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EMAIL AVAILABLEmPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE / h-PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEBACKGROUNDTechnologist with both development and dedicated support experience who possesses a strong focus on continuous measurement and improvement for business critical, highly reliable, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed trading system architectures having a strong focus on performance and scale.TECHNICAL SKILLS:Languages/Scripting: Python, Perl, PowerShell, Typescript, Java, C, shell/awk/sed, SQL, VBAMarkups/Formats: XML, JSON, HTMLCloud: AWS, GCP PCF MicroservicesDatabases: Oracle, KDB, DB2, UDB, SQL Server, Sybase, AccessSoftware/Frameworks: Jira, Confluence, Spring Boot, Angular, SharePoint, Remedy, ServiceNow, Bitbucket, Bamboo, NET, Informatica, Tableau, Crystal Reports, ERWIN/Visio, J2EE, .NET, PowerBuilderMonitoring/Tooling: Splunk, Ansible, AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, Harness, ITRS Geneos, Foglight, Grafana, Prometheus, SALT, Wavefront, ExtraHopMessaging/API: FIX, SWIFT, RESTMethodology: Agile, ITIL, Scrum, SDLCMiddleware: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka, Solace, TIBCOOS: Solaris, AIX, HP, Linux, WindowsScheduling: Autosys, ActiveBatch, Automate, Control-MPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:The Charles Schwab Corporation -Jersey City, New Jersey-(5/19-Present)Senior Manager Advisor Services & TechnologyTechnology lead responsible for overall platform operational readiness for equity and mutual fund trading for the advisor services group. Underlying systems supported include order entry, allocation, execution, balance, position, and transaction systems. Key technologies consist of a distirbuted microservices architecture featuring VMWare TAS/PCF Cloud Foundry Spring Boot Java and the Diego container management system. Involved in automating the installation, configuration, maintenance, of services working with software engineers using automated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines and Ansible playbooks.An SME on all workflows and technologies with complete understanding how to manage services correctly and the determination of key behaviors needing to be measured to drive the right actions. Confluence runbooks and smart knowledge base articles are constantly being updated with shared knowledge and new monitoring as part of the team culture with a continuous improvement mind set.Collaborating and coordinating with the broader technology, operations, product, delivery, and infrastructure groups to continuously improve the end-to-end service experience avoiding any associated costs of missed SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs. Further understanding service level indicators and utilizing service level objectives to proactively resolve issues before they impact end users.Involved with performance testing and tracing for system stability gauging horizontal/vertical pod as well as infrastructure cluster/node/pool workload auto scale provisioning related to existing and new service rollouts.Research issues around distributed configuration, service registration, routing, load balancing, network latency, and connection time-out tied to the loosely coupled service architecture.Aligned with our development partners in repurposing N-Tier and Monolith stack applications into a microservice/container model utilizing REST and event streaming and message brokers.From an ITL perspective leading incident response, diagnosis, communication, and follow-up on system outages and alerts across the production infrastructure. Gauging business impact and urgency in determining an incidents priority and the speed to which an issue needs to be addressed. Capturing incident related details via Confluence documentation and sending SOD/EOD emails to leadership. Incidents are correctly processed assessing business and technical impact and severity, and ensuring the correct team being assigned for postmortem follow up via assigned problem and knowledge tickets.Implementing proactive production system monitoring to facilitate the predictability and quality of our services utilizing Splunk log scraping for dashboarding and alerting, AppDynamics for core level system, business transaction, and class method instrumentation monitoring, and ThousandEyes for level 1 health check endpoint and level 2 web application functionality testing.Involved in weekly change management calls discussing upcoming development team planned changes answering questions on risk level, capacity and resource planning, coordinator designations, approvals, task assignments, post implementation checks, test evidence, rollbacks, and post-mortem retrospectives and lessons learned.HSBC Bank Plc-New York, New York-(6/16-5/19)IT Senior Solutions Consultant - Global Banking & Markets FOREX Cash Trading DeskResponsible for:Front line and operational break-fix/troubleshoot support for multiple FX (Spot, Forward, Swap, NDF) client/market order applications including core/tiered pricing, trading/hedging, risk management, and liquidity sourcing for algorithmic and voice order execution for a wide array of currency pairs. Configured and managed as low latency, universally available, resilient systems deployed as cluster pairs communicating over a proprietary persistent message bus. Outages in trading connectivity/messaging/API/Gateway/ECN connectivity are addressed by directing traffic to the relevant resilient nodes in both native and co-located sites where the high volume and low latency sensitive processes for pricing, quoting, liquidity services, hedging, and algorithmic executions operate.Contributing to a firm wide collaborative data analytics framework written in Python focusing on a proactive monitoring module serving as a wrapper around the KDB+/Q real time database being captured with current day data from most of the FX applications. Implemented operational check-ins production for fill and price quality comparisons across venues, market order rejections/cancellations/spread checks, internal message bus latency, line and engine latencies, stale and delayed market data statuses, internal message bus and co-located datacenter latency traffic RTT monitoring, off market trades, and currency pair tradability factors. The process utilizes ITRS Geneos utilizing the API plug-resulting in the creation of JSON formatted messages being converted to Geneos data-views ultimately being flashed in the alert dashboard.Working with Sales, Middle Office, and Traders on issues relating credit reservation, booking, margining, tradability of orders, dealer intervention, confirmations, risk routing, counterparty/legal entity limits, client/currency pair static, legal, TWAP/VWAP deviations, resetting