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New York, New York, United States

Driving architecture change in the programmatic space in Amazon Advertising. This area covers the campaign management and real-time bidding infrastructure, including consent & privacy, identity, targeting, bidding, ad serving, and the ad exchange.

New York

Led a team of engineers building reference solutions to common customer problems. All solutions were vetted and designed to be reliable, secure, and cost effective. Examples include connecting vehicles to the cloud, using machine learning for credit card fraud detection, and delivering video on-demand.

New York, New York

Mizuho went through a significant transformation in 2017 and 2018. The broker-dealer and derivatives units were merged as part of a multi-year effort to aggressively grow Mizuho’s capital markets business, and the technology infrastructure was replaced with a Murex implementation covering Rates, FX, and Equity derivatives. I led the derivatives technology team in New York, supporting Trading, Risk, and Operations.

New York

Drove mobile product development and technology at a consumer Fintech startup, balancing priorities across growth, retention, monetization, and user experience. Heavily involved in business strategy, marketing, customer support, and fundraising. PennyOwl was one of the top-rated apps in its category on Google Play.

New York

Developed target architecture for the data sourcing and distribution infrastructure supporting the Wholesale Risk function. Primary work streams covered Information Model, Data Quality, Storage Engineering, and Data Sourcing. Also acted as technology point for efforts around Basel Principles for Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting.

New York

Led an aggressive regulatory program to migrate hundreds of thousands of derivatives trades onto better credit risk calculators. This was a top 10 project for the firm and required coordinating hundreds of deliveries across 40 engineering teams globally.Owned the P&L and Risk platform supporting the global counterparty risk management business. Responsible for product development, operational integrity, customer relationship management, and financials. Team size grew from 10 to 30+ during this timeframe.

New York

Managed the internal platform through which equity orders were routed to external exchanges. Managed a team of 8 senior engineers during a period of 10x growth and the Bear Stearns merger.

New York

Managed trade capture, valuation, risk management, and P&L systems supporting the Credit Derivatives business globally. As the team rapidly grew - tripling in size over two years - I also played a key role in budget planning, relationship management, leading organizational change, shaping application architecture, and managing critical scalability issues with the infrastructure.

New York

Drove the product roadmap and quarterly release cycle for an electronic trading platform covering FX and Fixed Income clients in the US, Europe, and Middle East. The team consisted of 3 business analysts and 20+ engineers. Shortly before I left I took over full ownership of the platform.

New York

Worked as dev-ops manager and technical project manager on a risk management platform supporting the Credit Derivatives business and Counterparty Risk group.Led a team of 3 engineers developing a new Credit Derivatives market data service.

London & New York

Worked as the local development lead on the trading platform supporting the Credit Derivatives business. Managed 8 engineers doing analysis, development, testing, and trading desk support. Developed reporting features for a new platform that automated over 90% of processing for trades settling at the DTCC.