CAREER PROFILE:

• Ambitious, Entrepreneurial, Achievement - oriented Executive Information Technology Manager, conceptual thinker who creates strategic alliances with organization leaders to effectively align with in order to support key business initiatives
• Builds and retains high performance teams by hiring, developing and motivating skilled professionals.
• With proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical technical requirements identifies deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative solutions for increasing reliability and improving productivity in the Fixed Income, Investment Banking, Equity, FX and Compliance /Regulatory fields.
• Thrive in fast-paced environment yet able to remain calm in tense business moments. Make conscious effort to blend vision with pragmatism
• Effectively hold, develop, articulate, and continually evolve the company’s strategic technical direction
• Responsible for utilizing the appropriate technology in highly-competitive environment
• Balance between business and technology to formulate strategy and vision for the entire company
• Align and apply technology to accelerate business strategy, from communicating technology plans to the executive team to integrating a transformation imperative and applying the process to all executive-level planning
• Inspire commitment to the employees towards the long-term vision of the company
• A trusted advisor who is able to attain loyalty and credibility of customers, partners and professional community
• Easily shift and transition from an IT order-taker to a next-gen technology leader
• Adopt increased automation, DevOps, Clouds, Microservices vs Monolithic architecture, moving from a shared services model to a product-first agile culture
• Conscript the IT organization towards the long-term technical goals of the company
• Transfer knowledge between functional teams and departments
• Acquire, retain and develop talents within the IT organization
• Implement incubation process and hackathons, to spur and develop innovative ideas wherever they come from
• Possess a strong sense of immediacy, focusing on the task in hand and seeing it through to fruition.
• Own a keen interest in pushing the envelope, exploring what’s possible, and leveraging innovative new technology to drive change
• Assess if the organization is making optimal use of existing technology investments
• Continuously looking at how to use technology to transform processes, products, and services
• Spearheaded the development of setting up daemon to synchronize the block chain and mine cryptonote tokens, and digital wallet to receive and send funds, using Node.js development, and building smart contract with Solidity leveraging Mist, MetaMask Browser Plug In and Remix Web Browser IDE
• Provided the technical vision to complement the business vision, set the tone and direction for the Bank’s technologies, and made sure that all the Investments in technology and innovation are connected and aligned directly to business strategy.
• Implemented customer service improvement solutions, resulting in a 20% increase in participant retention from 73% to 93%
• Participate in establishing the development governance processes and controls to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately, and the organization's technology resources are used adequately, as a result I reduced the development lifecycle in my division by 35%, streamlining processes through the implementation of agile methodology
• Introduces multiple new platforms to the business which increased productivity and expanded the trading and growth volumes by 35%, and automated FX Options groups workflow and increased productivity by 80%,
• Recognized for identifying cost-effective opportunities and implementing and improving technology and service strategies to support increased business workflow reducing consulting headcount/client ratio by 55% while maintaining excellent service levels and continuous production improvement
• Refined my organizational structure to consolidate, streamline and delineate necessary functions. Achieved fill-in rate of 80% for all open positions, while still Provides leadership, coaching and direction to the IT leadership team and staff
• Reduce latency by recommending making sure all of our data is in memory. By managing our own in-memory data structures and maintaining a persistent log, so we can rebuild the state after a machine or process restart thus running a local, persisted in-memory database MongoDB
• Develops and controls annual operating and capital expenditure budget for my IT organization

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

DLT Technologies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, HyperLedger,, Node.JS, Go Chaincode, Node Package Manager (NPM), Git, Docker, Grunt, Webpack, Gulp, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Composer, BigchainDB, SHIM APIs, Business Network Definition (BND), Blockstream, Eris, HydraChain, OpenChain, (Go Ethereum) Command Line Interface, Express.js

Cloud Technologies: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, Unix shell scripts, perl, Linux system & kernel programming, GNU tools, x86 assembly, Studio.Net, C#, Go Prog, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS), JSON, PowerShell

Design/Process: OOAD, Design Patterns, Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Agile methodology, Scrum framework (Scrum Master & Product Owner roles), LEAN Process, SIX SIGMA, ICONIX Process (UML-based object modeling with use cases), SOAP, traditional waterfall, iterative.

Market Data Feeds & Platforms: Reuters Feed, Broker Feeds including GARBAN, PREBON, GFI, EUROBROKER, ISE Options Feed, Calypso, Boston Exchange options Feed, Montreal, and Exchange options Feed Direct Feeds - ARCA, BRUT, CME, NYSE, NASDAQ, CBOT, MEX, BPOD, Market Data APIs, B-PIPE, Mysis, Summit, Murex

Environment: /Stack OS (Linux, AIX, Windows, Solaris(expert level) ), Communication (MQ, TIBCO, CORBA, TCP/IP), LAMP, JavaEE, Web Services (SOAP, RESTfull), Apache Axis, JAX-WS, Oracle SOA Suite, Angular, Hadoop, Solidity, REST, GraphQL, Ruby On Rails, Scala, Spark, Storm, BigQuery, Theanos, Tensorflow, Node.JS, Go Chaincode, MongoDB, Kanban, Node Package Manager (NPM), Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Grunt, Webpack, Gulp, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Composer, REMIX, Test-Driven Development, DevOps, Djnago, Flask, Mojolicious, Express, Grails, Vaadin, Bootstrap, Mogodb, Async Generator flow/async/await/promisesREACT, Laravel, Express.js, Drupal, Apache Spark

Security Frameworks: JAAS (Java Authentication & Authorization Services), Spring Security, Apache Shiro, HDIV

Source Scanning Tools: Open Source, Bandit, Brakeman, FindBugs, FindSecBugs, PMD, .Net Security Guard, CAST AIP and Fortify

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & HISTORY:

