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Lakeville, Mn, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Accountable for multiple colocated datacenters and environments that support all backend processes involved in data collection, processing and customer access to a broad number of cryptocurrency blockchains and associated exchanges. Directly manage the infrastructure team and interact with product management and delivery teams with new projects and enhancements. Responsible for vendor relations, capacity planning and expansion, security monitoring and upgrades, and incident management. Very engaged with the CI/CD process and movement towards Infrastructure-as-Code. Administration of numerous platform services used by the engineers and other employees in the company.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

Provided CDS teams with technological guidance and partnership on solutions used by customers, sales and service associates for I&S divisions worth $4B annual revenue supplying chemistry to address business needs for water, hygiene and infection control. Worked with business stakeholders and product teams to conceptualize, design and deliver extensible and scalable digital products and solutions. Managed team of 2 senior architects and 2 interns directly, with additional offshore architects assigned based on the project.

London, England, Gb

Ensured governance and provided consultancy to 1K-person engineering organization in financial reference data management domain. Collaborated with senior architects and business leaders on company-wide technical vision, strategy, and policy. Identified and pursued innovations through industry research and vendor engagement. Managed global team of 10 architects and analysts focusing on logical model definitions and metadata management systems.

Toronto, On, Ca

Ensured governance and provided consultancy to 1K-person engineering organization in financial reference data management domain. Advised teams on delivery of properly engineered information systems through enterprise architectural processes. Collaborated with senior architects and business leaders on company-wide technical vision, strategy, and policy. Identified and pursued innovations through industry research and vendor engagement. Focused on cloud platform adoption, Hadoop technology evaluation, and agile methodology rollout.

Toronto, On, Ca

Spearheaded software engineering activities on infrastructure for financial reference data management across multiple domains. Managed and developed up to 100 managers and staff across the globe. Strategically planned annual projects with managers and stakeholders; ensured on time, on budget, and on quality delivery. Addressed service issues and mitigate future production risks.

Toronto, On, Ca

Led business analysis and architectural activities on infrastructure for financial reference data management. Managed and developed up to 15 staff across the globe. Pioneered culture change of separating analysis and architecture activities from delivery team responsibilities, reducing resource bottlenecks around project initiations. Created better engagement with non-delivery project participants and collected better requirements for estimation and planning.

New York, New York, Us

Led business analysis and architectural activities on infrastructure for financial reference data management. Managed and developed up to 15 staff across the globe. Pioneered culture change of separating analysis and architecture activities from delivery team responsibilities, reducing resource bottlenecks around project initiations. Created better engagement with non-delivery project participants and collected better requirements for estimation and planning.

New York, New York, Us

Spearheaded software engineering activities on infrastructure for financial reference data management across multiple domains. Managed and developed up to 30 managers and staff across the globe. Planned and executed offshoring activity as part of corporate strategy to cost-effectively ramp up delivery capacity.Strategically planned annual projects with managers and stakeholders; ensured on time, on budget, and on quality delivery. Addressed service issues and mitigate future production risks.

New York, New York, Us

Directed software engineering activities on infrastructure for financial reference data management dealing with fixed income securities. Designed and led initial development of a new data distribution product. Started new development team with up to 10 staff.

New York, New York, Us

Directed software engineering activities on infrastructure for financial reference data management dealing with fixed income securities. Managed up to 20 staff, including individual development. Ensured project delivery on schedule to stakeholder’s satisfaction. Addressed service issues and mitigate future production risks of data management systems.