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Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Project Liaison for application teams helping to address migration issues. Responsibilities include:Research and analyze the portfolio applications in the retail bank helping them prepare for the modernization journey.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and refine common practices.Lead discussions that define frameworks utilized to govern progress on application migrating to either public or private cloud. Partner with other lines of… Show more Project Liaison for application teams helping to address migration issues. Responsibilities include:Research and analyze the portfolio applications in the retail bank helping them prepare for the modernization journey.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and refine common practices.Lead discussions that define frameworks utilized to govern progress on application migrating to either public or private cloud. Partner with other lines of business to find synergies.Deliver value by working directly with Application owners, business leader, operations staff, as well as legal and compliance.Develop in-depth recommendations to address complex technical issues.Present findings and project risks to senior management. Show less

New York, New York, United States

Oversaw and led all aspects of support for networks, network security, telecom, and data centers. Transformed engineering into four agile feature teams covering: production, routing and switching, security and DevOps. Recently completed a data center transformation program which consolidated the US footprint down from five core data centers to two. This program enabled us to meet our cost savings objectives while introducing a new core network. Led a project to… Show more Oversaw and led all aspects of support for networks, network security, telecom, and data centers. Transformed engineering into four agile feature teams covering: production, routing and switching, security and DevOps. Recently completed a data center transformation program which consolidated the US footprint down from five core data centers to two. This program enabled us to meet our cost savings objectives while introducing a new core network. Led a project to integrate the NewEdge business into the SG system infrastructure. This five-year program reduced data center and telecom expenses by 65% and reduced our footprint by 50%. Managed a $8M data center portfolio in Americas and a $6M telecom budget. Was in control of capital and operating budgets and was accountable for service delivery and continuously improving the end-user experience. Managed vendor relationship with key providers across data centers, networking and telecom. Managed market colocation sites for the SG Electronic Market Making business. Sites included Carteret (NASDAQ), Mahwah (NYSE), Secaucus and Cermak (Equinix), Aurora (CME) and Bovespa. Network infrastructure environment included Cisco for core routing and switching, firewalls (Checkpoint, Fortinet), proxies (McAfee and Bluecoat), load balancers (F5, Citrix), and intrusion detection (Cisco Firepower). Managed annual reviews from external regulators such as the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. Also performed annual network infrastructure review based on the FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool. Was the customer relationship manager for the high frequency trading business for five years. Oversaw IT services delivered to the business, provided cost transparency and organized monthly SteerCo meetings with the head of the business. Show less

New York, Ny

Acted as development manager specializing in Back-office systems. Areas include the FlexCube cash management, the SWIFT US dollar payments, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and compliance, FX and money market back office as well as reconciliation platforms. Oversaw real-time OFAC screening and AML monitoring of activity for the SG New York entity. Led the IT response for the annual Federal Reserve Investigation, including four preliminary internal audits that are provided to the FED… Show more Acted as development manager specializing in Back-office systems. Areas include the FlexCube cash management, the SWIFT US dollar payments, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and compliance, FX and money market back office as well as reconciliation platforms. Oversaw real-time OFAC screening and AML monitoring of activity for the SG New York entity. Led the IT response for the annual Federal Reserve Investigation, including four preliminary internal audits that are provided to the FED at the start of their investigation. Served as IT Business Relationship Manager for Retail Banking division in the US. Negotiated and prioritized development delivery schedules, managed budget issues and arranged status meetings. Served as single point of escalation for the business. US regional leader for an IT project to migrate the US region off the local back-office system Managed the transition of L1 to Bangalore India, and L2 Production support to Montreal, Canada. Reconciliation Stream leader for the Equity Clearing Conversion project. US business entity migrated its Equity Clearing from Beta to Broadridge and led coordination the development and testing of 42 different Cash and Front-office to Back Office reconciliations that we impacted by this change. Show less

