At FRUSS we want to rethink how people meet, shop and instruct virtually. We believe the virtual world can bring us closer together, more than it sets us apart.1. Elevating Virtual Social InteractionsMake virtual experiences more fun and rewarding, as opposed to being a back-up option for face-to-face.2. Giving people a choiceCreate hybrid experiences where physical and virtual can seamlessly co-exist, giving users a real choice of venue.3. Educational EqualityProvide the world with quality educational platforms regardless of background, location or financial inequality.4. Global SustainabilityReduce the need for businesses to send individuals over long distances and lower the global emissions attributed to in-person event travel.

Advisory Board Member

Serving on the Operating Committee of OSAM played key roles in decisions related to hiring, management, company culture, operations, performance, IT Infrastructure, cyber security and most importantly the application of technology to solve operational and business problems. Architected and oversaw all in-house built/third party systems related to trading, quantitative model generation, risk management, order management, account management and data warehousing to meet the specific needs of this sophisticated multi - billion dollar quantitative asset management firm.Managed transition and ongoing relationship with outsourced BackOffice provider (BNY Mellon/Pershing) 38-person team responsible for accounting, corporate actions and trade processing. Oversaw performance reporting team to ensure accuracy, timely reporting and GIPS compliance and auditing.Presenting OSAM’s operational and technical capabilities at industry events across the US. Nominated for Best Technology Team in Asset Management by Waters Technology in 2015 with competition from Blackstone, Fidelity, JP Morgan and Citi.Highlighted Projects Automated Trade Construction Process during financial crisis - 2008 Redesign of Model Construction Architecture - 2009 Automated Account Management and Risk Controls -2011 Model Optimization for Account Trading -2012 Performance Process Overhaul - 2014 Direct-to-source data model for OSAM’s Quantitative strategies. – 2015 Migration of BackOffice - 2016

Designed the ESD Center, architect workflow tool, to implement change to United Health Group’s data center infrastructure.  600+ Users Developed in VB.net/ASP.net/SQL2005 Communicates with LDAP/Active Directory/Oracle 10g/Sybase/MySQL/SQL200/QIP Lead a team to further the functionality, to troubleshoot and to document the ESD Center. Technical liaison facilitating the communication of design specifications between business customers and developers/infrastructure administrators. Key contributor to the team designing Rapid Recovery and Storage Optimization Solutions for multiple data centers using SRDF and boot from SAN technologies. Designed application architecture for Enterprise wide applications relating to claims, call centers data center monitoring, security infrastructure and enterprise web applications. Worked closely with operations teams to design workflow processes and automation.

• As an independent consultant, approached GE Insurance Solutions with a custom application to automate their Risk Management Six Sigma 6.0 quality reports.• Reduced report production and data manipulation time from one week to two hours for each report while increasing data integrity and standardization.• CEO of ERC declared the automation tool the most important Risk Management project in 2004.• Received two substantial bonuses and awards for outstanding work and contract expanded three times. Not one of the GE Employees could remember a consultant ever receiving an award.• GE Money - developer and security support professional on the removal and lock down of IIS due to Cyber Security attacks.

Developed websites and promotional material for Dive Schools and Safari Companies in Kenya.

Sales associate for IBM Websphere and Lotus Notes.

Similar duties to previous position with VSI but included training new employees.

Analyzed data from telephone surveys for presentation to third party clients. SQL, VBA and MS Office

Developed and Maintained Coupon targeting models for Consumer Package Good companies. Developed in VBA for excel.