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New York, Ny, Us

We’re your chief_x_officers on demand. We provide expertise for your startup—how and when you need it—to get your business to its next destination. We bring together a diverse team of CXOs with a winning combination of executive experience in business strategy, marketing, product development, operations, and technology to help you build your business and drive growth.

New York, Ny, Us

Plan, direct, and execute private blockchain solutions with the responsibility for client implementation success. Built and mentored a software engineering team of 25 people (from 5), instilled enterprise level software development practices to ensure long-term client success and software scalability. Accomplishments include:- Delivering distributed ledger and blockchain applications leveraging a number of technologies: AWS, -- Solidity, Scala, Python, Go, React, Node.JS- Architecting client applications and enterprise solutions - Functional QA testing, release management, security, performance, technology operations - Strategic planning, team building, and recruitment - Understanding of client requirements and client relationship management

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for all client connectivity and messaging to support annual equities revenue of $7B. Led a team of teams of professionals to develop, enhance and maintain global systems to provide 24x6 uptime; global routing, parsing, enriching, and validation of >500MM FIX messages / day, including market peaks, with latency measured in milliseconds.Responsible for identifying opportunities to improve sales team effectiveness by conceiving of and developing new sales tools that generate ROI.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Responsible for all client facing transactional, Extranet Portal, and metrics applications. Led a team of 45 people; managed a $18MM annual development and quality assurance budget; partnered with client-facing business teams to develop commercially effective solutions; and led development teams to establish system architectures, business and technical best practices, and process efficiencies to reduce overhead.

New York, New York, Us

2008 - 2012 Fixed Income Currency and Commodities TechnologyTechnology Risk Officer, CISODirected the adoption of technology controls to manage and reduce technology risk for Goldman Sachs’ transition to, and standing as, a bank holding company. Responsibilities included acting in a leadership role, with accountability directly to the CTO of FICC and firmwide risk committee , to provide oversight and strategy for the implementation of incident management, business continuity planning, end-of-life management, and adoption of software development life-cycle controls across a development organization of 600+ technologists and 4000+ servers. 2002 - 2008 Global Investment Research TechnologyGlobal Technology Architect, CTO, VP of EngineeringCo-headed a global 60-person development team to completely replace all of GIR's legacy platforms. Responsibilities included acting as a thought leader to provide project oversight, engineering, and strategic direction, while working in partnership with global business leaders; executing an innovative, scalable strategy to support long-term growth; evolving the research technology platform to achieve commercial goals.1999 - 2002 GS.com / Private Wealth Management TechnologyLead DeveloperDeveloped web-based products using Java server and browser technologies for the GS PWM portal, a transactional site for high-net-worth clients. Responsible for the architecture and development of workflow, document/content management and content presentation. Most notably, owned the design and development of the PWM content management system (CMS), and evangelized its use as a firmwide standard that is still in use as of present.

Developed an application to manage S&P’s daily listing of municipal bonds to price the secondary market.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Led web application development for clients including several online casino companies, the United States Air Force, and the United States Department of Agriculture.

Led a team of developers in the design and development of an online sports gambling system.

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