New York, New York, United States

Led the Integration Services team for the Americas. Technologies under management included Messaging and File Transfer, Enterprise Application Integration Platforms, Scheduling, Infrastructure Monitoring and Electronic Content Management. Headed Global Middleware Technology Board in charting and overseeing the long-term technology vision and strategy. Led deployment of the TIBCO Active Enterprise Hub, now shared by all business lines in SGCIB AMER. Acted as the… Show more Led the Integration Services team for the Americas. Technologies under management included Messaging and File Transfer, Enterprise Application Integration Platforms, Scheduling, Infrastructure Monitoring and Electronic Content Management. Headed Global Middleware Technology Board in charting and overseeing the long-term technology vision and strategy. Led deployment of the TIBCO Active Enterprise Hub, now shared by all business lines in SGCIB AMER. Acted as the Project Coordinator for IT Infrastructure team during the deployment of the Calypso application within the Fixed Income environment in AMER. Developed a Middleware Message Archiving tool used to track all middleware transactions published within the SGCIB AMER environment. Developed a WebSphere MQ Monitoring platform used to monitor all real-time message flows. The tool included a scheduling and notification module. Show less

Greater New York City Area

• Assist clients with implementing mission critical real-time systems. Proposed and implemented solution with guarantee high performance and scalability and provided effective management infrastructure.• Java Programmer specializing in developing real-time financial applications. Developed and application that supports Market Statistics in the SuperMontage environment at the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.

New York City, Ny

• Lead the TIB/ActiveEnterprise practice for TIBCO Finance/Reuters America.• Engineering Manager for the NASDAQ Stock Market. Responsible for implementing the TIB/ActiveEnterprise product suite at NASDAQ. NASDAQ had standardized on TIBCO Middleware for all their distributed systems.• Managed the New York Engineering Support group for two years. This group was responsible for resolving all issues at TIBCO trading floors in the metropolitan area.• Project Manager and primary… Show more • Lead the TIB/ActiveEnterprise practice for TIBCO Finance/Reuters America.• Engineering Manager for the NASDAQ Stock Market. Responsible for implementing the TIB/ActiveEnterprise product suite at NASDAQ. NASDAQ had standardized on TIBCO Middleware for all their distributed systems.• Managed the New York Engineering Support group for two years. This group was responsible for resolving all issues at TIBCO trading floors in the metropolitan area.• Project Manager and primary technical resource for the roll out of a new 250 position trading floor at Merrill Lynch, New York.• Acted as lead engineer during the installation of trading floors including Moore Capital Management, National Australia Bank, NY, Alliance Capital Management, Banco Exterior de Espania. Responsibilities included being the client’s primary contact within TIBCO, pursuing follow-on sales, and resolving technical issues with TIBCO Software.• Worked closely with the local sales team on presentations to perspective clients, the installation of pilot systems, and the development of new products to meet client needs.• Created TIBCO’s North American Help Desk. Duties included on-boarding new employees and implementing TIBCO’s internal bug tracking system.• Setup a local client training program for the New York Office. This included developing the curriculum and teaching the Systems Administration class.• Ran the Systems Administration group in the New York office. Show less

Bethpage, Ny

• Responsible for Performance Management and Capacity Planning for a WAN of RS/6000 workstations. Duties included developing applications to collect performance data, troubleshooting performance problems, developing reports, and evaluating new tools.• Responsible for Performance Management and Capacity Planning for a 600 user IBM VM/AX Mainframe System.• Performance Management responsibilities for Grumman’s National Network (GNN). Duties included gathering the data on traffic volumes,… Show more • Responsible for Performance Management and Capacity Planning for a WAN of RS/6000 workstations. Duties included developing applications to collect performance data, troubleshooting performance problems, developing reports, and evaluating new tools.• Responsible for Performance Management and Capacity Planning for a 600 user IBM VM/AX Mainframe System.• Performance Management responsibilities for Grumman’s National Network (GNN). Duties included gathering the data on traffic volumes, maintaining the performance database, and troubleshooting network performance problems.• Member of the NAV-CAD2 proposal team. System Administrator for a LAN of RS/6000 servers. Responsible for the certification of all hardware and software during the Live Test Demo (LTD). Show less