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Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Evergreen, Us

Purchase and subsequent management of $4.8m investment properties. Short-term financing for fix up for multiple projects and long-term funding for individual properties.

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

VeriDaaS is a world leader in state of the art LiDAR technology delivering unparalleled ground details and accuracy. Raw data is gathered via airplane then shipped to the data center for stage 1 processing via high performance computing environment. Once processed stage 2 is data classification which is carried out remotely inside the virtualized environment in the datacenter. Infrastructure comprises of around 100 servers and 150 workstations both physical and virtual. Director of IT responsibilities cover all aspects of infrastructure management, strategic development and implementation, and operations, from the airplane networks, remote connectivity via cell network, management and optimization of the HPC infrastructure, classification infrastructure, physical, virtual and cloud based environments/machines plus staff management, training and mentoring. Coverage is for employees and offices in Bangalore India, Canada and the US.

Providing arguably the highest quality IT Consulting Services, from small companies to some of the biggest in the world, for over 20 years.

Saxon Capital was a highly successful global click trading operation with offices in Singapore and London, and additional connectivity into Japan, Taiwan and the US, with trading limits in the 10s of millions of dollars daily. As Head of IT responsibilities included infrastructure build out from the ground up in the Singapore office, strategic planning, design, implementation and subsequent management of the global infrastructure and connectivity. Infrastructure comprised of a 35-server 100-workstation $250 000 commodities trading network, built in one-month to facilitate a successful opening of a new office that traded various products across multiple Asian and US exchanges, including SGX, OSE, CME, and ICE. Opened this trading shop on-time and under budget.

Responsible for the day to day running of the Singapore IT infrastructure. Responsible for the resolution of IT issues arising in the Singapore office plus coordination of new systems and network installations. Acted as liaison between Singapore office, Sydney office, global management team, and Fortis Bank. Carried out a resolution of local issues. Coordinate resources and people to ensure project continuation and completion. The primary business was to provide clearing services to companies and traders and provide connectivity to several Asia Pacific exchanges.

Provided a high-quality trading network for many different circumstances for individual remote traders, local forms and companies with their own systems. Responsible for exchange feeds to 100% management solutions of networks. Worked on a team-building out a trading infrastructure in the Chicago Equinix building.

Successfully identified network issues and optimized as per Cisco design standards by appropriate documentation of network, identifying improvements, and implementing designs. Successfully upgraded and optimized customer networks. Monitored and performed maintenance and upgrades of the network and infrastructure to accommodate rapid business growth.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

XTrader client support. Functional support of the product to traders. Installation of the software for local and remote clients. Information and help on the meanings of the log files produced by the software for troubleshooting purposes.XTrader server support. Installation of the server, configuration of user accounts, installation and configuration of the native exchange-provided trading system that the XTrader server connected to.XRisk support. Installation and configuration of the software and configuration of the reporting facility.TTTrainer support. Installation of the virtual exchange, configuration of the data feeds and account setup.

Part of a team brought to Chicago to assist in the set up of the new DBS technical helpdesk. Provided on-site and telephone support to the trading firms who were customers of CBOT and Eurex for the installation, configuration and maintenance of the system. Configured the a/c/e trading platform on MISS (Solaris and NT) servers and clients. Connected these systems to point to point connections and sometimes ISDN connections on the 2600 routers that were part of the trading platform. Finally provided support until full time staff members could be brought on board, and provided training to these staff members.

Pgd, Computer Aided Graphical Technology Applications

Msc, Computer Science

Bsc, Chemistry