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• Built out the majority of the ESG platform at Apollo: focusing at first on improving reporting capabilities as well as implementing data best-practices, then (as the team scaled) switching to leading a team of developers building both applications as well as providing ad-hoc solutions/analysis.• Worked directly with business stakeholders to define project goals, scope, and technical requirements.• Responsible for the team's DevOps process and architecture designs; this often lead to spearheading the adoption of new tech and tools with the goal of improving the overall productivity of the team.

Product Manager / Technical Business Analyst on Front Office trading team• Responsible for managing development on global Analytics and Risk platforms for both derivative and physical markets• Facilitated an Agile environment across multiple departments to launch & maintain pricing/modeling API's and analytical products.• Worked closely with key business stakeholders to build out clear requirements and roadmaps, as well as driving concurrent project lifecycles.

Full Stack Developer for Derivatives Desk then Front Office trading team• Refactored internal option valuation API's, built event-driven backtesting engines, and supported pricing/risk operations.• Collaborated with multiple traders across different products and offices.• C#, Python, Angular/TypeScript

• Built an one-class unsupervised time-series novelty detection system that tracks known manipulative market activity as well as compiling statistical behavioral profiles for each trading desk to improve internal risk/compliance tracking.• Facilitated a data-centric work environment by collaborating with risk teams to improve data ingestion methods and compiling data for weekly reports for stakeholders and functional teams.

• Defined value proposition, growth strategy, business model, product vision, and roadmap for a bootstrapped blockchain + hardware AgTech startup with the aim of improving data analytics in the industry• Built out prospective blockchain backend using Hyperledger Fabric, Python, Docker, and Kubernetes• Involved until first client acquisitions

• Worked on a cross-functional team to develop and validate a hypothesis contrary to the currently accepted murine vasculature model.• Designed and implemented methodology to identify relationships between various cellular signaling pathways and proteins.• Managed interdepartmental projects and facilitated collaboration between various clinics to launch new projects.

• Worked independently to develop a new model on the complex modulation of the crustacean cardiac ganglion and validated the model by processing and comparing to data obtained for another study.• Developed scripts in Spike2’s unique coding language for data in order to optimize data processing to pull features from raw data.• Interpreted complex electrophysiological data using statistical methods in SPSS.• Presented at multiple annual conferences to technical and non-technical audiences.