SUMMARY:

• Over a decade of experience with client onboarding, software integration, support, administration, project planning, documentation, design, implementation and management.
• Heavy Derivatives experience, Equity, Equity options, and FX.
• Development of client onboarding procedures
• User interface API message design - client and exchange level
• Trader Application GUI screen design
• Stay abreast of vendor and exchange changes as they impact systems
• Issue tracking internally and with Vendors(meet weekly).
• Review vendor Incident Reports with management.
• Provide same day Incident Reports to clients
• Production rollout management. Develop Rollback procedures
• Develop Automated backup and DR facilities.
• Use or develop Alert management tools - ITRS and via script - log scraping
• Develop script support for log backup, cron jobs and maintenance.
• Implement automated testing strategies for QA
• Latency monitoring and development of C++ tools to track latency per exchange, per client - realtime and summary report generation.
• Development of tools for realtime issue tracking - order tracking.
• Rapid pinpoint of issues. Rapid resolution proposal and implementation through change control.
• Develop solutions that resolve core issues and integrate with design purpose rather than patch and go.
• Follow through on solutions - notify all parties, team members, re educating trade mitigation and support teams, updating documents where required.
• Excellent time management experience and skills - the ability to produce results and manage and prioritize multiple support, development and management tasks in a rapidly changing production trading environment.
• Strong belief in teamwork and cooperation vertically and within small groups as a means of achieving impactful results . Follow up and through on each task.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Enjoy working independently and with a team.
• Enjoy leading a team as well as playing a supporting role.
• Familiar with financial products. Understanding of traders specific needs.
• Constantly looking for opportunities to expand business offerings.
• Design FIX FX quote and trade layer messaging solutions to integrate client FIX customers with Reuters FX using Ullink, Catalys, OCI and propriety custom QuickFIX solutions.
• Designed and developed Quote Management system for Single Stock Futures. Block trade reporting of bilateral trades and Fidessa risk approved order flow and execution by multiple market makers.
• Client onboarding FIX 4.2, 4.4 - futures, equities, options, spreads and algos
• 11 years experience with Ullink tools
• Utilize Ullink bridge, Ullink Dashboard to manage FIX trading, execution flow And trade reporting
• Integrate client, exchange and UL bridge connections using Ullink adapters.
• Customize Ullink connections per customer using Ulbridge enrichments
• Manage users, customers and monitor systems using Ullink Dashboard
• Project management - client platform migrations, message routing bridge development
• Exchange certification log analysis and debugging
• Message flow stats collecting/reporting programs in C/C++, highly granular latency calculation
• Modified Greenline FIXEcution java system for custom NOE and drop copy features
• Issue tracking and vendor management
• Connection setup - VPN, Cross Connect, Radianz
• Migration of FIX system to LiquidityBook equities and equity options platform.
• Message routing
• Provide resolution to production issues
• Excellent multitasking skills in a fast paced high production environment
• Manage relationships with management, clients and developers.
• Multilevel Regression testing.
• Tools - Ullink, Verifix, GL, Pats, DMA

SKILL:

Financial FIX Protocols: 4.2 and 4.4, CMS, Ullink bridges, Greenline Verifix, Fidessa, LiquidityBook

Programming: Scripting, C/C++, Java, XML

Database: SQL, Stored procedures - triggers, insert, delete, joins, table design

Networking: TCP/IP, VPN, Cross Connect, Radianz Data ftp

Environment: s: Windows NT/2000/XP, Solaris, Linux

Source Control: RCS, CVS

EARLIER WORK EXPERIENCE:

Software Engineer and Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Manage development of real-time scoreboard systems. Develop new programs in C++ and
• VC++ for scoreboard systems, maintain existing codebase. Develop real-time internet league statistic retrieval systems for MLB, NHL, NBA and NFL.
• Parse/Process data feeds including Sportsticker, TSN and USAC.
• Projects include Major League Baseball packages for Wrigley Field, Shea Stadium, Yankee Stadium, wireless track and field interface with Finish Lynx racing systems.
• Scoreboard automation, remote scheduling systems development for UNIX
• And MS-Windows. VC++/C++ Windows 2K, XP. UNIX real-time OS. XML.
• Sockets, MultiThreading, GUI, Database, COM/DCOM.
• Develop and maintain real-time scoreboard systems. Conversion of UNIX systems to
• Windows NT platform. Develop real-time internet league statistic retrieval systems.
• Parse/Process data feeds including Sportsticker, TSN and USAC.
• Manage multiple customer relationships. Identify opportunities for new sales. Develop plans and follow through. Examples include new NHL internet stats package and upgrades of existing systems. C/C++ UNIX real-time OS. XML.

Software Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Completed development of a high speed currency trading system.
• Developed trading server software to link(FIX) Confidential ’s trading(Futures, Options) internet trading software to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange:
• Visual C++ Development under Windows NT OS.
• MFC GUI development, STL
• Multithreaded development to handle multiple client threads and thread synchronization
• SQL Server 7.0 database
• Table Design, Interfaced via ASP and VC++(ADO,ODBC)
• Insert, Update, Delete Records
• Developed Triggers and Stored Procedures to Update user trading accounts
• Developed CME FIX 2.3 interface.
• Achieved full trading certification with CME FIX specification.
• Developed ATL C++ Socket control interfacing asp web pages with IIS 5.0
• Developed and maintained ASP web pages.
• Performed system maintenance.

Senior Technology Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop financial trading systems using MS Visual C++ and MFC on Windows NT,
• MS SQL Server, IIS(Internet Information Server), ODBC and ADO(Active Data Objects).
• Development of middleware components, design of messages,
• And system integration(including COM and DCOM development) and system testing.

Software Consultant

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Develop applications for electronic claims processing using MS Visual C++ and MFC on Windows NT.
• Writing C++ programs for Solaris and conversion of software components written in C for Sun Solaris to C++ NT.
• Development of OO components.
• Maintenance of production system(11,000 users-Sybase.) ProC and PL/SQL w/Oracle.

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Development of Client (Win 3.1/Win 95)/Server (UNIX and Sybase) trading applications using Borland C++ under Windows 95.
• Implemented Microsoft Systems Management Software for software update distribution to the trading floor.

Software Engineer

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Developed application software using C++ on UNIX OS, MS VC++ and MFC under Win NT for use in transmitting data to and displaying information on electronic signs.
• UNIX projects include design and creation of:
• Scoreboard software for sports stadiums
• A font design program which runs on an embedded system
• A live video (30 frames/second) digitizer (capture/player)
• TCP/IP code to send/receive images over Ethernet network
• PCX image converter
• Serial data communications
• Developed graphical message editor/player for use with sign technology
• Developed font conversion utility(Windows to Bitmap)