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Cedar Park, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

• Researched and explored derivative-based algorithmic trading for an active day trader to identify techniques with short-term profit potential in the 1 million weekly S&P500 option contracts traded daily
• Utilized modern financial technical analysis techniques combining multiple instruments, multiple timeframes, and subsets of standard and custom-developed technical indicators, to back-test the model over 180 days of.
• Investigated machine learning with Scikit and TensorFlow, cryptocurrencies and blockchain

Hermosa Beach, California, United States

• Co-founded a company that designs and manufactures wireless RF transmitter, receiver and transceiver modules, with responsibility for steering the technical vision and defining product roadmaps
• Grew the company to an 11-member team, leading all software aspects of creating and evolving the two wireless product lines that resulted in the successful acquisition of RF Digital Corporation
• Directed full stack development of a Bluetooth Low Energy IoT ecosystem and customer-facing API design that seamlessly interconnected customer sensors to iOS and Android smartphones, tablets, and the cloud
• Designed and developed a high-performance low latency SSL based message bus architecture from RESTful web services that increased real-time throughput sample rate by 166%, enabling the construction of microservices for.
• Produced patents, product roadmaps, technical specifications and documentation while supporting the production of sales and marketing materials for product evangelism
• Administrated websites, source code repositories, DNS domains, SSL certificates

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Took ownership of a mission-critical project that was failing user acceptance tests and partnered with a senior underwriter to successfully turned the project around for the billion-dollar specialty insurance company
• Engaged stakeholders to identify key architectural issues and clarify objectives to refactor the decomposition of the data model to better service the needs of the underwriters
• Leveraged Agile development methodologies to resolve issues and go live after three Scrum sprints

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Provided guidance throughout the design, development and delivery of procurement software products
• Led the architecture and development in C# for.NET Compact Framework for the synchronization and signature capture for a Windows CE product used by dock workers on a Symbol handheld scanner
• Designed and built middleware used in a large-scale government conversion project from Unisys 2200 to Sun Solaris, including a C++ TCP/IP socket-based online message queueing system and a C++ TDS bridge

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Delivered process improvements to the work execution process of a Warehouse Management software package created by company that designs, builds and delivers supply chain and inventory software
• Led technological integration of Windows Workflow Foundation to enhance customer flexibility

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Served as the technical lead of the architecture and core services team for Trading Partner Management for Windows, a 2 million line 3-tier web application used by Mary Kay, DSW Shoes, Hot Topic and FEMA
• Optimized application performance by re-architecting critical components, enabling 100% more users/server
• Drove process improvements, including Internationalization translation process and versioning, database setup, navigation improvements, framework simplification, process rollout and change management
• Identified and led the planning and execution of functional improvements, such as internationalization enhancements, xml and flat file data loading, dashboard architecture

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Defined and communicated the vision, direction, and work priorities, while driving progress towards product roadmaps at a company that develops software focused on increasing the productivity of IT professionals
• Architected and developed tools and provided technical solutions for customer project migrations
• Managed the project lifecycle of Passport2, a middleware product for modernizing legacy applications, with oversight of statement of work definition, requirements gathering, and platform development
• Provided fiscal oversight, project planning, and development team oversight for the continuous improvement of 1Spec, a toolset used in the conversion of large-scale enterprise systems to new platforms