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New York

- Responsibilities include managing global projects/teams and budgets in Asia, Europe, Canada, India, & the U.S. Composed of work necessary to comply with mandatory exchange upgrades, connectivity to new markets and destinations, regulatory and compliance changes, external connectivity and infrastructure advancements/upgrades. Connectivity to Equities, Options, & Fixed Income venues which are in the process of being upgraded with cutting edge technologies and regulatory/compliance changes. Requests for new venues are constantly being made by the business for access to new liquidity and instruments (Equity, Fixed Income – Rates, Credits, Munis, Repos, Credit, Commodities, etc...) - Currently leading a squad/team for onboarding the new MEMX and MIAX Pearl Options exchanges.- Currently leading a large team responsible for building multiple new High Speed Ultra Low Latency Automated Trading System Platforms (Futures, Cash/Bonds, Interest Rates Swaps, and Repos)- Built a new Legging Trading Platform which gives traders the ability to trade cross-products (Futures, Cash/Bonds, & Interest Rates Swaps) for NA and Europe - Built a new Internal Bonds Trading Platform where U.S. Institutional clients can work and monitor orders for on and off-the-run U.S. Treasuries, in real time. - Built a new External Cash/Bond Trading Platform where orders are split across multiple external exchanges for best price/execution (BTec, eSpeed, DWeb, & Liquidly Edge)- Built a new Interest Rates Swaps Trading Platform where orders are split across multiple exchanges (iSwap & TradX) for best price/execution- Built new client API’s where external clients can on-board with Morgan Stanley and send flow into the newly built platforms- Successfully decommissioned over 200+ ION gateways by building them in-house, which saved the firm millions of dollars in licensing & hardware costs (Rates, Muni, Credits, & Repos)- Successfully completed multiple hardware refreshes, and Data Center migrations

Greater New York City Area

Responsibilities include designing & delivering a modernized, state-of-the-art, centralized, analytical data repository, where market and reference data are integrated and stored historically in a structured format specifically for analytical use. Various cutting edge technologies were implemented in order to achieve a scalable (vertical & horizontal), highly available, fault-tolerant, secure system (Oracle RAC One Node, OLS, DAC, Grid Control, Audit, etc..)

- Head of PMO for Smart Order Routing, Trading, & Market Data (Retail, Institutional, Capital Markets, & Clearing Operations)- Electronic Trading & Market Data Sr. Program Manager. Responsibilities include directly managing application and infrastructure PMs across multiple business lines (Retail, Capital Markets, Market Data, Compliance, Clearing Operations, & Institutional).- Projects ranging from on-boarding of new clients via FIX protocol & OATS/FINRA regulatory changes to larger/enterprise projects like the Options Symbology Initiative, Cost Basis, & Infrastructure Upgrades.- Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and templates that support IT Project Management methodology and ensure staff (PM’s, Developers, BA’s, & QA) are appropriately trained.- Define and lead small to large/enterprise sized projects by establishing project scope, approach, work plan, time-lines, staffing requirements, and budgets.- Quantify project risk, apply mitigation strategies, and escalate when appropriate.- Drive standardized project management methodologies (Waterfall, RUP, Agile, & Scrum) throughout the SDLC process (Scrum Master).- Strict adherence to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices – Business Requirements- Documentation, Functional Requirements, Project Plans, Meeting Minutes, Technical Specifications- Development Test Plans, Issue/Bug Tracking, UAT Plans, Installation/Back-out Plans, SOE documentation, Post Implementation documentation, client approvals, etc…- Hands on project management of business critical projects like Options Symbology Initiative, Cost Basis Compliance/Regulatory changes, OAT’s/FINRA, Sale of E*Trade Canada, Infrastructure Upgrades, Sybase & Oracle Database Upgrades, migrations, etc...- Provide Program/Project reporting to Senior Stakeholders across IT and Business.- A team builder/player who is by nature hardworking, service oriented, flexible and able to adapt to the demands of a dynamic environment.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Sr. Applications Project Manager - Project Manager for delivering enterprise data management and Web-based publishing solutions as a managed service for some of the world’s largest asset management and financial businesses.- Consolidating complex financial data from a vast array of data sources, enriching it with additional information derived from accounting, portfolio, risk, performance, and other external systems, and storing the aggregated data in a proprietary, high-performance XML data store. Customized data views are then delivered in whatever format users require, from high-performance Web portals to on-demand PDFs, file extracts, or exposed Web services.- HSBC Managed Portfolio System - Provided a solution which allows clients to view their holdings in sub funds in the manner of a tailor made portfolio. Calculating individual holdings positions at the lowest possible level and aggregating them by groupings such as currency, country, sector, or maturity. Skandinaviska Enskilda Bank (SEB) – Web based Hedge Fund reporting solution which integrates with SEBs back and middle office systems. Basic Functionality included fund level financials, portfolio reporting, performance and risk reporting, and fund level documents.- CitiGroup Asset Management Solutions – Provided a solution for professional investment managers to customize and distribute client statements. Functionalities include statement work flow (approve/reject), email notification, batch printing/reprinting with bar-codes, custom statements, and an SLA console.SEI Client Portal – Statement delivery portal which allows investors to view their statements online.SEI NAV Pickup – An internal utility SEI uses to gather fund NAV's for external managers on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Functionality includes entry of NAV history with update abilities, Delinquent Manager Reporting, and E-mailing.

