Richard Andersen Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

DataStax is a premiere product and consulting company that is behind Apache Cassandra and the Big Data revolution. I am part of the sales organization responsible for delivering business/technical solutions to our customers. • Developed and manage the health assessment program which includes training DataStax staff, reviews, and aid in development of health related products • Created the health assessment analytics engine• Conduct in-depth technical health assessments for strategic/enterprise customers • Provide empirical based guidance that leads to the successful development, configuration and delivery of large-scale, distributed solutions built on the DataStax Enterprise platform, Apache Cassandra, SOLR, and Spark• Provide technical thought leadership for customer engagements, internal initiatives, and product development• Deliver public and private training for customers and partners• Provide feedback to the Product Management team• Participate in the Cassandra community by attendance in community events and the delivery of DataStax content as required• Ability to thrive in large, complex client engagements, working across teams, organizing and leading implementations in these types of environments• Ability to craft solutions in hosted on premise, cloud or hybrid environments

Andersen & Associates is a professional services consulting firm that specializes in Microsoft .net technologies in the trading and investment sector.My role at Andersen & Associates is to develop solutions for our clients and deploy the solution in a cost effective manner which includes either managing the project or becoming the development team leader.Some of my larger clients are Citadel Investment Group (two-years) and Chicago Board of Trade (four years).While at Citadel I aided in the development and delivery of the Portfolio Workbench application for the Global Equities desk. This application is a mission critical system that will allow their Portfolio Manages to manipulate, track, and trade complex strategies. I designed and development a multi-threaded .net application used to manage Citadel's internal crossing engine and its orders. I was on-site for a total of two years over a three year period.While at CBOT I was responsible for a strategic component (Order Direct) used in CBOT’s electronic open auction (e-cbot) strategy. Order Direct is used to send orders from a member firm’s Order Management System to a CBOT broker for execution on the exchange floor. During this time I managed two CBOT employees and was the Order Direct team lead.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

TradeCo is a multi-asset multi-market futures proprietary trading firm that is part of Trading Technologies. Trading Technologies is a futures trading platform for professional traders.Involved with Research and Development in new technologies and business intelligence related to trading. This includes visualization, relational databases, no-sql databases, etc. Designed and deployed trade monitoring and reconciliation systems at Tradeco.My Primary roles at TradeCo:• Researched and developed new business and/or technologies for TradeCo and Trading Technologies• Managed and maintained TradeCo’s middle/back office environments• Developed and deployed production business applications for TradeCo• Mentored junior technical members of TradeCo and Trading Technologies’ staff• Managed larger TradeCo projects• Reviewed and assessed any new or enhanced Trading Technologies products• Acted in a technical consulting role with Trading Technologies’ sales organization

Norwest, Nsw, Au

As a senior member of the organization, I was responsible for the technical management of projects, development and deployment of technical architectures, writing proposals, and any technical work as needed.Before becoming the Director of IT, I wrote six proposals that resulted in acquiring about 1.5 million dollars of revenue in both the manufacturing and financial industries. I also reviewed technical architectures and database designs and mentored several small technical teams. After IT operations were merged to Platinum Technologies, I was assigned to "special projects" under Andrew Filipowski. During this time I was involved in several highly visible projects as a consultant with some of Platinum Technology's larger customers and partners. While at Platinum Entertainment, I was the technical lead of a large ERP deployment. I was responsible for the following:• Architected both the technical and business solutions resulting in increased operation efficiencies, multinational expansion, additional revenue streams, and better decision making.• Designed the structure of the General Ledger, Project Accounting, and Account Payable modules.• Initiated a new approach for analyzing the cost and revenue generation of music based on a project centralistic business model allowing the business to obtain accurate profit/loss information even at the album track level and increased marketing capabilities by allowing competitive pricing.• Successfully deployed the Larson ERP Project Accounting, Account Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, and Distribution modules.• Architecture and deployed customized modules to extend the capabilities of Larson which includes the use of Stored Procedures (SQLServer), Microsoft Office VBA modules, and customized reports.• Tightly integrated the Lawson/custom database into Microsoft Office using VBA and ODBC.

Norwest, Nsw, Au

Platinum Technology Solutions was a subsidiary of Platinum Technologies. The mission was to supply technical solutions to client business problems. At this time Platinum Technology Solutions was in rapid growth through acquisition. As IT Director, my mission from senior executive management was to re-architect all key business systems, update the technical infrastructure of the company, integration of newly acquired businesses, and creation of overseas business units.• Responsible for worldwide with a multimillion dollar yearly budget.• Negotiated consulting/vendor contracts.• Involved with the creation of overseas development facilities and staffing. • Reorganized and mainstreamed the IT department.

Supplied technical consulting services to business on a project basis.

Lisle, Il, Us

Major manufacturer of semi-trucks. My mission was to research and develop engineering and manufacturing systems using Artificial Intelligence and Object Oriented Technologies and deploy these technologies in a “production” main-stream environment. I worked closely with Symbolics, the LISP community, and IBM with integration of AI into the 370 environment.

Math And Computer Science

Associate Of Science (A.S.)

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