Oversee the strategic and technical direction of Product, Development, QA, Data/Clearing and Infrastructure groups. Shape direction of technology innovation and development to stay ahead of the curve within the rapidly changing environment of capital markets. Manage high performing 40-person team with a focus on fostering creativity and innovation within our collaborative tech culture. Responsible for re-build of trading platform – modernization, scaling, automation as well as delivering real-time analytics engine for petabyte scale data.

Led core development team in the planning and development of all trade-related systems including data feeds, execution, market making, trading tools and risk management. Oversaw the development methodology, team structure and team management. Tech lead for validation of technical analysis for various M and A opportunities outside of Capital Management business.

Manage technology design, development and infrastructure for OptionsHouse, a consumer focused retail brokerage owned by PEAK6 Investments. Grew tech team from 10 person team to over 30; scaled system to many tens of thousands of requests per second; consulted and helped launch native mobile app and helped scale business to profitability.

Product director, technical lead and primary developer for the PitBull operating systems for Solaris and Linux. Work with our CTO to help determine product and technology direction, including current product feature enhancements as well as future product plans.

Led a project team in the multi-year program to replace all legacy student systems in the UI state system with modernized, web-based tools, utilizing scalable Java based backend services.

Software developer on the core platform team.

Developer on an innovative collaboration system, based on the NCSA habanero project. Experienced the short life of a startup that burned through its funding too fast.