James Tomkinson Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

I enjoying the beaches of retirement. Paul Tsongas once said: "No one on his deathbed ever said: I wish I had spent more time on my business."Life includes hobbies like reading and 3D-art and animation (3dsMax, blender), travel including housing swaps. Also wrote an auto-trading platform in Java that can real or paper trade through Interactive Brokers (still chasing that consistently profitable algorithm).

New York, Ny

Technology consulting for Financial Capital Markets trading systems, including Complex Event Processing with High Throughput, Low-Latency and critical recovery aspects.

2007-2015• Presales Proof-of-Concept engagements leading to sales closures. Client consulting over the range of buy side, sell side and Exchanges/ATS.• Complete range of engagements including Pre-sales POC, requirements documentation and baseline, project scoping and estimation through QA, deployment and initial support, architecture design or peer review, detail design and development, application and adapter development and unit test, QAframework and strategy.• Architecture design and review. Designs to accommodate business and technical requirements including customer-designated and existing infrastructure, such as market data vendor and guaranteed message event delivery. Recommendations on what product features to blend with infrastructure to achieve aspects of performance and reliability. Partnering with both business and technical stakeholders.• Reliability design to meet customer SLA for availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR), ranging from fast restart, to load-balancing (degraded performance during a single outage), to rapid failoverand recovery, to dual-live server. DR analysis including any product limitations.• Work with SB Product Development team on product enhancements, such as HA state replication.• Design, QA regression and back-testing frameworks based on StreamBase and/or customer tools.• Lead, primary application developer of simple but latency specific applications (alerts, trade consolidation) and complex trading application (dark pool with several matching algos), includingmarket and client connectivity (FIX) adapters.• Developed adapters in C++ and Java• Engagements related to application architecture and deployment planning, scoping development effort, best-practice mentoring, performance measurement and tuning, scalability and partitioning,adapter development, recovery, high availability (HA) and load balancing planning and implementation.

Technical leadership/expert for middleware and enterprise engineering; evaluated vendor-supplied infrastructure and products to leverage firm wide. Application Development Manager and Architect for MIS and productivity and controller applications targetting Investment Banking -- large-company user base for Advisory Banking.IB - Advisory Banking:• Hands-on team manager; developed Java web integration platform. Some off-shore staffing. Verity search/archive, vendor single-signon. Managed developers in NY, LN and India.• Drove technical innovation: SOA (XML/SOAP/RSS) framework, web rapid service integration technology (XML/XSL, SOAP, Web, database), Savvion BPR integration. Promoted frameworks for Spring and AJAX, C#/SOA.• Managed SDLC and programming teams for MIS and Financial Controller applications. Deal revenue tracking, change-request workflow (Savvion). Applications for Deals, Client Coverage team management, Conflict of Interest, Banker Performance. SOA Java Web and C# desktop client. Global team in NY, London, and India. SOX.

Jp Morgan

Technical lead and team manager for analysis and project management of a Account Positions system to bridge across three grand-fathered account/trade management systems.• Defined middleware messaging for event-based application development; Technical leader/architect for EDS team (peak: ~20 technical staff). Team and technical leader (simulation, performance measurements, DCE/Encina++ Distributed Transaction Manager, application production stabilization).

Professional consultant for TUXEDO multi-tier, distributed client-server messaging and transaction processing product integration. • Pre-sales lectures, demonstrations and prototyping, emergency response consulting, architectural reviews and application enhancements. Conference paper published.• Inter-regional transaction gateways, large application stability, performance and scalability. • Mentored customers on broad set of distributed paradigms (events, deferred queuing, request-response, security).UNIX SYSTEM LABORATORIES, NOVELL. Senior Member of Technical Staff 1989-1995• Systems Engineering and high-level development issues related to UNIX SVR4 product directions. Deriving specific requirements for my areas (ongoing requirements for OS networking, OS scheduler, file systems and r/t scheduler).• Project Manager to integrate NetWare ODI network drivers in UnixWare for many devices. • Senior Programmer Distributed Computing ported OSF/DCE onto UNIX SVR4.

Software Engineering, Digital Circuit Design and Circuit Design Automation.Developed multithreaded, inter-task messaging and timing facilities and UNIX-based OS simulation test tools, for protocol gateway product. Developed UNIX design automation (CAD) (Conference paper published). Digital circuit designs.

Pre-Mba, Finance

Achieved all course requirements plus additional coursework, excluding final MBA classes.

Pre-Mba Finance

introductory course work prior to move back to NYC area

Msee, Computer Engineering

Bell Laboratories -- One Year On Campus (OYOC) program

Bsee, Computer Engineering

Tech Hs, Electrical Engineering

Brooklyn Technical HS is one of 5 magnate schools in NYC, entrance exam required.