circuit breakers, time validations, bid/ask min/max tradability and liquidity, monitoring proper algo lifecycle in terms of external/internal market access, analytics, and market venue execution.Point72 Asset Management LP- New York, New York- (9/14- 5/16)Vice President of Multi-quant TechnologySupport the quantitative investing arm of the firm which executes systematic trades across multiple regions. The teams' internal clients include Portfolio Managers, Traders, Compliance, Surveillance, and Trade Research teams across Equities, Equity Options, Futures, and F/X securities.Serving as gatekeeper to the firms order level data consisting of all the orders and executions across all firm accounts. The data is collected across a disparate group of sources (SQL databases, FIX drop copy and order routing configurations, flat files, ftp mounts, and data from external vendors) which are then loaded into the firms KDB+ Datamart where a nightly batch process aggregates the data on a T+1 basis and joins it with the related market data for both in-memory and historical data time-series analysis. Certain cross sections of the data are uploaded into a Microsoft SQL Server Database providing a window for Compliance and Surveillance teams to view the data via a REST architectural pattern front end application using the ASP.NET Web API to implement multiple web services. Fast analytics and smart dashboards are embedded into .NET via Tableau Server's JavaScript API providing interactive data visualizations using Tableau Server and Tableau Desktop.Responsible for automating the Daily Reconciliation process between the firms Datamart and the central Position system. All incoming order level data is mined for a wide array of discrepancies (i.e., price, shares, volume etc.) which are investigated, logged, and resolved.Responsible for the migration of hundreds of crontab RHEL LINUX jobs to a newly firm adoptedActiveBatch scheduler leveraging baked-in enterprise capabilities to facilitate our teams automated workflows utilizing constraints, triggers, alerts, calendars, audits/history, monitoring, logging, security, SLAs, and PowerShell scripting automation.Responsible for implementing Change/Incident/Batch management practices as well as infrastructure and capacity planning initiatives for Datamart and Trade Research areas.Barclays PLC- New York, New York- (10/11-8/14)Production Support AssociateSupport both Front Office Equities Risk Position and Middle Office Strategic Architecture Post-Trade systems addressing daily business requests and problems related to trading, compliance, and operations.Involved in upstream/downstream trade flow matters, P&L inquiries for start, intra, and end of day position discrepancies, issues associated with trade entry, strategy transfers, reconciliation of corporate actions, static data, and market data issues.Research rejected, broken, and busted executions, and replaying messages when required to the Solace middleware bus to upstream and downstream topic/queue publishers and subscribers.Responsible for change, incident, DR fail-over, and overnight batch management.Work closely with the Development team in addressing strategic solutions via a Jira issue tracking system.Engaged in tactical/strategic activities generating automated reports for SOD readiness, system capacity/utilization, and end of day heat-map statistics.Configured Hawk and Sentinel monitoring to provide proactive host and application health checks.Royal Bank of Scotland PLC- Stamford, Connecticut- (6/08- 9/11)Equities Application Support Analyst for the AmericasInvolved in Follow-the-Sun level - 1, 2, and 3 support associated with:1.Portfolio Swap System2.Global Equity Finance and Collateral Trading Portfolio Management System3.Equity Derivatives Trading and Risk Management SystemEngaged in tactical development, scripting/SQL, software bug-detection, performance optimization, DR testing as well as relationship building across trading desks positioning the team to best analyze activities to suggest tools and software enhancements.Charged with communicating and coordinating system rollouts.Utilized ITRS Geneos for proactive real-time performance management and system monitoring relating to servers, applications, network hardware, and critical network interfaces, as well as application behaviors and workflow characteristics, allowing tight control over multiple aspects of the production trading environment.Lehman Brothers-Jersey City, New Jersey-(4/03-6/08)Senior DeveloperDesigned/Developed/Supported Agent Lending Disclosure (capital calculator) system for the regulatory reporting division to calculate Lehman Brothers regulatory capital charges. The system is designed to give Lehman (broker-dealer) exposure to the underlying principals that trade through its agents as part of its securities lending business.Designed/Developed/Supported General Ledger drill down application for use across all Lehman legal entities. The drill downs have facilitated identification of the management centers that are driving the changes in revenue. The system allows the targeting of ledgers with material movements; the product controllers are notified via automated emails requesting their assistance in analyzing the relevant movements in Lehman's income statement.Designed/Developed/Supported Document Workflow Management system for the regulatory reporting division. The web application Ul utilized the .NET Framework (2.0).Paloma Partners Management Company LLC- Greenwich, Connecticut- (7/99-4/03)Software Development ManagerDesigned and developed data dissemination architecture for equity-finance department's SunGard Global One system hosted on an AIX UNIX server farm. The framework allowed downstream dissemination of the Global One Pick database data which was entered by operational personnel then being loaded ultimately into a Sybase 12 database for client/server processing/reporting. The user-interface/reporting was developed in PowerBuilder 8.0.Designed and developed Euroclear international routing/settlement system utilizing the SWIFT network for Global One stock-lending trading activity. UNIX, Perl, and Java were utilized on the back end while the user-interface/reporting was developed in PowerBuilder 8.0.Designed and developed internal Corporate Action system for the Operations department. Bloomberg, IDC, and Telekurs file feeds were processed daily via an overnight batch process which normalized the data into a Sybase 12 database. The user-interface/reporting was developed in PowerBuilder 8.0.EDUCATION:Columbia UniversityPost Graduate Advanced Certification - 360 instructional hoursThe Computer Technology and Applications ProgramRelational Database and Structured DesignBinghamton University (SUNY)Bachelor of ScienceSchool of Management Major: Management |
