Robin Smith Email & Phone Number

Jersey City, NJ, US

New York, NY, US

I am excited to join Lab49, a premier consultancy specializing in the design and development of bespoke and innovative technology solutions for leading participants in financial markets. In my role as a consultant at Lab49, I provide expert engineering guidance and deliver high-quality solutions tailored to the unique needs of financial services clients..

Manasquan, New Jersey, US

• I was hired at GovPilot with the core objective to develop and adopt the necessary processes, technology, and discipline to take the company to the next level. My primary areas of focus were application development and.
• Full migration from legacy hosting solution to Microsoft Azure
• Migration of key services from IAAS to PAAS & cloud native services
• Provision of geographically remote disaster recovery solution
• Migration to DevOps, leveraging GitHub Repos & Actions
• Optimization and standardization of the Agile development process

Redmond, Washington, US

• The Application Development Manager was a consulting role within the Microsoft Premier business unit. In this role, I provided consulting services to large financial services and pharmaceutical companies in the New.
• Helped secure multi-year services & consulting deals in excess of $100m on two major accounts
• Demonstrated value and increased the size of my primary consulting contract by 65%
• Leveraged strong customer relationships to win new business & increase billable hours by 25%
• Increased billing revenue by 42% and consistently beat net efficiency targets by 15–20% during my tenure
• Developed Azure expertise and guided my customers on their cloud adoption journeys

New York, NY, US

• I developed the architecture for the financial model integration module of the largest IT project at S&P Global Ratings (a complete redevelopment of the ratings workflow system). I collaborated with the project owner.
• I developed all aspects of architecture for the financial model integration component.
• I partnered with Enterprise Architecture to ensure compliance with best practices.
• I developed proof of concepts to test and validate key parts of the proposed architecture.

New York, NY, US

• In this role I oversaw a variety of financial model management projects, the largest of which was an end-to-end credit rating platform that delivered dramatic efficiency/consistency improvements. I was accountable for.
• I delivered a “first of its kind” credit rating platform on deadline, leveraging Agile to coordinate the work of six scrum teams distributed across three companies and two continents.
• I reduced our analysts’ manual requirement by 1,700 hours, saving S&P ~$1.2M, through the design and delivery of a financial model testing framework.
• I achieved an estimated savings of $3M+/year by delivering a ratings workflow system that streamlined and standardized ratings process for state/local governments.
• I played a key role in adjusting our model policy in response to a new regulation.
• I served as Delivery Manager for teams of up to 50 members, including developers, business analysts, and QA staff.

New York, NY, US

• As Lead Developer/Delivery Manager, I directed the development of S&P’s Quant Engine (a financial model platform) from end to end, managing a team of eight developers and leveraging my financial model integration.
• I redesigned the Quant Engine to be multi-tiered, cross-platform and scalable (supported 30+ financial models)
• I enhanced C++/MATLAB model integration through the introduction of configuration-driven architecture.
• I created the enterprise data standard for model I/O, a rich object model, and a flexible API for straightforward integration with client applications.
• I received a corporate achievement award for my collaboration with quantitative analysts on new surveillance and reporting infrastructure to monitor financial models in production.

New York, NY, US

• I was promoted to Senior Developer from Lead Developer in 2003 in recognition of my creative solutions and leadership skills. In both roles, I designed internal and external n-tier web applications (front end/back.
• I partnered with business stakeholders, architecture, data, QA, and network teams to bring CreditRiskTracker.com from concept to mature web application.
• I spearheaded the successful migration of CreditModel.com from third-party to internal financial models, saving S&P $100K+ over the product life.Additional experience as Java Developer for professional services firm.