Leon Ray Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Greater New York City Area And San Francisco, CA

Certified on the Charles River Investment Management System for: Portfolio Manager Workbench, Trader, Compliance, Installing & Configuring the Charles River IMS, Systems Administration, and Charles River Anywhere.

Greater New York City Area

• Product manager for the Portware Pro Trading platform
• Managed the development and production release cycle for the Portware visualization suite: Pre-trade analysis, Implementation Shortfall, and Performance Attribution analysis
• Developed specifications, prioritized features, built consensus and coordinated product schedules across global teams
• Integrated usability studies, market research and metric analysis into product requirements

Greater New York City Area

• Managed client implementations for the Portware algorithmic trading system and strategy server
• Served as lead account manger from the POC phase to production for global asset managers and hedge funds
• Hands-on integration and configuration of core system components
• Responsible for the documentation of functional and technical requirements, project plans, mock-ups, test cases and post-implementation items
• Conducted tactical and status meetings with internal/external stakeholders
• Quality assurance and troubleshooting prior to UAT release

Greater New York City Area

• Managed a team of FIX connectivity and implementation project managers responsible for the certification of Bloomberg’s electronic trading platforms with external buy-side and sell-side order management systems.
• Governed the roll-out of code and infrastructure changes to internal UNIX environment, including the installation, removal and maintenance of all production FIX servers, along with the deployment of certified FIX.
• Conducted tactical meetings with senior management, R&D and product business units to manage and assist with the delivery of new business initiatives and enhance product functionality.
• Managed the deployment and rollout of product initiatives
• Responsible for the technical review and approval of implementation procedures for newly released trading platforms.
• Provided technical requirements and documentation to R&D groups for department sponsored projects.

Greater New York City Area

• Platforms: Tradebook ECN, Tradebook Staging Solutions, G-Trade International Markets, Equity Order Routing (EOR), Futures Order Routing, Indications of Interest and Advertisements, Sell-Side Equity Order Management.
• Created clients' server side configurations using VI editor and UNIX shell scripts.
• Responsible for the certification of FIX session level connectivity and application level configurations in a UNIX environment.
• Responsible for the setup, testing, and rollout of all new FIX trading platforms, functionality, and enhancements
• Responsible for all aspects of project management for client integration from the point of sale to trading in production.
• Managed the entire client integration process: testing, customization, moving to production, troubleshooting and post-production quality assurance.

Greater New York City Area

• Project manager for the installation, relocation and/or upgrade of customer’s connectivity to Bloomberg’s private frame relay and ATM – TCP/IP networks.
• Coordinated installation of the Bloomberg Professional data terminal and API
• Account and project manager
• Supervised the installation and management of various custody feeds, multi-product feeds for pricing contributions, and FTP transfer of compliance information.
• Responsible for remotely monitoring, maintaining and re-configuring clients’ WAN connected feed and market data routers.
• Responsible for diagnosing and troubleshooting TCP/IP and UDP connectivity, Network Address Translation, IP routing and firewall issues throughout the life of the project.