Responsible for management of distributed data platforms for highly transactional customer facing applications that supports Bank's critical value streams of Digital Payments, Online banking and Card members. - Provided technical leadership to build, deploy and support low latency in-memory data grid for highly transactional business applications. - Drove continuous improvements for performance, resiliency and availability of Redis and Gemfire data caching platforms for banks’ various internal applications. - Owner for developing and executing product roadmap for data platform functions and efficiency.

Lead high-performing technical teams of Database Engineers, System Administrators and Architects to support large scale Trading floor and Backoffice Systems infrastructure. Design, develop and implement enterprise standards for improved availability, compliance and operations of 24x7x365 systems. Manage three departments, Database Administration, System Administration, and Storage Administration with three direct and 14 indirect reports. Provide oversight for global trading systems with average turnover of $1 trillion per day. Direct IT projects and technical implementation across multiple Data Centers to support mission critical Trading Systems. Manage 600+ databases, 3000+operating systems and 5+ Petabytes of enterprise SAN storage. Report directly to CTO. • Designed and implemented core Relational Database infrastructure to support 24,000 TPS for Global Hybrid Trading matching engine with microsecond order execution response times. • Architected data warehouse, surveillance and archival data infrastructure to handle 11+TB growth/month with capacity of 12B records/day ETL processing that provided data analytics, business intelligence and regulatory compliance reporting.• Manage Oracle, MSSQL, Hadoop, Cassandra, VoltDB and Postgres clustered databases ranging from 5TB to 220TB across different geographical datacenters running on various UNIX and Windows operating systems.• Implemented $7.8M disaster recovery plan for business continuity, recovery and full service restoration including trading data synchronization across data centers.

Led a team of senior Database engineers to deliver Trading and Corporate database solutions in areas of high availability, security compliance, low latency performance tuning, data warehouse and Bigdata, patching and upgrades, database backup/recovery, business intelligence, data analytics and data replication for disaster recovery. Managed end-to-end Oracle database migrations for data center move projects.• Played a key role in $26M, 18 month design-to-delivery data center migration to the east coast that included new database server deployments, storage frame purchases and allocations, data migration over a tight time schedule and flash cutover.• Deployed Oracle GI RAC clusters on RedHat systems and migrated Trading databases to ASM enabled disks from Veritas SFRAC to reduce total license entitlements.• Performed quarterly rolling window patching of Oracle Exadata Database Machine; worked with vendor premium support teams while coordinating with operations team for minimal disruptions.

Responsible for Oracle OLTP Trading databases that received financial transactional data from Trade matching engines, achieving high availability and keeping database outages to a minimum. Managed downstream data collection, consolidation, analytics, data model, visual design, extract, transformation and load (ETL) tools for Data Warehouse and DataMart systems.• Implemented/managed PeopleSoft ERP system to manage HR business processes that enabled savings in operational cost, tasks automation and increased efficiency. Managed Microsoft Great Plains SQL server database systems and DR site data synchronization.• Managed Disaster Recovery systems using Oracle Data Guard and Veritas Volume Replicator products. Scaled database throughput by adding additional nodes and load balancing batch processes to meet the SLA for reporting requirements.• Developed instrumentation for database standards hardening, SOX auditing and reporting for regulatory compliance.