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Chicago, Illinois, US

Leading large-scale financial product initiatives, including the transition to self-clearing and the development of embedded finance products, facilitating the migration of billions in AUM and thousands of accounts.Built and scaled technical infrastructure for retail brokerage and crypto products, focusing on market data integration, trading systems.

Chicago, Illinois, US

New York, NY, US

• Served as a B2B technical product manager - built products from concept to launch including SaaS vendor due diligence, price analysis, concept modeling, integration, and development: KYC onboarding automation, AML.
• Launched 3 API driven products from concept to launch in 8 months including SaaS vendordue diligence, integration, and development: KYC onboarding automation, AML transactionmonitoring, and ACH payments processing.
• Prioritized, defined requirements including API specifications, and created user stories forfuture retail products on the API platform: payment fraud mitigation, multicurrency accounts, payment net settlement and.
• Initiated revenue generating platform improvements driving the acceptance of non-USDdeposits to capture FX spread.
• Analyzed current state vendors and technology to identify opportunities for operationalautomation thereby reducing manual costs and risks.
• Led workflow optimization through migration to Jira based tracking and development boardorganization.

New York, NY, US

Vice President - Specialist Developer Asset Management TechnologyWorking on a Asset Management Technology team developing Java microservices, distributed systems and REST APIs. Specializing in container and cloud based deployments. Compelting stories on 2 week sprints, commiting to git, and releasing resilient code.

New York, NY, US

Accepted in the inaugural cohort of BNY Mellon’s RechargeIT, a 16 week technical, bootcamp-style training program re-learning full stack developer technologies including Java, SQL, Javascript, Angular JS and Spring MVC after a career break.

10 years experience in service environment solely responsible for all product management, business development, marketing communications, branding, search engine optimatization and project management. Built client base from 0 to 3000 over 10 years acheiving annual gross sales of $500k. Personally created business plans, arranged financing, hired staff.

Chicago, IL, US

Managed bi-monthy code release schedule for mPower Cafe, an award-winning educational site offering free retirement and investment information on defined contribution plans -- 401(k), 403(b) and 457 -- and Individual Retirement Accounts. Led team of 10 developers. Responsible for writing development and release automation tools. Developed XML based data.

• Founding team member for San Francisco based start up. Led Java development group designing framework for implementing SNMP management capabilities to integrate network maps, SNMP MIB data, and application system.
• Point to point acknowledgement on data integrity check with guaranteed delivery, Real-time route manipulation, Priority based queuing/sending, Public key packet encryption, Redundant - multiple management stations.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Developed java servlets, applets and applications. This involves CORBA and distributed objects. The project included intensive data warehouse design and modeling for data summarization to produce reports on Bell Atlantic information. The final model involved star-schema design to facilitate dynamic and canned reports. The integration of data model and java.

US

Technologies: Sun Solaris, Java, Server-Side Javascript, LiveWire, C++/C, CORBA, ORBS, Perl5, XML, HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, UML, LDAP, Apache, Netscape SuitespotDeveloped Java, Javascript, and Oracle 8 telecom intranet program involving LiveWire, CORBA, and ORBS. The project was redesigned to allow the packagable intranet to work in Netscape.