Architectural Analysis and Design of an OSS Telecommunications Framework. In the role of Process Engineer, developed process for Service Oriented Architecture definition (JINI/JAVA Spaces/RIO) and integration of Software Product Line Practices using Rational Unified Process (customized with SPEM). Directly managed 6 full time employees in software architecture roles. (Edinburgh, UK & New Zealand).Agilent Labs & Chemical Analysis Group - As Chief Architect, led architecture analysis and design of a 21 CFR 11 compliant Drug Discovery System. Project work included formal architecture-based development and design of a meta-data management system for auditing and tracing of drug discovery artifacts. Led patent process and was awarded patent for innovative meta-data approach using k-Nearest Neighbor methods. (Oxford, UK).

Mba, Dual Concentration In Management Information Systems And Operations Research

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Business Administration