SUMMARY

• Results charged Leader wif over 25 years of financial and technical innovation geared towards creating competitive advantage for Start - ups and Hedge Funds through Fortune 500 Companies.
• Expert in creating technology and operations solutions for Capital Markets, Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Precious and Base Metals and Energy products.
• Ability to rapidly translate business vision into technical reality wif the ability to deliver under tight time frames and high pressure environments.
• Builds high-performance teams of over 90 FTEs, recruits, retains and leads top talent.
• Forms strategic alliances wif vendors, contributor firms and subject matter experts.
• Outstanding communication from “C” level through developers.
• Personally written code to build tools, systems and proof of concepts for over 30 years.
• Drives ROI.
• Led the design build, implementation and integration of proprietary and 3rd party Global Enterprise Trading, Clearing, Risk Management, OMS and EMS systems.
• Designed and coded physical/financial natural gas trading system, key to catapulting profit 1000%.
• Designed trading platform using TCP offload technology and Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) for High Frequency Low Latency Trading systems.
• Conceived, designed and created AIG Data Direct providing AIG one of the first hedge fund, CTA management systems which generated significant new business and revenue, paving the way for AIG to enter the prime brokerage business.
• Design and 3rd party review and testing of proprietary algorithmic trading platform for equities, futures, commodities, interest rate products and FX including a live 5 year track record averaging 27% return wif a 1.4 Sharpe ratio.
• FinCurves (illiquid pricing) - created concept and designed process to aggregate cross client data and process for ABS, MBS and other illiquid and hard to value instruments for pricing and liquidity. Facilitated partnering wif Rich Daley (CEO Broadridge) and drove process and product consensus from buy side and major sell side institutions.
• Built SunGard Borrow Index (Equity Short Interest Proxy) by aggregating cross client data, working wif Cris Conde (CEO of SunGard) and Gail Dudack (regular analyst on CNBC) Able to leverage stock loan information as daily proxy for equity short index. Borrow Index is currently sold as confidential
• Active Analyst (sentiment trading) - created concept, designed and coded systems and architecture to read information on publicly traded companies (domestic and international) from over 450,000 sources daily, derives sentiment. Working alongside traders, brokers converted sentiment information into actionable, tradable long/short equity alpha.
• Key in determining data on-boarding, scrubbing and solutions for SunGard Market Data Services and Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• JAVA
• PHP
• C
• C++
• C#
• Python
• VB
• AUnix
• Linux
• Windows
• Mainfra
• MYSQL
• Oracle
• MS SQL Server
• DB2
• Informix
• Greenplum
• Hadoop
• Cassandra

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed Confidential re-usable frameworks to extend Confidential offerings such as Volker Rule effects on Trading.
• Collaborated wif software vendors such as Software-AG to establish joint ventures, go to market strategies and client workshops.
• Technologies included Aris, Apama, Terracotta, OTCFin

Confidential

Business Process Re-engineering

Responsibilities:

• Designed and led the Future State transformation required for scalability of Confidential ’s operations and technology leveraging Meta-trader and a custom designed back office.
• Implemented Transaction Cost Analysis
• Closed gaps in Confidential ’s market, operational and technical risk management and compliance such as Know You're Client.

Confidential

Big Data / Business Intelligence

Responsibilities:

• Designed and led the development for Confidential ’s Big Data strategy and Business Intelligence concierge.
• Responsible for Enterprise Data Management and full Data Life Cycle.
• Created the roadmap for top and bottom line growth through new data products and service offerings across lines of business.
• Improved internal efficiencies, improved customer experience, reduced attrition and facilitated new client acquisition.
• Reviewed and or recommended the following tools; Composite, Tableau, Evolv, Domo, ClicData, DataRPM, Hadoop, Hana, Vertica, Greenplum.

Confidential

Business Process Re-engineering

Responsibilities:

• Designed and led the Future State transformation for operations and technology to securely integrate their proprietary trading and risk management models and streamline their workflow.
• Facilitated the fund’s ability to scale to the next institutional investment levels.
• Established, created and implemented compliant policies, procedures and automation around operations, trading, risk management and reporting.
• Reviewed and or recommended the following tools; Bloomberg, Trackvia, ClicData, Calc4Web.

Confidential

Business Process Re-engineering

Responsibilities:

• Designed and led the Future State transformation to leverage predictive analytics for Confidential ’s clients to pro-actively identify equity and derivative trading opportunities as defined by unique client characteristics and market conditions.
• Worked directly wif management, traders and clients to identify growth opportunities to pursue.
• Implemented Transaction Cost Analysis.
• Responsible for increased client trading levels and Confidential profitability.
• Integrated dashboards, reconciliation systems, custom reporting, risk management and alerts that integrated unstructured data sources.
• Reviewed and or recommended the following products; Metatrader, Eze Castle, Impact Pro and LatentZero.

Confidential

Chief Administrative Officer

Responsibilities:

• Determine the feasibility, technology and vendor collaboration as well as presentation materials for the investor community.
• Led the road show to successfully raise seed money.
• Designed system architecture.
• Formed strategic alliances wif key Point of Sale system providers and established ACH process for consumers.
• Partnered wif innovative technology vendor to create new Master / Enterprise Data Management data mobility tool and process that accelerates data consolidation, governance and risk management efforts as much as 60-80%.
• Facilitated changing GS traditional data warehouse paradigm.
• Effort was designed for GS to create a new Data Services department.
• Reviewed and or recommended the following tools; Queplix, Composite, Global IDs, Greenplum and OpenCyc.

Confidential

Big Data Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Future State transformation for the data ingestion and scrubbing process of security master, reference and other structured and unstructured data to enhance the reliability of the hedge fund’s renowned equity and fixed income analytics platform.
• Secured stakeholder buy in and approval to facilitate replacement of legacy data onboarding processes through governance and rule based platform.
• Developed innovative Use Case factory.
• Reviewed and or recommended the following tools; Informatica, Global IDs, KDB+, Hadoop, Attivio and Drupal.

Confidential

Managing Principal

Responsibilities:

• Raised Venture Capital from premier East Coast fund. Responsible for $5 million budget.
• Responsible for technology and quantitative teams for data onboarding, scrubbing and analytics including price and curve normalization, pattern recognition and signal decay.
• Created innovative new data products from previously untapped sources aimed at risk management, compliance and generating alpha. Responsible for go to market strategies.
• Designed strategic alliances wif SunGard, Broadridge (formerly ADP) to present, gain buy-in and rationalize data from their buy and sell side clients (including Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley), Edhec and Pipeline.
• Designed data mobility process to accelerate SunGard sales pipeline by converting pre-sale clients’ portfolios to SunGard products for evaluation.
• Reviewed and or recommended the following tools; Tradestation, Metatrader, Redi, Eze Castle, Flextrade and Collective Intellect.

Confidential

Managing Principal

Confidential created a Human Resource platform that provided a full hiring life cycle and supply chain management.

• Created Natural Language Processing technology for unprecedented level resumes and job requisitions matching.
• Designed strategic alliances wif Ivy League professors and industry experts such as Frank Fabozzi (“Wall Streets Fixed Income Guru”), Microsoft, Oracle and Allaire for a quantitative exam system designed to identify skilled applicant wheat from the chaff.
• Raised Private Equity. Responsible for $7.5 million budget and staff of 35 senior technologists, operations and subject matter experts.
• Responsible for all technology and development efforts.
• Won Best Sales and Marketing Strategy at NJ Venture Fair by designing innovative Spiral Marketing concept.