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Roseland, Nj, Us

Led all technology for a FinTech company providing a SaaS based OMS, PMS, Security Master, Risk, Operations, Compliance, Valuations, and Reporting system for hedge funds and investment managers.• Member of the executive leadership team• Collaborated with the executive leadership team on strategy, sales, client management, budgeting and hiring• Built and managed a global team of 50+ Software, QAs, and DevOps engineers• Vendor Management and Negotiations• Responsible for all application architecture and development, SDLC, testing, security, monitoring, infrastructure, strategies for disaster recovery, application upgrades and process improvements• Improved the quality of staff, while reducing the per-person cost of staff by opening new global locations• Stabilized the existing system, reducing the per client number of tickets requiring development by 80%• Improved key performance metrics of trade processing by more than 3x• Architected and led the development of multiple new modules• Upgraded technology that was deprecated for over 12 years to modern versions

Architected and developed the core engine of a hyper fast in memory cloud based database and data delivery network service including data ingestion and transformation using a SAAS model• Built and directed a global team of software and devops engineers • Architected a complete product solutiono Development of the core hyper fast cloud based, in memory, at the edge databaseo Novel MVCC lockless transaction, page and memory manager; SQL based query resolver; various indexing implementations; intelligent caching; fast binary serialization and deserializationo Connecters for data ingestion, aggregation and transformation from Salesforce, Shopify, SAP, etc.o Self-service administration tools; Schema management; custom Google Blockly implementation for self-service online transformations; self-service cloud infrastructure management• Member of executive team• Authored 5 patent applications and 7 provisional applications• Researched and determined stack for a complete solution, performance, time to market, and maintainability

New York, Ny, Us

Architect and leader of development and QA for multiple data delivery applicationsKey Achievements:• Built a global team of 40 engineers, business analysts, and testers. • Architected and built: a meta data driven, cloud based product used by Portfolio Managers for custom Performance and Risk reports, a large suite of accounting reports, and a real time data aggregation solution

Provided Technical Architecture, Regulatory Compliance (CFTC and EMIR), IT Strategy and Management for front and back office trading institutionsKey Achievements:• Led the design and development effort the initial phase of a complete overhaul of trade support applications

Boston, Ma, Us

Provided Technical Architecture, IT Strategy and Management for front and back office trading institutionsKey Achievements:• Advised multiple clients regarding enterprise architecture of trade and trade support applications• Led the architecture and development (often hands on) of multiple projects supporting trade, and trade operations (Real Time Pricing, Reference Data Management, Product Selection, Integration and testing)• Built various global teams from 3 to 25 developers, business analysts, UI designers, and testers

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FX trading application

New York, Ny, Us

Led analysis of current state of technology across business operations and architecture across 30 internal systems and 30 client systems, consisting of trade accounting, profit & loss (P&L) reporting, mutual fund processing, fixed-income processing, and corporate action notification. Led full development lifecycle of a new enterprise Security Master database. Architected an enterprise solution to support multiple symbologies, pricing, corporate actions, agency ratings and analytics to supply data for Equity, Fixed Income, FX, and Derivative trading activities. Created a business case for the steering committee to initiate solution design. Managed development team of up to 6 Team Leaders, 27 Developers, and 8 Business Analysts; built applications with a strong track record of meeting deliverables, maintaining scope, and minimizing defects.> Security Master Application—SMDB: Created 24/7 system for Bank of New York to serve as the single source of financial instrument data to 60+ internal and client applications, recognized as a novel approach with scalable architecture and real-time interfaces. Streamlined business processes, to include reducing duplication from 10 applications to just 1, allowing applications to adapt to company growth, and improving data quality. * Created a competitive advantage over other securities processing banks; earned recognition from Deloitte and Touche for having the best data among middle office providers as well as the best-run application in the bank.> Application Positioning System—APX: Directed vision and development for cross application positioning system to resolve transaction processing and reconciliation breaks across multiple applications and enable multiply outsourcing customers to coexist on settlement and accounting platforms. * Improved processing and reduced need for manual labor; identified business and technical issues, created solutions, and wrote specifications, as well as managed the entire project.