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Chicago, Illinois, US

We build next-gen cybersecurity solutions to help businesses better monitor their assets and vulnerabilities across their entire attack surface. Secure your business through Attack Surface Management, pentesting as a service, and real-time asset monitoring powered by our Darwin platform.

• Build custom software tools to help investigate, research, backtest and optimize trades.
• Prune ineffective trading rules with Chi-squared feature reduction and principal component analysis.
• Train statistical machine learning models including polynomial regression, neural networks, Markov models, and boosted random forests over large data sets for derivative price forecasting.
• Leverage walk-forward cross-validation to improve generalization and prevent overfitting.
• Increase portfolio returns while minimizing volatility, kurtosis, drawdown and model complexity.
• Decrease strategy evaluation and execution run time.Technologies: C#, C++, R, Python, Excel, SQL database, shell scripting, Git source control, Rapidminer, Azure ML Studio cloud computingKLC is a volatility.

We build software that helps gym owners and managers grow revenue, decrease costs, and feel confident about what they need to do each day.

Chicago, IL, US

• Build 38 business process optimization applications for several mid-market to Fortune 500 clients.
• Build custom software to backtest and optimize 40 option trading strategies for seven hedge fund, asset management, and proprietary trading firm clients.Technologies: C#, R, Excel, SQL database, shell scripting.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain email, mobile, and web-based applications
• Build a tech startup from idea to hundreds of corporate clients including Microsoft and Deloitte
• Raise venture capital and accepted to Chicago’s prestigious Techstars accelerator (top 1%)
• Find a buyer, manage competing investor interests, and broker sale of companyTechnologies: C#, ASP.NET, REST Web APIs passing JSON, Angular, Kendo, custom Javascript DOM manipulation, HTML 5, CSS, LESS, SQL Server.

• Designed, developed, tested, deployed, and maintained web-based application.
• Identified the opportunity and sold software to option floor brokerages including LiquidPoint.
• Found a buyer in New York City and brokered the sale of the company.

Chicago, IL, US

• Manage 2,000 employees and $20 million P&L.
• Supervise operations, data, payroll, production, finance, and technology teams.
• Fostered collaboration and communication skills in junior managers.
• Incubated cadre of empowered analytical executives; freeing the CEO to be more strategic.
• Focused on lost revenue as the biggest expense leading to 43% increase in enrollments.

Chicago, IL, US

• Create tools to make real-time facts-driven decisions.
• Manage SQL queries and financial modeling in advanced Excel VBA spreadsheets.
• Architect customer acquisition, hiring, payroll, warehousing, production, and distribution apps.
• Optimize data-intensive processes to have fewer errors and faster execution requiring less staff.

Arlington, VA, US

• Launch office in a new region.
• Stand up software consulting business.
• Control cost, schedule, and performance through software development lifecycle.
• Experience with Waterfall, Lean, Scrum/Agile, and Spiral processes.
• Recruit, train, and mentor staff. Set salaries, evaluations, and bonuses.
• Orchestrated on-time delivery of seven products, 26 workflows, and five comprehensive designs

Arlington, VA, US

• Pricing algorithm increased cash flow by 16%; enabled 500% per year growth without external debt.
• Instituted time and expense tracking, analytics, forecasting, and audit compliance.
• Accelerated testing feedback loop to warfighters in Iraq and Afghanistan from six weeks to 24 hours.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

• Design experiments and analyze technical writing for 32 multi-billion-dollar defense programs.
• Author and teach courses to analysts in probability, statistics, test design, and classified documents.
• Redesigned B-2 radar test plan using combinatorics; slashed $1M in test execution costs
• Outstanding Briefer of the Year Award (of 70) at Air Force Operations Research Symposium Technologies: JMP, SAS, Statistica, Matlab, Minitab, and SPSS

Ms, Operations Research, Financial Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Electrical And Electronics Engineering