Tom has 25 years experience across software developer and manager with a reputation as a technology and subject matter expert. Experience in managing teams, and groups of teams, as well as hands-on troubleshooting and software development. Always focused to better software engineering practices.A proven track record of delivering projects through the whole software life cycle, both small and large, to short timescales, without compromising quality, as Technical Lead, Project Manager, or Supervising Technical Architect. Deliverables are in the real-time event-driven multi-system software through the whole lifecycle in Java, C++, Tcl, and Fidessa, on Linux and UNIX platforms.Tom has coordinated resourcing for technical consultancy, matching staff skills and availability to customer requirements. Planned and delivered growth of the group. Designed technical interview process, and trained additional interviewers. Interviewed developers, technical leads, project managers, testers, and trainers. Performed staff reviews, and provided mentoring.Worked with sales to successfully contract new business, presenting highly technical material to customers and senior management, during RFI and bid phases. Architected resilient high-availability global trading systems, and provided estimates for project contracts.Sell-side Trading subject matter expert, covering front and back office trading, equity options, and futures. Functional areas include order and basket management, algorithmic and program trading, middle office, global trading, FIX and proprietary connectivity (including exchange, broker, and buy side connectivity), static data and market data provision, trade reporting, compliance (including OATS), security, testing and emulation.