• Bootstrapped an investment research platform.• Developed market data connectors for Equity, FX/Crypto, and Options.• Built and managed servers, workstations, and trade desks.• Engaged in discussions with VC’s and other funds for funding goals.

 Merger Research Focus Area Lead – Coordination of all technical requirements of the Research departments between BB&T Securities, Sterling Capital Management, BB&T Scott & Stringfellow and STRH in preparation for Truist LD1. Technical coordination of rebranding the equity research publication and distribution platform for Truist Securities Tableau POC for Balance of Trade, Electronic Trading, and Equity Desk dashboarding. Tableau Servers for CIB Quantitative Team, and Equity Research teams. Python / Anaconda SME for Truist Securities. Modification of Conda API to comply with heighted security posture. Software engineer and technical lead focused on Electronic Trading and Equity Research software. Data Initiative Projects:• Time-series and reference data ETL into Snowflake with stream processing to cloud machine learning platforms.• Next generation electronic trading - multiple POCs with various technologies to determine the best path for Fixed Income electronic trading.• Data Science platform – Python SME and R environment consultant for Data Analytics, and CI/CD pipelines. Truist CCPW Innovation Summit -- Exploration of commercial cryptocurrency lending platform and trading desk. • Industry Disruptor category winner• Solution Creativity category winner

 Service Manager for portfolio of applications responsible for up to $600 million USD in transactional volume daily and ~$300M in profit annually. Point of Contact between STRH Technology - Equity Trading, Equity Back Office, Equity Middle Office, Equity Syndicate, Equity Research, Client On-Boarding, Sourcing, Legal, Risk and on some occasions Investment Banking, and M&A. Product Owner - Responsible for prioritization of equity technical in demand items, and creation of Rally / Version One epics, features, user stories, tasks, and defects. Coordination of equity software development / implementations, upgrades, and equity data requests. New implementations include Fidessa FDM, CME’s Pivot 360, Nice Actimize RCM, R-Studio, Continuum Analytics Anaconda (Python and R), Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger, and Fidessa’s Low Touch Trading Platform. Upgrade implementations including Fidessa OMS, Dealogic suite of applications, FactSet, and Compliance applications. Application ownership of Anaconda Navigator, Fidessa OMS, Dealogic suite, Ipreo’s BD Vision, FactSet, BlueMatrix, NFSFBSI/WealthScape, Nice Actimize, and other internal enterprise applications. Development Projects: • Creation of local Conda Channel for use by Corporate Investment Banking for distribution of Python Libraries• Department of Labor CRM flag creation• Compliance Control Room application• Research disclosure engine rewrite• Disclosure auditing platform / Python auditing tool kit• Python/Selenium based data parsing robots to parse audit log activity, disclosure information, and update/reconcile user login information using Pandas.Data Projects: • Extracting, sorting, compressing, and encrypting millions of rows of trade transaction data.• Calling REST API to extract 250,000+ document files for sort and storage via Python / Pandas.• ETL from 151,xxx,xxx data point XML dataset for historical data reconciliation from CSV, Excel, SQL, PDF, text and XML sources via Python / Pandas.

Development of Booktrader application, simulated bracket order creator application via entry confirmation triggers OCO orders, and single click trailing stop app within the C# Blackwood Framework of Fusion Trader from Sterling Trading Tech.Average daily nominal volume of $2 million USD in the US equity markets.Anaconda/Python based research, testing, and optimization.Maintenance and configuration of a mission critical server and network infrastructure.CBOE/FINRA Series 56 license.Languages used: C#, C++, Python

Analyzing and trading global market trends in the currency and equity marketsAverage daily nominal volume of $1 million USD in the global equity markets and $5 million USD in the forex marketsNominal quarterly volume as high as $2 billion USD.Global direct market trading and data access (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, LSE London, TSE Toyko, SGX Singapore, TSX Toronto, XETRA Frankfurt, etc…)Created, tested, implemented, and optimized over 100+ automated time-series algorithms to buy and sell securities using Python, NinjaScript, EasyLanguage, and Excel via DDE link.Larger projects include a global equity screener with a currency corrected basket order creation application.Anaconda/Python based research, testing, and optimization.Top ½% of contestants of CNBC Stock Portfolio Challenge 2007Maintenance and configuration of mission critical servers, clusters, and network infrastructure.Languages used: C++, Python, SQL

Firm designed black-box financial trading framework.Responsible for algorithm original design concepts, hardware configuration, and explanation of finance related APIs to programmers, paper and live market testing.

Designed, created, and operated e-properties ranging from forums to e-commerce.Performed ongoing SEO for 20+ websites, and Google Market integration of 10,000+ items.Languages used: HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL

Computer diagnostics and repair, help desk, network installation.Language used: BASIC, MS-DOS