James Walker Email & Phone Number

Maynard, MA, US

New York, United States

Hands on retooling of exchange and clearinghouse software for forex binary options and then again for weather binary options. Provided HFT interface to market makers in FIX. Introduced the first CFTC approved parimutuel contracts. Rewrote central limit order book (CLOB) to handle real-time market making. Implemented SDR reporting per new Dodd-Frank rules..

Business analyst working on adding IRS and CDX instruments to the products traded on ELX. Oversaw the technical development of the exchange's software and it's operations through a rapidly changing regulatory environment.Worked with development group to define and implement the unique features of the ELX rules for printing off-exchange negotiated trades. I.

Developed weekly fantasy game for mobile and web platforms. Worked with gaming business professionals to define and implement Cantor Fantasy Sports product. The product supported real-money betting as well as play-for-fun. Worked with legal experts to meet legal requirements of the Safe Harbor Act and to legitimize the business for application.

Chief Technical Officer for Cantor Exchange, a CFTC designated futures exchange and clearinghouse. Managed a team of developers and technical operations staff.Began from scratch by designing business workflows for futures trading and clearing. I designed an entirely new J2EE system for trading and clearing and oversaw the construction of this system over a.

Software Architect within software group responsible for EMC Control Center software. Worked within a team of 5 software architects that oversaw the product’s technology from a high-level.Performed requirements analysis for an entirely new version of the product to be developed by a company acquired by EMC. Worked with existing developers to improve.

Architect/Project Manager for Lexington, MA office of Chicago-based independent clearinghouse. Supported the Extensible Clearing System (ECS), a J2EE, web based system for clearing and settlement of exchange-traded futures. Also authored new clearing systems for in-house and sale outside of the enterprise.Acted as developer/architect for equities clearing.

Managed a group of 5 developers in trading systems group. Worked with business analysts to refine specifications and led a team of developers to implement fixed income workflow. Supported legacy application which tracks delivery of mortgage pools. Also worked extensively with the team that migrated the new trading system into production while maintaining.

Business analysis and planning for Equity/Connect electronic trading system. Performed analysis, and helped create test plans and execute them. Worked with offshore development team in China.Worked on buy-side sell-side fix connectivity for giving clients direct access to market makers and exchanges. Also worked to maintain CMS connections to listed.

Architect for IBM next generation LearningSpace product. LearningSpace is a web based e-learning product. This was a complete rewrite of the product within the WebSphere 5.0 J2EE architecture. It was designed for multinational deployment.I mentored existing IBM staff in UML data modeling and implementation of J2EE application. I authored design and coding.

Project manager and architect for a small startup company concentrating in product-development for the financial services industry. Mentored U.S. staff and staff in India and managed several projects:Managed project which provided market-impact calculations to brokerage clients over the web. Began with an Excel spreadsheet used by traders and used this to.

Consulted with startup company on development of an Alternative Trading System (ATS)

Worked with the CEO to write business requirements documentation for an online financial information product. Documented the asset allocation algorithm, electronic trading requirements, subscription services and marketing information gathering requirements.Worked with the Portfolio Manager to document the risk measurement algorithm which is based upon.

Consulted with startup company about technical challenges associated with electronic contact management and web based applications.

NBS Limited is a Compaq Computer value-added-reseller. I was hired to expand its business into professional services. I managed several support contracts. My responsibilities included responsibility for recording customer needs and requests and assuring that these were met by NBS staff. Also responsible for developing bids for work. Representative.

State Street Brokerage Services is a division of State Street Bank. This is a continuation of my work from Lattice Trading. (see below) Lattice Trading was eventually acquired by State Street Bank from CS/First Boston. One of the conditions of the sale was rehiring certain key staff of which I was one.Project Manage for electronic trading unit responsible.

Principal engineer in the development of management software for a line of remote access devices. Designed software architecture and mentored a group of C software engineers in C++ and object-oriented software development. Developed the Quick2Config Annex product. 32 bit software was written in Visual C++ and used SNMP.

First employee in a small electronic trading partnership which was eventually purchased by CS/First Boston. I performed several roles as the organization grew. These include customer support, pre/post-sales technical support, field service, system and network management, and software development. All work was done in C++. Projects included the UNIX.

Responsible for soliciting and fulfilling government contracts in aerospace research and development. Concentrated on software reliability studies and parallel processing. Also responsible for design and administration of Macintosh and UNIX network. Projects included Functional and Reliability Testing of Parallel Software, Multiple-version Fault-Tolerant.

Created and managed a group of software engineers for development of customer enhancements to semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Acted as liaison between U.S. development group and home office software engineers in Japan. Developed SECS II interface for electron optic semiconductor inspection equipment. Wrote SECS II network driver for RSX-11 in PDP 11.

Ms, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ACMDenotational semantics, Parallel processing

Ba, Computer Science/Mathematics

Liberal Arts, Differential equations

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ACM