Confidential

Vice President of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Product Management, Technology Delivery, User Experience, Production Development, Project Management, Security & Corporate IT for the Fixed Income, FX, Investment Banking and Compliance/Regulatory business units
• Improved FX Options Trading by $20 M by streamlining and automating critical business processes, design and developed an STP FIX based process to report trade to GTRs and SDRs in real-time, and the implementation of an electronic trading platform for Fixed Income and FX business units.
• Reduced $6 Million on annum Market Data expenses by deploying new, less expensive, more efficient services, negotiation of new services contracts and consolidating data feeds, developing in-house feeds to our systems
• Heads the Regulatory and Compliance Enterprise Content Management (ECM) group. Responsible for the technology strategy, budget, architecture, implementation and support of all content management, collaboration and portal platforms. These include responsibility for the HPE Content Management platform and SharePoint 2013. Involved in strategy, planning and architecture for this program
• Manage department of 25-30 employees with 6 direct reports: 2 Heads of Development, 1- Head of Market Data Services, 1- Head of Reg Tech, and 1- Head of L3 application Support and 1- Lead Project Manager.
• Spearheaded bank wide implementation of Dodd Frank Regulation implementation. Led the modification of the banks IT, Business workflows, and Trade workflow to comply with Dodd-Frank regulatory legislation; designed Recordkeeping solution recognized by HP and received an excellence award for it. (RT, Portfolio Recon, SEF, FN 513 and RK (Entity and Transactional level), and implemented AI and Machine Learning into regulatory and electronic trading systems
• Standardized client-facing processes end to end, reducing process steps by 60% and cycle time by 80% for customer onboarding
• Proactively collaborated with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that efficiently support Bank’s organizational needs.
• Involved in a global initiative to implement Cryptocurrency and DLT technology to the bank, using Hyperledger, oversaw Node.js development working various blockchain daemons: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Forknote
• Spearheaded the development of setting up daemon to synchronize the block chain and mine cryptonote tokens, and digital wallet to receive and send funds, using Node.js development, and building smart contract with Solidity leveraging Mist, MetaMask Browser Plug In and Remix Web Browser IDE

Confidential

Sr. Manager - VP of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Managed a teams of highly skilled professionals responsible for the overall operational stability of the Trading Floor, voice, Market Data Serveries and Multicast Market Data networks. Provided technical and management oversight of the growth, maintenance and operational processes supporting Confidential ’s Trading Floor
• Re-architected business critical, revenue generating Rates system to protect and grow an $50 million of business revenue, by established high stability, performance, and scalability in a previously failing environment,
• Directed the development and implementation of Market Data strategy and approach through the firm, by consolidating feeds and acquire new stated of the art backbone infrastructure
• Held all financial responsibility for product development, implementation, support, and all trading floor servers/network, margins and R&D budget.
• Managed department of 12-20 employees with 4 direct reports: 1-Head of Development, 1- Head of Market Data Services, 1- Head of VOIP, 1- Head of Desktop and Server Engineers.
• Responsible for day-to-day management and coordination of a broker/dealer systems, brokerage and advisor operations, client services, IT/development, project management, compliance departments

Confidential

Sr. Manager -Director of Enterprise Technologies

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all day-to-day company’s Northeast clients, client services, IT/development, project management, accounting for more than $10 million in yearly revenues, Worked with Management and various groups to implement service for customers recovery needs. Supervised four Engineers
• Oversee the support of multiple sites in Northern Virginia and Maryland. Set up different networking equipment (network cards, hubs, routers, printers, wiring). Integrated all the office under one network, using T1
• Wrote step-by-step procedures and instructions for IT support and troubleshooting tasks by building knowledge base and track arising issues which increased help-desk response time, reduced time-per-accident and significantly reduced productivity loss due to steep learning curve.
• Successfully implemented multiple IT projects ranging from $140K to $500K, provide the technical knowledge and vision to support the company’s business objectives, and evaluate and recommend all software for business processes.
• Developed asset inventory tools to collect software, hardware, and network information from all North East branches
• Implemented and managed all aspects of the operations and engineering of the company
• Managed department of 10 employees with 3 direct reports: 1-Head of Development and R&D, 1- Head of Network, and 1- Head of Desktop and Server Engineers

Confidential

VP of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Reorganized the company’s 120-person offshore development team to improve responsiveness and quality
• Spearheaded the design and development of real-time market data delivery systems serving over 500 clients internationally over public and private networks. Developed for multiple feed protocols and APIs including Reuters Triarch, Bloomberg and proprietary Java client software for Artemis Holdings
• Spearheaded the design, development and deployment of a back-office clearance and settlement systems to facilitate a wide variety of mortgage-backed securities including TBA, CMO and ARMS as well as US Treasury Bills, Bonds and Notes with C/C++ and JAVA for a client a Hedge Fund in McLean, VA
• Responsible for the IT infrastructure in the North American branches, which included multiple offices across the US, and providing DR environment and making sure that the IT environment is available 24x7
• Improved the IT work intake process flows within the Remedy ARS tool and provided a Web interface for end-users to submit issues, improving IT’s customer responsiveness and improving IT’s business alignment
• Spearheaded the deployment of open-source monitoring, load-balancing & clustering solutions and developed autonomic recovery tools to improve mean recovery time and reduce outage frequency both in the US and India.
• Managed & staffed various server and systems engineering groups setting global standards across the firm. Improved the collaboration between the engineering groups and support groups; frequently leveraged support groups to participate in engineering new technologies and methodologies, contributing to increased acceptance of the standards proposed by the central engineering team.
• Led the development of security and Web server architecture for the Intranet and Internet Web portals.
• Led the development and testing and deployment of an OTC pricing and reference data value proposition powering a proprietary desktop, platform and feeds business