SUMMARY:

Network Engineer with over 25 years experience seeking Market Data Infrastructure projects in a fast paced, team oriented environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business lines, application development and partners to develop and deliver on market data platform strategies and objectives. Worked with most carriers, financial partners and providers such as BT Radianz, SFTI, Savvis and 7Ticks.
• Support of the Data Center’s Partner Front End module including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, VPN, HSRP, Firewalls, VLANS, VTP, Spanning Tree, Port Channels, Trunks, VRF, vPC, VDC, UCS, FEX, FabricPath, WANs, DWDM, DCI, SNMP, TACACS+, Syslogging, Solar Winds, HPNA, ACS. Hardware including Nexus 7K 5K 2K, 6500s and 4500s.
• Implementation and support of multicast technologies from the major exchanges including CQSCTS, OPRA, Nasdaq, Nasdaq Totalview, CME, LIFFE, OTC, ICE and Comstock.
• Implementation and support of partner connectivity to OCC, DTCC, Broadridge, OATS, Sungard - Loannet and Bloomberg for the settlement, back office and brokerage teams.
• Implementation and support of FIX connectivity to Barclays, Citadel, 2Sigma, Citi, Collins Stewart, Lava, Morgan Stanley, Knight, ARCA, Direct Edge, ETrade, UBS, BATS, SIG, Tradeweb and TNS for the order management team.
• Support of UVN DWDM Ring in Prod/HA; support of Zayo Optera DWDM ring in DR and it’s connectivity from data centers to carrier hotels.
• Corvil Design, installation and support - Microburst detection, Market data feed monitoring, e.g. gap detection, A versus B feed latency, Client transaction response time measurements, Order lifecycle tracking i.e. new orders, replace, partial fill etc., Business metrics - fill-rate, order-type analysis etc., Network performance monitoring, FIX Latency. Worked with Corvil CNE-2500. 2310, 5300, 6300 platforms and Gigamon products - Optical and copper taps.

