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New York, NY, US

Hicksville, NY, US

Signature Bank was acquired by New York Community Bancorp, division of Flagstar in March of 2023.- Manage legacy IT Signature Bank platform team while working closely with integration teams to plan and execute migration of core infrastructure, services and applications to the target environment.

New York, US

Responsible for network, datacenter, end user computing, core commercial banking and reporting technology platforms as well as overall information technology strategy and implementation.- Over a four year period, executed a strategic expansion of the IT department to from 21 to 125 full time employees to accommodate extensive west coast geographic.

San Francisco, California, US

Responsible for technical management of the Prime Services infrastructure and the WFS Electronic Trading Platform hosted in a low-latency/colo facility.

San Francisco, California, US

Manage application and trading infrastructure for the legacy Merlin Prime Services Unit in two independent colo datacenters. Manage build out and migration to new Wells Fargo based enterprise infrastructure.- Successfully executed Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 integration activities including decommissioning of legacy Merlin desktop and phone infrastructure as.

New York, NY, US

Contributed in development and refactoring of existing APB/MPB Prime Brokerage reporting application platform from Adobe Flex to GWT based SmartGWT framework. Wells Fargo acquired Merlin Securities in spring of 2012.- Worked closely with infrastructure team to capture and document new application server requirements- Designed and developed new batch.

New York, NY, US

Responsibility for the ETData Sourcing/Distribution application, which executed batch operations for the daily acquisition, post processing and historical storage of over 100 reference, tick and indicative market data feeds. - ETData application required technical oversight and leadership. Managed global team of three developers and was primary contact for.

New York, NY, US

Acted in a dual reporting role providing subject matter expertise and leadership on bank transition projects while supporting the legacy equity derivatives trading infrastructure post merger. - Change management review controls were implemented on an ad-hoc basis. Initiated a weekly global change and major incident review process to create a culture and.

Charlotte, NC, US

Project management oversight for infrastructure upgrade/migration projects across development, testing and production environments comprising over 800 servers in four geographically distributed data centers.- Executive management mandated “zero growth” policy in hardware and storage platforms to force consolidation and save cost. Managed multiple data.

Charlotte, NC, US

Responsible for global design, development and deployment of the suite of Supervision management applications to over 800 personnel with supervisory responsibilities including front office traders and support partners.- Drive to use an outsourced application development model to reduce costs. Led a fully outsourced team of 27 offshore and 3 onshore.

Directed the initial Sarbanes-Oxley IT assessment for corporate office and seven remote locations utilizing an industry standard framework (COBIT). Managed identification and documentation of key control gaps and presented a remediation plan to senior executives and the audit committee.

Purchase, NY, US

Developed and deployed a standalone global project management application integrated with an enterprise application service provider (Portera ServicePort). Application was deployed to 125 MasterCard Advisor Consultants to track key project metrics and provide dashboard project reporting.

Boston, MA, US

Responsible for individual project quality and delivery within the NY Financial Services vertical market group. Specified team skill sets, resource requirements and level of effort estimates. Defined project approach, main tracks of work, detailed activities and deliverables. Defined and communicated architectural vision and worked closely with.

- Technology leader for web application development for a number of high profile clients including Iridium, LLC, UPS and Compaq- Managed a team of four consisting of contracted and in-house technical staff.

New York, NY, US

- Project Manager/Lead Web Application Programmer for a number of high profile clients including HP, Lucent and Kmart. - Worked closely with design teams to ensure seamless integration of front-end UI templates with back-end applications and scripts.

- Self-employed software engineer specializing in the graphic arts, printing and multimedia industries. - Subcontracted development work for a number of companies including Aldus, Apple, Learn Technologies Interactive, Microsoft and The Voyager Company. - Lead developer on a number of critically acclaimed commercial CD-ROM titles including The Complete.

- Technical Lead / Trainer for a leading electronic publishing consultancy.- Designed, developed and deployed a standalone application for the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to electronically print subway schedules in all NYC subway stations saving over $500,000 in traditional printing costs.

Bs, Computer Engineering

Ms, Software Development & Management

Instrumentation & Automation (Pre Engineering)