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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, pricing feeds, and corporate actions automation.Tactically considered build vs buy or a combination of both to optimize KYC, AML, and payment processes, improving compliance and onboarding efficiency. Directing cross-functional teams and product roadmaps, combining business objectives with technical execution to drive account growth, asset accumulation, and streamlined operations through data-driven insights.Hands-on technical leadership specializing in building the right things and not everything.

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 transaction monitoring, and ACH payments processing.• 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 reporting, deposit seasoning, recurring investments, GFV/PDT tools.• 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, reviewed sales and developed strategy. Built and developed photography management software for data analytics and client management. AWS hosted application includes an online appointment scheduling tool and database driven CRM. Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle; generated business requirements into technical solutions; and was fanatical about quality, usability, security and scalability for client data.

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 translation DOMrepository. Ensured scalability, portability, and up-time.Technologies: XML, J2EE, SOAP, Jrules, Sanctum's AppScan, Asset allocation, Monte Carlo Simulation

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 information. Built proxy based collection agents for a subnet of devices, asynchronous manager, and MIB browser. Led team building networked application that provides a fast, reliable, scalable mechanism for securely transmitting data to deploy web content to a number of hosted servers that are geographically dispersed. Providing key features:▪ 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 (concurrent/load balance/utilized disaster recover)Senior developer for next-generation services portal that enables customers to analyze their web site traffic and performance, maintain control of their sites and manage their ongoing company relationship. Architected and wrote distributed and redundant Apache and Tomcat web application.Technologies:SNMP Agent Team: Sun Solaris, J2EE, JDMK, Adventnet SNMP API, EJB, NMAP, MRTG, Perl, Oracle, JDBCData Management Team: Sun Solaris, J2EE, Java RMI, Voyager, XML, SQL, MySQL, UML, EJB, Apache Modules in C, Java RMI , Servlet/JSP, XML, HTML, Visual Numerics/JWave, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, UML, Oracle, Apache, WebLogic, Jakarta Tomcat, SecurID, JUnit

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 code produced a fast, on-the-fly reporting system to display complex data queries.Technologies: DEC, Java, JBuilder, C++/C, CORBA, Servlet, XML, HTML, SQL, DB2, UML, IBM WebSphereHelped to turn Bell Atlantic campaign management system move from prototype to production. Developed using JBuilder. Data aware applets were upgraded to production standards and stabilized for corporate use.

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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 and Internet Explorer. Design included object oriented analysis, rewriting of structure to fit object model, and implementation of redefined coding techniques.Programmed back-end C and C++ code building from scratch a military database system Wrote Java and Perl code to facilitate distribution over the Internet, build packagable and deliverable data complex intranets, completely eliminate legacy mainframes, and design secure data distribution methods. Designed and implemented components to be used during restructuring of the company's IS technologies. Tasks involved developing reusable code for migrating data from proprietary data structures into an ODBC compliant RDBMS. Requirements included seamless conversion and real time delivery of critical information.