SUMMARY

• Technology leader who thrives in challenging, fast - paced IT organizations delivering advanced technology systems, solutions, architectures, and applications. Rich mix of business management, project management, and technology skills. Ability to lead development projects to meet business objectives, performance goals, and financial savings. Expert at mapping complex business requirements into system designs, improving enterprise architectures, and instituting IT policy and standards.
• Saved $2.1MM/year in licensing and support costs by retiring redundant systems created by the Confidential /Merrill Lynch merger
• Improved how Confidential managed their $350B investment portfolio by developing the Investments Portal that surfaced thousands of reports, search capability and real-time market feeds
• Improved student satisfaction by instituting new technologies to improve clinical rotation scheduling, automate business processes, enhance the student portal and incorporate single sign-on
• Principal Architect responsible for moving Confidential ’ Wealth Management order entry system from mainframe “green screen” system to browser-based web application
• Provided product solutions to clients and sales staff for an Internet startup company. The success helped the company go public and was featured on Nightline
• Primary thought leader at implementing new technologies and defining best practices and standards. Examples include web services/service orientated architecture, security, open source tools & frameworks, and APIs.
• Insatiable curiosity and appetite to learn. Currently using Cloudera/Hadoop in personal projects, active in technology Meetups, and consistently enrolled in Coursera classes.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Enterprise Architecture
• Budget Planning/Management
• Relationship Management
• Technology Roadmaps
• Best Practices & Standards
• Solution Architecture
• Program & Project Management
• Object Orientated Analysis & Design
• Application Development
• Service Orientated Architecture
• IT Governance
• Vendor Management
• Offshore Development
• Business Process Automation
• Java, Python, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Mapped complex business requirements into technical architecture. Delivered functionality in following six workstreams; Trade Identification, MtM Valuation, Counterparty, CVA, IDL, and RWA. .

Confidential, New York, NY

Director, Global Market Risk Management

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded Market Risk System; consolidated all trades to a single system, deployed data warehouse to establish centralized, ad-hoc & custom reporting, and improved the functionality and performance of Market Risk VaR engine.
• Redesigned the Model Approval Workflow system to allow integration with front-office trading systems for real-time trade audit and verification. Migrated the system to the Bank’s target architecture, Quartz.
• Designed, developed and tested a trade verification system to reconcile trades against the Bank’s Approved Product List; processed over 12MM trades each month and reported on 11 breakpoints.
• Established best practices, standardization, and system improvements for CCAR testing. Updated risk engine and market data systems. Automated process for applying shocks, risk engine data flows, and reporting.

Confidential, North Brunswick, Nj

Director, Application Development Group

Responsibilities:

• Improved day-to-day operations by enhancing the student information system, Banner. Implemented major upgrades, custom enhancements, disaster recovery plan, and security.
• Implemented new enterprise-wide systems, including document management (CampusDocs), Portal (CampusEAI), Single Sign-on (CAS), automation software (AppWorx), and disaster management and notification (Siren).
• Automated clinical rotation processes by programming a Clinical Dashboard for scheduling and maintaining student clinical rotation assignments.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Development Manager, Investments Group

Responsibilities:

• Established new portal and content management system for the Investments area. Surfaced thousands of reports used to manage assets. Improved system stability, performance and usability. Added features to enhance user experience; Verity search, pricing feeds, personalization, report notification, an enhanced content management system interface and look & feel.
• Developed grid and scheduling software to run Kamakura on a 50+ server grid.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Solution Architect, Firmwide Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Designed web-based portion of Confidential ’ order entry system (COE) to provide a central location to place and manage equity, option, mutual fund, fixed income, and annuity orders.
• Reduced time and errors for annuity and term-life orders by implementing Confidential WM’s’ first Web Service.
• Led standardization initiatives (Struts, Logging, Server Monitoring, and Code Review); implemented throughout all of Confidential WM; identified, verified, and implemented the solution.
• Trained and mentored groups on proper application design and system architecture including architecture points, scalability, workload management, availability, maintainability, session management, interfaces and security.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Languages: Java Python SQL C HTML

Big Data: Hadoop Cloudera HDFS

Cloud: Amazon Web Services

Java: Java JEE JMS JDBC JSP Servlets Spring | Struts | WebSphere Tomcat JQuery Log4J

Databases: Oracle Sybase Microsoft Access SQLServer Netezza

Middleware: WebSphere Tomcat | SOA XML Web Services JSON MQ

Tools: Eclipse Quartz Git UML MVC Rational Patterns JIRA Sparx Enterprise Architect

Methodologies: Agile Waterfall SDLC Six Sigma PMBOK TOGAF 9

Security: CAS SSO LDAP SiteMinder PKI Hashing

Other: Unix Unix shell scripting Windows MS Office Blockchains