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Round Rock, Texas, Us

Newport Beach, California, Us

- Tech owner of $14B municipal bond trading system. Delivered highly-configurable investment strategies for programmatic management of 17K accounts, enabling profitability and scalability through critical operations automation in the first solution that bridged PIMCO’s legacy systems with retail brokerages.- Grew team from 3 to 13 to meet accelerating business needs. Hired, trained, and mentored full-time and contractor resources. Led scrum iterations, guided design, and reviewed code changes and releases.- Drove all interactions with business stakeholders. Managed prioritization of rapidly evolving business needs through a two-week sprint cadence while continuing to increase competitiveness and market share.- Led cross-team, 25-person workstream to design the integration of PIMCO’s trading systems with the respective systems of a newly-acquired company, spanning differences in tech stacks, object abstractions, business logic, and third-party dependencies. Outcomes approved by C-level audiences in both companies.- Created and sustained high team morale, trust, and motivation. Created connections, fostered optimism, built individual and community relationships. Ensured opportunities for team’s personal and career growth.

Newport Beach, California, Us

- Designed, implemented, and launched automated trade allocation to enable per-account risk strategies. Recognized by CTO for critical and on-time delivery required to unlock $10B of potential new business.- Led team of 3 to launch broad expansions of investment criteria customization to increase product competitiveness. Successfully met urgent business needs in a highly resource-constrained environment by establishing healthy Agile practices and balancing between delegation and direct technical involvement.- Performed database migration from Sybase to Oracle. Refactored schemas, queries, and stored procedures. Created and executed detailed testing plan to ensure data consistency and performance.- Developed bespoke Java rules engine to automate investment, trading, and operational workflows.- Guided teammates in working with partners and stakeholders. Ensured team’s visibility in wider org.

Newport Beach, California, Us

- Designed and developed Java services for fund balancing and trading applications. Led firefighting of imperative issues and customer requests to ensure successful execution of 5K+ daily trades.- Resolved company-wide IBM MQ outages, formed and led a working group to define MQ standards, and enabled broad enforcement of those standards by creating cross-team common libraries.- Reduced client onboarding delay from 2 weeks to 2 days and service desk cost from up to 100 hours/week to 10 hours/week by automating analysis that compared client portfolios to PIMCO investment strategies.- Stepped up to backfill a teammate's departure and delivered three new applications on short timelines, including a company-wide trade data service that eliminated costly dependence on Bloomberg terminals.- Improved robustness and scalability of nightly batch data reconciliation processes by refactoring onto Autosys, reducing exceptions 80% and execution time 50% while meeting stringent completion deadlines.

Newport Beach, California, Us

- Enhanced and maintained Spring-based Java trading and portfolio management applications.- Partnered with portfolio managers to resolve near-daily trading issues before market close.- Launched rules-based batch functions and workflows to import investment positions and trade actions, calculate risk metrics, and consume and update account status, all on stringent nightly schedules.

Paris, France, Fr

- Responsible for full-stack development and maintenance of a Java-based, three-tier application to manage operational logistics for ConocoPhillips. Implemented with Apache and OpenSwing.- Created functionality to optimize operational task sequencing on North Sea offshore oil and gas platforms. Built full-stack solution to enable user interactions and integrated planning.- Designed and implemented an integration strategy between Java and a SAS-based analytics system to expose and improve the utility of SAS analytical functions and data.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Configured clustered WebLogic Application Servers and created scripts to allow quick replication and installation across Dev, QA, and Prod environments.- Implemented upgrades to core transactional components that used the Financial Information Exchange Protocol (FIX) to submit high volumes of financial market trade orders. Coordinated stress testing and performance tuning of the new component and their migration to the existing production environment.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Launched numerous Java enterprise applications using IBM products, specializing in the integration of legacy databases and mainframe business functions. Built apps for Nissan, Amex, AAA, and others.- Created a transaction management solution for the US Navy that integrated web services and IBM MQ with legacy order-processing systems. Used by Navy personnel to order equipment for ships and aircraft.- Managed technical relationships with vendors to ensure delivery and integration with client systems.

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Science

Computer Science