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New York, New York, United States

Providing fractional CTO advisory, strategy consulting and technical assessment services for an international client base, with a specific focus in capital markets. As a key contributor in providing leadership for digital transformations, developing strategic technology roadmaps, overseeing major projects, such as cloud migration and other initiatives we.

Gananoque, Ontario

We are seasoned industry veterans with decades of experience in capital markets technology and delivery excellence. We created big river to be the boutique customer-centric firm we always wanted to work for, truly focused on client success. We tackle today’s toughest enterprise challenges by delivering technology solutions that realize measurable business.

Greater New York City Area

Technical lead for enterprise solutions based on Artificial Intelligence, using a distributed, highly scalable micro-services architecture. The platform leverages components from machine learning, knowledge engines such as Cyc to bring AI technologies to Sapient's agency and capital markets clients.

Toronto/New York

As CTO for Rule Financial, I am a hands on technologist bridging the gaps between strategic vision, business practice and solutions delivery for our clients in North America as well as fostering, evangelizing and monetizing Rule's intellectual property.

Toronto

Lead the design and planning of complex custom software solutions for Sapient Global Markets' clients.Achievements:1. Designed the reference system architecture for Sapient’s pre and post trade Volcker Rule/Dodd-Frank compliance solution.2. Principal architect and delivery lead of a workflow-based IPV processing solution for a major global investment.

New York, Toronto

Providing software development, engineering, integration, systems architecture and management consulting services for the investment banking and energy trading industries. Primary platforms/technologies include JAVA development, Calypso, Scrittura Confirms/enConnect on Windows and Unix platforms. Have developed firm-wide XML messaging solutions in.

Assist PA's client base in the development, enhacement, testing, integration and deployment of the Calypso Platform for credit derivatives.

Contributing architect and lead technical developer of an internationally distributed engineering team extending core trading, hedging and financial product support for interest rate and derivatives, using C#/.NET.

Provided professional IT services and software solutions to global fixed income and derivatives trading, risk and data management applications for Bank of America, JP Morgan/Chase, Mount Sinai/NYU Research Hospital, Unibank Denmark, CDC NA New York, Credit Suisse First Boston, Moore Capital Management, Fleet Bank, IMI Sigeco SIM, and Bankgesellschaft Berlin.

Define and deliver the architecture for all global middle office risk systems, across all asset/product types, including market and credit risk applications, scalable to integrate data feeds from over 60 proprietary and third party trading systems using the Infinity (Sungard) RiskView platform.

Co-ordinate remote development from the New York office, delivering engineering results to Mountain View core operations. Design and implement extensions to the Infinity Data Model and Fin++ and RiskView Class Libraries to enable the development of applications supporting global risk management. Moved to DBNA in the fall of 1996 to head up the Infinity.

Lead a team of software professionals in the development of object-oriented financial risk management solutions.

Software architect and lead technical developer of "RiskApp", an object-oriented financial application development environment written in C++.

Research and develop prototype systems that demonstrate the feasibility of applying technologies such as virtual reality, distributed and highly parallel software systems, pen-based computing, and colaborative computing in the automotive, aerospace and consumer markets.

B.Sc., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Structured Sound Synthesis Project Human Factors/Ergonomics LaboratoryGraduated with distinction.

20Th Century Music Composition