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Remote

Worked on a team to re-architect and develop a new Python-basedauditor claim management system.● Designed and developed a flexible system runtime configuration system,along with a Django configuration application.● Designed and developed a Python logger-based system logging andalerting system.● Developed a Django based currency exchange rate application andREST API● Developed a Django based pdf document generator application andREST API.● Supported and maintained the existing auditor claim managementsystem

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Worked with business to re-architect clearing system back office data flows andtransformations, using C#, Windows Workflows, and SQL stored procs. SQL procperformance tuning. Developed reconciliation reports.

Chicago, Il

Fixed-income trading database re-architecting and optimization. External data staging process re-architecting and optimization. Release and Trading-day support.

Chicago, Il

Developed overnight processes to retrieve position data and market data from CSI and CME and stage local databases (HDF5, Sql Server and flat files) with futures and futures option reference data, market data and analytics (implied and historical volatilities, greeks). Wrote class library to interface to and to search this data. Automated back-office processes.

London, Uk. Chicago. Il

Managed six member tech and support group which established an equity execution service in the UK for European equity trading to parallel Citadel execution business activities in the USA. Part of team in Chicago that designed and developed the technology. Introduced it to Europe. Trained and managed group to operate and continue its development. Worked with business group to translate business goals into tech requirements. Worked with business to support acquisition and integration of Equiduct. Successfully brought the system live and it operates as an ongoing business.Worked in Chicago as part of the options execution services group. Helped bring system live that managed about 20% of options trading volume in USA. Worked with desk traders to develop trading screens to allow management of the order flow.

Chicago, Il

Helped define a firm-wide message bus protocol. Initiated and led development of a code generator to read the protocol definition and generate C# protocol classes. Architected an event-subscription server that allowed for flexible subscription criteria to be requested by client applications for real-time updates (e.g. price changes, implied or theoretical volatility changes, or combinations of such factors). Led the development of the server. Worked with network engineers to optimize the services. Led test and deployment of the services.Architected client-side drag-and-drop .NET components which allowed desktop console developers to easily interact with server side components in real-time. Led development of implementation.Worked on trading desk which made markets on the PCX options exchange as the primary market-maker.

Master Of Science (Ms), Nuclear Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), International Finance

Bachelor Of Science (Bs) Honors, Nuclear Engineering