Nicholas Whitehead Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Development Lead for multiple initiatives for ICE’s clearing platforms. ICE owns the New York Stock Exchange. Led development on new features, performance, and maintenance for ICE Back End Clearing. Projects include:● Clearing Performance System - Implemented performance and availability monitoring system with OpenTSDB and customized plugins, Hbase, Kafka, Kafka Streams, custom Netty based middleware, Grafana and Bosun. Implemented remote data collection from Java-based apps, operational Oracle databases, MQSeries instances and 3PAR SAN arrays. Deployed Bosun’s scollector agents for native OS monitoring. Implemented standardized shared library for instrumenting apps through an embedded Java Agent, JMX services with DropWizard Metrics, JMX managed Guava caches, custom Oracle JDBC instrumentation and remote JMXMP data collection. General clearing software stack composed using JBoss (4-6 EAP), MQSeries, Oracle 11, Spring on Linux and Solaris. ● ECS - (Extensible Clearing System, Core Clearing Engine) Ported ECS, from WebLogic 5 to JBoss and reimplemented much of the functionality for performance and stability. Reduced end-of-day clearing time from four hours to 30 minutes. Responsible for ongoing performance enhancements to keep system scalability as the total volume and managed securities increases. ● ECS Transaction & Lock API - Developed a transactional concurrency service to guard collections of interrelated objects frequently updated during real time trade processing in ECS using JBoss AOP and the Arjuna JTA Transaction Manager. Significantly stabilized and improved the performance of the real-time trade processing engine.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Lead Technical Architect for SBS Distributed System Development and Operations mentoring a team of 25 developers. Architecture/leadership included the following products:● EasyPayNet (Web-based payroll management app for small businesses) - Designed and implemented multiple advances transforming a struggling unreliable 10K user app to a fully-clustered, highly available system supporting 100K users with recognized performance and responsiveness of a modernized Ajax user interface and 99.99% uptime. Trained and mentored five off-shore developers to support new feature development and maintenance of EasyPayNet.● TeleNet (Call center app to provide a telephone-based payroll entry service for 250K companies) - Development of Telenet included the award winning Ajax Adapter for Hibernate.● FLT - (Financial app to reconcile quarterly tax payments for new customers enrolling in full level tax service where ADP assumes tax filing and accuracy liability but filing has been partially completed by another entity). Responsible for end to end design and lead of implementation team.● Initiated Application Performance Management initiative for SBS. Evaluated products and chose CA/Wily Introscope for implementation. Developed customized Introscope data collectors including Hibernate, JMX, Linux and AS/400 extensions. ● Implemented SCM standards, continuous integration, automated build/deploy processes, a consolidated reporting system, and a uniform architecture for J2EE across all applications using JBoss technologies.● Implemented a .NET JEE client for JBoss using IKVM to support native service invocations and callbacks from .NET WPF and C# clients including support for JMX, JMS and EJB clients to support integration with ADP .NET systems.● Nominated to the ADP Employee Services Architectural Review Board committee responsible for reviewing and advising on new technology and product line architecture designs.

New York, Ny, Us

Worked as a consultant for Entology and Finetix.Architected and provided technical direction for all new Java system implementations. JP Morgan Chase Fixed Income/High Grade eTrading – Architect, project manager and tech lead for a distributed bond pricing and electronic offering sheet system with a rich Java Swing front-end using Sitraka HiGrid and custom components. Ported back-end from iPlanet/Sybase to WebSphere/Solaris. Security and JMS AOs implemented with iPlanet Directory Server (LDAP) on Solaris. 2.6. Messaging implemented using MQSeries. Ported to Progress SonicMQ as well as FioranoMQ and SwiftMQ. Integrated JP Morgan’s trading network through TIBCO.

Hands-on project leader responsible for project management, scheduling, and resource allocation. Led development team implementing Business to Exchange web-based auction management product using EJB 1.1, WebLogic 5.1, Oracle 8i and TOPLink for BEA. Designed object model consisting of session and entity beans providing business logic and data services. Built Swing/JFC-based 3-tier apps. Built and deployed with Ant.

Independent consulting to a variety of clients. Projects included: ● Business & Customer Analytics, Citibank - Requirements collection and development of financial reporting system using Oracle 8i, Oracle JServer, EJB 1.0 and servlets. Developed data interface system to import, massage and process data in from various disparate data vendors. Implemented a 3 tier system using Swing applets, servlets and Oracle 8i to deploy browser-based applications to users globally. ● CDNow, Bluestone Consulting - Consulted on data model development and proof of concept design work. ● Tempest Software - Provided Oracle database design, architecture, and performance tuning recommendations.

Chicago, Il, Us

Led consulting teams on various engagements including an ecommerce system for Just For Feet, One World ERP implementation for Westcon, an architecture and security review for BPAI, and the development of a global time/expense management system used by thousands of consultants for an international consulting firm (under NDA).

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Worked with Bluestone as part of a partnership with Grant Thornton LLP on various initiatives.

Austin, Texas, Us

Performed database administration, development, and support for clients including Warner Music Group, American Personal Communications (Sprint), LCI, AT&T, and Alltel Communications.

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Designed, developed, deployed and supported the Sample Inventory Management System for G.D. Searle pharmaceutical company using Gupta SQLWindows, Gupta SQLBase, Novel Netware, Sun Solaris and Sybase System 10. Intended to assist in compliance with the Federal PDMA regulations in the tracking of prescription drug sampling, the system is still in use today, adding many sales automation benefits to the overall system.

Member of team developing custom Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in SQLWindows and Oracle 7. Developed a data acquisition server on DOS/C and Oracle 7 Pro*C that streamed information from analytical instruments to the LIMS database. Netware LAN installation and administration for 4 Netware LANs.

Laboratory Information Management System development using Xenix, Oracle 6, SQL*Forms and IDXL.