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Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Delivered a cloud-based Security Master 2.5 years ahead of plans. Singled handily built a configurable subscription based bi-temporal distribution architecture to minimize barriers to adoption of the new security master. Data distribution at a speed and scale well beyond the current standards thus driving trading system like performance into the world of reference data, risk, and regulatory reporting. Drove cloud adoption, cloud migrations and a move to DevOps, CI/CD, and modern application development methodologies across the firm. Lead the legacy application migration planning and strategy. Headed AI strategy and planning as it relates to IT development, documentation, and testing.

New York, New York, Us

As part of the senior leadership team I spearheaded research and development in such areas as homomorphic encryption, artificial intelligence and automation around data quality and data content.d

Consulting on building data science and data pipelines in the market risk and investment advisory areas at BofA and UBS. Engaged in an AI and technical advisory role and for a software startup company that applies web technologies, machine learning to collect data, predict various business drivers and distribute insights to the events industry. Delivered a cloud-based data architecture and pipeline for major energy company and migrated their data and analytics to cloud based services. Directed a product rebranding and refocusing into an AI platform for an Israeli company.

Toronto, On, Ca

Recruited to revamp product development for the portfolio of data analytics and data feed offerings encompassing 45+ products with over $750M in recurring revenue. Introduced agile and native cloud development, micro-services, containers, continuous integration and deployment. Substantially increased data quality alongside software delivery quality and reduced development cycles and costs, allowing the products to show revenue and profit growth for the first time in a decade. Applications: Quantitative Analytics, Data Distribution, Date Quality, Fixed Income, Counter Party and Corporate Actions.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Recruited to lead global architecture, business intelligence, data architecture and database engineering groups for hedge and private equity fund services for the former International Fund Services (IFS), acquired by State Street. Oversaw staff across the US, UK, Ukraine, India and China. Provided data to clients across the entire alternative investment landscape. Successfully stabilized production and development infrastructure and architecture stressed under rapid business growth. Implemented data governance and data quality programs for BI (business Intelligence) and data warehouse services retaining multiple clients in threat of leaving. Rationalized the BI environment reducing the average query time by a factor of 60. Drove definition and adoption of future proof, scalable, data architecture and infrastructure with a 70x throughput performance increase. Applications: Fund Accounting, Fund Administration, Performance, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, Attribution, Analytics and Investor Services.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Founded a software company delivering solutions and technical architectures for high volume, low latency and reference data systems focused on the financial services industry. Created a client facing analytics platform and an agile, web-scale database architecture. Successfully created a new product offering and revenue stream for a client, where in-house development had failed. Led due diligence effort that architected a Hadoop-based solution for the company’s key product thus the acquisition more financially attractive and reduced on going operational cost by half. Lead contributor and influencer on a comprehensive re-engineering initiative for a major financial services company. Applications: Reference & Market Data Management Frameworks for Volume Intensive Data Environments, Architecture for Continuous Analytics, Data at Rest Analytics, Web Scale Application Development, Post Trade Compliance & Best Execution Analysis, Real Time Custom Basket Valuation & Publication to Bloomberg, Data Discovery & Visualization of Metadata & Data Quality, and Human Capital Management Analytics.

Newry, Co. Down, Gb

Chosen to lead the architecting the company’s software offerings and integrating high volume, high velocity market data with reference data. Aligned development practices and software assets to move company from a predominately consulting to software sales based revenue of £13.5M (2011). Applications: Ticker Plant, Real Time Market Data Analytics, Trading Strategy Back Testing, Low Latency Reference Data, SaaS Reference Data Product for Hedge Funds, Risk & Curve Data Acquisition and Management.

Newry, Co. Down, Gb

Co-Founder of reference data management software and consulting company. Developed SOA data management platform and data model for financial instruments and legal entities. Consulted regarding technical and data architecture, data management, data quality, data governance, and best practices. Grew revenue to $3.5M. Negotiated sale of company to First Derivatives for $10M. Redesigned and rebuilt Accenture’s managed reference data service offering, thus revitalizing marketing/sales of the service. Led product development of a reference data management platform that served as a core component to the security and legal entity master applications. Drove adoption of the consolidated platform data and data services. Applications: Fixed Income, Equities, Counter-Party Master Data Management, API, and Message Based distribution.Applications: Security Master, Vendor Data Management, and Portfolio Risk at Fitch, Accenture, CQR, Algorithmics, CPPIB, Thomson Reuters.

New York, Us

Recruited back to lead the product management, architecture, design, marketing, development and professional services of the company’s reference data platform. Rebuilt and rebranded the company’s software and data model offerings as an EDM solution resulting in sales which turned a profit and reversed years of losses. Rescued a $6M parallel development effort on the verge of failure and successfully sold the solution to, and implemented at, a major client. Applications: Global Reference and Market Data Applications implemented at numerous financial institutions, including UBS, Deutsche Bank, CSFB, State Street, Merrill Lynch, Fortis, DLJ, and Derivatives & Deal Repository for JPM Chase.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Reporting to the CIO, managed 100 people across 10 groups encompassing the entire infrastructure, development and support of a security master and a multi-currency accounting engine. Developed and implemented performance initiatives resulting savings of $2.6M. Rebuilt two development teams and successfully turned-around two high profile projects, previously on the verge of failure. Proposed, prepared and negotiated a $22M budget reducing development, support and operational costs by $14M, while better aligning systems with business needs. Applications: Global Security Master, Trust Accounting, and Compliance Reporting.

Us

Built and managed projects for numerous front and back office systems as part of an enterprise-wide Global Asset Management System. Founding contributor and designer to FTI’s (GoldenSource) financial services data model. Automated straight through processing of 401K participant elections. Applications: Order Management, Portfolio Accounting & Reporting, Custody, Security Lending, Trade Settlement, Cash Management and Projections.