- IT budgets and a staff of 17 application developers.- Manage the NextGen Order Entry Financial Consultant contact management system which sends Retail Branch orders to the various exchanges (Listed, OTC, Options, Commodities, Inside/Outside Mutual Funds, SEC/OATS reporting, etc...). Supporting 500+ branches and 30,000 Financial Consultants. Reports real-time order executions and interacts with ADP/Bridge Market Data for real-time pricing (JavaScript, HTML, XML, XSLT, LDAP, SiteMinder, VB, COM, Active X, SQL Server, Webframe, DB2, COBOL, CICS, and Batch)- Designed and implemented the Already Executed Order Entry web trading system (SEC/NYSE Rules 410 & 17A-3) which allows Financial Consultants to electronically ticket block orders & allocate them to clients, then transmit them to the trading desk for execution (Blotters, Confirms, OMS, etc…) (HTML, JavaScript, VB, VBScript, NT, IIS, LDAP, SiteMinder, MTS, COBOL, DB2, Web Services, and .Net). - Designed and implemented an electronic order approval system for equity & mutual funds that require Branch Manager Approvals. System included Alarms, Alerts, Elapsed time warnings, etc… (HTML, JavaScript, XML, VB, COBOL, DB2, MQ, WebFrame, Web Services, LDAP, SiteMinder)- Designed and Implemented the Mutual Funds Order Entry Trading Application for Retail brokers and premium customers. Included contact management, Off Shore blocks, Surveillance, Verses Purchase Price’s, Reports, etc... (HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, VB, ASP, COBOL, WebFrame, and Web Services)- Short Sales Request & Alert System – Migrated an existing Short Sales request system from a 3270 terminal into a web app (HTML, JavaScript, XML, COBOL, DB2, Web Services)- Designed and Implemented the Retail On-line Document Library Website which stores over 500 business units publishing documentation which can be viewed by the firm (HTML, VB, ASP, DB2, and COBOL)

- Application Developer/Sr. Software Engineer for CPA Software- Developing and enhancing financial book keeping applications for CPAs running in the Windows environment (VB, MS Access, OOP, OLE, Active X, Designed custom controls, Class modules, Win API Calling, DAO, SQL, Crystal Reports, and 3rd party utilities)- Full cycle development of a Windows W-2 & 1099 Preparer System (This program received excellent reviews in “The CPA Software News” magazine. Article available upon request.) - Full cycle development of a W-2 Magnetic Media/Electronic reporting program- Full cycle development of a 1099 Magnetic Media/Electronic reporting program- Developed and updated in house Website, utilities, and reports

Ba, Computer Science

As, Computer Science

Computer Science