New York, New York, United States
Market Data professional, ECN Product manager, IT Project Management, BCP Project implementation, Capital Markets Business Analyst, Unix/Solaris/Linux System Administrator and Senior Consultant within the financial technology industry. Innovative, hands-on, results-oriented problem solver. Background in operations, MD application development support, systems architecture and re-engineering arenas. Experienced architect in trading floor system design, implementation and level Tier 1 through 3 systems support. Proficient in management and support of Reuters RMDS trading floor Market Data systems, MD Vendors, ECN’s and various Market Data Services including related application and end user components. Strong leadership qualities combined with excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
IT Consultant----Project Management/Business Analyst • Audit, Analytics, Risk Assessment and Trend Analysis via ETL/ELT tools for large data handling: DACS, Informix, ACL and other tools for vendor, internal and external/government compliance. Report generation for Exchange, Vendor compliance and usage reporting. • Extranet/Exchange/FIX Connectivity and overall ECN product management.. • Vendor Contract Negotiations and SLA creation/management. • Network Technology troubleshooting, fault remediation and MDS applicable support. • Project Methodologies-Process Mgt. AGILE Waterfall RAD Six Sigma (Green Belt) certified/LEAN Six Sigma SME within IDM Project initiative. ITIL/SDLC proficient. • MDS Client usage modeling, server/client infrastructure configuration and analysis of In house and external applications for internal and external audit compliance. • Infrastructure Demand Management and capacity planning for TCO and overall cost savings targeting.
Bus. Analyst for TR EIKON Deployment (all Markets). • Independent consultant leading the UBS-sponsored initiative to displace 3000+ existing market data terminals with new terminals (Thomson Reuters EIKON) • Built relationships with UBS senior management to develop a roadmap for short- and long-term TR EIKON deployments / displacements of current MDS usage. • Worked with MDS users such as desk heads and senior traders to map out usage requirements, develop metrics, user stories and other documentation. • Worked closely with Thomson Reuters management and field specialists on deployment of their product.
Market Data Specialist/System Administrator • Daily administration and support of the multiple Market Data Infrastructures, end users, client applications and the support of business development and development teams including daily administration and support of NT, Unix, Solaris and Linux Operating Systems. • Maintain vendor and user permission and vendor reporting via DACS. • Lead SME on RMDS 5.x to 6.x upgrades including Solaris to Linux operating systems (multiple installations). • Analyze actual end user and application data consumption and reconcile with DACS, end users and the various Brokerage Desk Heads. • Project Management of various cost savings initiatives, Business Continuity projects and Data usage/audit compliance efforts. • Project Management of MDS related Data Center server consolidation and new data center build out projects.
Independent Consultant. Acted as BA lead for major financial Asset Management/Process vetting project for senior management as well as being a Subject Matter Expert on risk management implementations including the development of a trade-order routing system solution for a front office deployment. • Team Leader for a large technical writing documentation initiative that captured trade data flow internally and externally with regards to the institutions Equities division. • Executed major data center reconfiguration to fascilitate the deployment of the latest Direct Feed components in support of the OPRA, NBBO and direct feed Exchange connectivity configurations. Provided support of the software and hardware buildouts for the Phase 1 and Phase 2 deployments, including installation and support on Unix and Solaris based O.S. infrastructure • Business Analyst role analyzing the client’s actual data usage of the Canadian based Exchange groups including information derived from a third party audit done at the behest of the Exchange via the System Administration and configuration analysis of the Unix, Solaris and Linux based O.S. based platforms. Clients include: Credit Suisse, Barclay Capital, Lehman Brothers, via Enterprise Solution Providers Inc. Reuters, Caxton Associates LLC, Natexis Bleichroeder via West Highland Inc.