Greater Chicago Area
I am regarded as.. ☑ an expert, analytical, fast, Lead developer with a particularly strong aptitude in financial, banking, insurance and accounting systems. ☑ a unique, highly innovative thinker, with quantitative skill set. ☑ a pragmatic thinker that loves to continuously learn and apply new technologies, as well as rework existing legacy systems. ☑ a technologist who loves to take a project from conception to completion, and witness a successful, solid, high quality solution used on a regular basis. ☑ an individual that is as easy to work with, as the software he produces. I was fortunate enough to have worked in large fortune 500 environments, startups, small consulting firms, large consulting firms using a multitude of various languages, architectures, and platforms. I've worked on distributed applications, N-tier, multi-threaded applications, as well as applications using advanced quantitative finance. A dedicated professional with over 25 years of expertise, as a software engineer, consultant, development manager, architect and database developer, with advanced degrees in both finance and computer science. "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." -Donald Knuth [email protected]
✯ Worked on the Silexx options,equities, and futures Trading platform. Using primarily .Net Core, WPF and PostgreSQL, implemented various enhancements involving Time and Sales, Watchlist integration, administrative features, and numerous other features to facilitate trading. ✯ Utilizing Vue.js, JavaScript and ASP.Net, developed a deployment tool, Deployment Process Manager (DPM), to facilitate Silexx deployments. This was a VUE/.Net Rest application that was able to perform scheduled deployments, ✯ Developed several webservices to interact with the Live Vol platform, integrated into the Silexx Time and Sales areas. ✯ Primary developer for the positions and trades imports for various clients on both Legacy and Core platforms. ✯ Silexx Legacy development, building, and maintaining various balance and position scripts.
✯ Azure Data Management Team -Developed ETL backend solutions using ADF, Azure functions, and Azure SQL. These solutions retrieved standard Blackrock files from azure blob storage accounts, and loaded them into respective tables. Primary focus was on deriving Security Master data ✯ PowerBI - Developed PowerBI models, data sets, and front end PowerBI reports. This also required configuring the datasets within the portal. ✯ Full Stack Developer - Developed applications designed to provide commentary on status of fixed income assets. The applications employed a number of tools and technologies, among them Angular(Typescript)/GraphQL/.NET/C#, and SQL server. ✯ Legacy Systems support - Supported the Guggenheim legacy data capture and reporting system. These system various system functioned in loading, and exporting BlackRock(Aladdin) data, Charles River Data. The legacy systems utilized VB.NET and SQL> ✯ Legacy Reporting Systems - Supported the Guggenheim legacy reporting systems including SSRS reporting and Business Objects ✯ TradePost - Setup an email alert mechanism to signal email alerts for pre-confirmed trades.
✯ Responsible for all ETL SSIS functionality. ✯ Used C# within ELT, and console applications to construct various Business Intelligence solutions. ✯ Started complete rewrite of existing Retail Edits System using ASP.NET MVC 5. Legacy applications contain an outdated mix of technologies, including FoxPro, MS-Access, VB 6, VB.net, used in primarily in five separate applications. ✯ Support Compensation Exec application, originally developed with Visual Basic, C++ and MS-Access. ✯ Support Retail reporting (MDX), and OLAP cube. BI Analysis. ✯ Responsible for third tier support of existing retail applications.
✯ Primary developer building regulatory tools concerned with electronic blue sheets, large option position reporting, OATS, anti-money laundering, equity order marking, layering reports, as well as large trader surveillance. ✯ Lead developer for the internal securities lending application ✯ Team developer, participating in the development of internal trade capture application. ✯ Assisted in the support of existing legacy applications within the clearing organization.