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Nashville, TN, US

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Greater Nashville Area, TN

I lead the Solutions Architecture function that designs customer solutions, security architecture and professional services deliverables to build, migrate, manage and optimize highly available, scalable, automated HIPAA-compliant public cloud healthcare solutions using the latest in advanced DevOps technologies.

Greater New York City Area

• I managed delivery of end-to-end cloud infrastructure solutions and organizational strategies for financial services customers through partnership with customer leadership and stakeholders across diverse business.
• Improving profitability and resiliency of large-scale capital markets trading applications through migrations and the establishment of global Cloud Center of Excellence organizations including senior customer-side.
• Enabling new buy-side insurance business models through greenfield, petabyte-scale market data ingestion and client distribution architectures
• Providing real-time risk transparency of sell-side Fixed Income and Equities trading desks using HPC grid environments at 200,000 core scale

Greater New York City Area

• I managed a global technology organization of 120 resources responsible for infrastructure architecture, DevOps and SRE of the Firms’ capital markets trading businesses. I worked with business, application development.
• Reducing full-scale Firm Market Risk model testing scenario duration from 5 days to 12 hours, enabling Basel III compliance and 4x quicker Market Risk product release schedules
• Automating the provisioning and registration of complex front-office trading applicationenvironments on demand across disparate lines of business and asset classes for full front toback trading simulations

Greater New York City Area

• I was the infrastructure architect, DevOps and SRE manager of Morgan Stanley ElectronicTrading (MSET) business' rapidly growing and expanding Speedway product: a low-latency, equities exchange colocation client trading.
• Creating a sub-microsecond round-trip order acknowledgement competitive advantage which led to a 30% increase in Low Latency and HFT (high frequency trading) client trading volumes
• Multiple performance, capacity and reliability improvements for the firm’s latency-sensitiveexternal trading clients through architectural changes in the Speedway platform's serverhardware, operating system, and.

Greater New York City Area

• I was the infrastructure architect, DevOps and SRE manager of Morgan Stanley's Foreign Exchange business and its trading platform connecting external clients and exchanges across the Americas, EMEA and Asia..
• Scaling the infrastructure capacity of the FX trading business to seamlessly accommodate a1000-fold increase in daily trading volumes, enabling the business' strategy of capturing greater FX flow market share
• Achieving global tradeplant high-availability across multiple regions through a redesign of the FX global datacenter location strategy, client connectivity, server and network topology, the operating system platform.

Greater New York City Area

• I designed the firm's technology infrastructure from the ground up to newly deliver the firm's software as a hosted service platform to Fortune 500 clients across the technology, financial services, media and.
• Creating a global, HIPAA-compliant corporate network spanning 50+ locations with application persistence and highly-available data
• Reducing OpEx technology costs by 230%