Jean-Michel Smith Email & Phone Number

Non-compete exclusion period

Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nl

• Developed a solution to automate bare-metal builds, VM imaging, and container creation, reducing build times from 45 minutes to under 10 minutes• Designed and implemented automated "late binding" system configuration and maintenance with a combination of Python, Go, Puppet and Salt• Developed RESTFUL services to provide APIs between trading system components, automation solutions, and enterprise services• Designed and implemented automated unit testing for operating system builds, custom kernel patching and tunings as well as salt and puppet configuration management• Designed and implemented automated integration testing and CICD pipeline for operating system and kernel tuning as well as Salt and Puppet configuration management• Optimized kernel builds for high-impact low-latency trading systems• Optimized operating system tuning and network stack for low-latency trading systems• Designed and implemented CEPH distributed storage solution, resulting in substantial cost savings• Designed and implemented OpenStack internal cloud solution for backend systems, resulting in significant cost savings• Nominated for and completed both CCL and CCL2 executive leadership courses with the Center for Creative Leadership

London, Gb

Vice President, Lead Infrastructure Architect for the Americas, Global Banking and Markets

• Responsible for enterprise-wide strategic planning and optimization of hardware purchases and deployment for GFFX Auto Trading• Responsible for defining hardware and OS standards and road maps across GFFX• Responsible for low latency strategy, design and deployment for high frequency GFFX algorithmic trading• Responsible for defining hardware, OS, and virtualization roadmap for latency sensitive environments• Architected, managed, and coordinated successful collocation deployments in Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, London, New York and Chicago• Managed and coordinated successful migration of global real-time trading systems infrastructure to new data centers with zero downtime, on schedule and within budget• Architected critical technical improvements required to reduce latencies for real-time Forex trading• Managed successful migration and upgrade of GFFX Auto Trading revision control system• Architected and Managed successful deployment of Matlab Linux and Windows clusters to support front office quant traders• Managed the remediation and decommissioning of numerous legacy systems, resulting in a substantial cost savings to the business• Designed and architected migration from Sun Solaris to highly optimized, bespoke Linux for latency sensitive Forex trading systems• Coordinated and managed all aspects of FX technology infrastructure to support day-to-day global Forex trading in Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, London, Chicago, and New York

• Research and deliver new software solutions, such as Virtualization (Xen, VMWare) and Web Services.• Manage partnerships with vendors, negotiate contracts• Develop strategic road maps for deploying new technologies• Deploy, manage, debug, and tune Solaris 9, Solaris 10, and Red Hat Servers• Provide last escalation point of support to fixed income traders

• Research and define enterprise-wide standards for system hardware, operating systems, and system administration software• Liaise with senior management regarding new user requests and requirements• Research, develop, and implement new technologies to meet new user requirements• Manage, customize, and integrate in-house and third-party electronic trading systems on Solaris and Linux• Legacy remediation, including migration of legacy applications to new platforms or hardware as required• Capacity planning• Conceived, developed, and implemented a successful enterprise-wide migration from Solaris to Linux• Defined and implemented enterprise backup and disaster recovery strategy

Bs, Computer Science, College Of Engineering

Finished All Course Work Required For A Masters Degree, Computer Science