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🔹 DIRECT 🔹 BUILD 🔹 DELIVERTrue agility in software engineering comes from creating a sound organizational structure, building superior collaboration across teams and team members, and developing a culture that thrives on communication. When these elements are in place, success follows. Issues are brought forward for resolution, and artificially complex planning cycles are streamlined. As a proven leader in developing this system of success, I understand how to drive software development from ideas to successful business outcomes. I am known for architecting organizational structures and individual talent to achieve high-quality solutions that allow financial technology businesses to operate faster in an ever-evolving global financial environment.I have worked on software development across the spectrum of financial vehicles, from fixed income and equities to swaps, OTC, and futures. My success comes from understanding systems and data architecture, and an outstanding ability to lead and develop high-performing teams. 🔹DIRECT: A team of developers, engineers and business analysts with a leading financial services firm specializing in custom and systematic investment strategies.🔹BUILD: A back office operational system to facilitate faster and easier reconciliation across mutli-system accounting communications.🔹DELIVER: Decreased daily reconciliation time with this custom solution by over 400%, saving time and significantly reducing daily reconciliation delays.🔹DIRECT: Organizational restructuring activities to better align reporting and accountability of data engineers working on internal operational security projects.🔹BUILD: Aggressive goals around decreasing backlog and testing lifecycles, and improve management and leadership of the entire team through a culture of transparency, urgency, and shared buy-in.🔹DELIVER: Faster software testing, a decreased backlog, and improved leadership capacity of lead and principal developers.🔹DIRECT: Team and leadership development activities by leveraging an executive coach and applying core principles of the Lencioni Model.🔹BUILD: A high-caliber team of top talent by using robust interview techniques to validate fit and skillset.🔹DELIVER: Highly collaborative teams with true agility and agency to achieve their stated business goals.

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