SUMMARY:

• 100%performance to SLA standards which resulted in increased business performance by 45%
• Less than 3% staff turnover with concurrent increase in customer satisfaction and performance gained by the KPI measurement and focus on root cause analysis and problem solving in timely manner.
• Reduced the development lifecycle 35% by 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%
• Implemented AI and Machine Learning into regulatory and electronic trading systems

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

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

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: Reuters Feed, Broker Feeds including GARBAN, PREBON, GFI, EUROBROKER, ISEOptions Feed, Boston Exchange options Feed, Montreal, Exchange options Feed Direct Feeds - ARCA, BRUT, CME, NYSE, NASDAQ, CBOT, MEX, BPODMarket Data APIs, B-PIPE

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, Solidity, REST, GraphQL, Node.JS, Go Chaincode, Node Package Manager (NPM), Git, Docker, Grunt, Webpack, Gulp, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Composer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Vice President of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Product Management, Technology Delivery, User Experience, Production Development, Project Management, Production Security & Corporate IT for of the three business units
• Improved Option Trading by $20 M by streamlining and automating critical business processes, design and developed and STP FIX based process and to report trade to GTRs and SDRs in real-time, and the implementation of an electronic trading platforms
• 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 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)
• Standardized client-facing processes end to end, reducing process steps by 60% and cycle time by 80% for customer onboarding
• Involved in a global initiative to implement Cryptocurrency and DLT technology to the bank, using Hyperledger

Sr. Manager VP of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team 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.

Regional Sr. Manager (Director of Enterprise Technologies)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all of the company’s Northeast clients, 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 technology 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

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