Confidential, New York, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage, monitor and support of the low latency high frequency trading environment. Support business groups such as Global Arbitrage Trading, Global Equities, Fixed Income and others.
• Manage, monitor and support BGP, OSPF and EIGRP peering with external ECNs and other financial institutions.
• Monitor Metro Ethernet Network latency and ensure it is within specific ranges using tools such as Netscout and other latency tools.
• Use of tools such as Spectrum One-Click, NetScout, MRTG and eHealth
• Firewall preps and pushes as requested by business groups to the market data vendor firewalls.
• Daily use of Cisco CCO, F5, and CheckPoint accounts.
• Daily use of Peregrine Incident Management for managing outages and incidents. Member of the Change Advisory Board as well as Severity Management group. Provide post mortems to business groups.
• Perform Escalations, Severity Alerts, Notifications and Turnover reports.
• Support of Low Latency Network infrastructure consisting of Ethernet circuits from LightPath, RCN-Sidera, NexGen, Hudson Fiber, Cogeco, Hibernia Atlantic, Yipes, AboveNet, FiberTech, 7Ticks, Global Crossing and Verizon.
• Worked with carriers to turn up and troubleshoot circuits; test end to end system validation and performance.
• Support for business groups and traders in One Liberty Plaza and 3 World Financial Center. Monitor and maintain all networking devices in One Liberty Plaza and 3 WFC datacenters. Schedule, coordinate and interface with all carriers, market data and network vendors.
• Configuration of Cisco devices as well as break-fix, replacing EOL equipment, staging, IOS upgrades, in COLOs such as 111 8th Ave., 165 Halsey, Q9 in Toronto, Savvis in Weehawken, Equinix in Secaucus and Disaster Recovery site Sunguard in Carlstadt.
• Resolve network issues for the Unix, Wintel and Helpdesk groups.
• Manage, monitor and support of equipment and circuits in NYSE POPs in 1 EverTrust NJ and 111 8th as well as Nasdaq in Carteret NJ and Auburn, VA.
• Manage, monitor and support of Multicast feeds such as ARCA, CME, BATS, Direct Edge, CTS CTQ, ITCH, OBU and more. Monitor and troubleshoot outbound FIX traffic.
• Support and direct interface with Market data providers and ECNs such as NYSE SFTI, Nasdaq, Direct Edge, CBOE, CHX, CME, ICE, BATS, NSX, BT Radianz, Comstock, Lime Brokerage, Loannet, Xtiva, Tullet-Tokyo, Fidessa, Accel, Thompson Reuters, Born Capital, BrokerTec, TSX, Hill Farber, DTCC, Lava, Track Data, BBG, Cantor, Bloomberg, RDF, Tradeweb, TNS, etc…
• Worked with Atrium, CNSX Pure in Canada.
• Network support for 10 Gig Arista Server Farms and Wombat FeedHandlers.
• Support WAN and network connectivity issues in all U.S and Canada remote offices.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support of global MPLS/BGP/EIGRP infrastructure connecting US, EMEA and APAC.
• Troubleshoot Wide area connectivity problems. Proactive WAN and Core error checking and frequent Latency checking. Worked with OC3, OC12, OC48, Metro Ethernets, DWDM, 10G MAN and more.
• Use of tools such as Spectrum Alarm Manager, QIP, SevOne, Concord, eHealth and GNITs.
• Daily use of Remedy ITSM Incident Management for managing outages and incidents.
• Implement RFCs within change guidelines and windows using Remedy ITSM Change management.
• Firewall preps and pushes for Market Data TPNC with Netscreen NSM GUI 2008 and 2009 .
• Worked with Netscreen OS including configuring vsys, zones, vrouters and rulebases.
• Worked with AboveNet, LightPath, AT&T DWDM, BT MPLS, Verizon MPLS, Verizon Business, Yipes, Global Crossing, BT Global, Deutche Telecom, Telemex, Antel, Singtel and others.
• Configured, staged and break/fix most of Cisco’s suite of routers and switches.
• Daily use of Cisco CCO account, working with Cisco Engineers and TAC Service Requests.
• Monitor multiple DWDM rings. Interaction with AT&T DWDM managed services group.
• Support of Low Latency Network segments consisting of multiple LightPath 10G and AboveNet 10G links to the Savvis Co-locations.
• Support of multiple MAN segments to the NYSE /SIAC and NASDAQ Co-locations..
• Support of market data TPNC such as BT Radianz, TNS, NewsEdge, BATS, CME, ARCA, State Street Financials, Interbroker, Bloomberg, Cantor, Chase, BrokerTec, SFTI, Garban, Tullet-Tokyo, Reuters, Thompson, Instinet, Trading Edge and more.
• Support of networks that consists of trademark services such as PrimeTrade and BT CrossFinder.
• Worked with Multicast PIM Dense and Sparse, PIM RP, IGMP, CGMP, Market Data Feeds and Servers and FIX Engines.

Confidential, New York, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead for Project Connect supervising a group of 5 network engineers.
• Implementation of network infrastructure in over 600 public schools in the 5 boroughs of New York City.
• Implementation of network infrastructure including Cisco 6509 IOS upgrade, SUP32 and NAM2 upgrade, Access Point LWAPP implementation, installation of WLC 4404 Wireless Controllers, 3845 routers, 3 560 and 37 50 switches, and PIX 525 and ASA 5510 firewalls.

Confidential, Rockleigh, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of the Network services team that implemented, monitor and support of the Volvo Cars enterprise network consisting of over 600 locations in the U.S., with multiple international locations.

Confidential, New York, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built trading floor infrastructure which included Cisco Routers, Multilayer Switches, PIX firewalls. Worked with market data service providers and Server groups.

Confidential, New York, NY

Market Data Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Member of project team that implemented the new trading floors at Chase Manhattan Plaza. Integration of the digital trading system running on Sun OS Client/Server platform.
• Support and development of the Teknekron Information Bus with issues involving the TIC ticker plant real time databases, Global Service Managers, Feed Handlers, News Servers, Shredder servers, Interactive and Broadcast Feeds.
• Resolve Tib-routing problems to off-floor segments, Tiblink issues with the PC segments, re-shredding of pages using VIDT, management of the Teknekron network via Tekmon.
• Interface with market data providers such as Reuters, Telerate, Knight Ridder, Prebon, Forextech, GFI, Eurobroker, Tradition, Patriot, Tullet-Tokyo, Hillfarb and Garban.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Netware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented local area networks in the Manhattan midtown and Wall St. areas.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Banyan Corporate Network Servers and administration of VINES.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and support for Wang's proprietary mini systems and peripherals
• Installation of WangNet Broadband networking products.