SUMMARY:

• 15 years of experience in building applications, managing and leading technology teams in the financial industry.
• Proven ability to lead large cross - functional initiatives, to evaluate talent in building high performing teams, and to implement agile software development methodologies that scale globally.
• I am working for one of the largest derivatives exchange in the world.
• Specializing in financial technology related to exchange based and over the counter derivatives trading, clearing and risk management, and application architecture.
• I pride myself on the ability to manage people, and communicate seamlessly between business sponsors, direct customers, and technologists.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Director Software Engineering

• Work directly with business stakeholders to bring new products to market while supporting all existing products across Confidential asset classes. Work directly with analysts to design and implement margin requirement risk models across clearing member portfolios.
• Successfully led large-scale, simultaneous development efforts to support the migration of clearing processing from New York-based to Chicago-based systems as part of the New York Mercantile Exchange acquisition.
• Work directly with the Chief Technology Controller. Responsible for all forecasting and budgeting of Infrastructure costs across the entire department portfolio.
• Designed & implemented a data warehouse strategy using Oracle Exadata resulting in substantial cost savings from being able to retire EMC SAN.
• Defined internal and customer SLA’s. Developed systems to track and report SLA’s, maintain metrics for Systemically Important Derivatives Clearing Organization applications.
• Lead teams of software engineers, spanning many different geographic locations, which deliver applications using Java, JavaScript, EXT JS, Groovy, Perl, Ruby, and PL/SQL.
• Built, and implemented, the Performance Engineering team under the developer management structure. Created a team of engineers to work across verticals and improve application stability, performance, capacity, and scalability. This team contributes performance enhancements to trade execution systems, and all post trade Clearing, Risk, and Regulatory systems.
• Improved agile software development methods by pushing the detailed planning and estimation to individual developers, defining requirement-driven, holding daily stand-up meetings, and including customers at weekly iteration planning meetings. My development teams currently use the Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bamboo, Crucible, etc…). Implemented workflows to ensure SOX compliance is maintained.
• Lead a cross functional team of developers, infrastructure, and operations engineers to implement CME’s first cloud infrastructure and cloud architected applications at Amazon, using AWS technologies. Pilot and define enterprise wide Devops principles, and participate in the enterprise wide change management initiative.
• Ensure consistent implementation of coding standards and procedures across codebases; created an application and process infrastructure where developers can move between development teams with minimal loss of productivity.
• Assembled a team of developers to focus on designing, developing, and implementing a QA automation framework. My QA automation vision led development teams to automate all functional testing while changing the culture to AAT and test driven development practices.
• Integrate Cucumber test automation for Infrastructure as Code validation in Jenkins pipelines.
• Define processes for development managers that allows for using KANBAN, SCRUM, and Scaled Agile principles that work best for their teams.
• Subject matter expert for 3rd party vendor applications - Chef, Informatica, Automic ( UC4 ), SWIFT, Crystal Reports.
• Represent Confidential 's Capacity Planning efforts during regulatory exams and audits. Reported, and presented, Confidential Capacity Planning strategies, guidelines, and results directly to the CFTC, SEC, Federal Reserve, and the Bank of England.
• Designed & implemented a new Disaster Recovery architecture that allowed us to consolidate datacenters while meeting a 2 Hour Recovery regulatory mandate. Worked directly with the CFTC to implement new Dodd Frank legislation mandating all Clearing Counter Parties to recover from a disaster in 2 Hours, or less. I also worked with the Bank of England and the FSA to ensure our European Clearing House was also meeting its government mandates.
• Led the Exchange’s Java-based Reporting application, and a Clearing Datamart that combines trade data with other clearing information for application integration, reporting, and historical regulatory purposes.

Confidential

Technical Support/Enterprise Ops Specialist

• Lead the second level production support team ensuring data integrity and system availability.
• Provide personal customer support for equity option products traded on U.S. Based Options exchanges.
• Responsible for 2nd level support of all production applications on all platforms. Supported Platforms - Unix (Solaris), Novell, Windows Platforms, and MVS-Mainframe.
• UC4 administrator & Brio Portal administrator. Proficiency in UC4, CA-7 system, CA Jobtrac, TSO and Mainframe commands, JCL, and UNIX/Linux command language.
• My team is responsible for diagnosing and resolving all production issues, and making proactive suggestions to re-occurring issues, while improving performance on all platforms. This also requires participation in the full-life cycles of corporate and departmental projects.
• 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on-call support.