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Greater Chicago Area

Pegasus Enterprise Solutions is dedicated to providing open, standardized, community based, enterprise data distribution and connectivity. Freeing your organization of legacy constraints to give you the means to operate dynamically at a materially lower cost. The ability to easily and openly connect applications and systems to each other to share data across your enterprise is the key to today's digital world within capital markets.

Greater Chicago Area

Chosen for a senior role in the new Chief Architecture Office for the Financial & Risk Technology division. Defined an open platform strategy that integrated new and existing services in the financial marketplace. Created a new proposition that provides enterprise solutions to clients ranging from small hedge funds to large banks and stock exchanges.• Defined the vision and blueprint for a new open platform offering. Won conceptual approval across the organization through a series of presentations to management.• Established the framework for three interdependent platforms for Technology, Product, and Business divisions, building upon each other to serve the marketplace.• Drove the creation of the Cloud strategy for the Finance and Risk division, migrating company technologies to the cloud from on premise solutions.• Evaluated acquisition targets and potential third party partners, leading due diligence of a target company, and successfully integrating new vendors into the product offering.

Greater Chicago Area

Promoted into a critical role as Chief Technologist to lead the entire 700+ person technology organization that architected, built, deployed, and supported the Elektron Realtime product suite. Managed all capabilities across the company including Elektron Realtime Feeds (collections, contributions, distribution), Thomson Data Network, Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform, Elektron Managed Services, API’s and TRKD web services infrastructure.• Delivered on the primary product and business priorities, including the successful completion of the Elektron program, a new foundation for future company offerings. • Established a management style based on trust, drive, and delegation. Developed an organization culture focused on taking responsibility and showing initiative.• Worked collaboratively with business unit partners and customers to increase understanding and transparency while improving results. • Provided technology guidance to commercial business teams to help them understand the challenges and ultimately define the right products. • Directed a global team of four senior architects to drive a new platform strategy across the organization. Led successful presentation of concepts to senior management.

Greater Chicago Area

Chosen for an expanded role that included the development organization, with over 200 IT professionals in Hong Kong, Bangkok, London, New York, and Chicago. • Delivered on the primary product and business priorities, including the successful completion of the Elektron program, a new foundation for future company offerings. • Introduced team to design concepts including collaboration, openness, reuse, standards, layered designs, and interfaces. • Architecture and distribution / delivery platform development.• Member of the Unified Platform Group Architecture Council (2013-2015)

Greater Chicago Area

Led a global team of 25 senior technologists, focused on architecting, building, deploying ,and running real-time solutions for all of Thomson Reuters.• Chief architect for all real-time solutions, including Elektron Realtime, Elektron Managed Services, and Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform. • Recognized for delivering the technology that provided competitive advantage for Thomson Reuters in the financial services marketplace.• Member of Thomson Reuters Architecture Council (2012-present).

Greater Chicago Area

When Thomson acquired Reuters in 2008, I was Principal Technologist in charge of enterprise architecture for the Information Management Systems business. This group provided the suite of products and services at the heart of Thomson Reuters solutions, which included the market data system platform and various value-added services. These products used by many customers, served as the information conduits, delivering data to desktops and application programs throughout the financial world.

Greater Chicago Area

As a Reuters employee, I was promoted to work with business and product teams to gather requirements and create architectural specifications. Provided day-to-day architecture guidance to software development. Evaluated the feasibility of the architecture and technologies related to a business change. Provided architecture guidelines and proof-of-concepts for the appropriate technology when chosen. Served on the integration team for the Bridge acquisition. Developed Open Message Model and received US Patent #.