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Rockville, Maryland, US

• Responsible for the development, support, and operations of all systems and technology for the SEC mandated Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). The CAT is a novel, comprehensive system allowing regulators to efficiently.
• Provide oversight and coordination between the FINRA CAT, NMS Exchanges (e.g. NYSE, NASDAQ, CBOE, etc.), SEC, financial industry members, and the technology teams and vendors.
• Partner with FINRA CAT business and its Board of Managers to outline technology strategy, initiatives and objectives, as well as assess tradeoffs of budget, scope, schedule and risk.
• Work closely with FINRA CAT business, NMS Exchanges, Industry representatives, and the SEC to ensure delivery of their business objectives through technology solutions and to develop and deliver on technology roadmaps.
• Brief and negotiate with the SEC Chairman’s office and divisions of Trading & Markets and Enforcement on CAT Plan requirements, costs and security in conjunction with the NMS Exchanges.
• Provide overall technology program/project management including oversight of business analysis, tracking and reporting, capacity planning, change management, and coordination of industry testing.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• Responsible for data strategy, processes, program deliveries strengthening T. Rowe Prices' competitive advantage. Collaborate across business units and technology departments to create scalable, high-quality data.
• Built a new organization of domain specialists and data engineers in Baltimore and London to define Investments cloud data strategy for Investments and is deliver data management services to replace brittle information.
• Defined the target state architecture and roadmap for the AWS cloud migration of aging data systems leveraging a S3 data lake, event driven data pipelines, and scalable distribution framework utilizing microservices.
• Created the business case and executed the delivery of an investments security master, pricing master, and index/benchmark master utilizing a SaaS provider.
• Rescued a struggling strategic initiative for cloud based APIs for Investments Book of Record (IBOR) data by instituting disciplined program management practices, enforcing ownership by accountable parties, and.
• Collaborated with Enterprise Architecture to define technical biases, standards and practices focused on cloud services.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Oversee strategic technology planning, vision and rapid delivery of next-generation Big Data market analytic platforms and applications for Office of Market Regulation, Office of Fraud Detection & Market Intelligence (OFDMI), and Office of Transparency Services.Manage 80+ delivery managers, engineers, product owners, designers, and analyst developing.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Responsible for all technology decisions and service delivery of diverse portfolios of enterprise applications for Offices of Fraud and Market Intelligence (OFDMI) and Transparency Services. Directed product development of 8 teams including product vision, roadmaps, technology selections and implementation methodology. Created and managed department budget.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Key member of the new CTO’s team responsible to wind down multiyear outsourcing agreement and reestablish internal software development organization. Rebuilt partnerships with business and finance leadership. Headed contract and vendor negotiations for the Market Regulation Technology department.

Directed sales engineering support, product management, solutions delivery, software and vendor relationships, and technology research for start-up product development company.Collaborated with Senior Executives on proposal development and sales presentation delivery to capture new client accounts. Recruited software engineers and testers to increase staff.

Led software development, collaborated with Vice Presidents and Senior Principals in proposal development and client sales presentations for Public Safety and Transportation group.Key member of a new start up group in the State and Local Government division focused on business development with criminal justice and department of motor vehicle agencies..

Mba, Finance, Management

Bse, Industrial & Operations Engineering