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Summary

Financial Industry Expertise exemplified as co-founder of RapiData trading data firm sold to NASDAQ .
David has been a pillar of the firm throughout his tenure with an exceptional capacity to understand high-level aspects of technology in a large enterprise solution. He has a broad and deep understanding of how markets work, and can quickly spot opportunities and risks. I wholeheartedly recommend him. Project Manager, Strategy Developer

Professional History

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Earned continual promotions, driving design and technology advances crucial to market success and high-speed performance, leveraging software engineering, trading industry insight, and business acumen.

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14 Direct Reports - Technology Design Direction - Team Hiring, Oversight, Mentoring - Millions in Budget Authority,Business IT Planning - Software, Network, Co-Location, Operations Management - Stakeholder Relations -SLAs, Risk Controls - Cost Savings - Productivity Improvement - QA Standards - Vendor Evaluation Contracts

Facilitated global, comprehensive support and systems infrastructures key to competitive edge as trusted executive advisor transforming staff into motivated IT teams and turning around software development / quality challenges. Collaborated with executives and stakeholders to formulate and drive technical design for trading software, co-location facilities impacting systems performance , and low-latency resilient networks. Oversaw time-critical systems monitoring and support to production trading operations.
Built business case for IT investments pivotal to trading system performance, with presentations to CEO. Worked with trading exchanges to understand order matching process and direct related software changes.Technology Business Leadership
Maintained 100 compliance selling and delivering new compliance mindset affecting IT and stakeholders.
Expanded HQ office, handling all communications, power, hardware site, and wiring decisions for trading floor.
Spearheaded co-location facility build-outs worldwide for proximity to trading exchanges chose optimum telecom carriers / paths, network infrastructures, and protocols based on latency and redundancy requirements.

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Team Direction

Built high-productivity team of developers, quantitative analysts, QA analysts, and systems / network engineers, improving retention and morale with collaborative team atmosphere. Mentored employees in business and technical tasks, with team-first approach eliciting strong sense of loyalty.
Quickly turned around software development efforts, setting clearly defined, big-picture strategy and providing tools for success instrumental in achieving profitability in 4 months.
Improved systems consistency by tightening change control procedures.
Set stringent SLA terms for production trading environment performance and availability. Created QA standards instrumental in preventing costly trading process errors, with team cross-training to promote problem-solving.

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Systems Business Performance

Guided full contingency and recovery strategies critical to seamless operations in high-pressure settings, establishing redundant servers, business continuity plans, and escalation procedures.
Built mutually beneficial vendor and exchange relationships key to quick problem resolution gained insight on complex trading systems processing and connectivity.
Boosted performance and reliability, with business case and oversight of strategic projects for maximum effect.
Led trading software migration Windows to Linux for improved speed 300 drop in latency , operating system predictability, and context switching.
Managed major Cisco and Juniper / Arista upgrades affecting hardware, operations, security, connectivity .

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