Promoted to leadership of Akuna’s US data engineering division, which enables and supports data-driven use cases and workflows in quantitative research, trading and compliance. Worked with stakeholders and users throughout the firm to gather and integrate data and business requirements, translated those requirements into a future-state Cloud-native (AWS) data platform strategy, and quarterly (OKR) objectives in order to achieve the team’s mission of 'providing simple, timely access to clean data’. Built and sustained a high-performing, world-class data engineering team based on integrity, meritocracy, clear expectations and constant feedback. By fostering teamwork, encouraging innovation and promoting creative problem-solving, established a culture of technical/operational excellence in which staff were motivated and empowered to do their best work.Other duties:* recruiting/hiring/mentoring staff* technical guidance and solutioning* data request prioritization* day-to-day project oversight and steering * sprint/Agile planning* Cloud (AWS) FinOps* data operations* data governance * data quality validation and test automation* user support* KPI / SLA / SLO metrics definition and reporting.

Launched, planned and executed a strategic, green-field initiative to build out a comprehensive UDP/TCP packet capture, ingestion and market data analytics platform in the (AWS) Cloud.Consistently hit aggressive 'go-live' launch dates that allowed trading to execute on its ambitious S&P options, crypto and equity market-share expansion strategy by implementing streaming and historical order entry and market data ingestion pipelines for more than 15 CFTC and SEC regulated exchanges/markets, as well as leading crypto exchanges.

Hired to build out a new team chartered with enabling, accelerating, and scaling the adoption of machine learning best practices. Responsible for definition and execution of Akuna’s MLOps platform strategy, engagement with internal stakeholders and recruiting/hiring of ML engineers.

Conceived, chartered and launched TransUnion’s Shared Analytics Processing Environment (SHAPE) Center of Excellence. The mission of the SHAPE CoE is to promote operational excellence by facilitating the adoption and effective application of TransUnion’s global, self-service data analytics platform by data engineers, data scientists and data analysts - through education, community, consulting and innovation.

Responsible for the planning, management and operations of the Shared Analytics Processing Environment (SHAPE), TransUnion's global Big Data analytics platform. Over the course of four years, expanded the scope and scale of the platform from 150 US-based analysts to over 1100 users in 8 countries who now rely on the platform 24x7 to perform a wide range of critical functions, including analytics, product research and development, operations, fulfillment and business intelligence. SHAPE earned TransUnion its sixth place ranking on InformationWeek’s 2016 Elite 100 global survey.

Designed, developed and managed front-office delta hedging and spread trading tools as well as automated, algorithmic order execution systems for CTC's option market-making desks, with a focus on US equity index products.

Designed, developed and supported trade capture, portfolio risk management and order execution components of SkyRoad's hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) hedge fund platform, supporting both exchange traded and OTC derivative products.

Responsible for technology platform standardization as well as the development and adoption of enterprise architecture strategies and frameworks, design patterns, and common business components, as part of a multi-year, enterprise IT transformation to embrace service-oriented architecture.

Principal architect of an online data integration product that enabled the secure exchange of retail bank, brokerage and retirement account information amongst financial institutions and their partners over the Internet. Supported the CTO and sales team in a pre-sales/sales engineering capacity. Developed proof-of-concepts. Built and managed relationships with prospective customers' technical staff.

Led the architecture, design and development of ABN AMRO's Identrus product offering – a secure e-commerce platform for conducting trusted, high-value, commercial banking transactions over the Internet utilizing a global, public-key infrastructure (PKI) and digital signatures.