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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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..

• 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.
• 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).

AU

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.

US

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.

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.