Professional Objective
To write powerful software that frees humans to work on interesting problems.
Programming
Languages: C# (Senior), .Net, C++, PERL, JavaScript, XML, XSL, Ruby on Rails, PHP, SQL.
Tools: SQL Server, VS 2005, XML Spy.
GUI Design: Graphical Display of Quantitative Information training from Edward Tufte, User Experience Design.
Financial Sector
Experience in: FIX, Equities, Derivitatives, Fixed Income, Front Office Flow, Trading Systems, Back Office Booking and Reconciliation, Client Interaction, Trader Interaction, Trading Floor Experience.
Employment History
Associate Vice President — Bank of America (New York, NY)
April 2004-Present
Projects:
- Created Real Time PNL 2: Excel front end VSTO C# .Net system that provides real time profit and loss changes to hedge fund clients.
- Wrote Web Reports: Client side Aspx pages that queried SQL Server and output to html, Excel, or pdf
- Initiated, Created and Released Quick Trade Monitor: Support tool for help desk to monitor EOD trade files using a Windows Forms GUI and web services.
- Initiated, Created and Evangelized Support Queries Page: Simple aspx page that reduced developer support time by 80%.
- Created Deployment System: Used to build our staging, production and development environments from automatically built MSI files.
- Extended Trade File Import System: Built out support for Ezecastle, High Velocity Trading and other formats, built UAT environment, wrote client documentation package for this C# server that imported client trades to SQL Server.
- Wrote Extensible Trade Export System: Aspx page that used stored procedures to pull data into XML transform it to client's expectations using XSL.
Achievements:
- Developed Real Time PNL 2 in 6 months with 75% resources. PNL2 supports 6000 simultaneous positions with real time pricing.
Trade Support Analyst — UBS (Stamford, Connecticut)
March 2002-March 2004
Software developer and trade support analyst for equities trading client connectivity team on the world's largest trading floor.
Projects:
- Created Program Trading Monitor: IRC and PERL bot that monitored multiple databases for Program Trading desk.
- Created Trading Deployment System: PERL system to do deployments and intraday 1 second failovers for the A4 high velocity trading system.
- Supported 400 Equities Traders: From hardware to network to software to FIX messages. Responsible for client to market trade flow.
Achievements:
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Won award: "Best Chatbot - UBS Global Equities" for interactive program trading flow monitor bot. Saved traders time and preserved client business, freed up 1 full support staff.
Software Developer — Sungard Data Systems (Rochester, NY)
January 2001-March 2002
Software developer on the BRASS/UMA/U2 system, NASDAQ Market Maker software that processed up to 70% of the volume of the NASDAQ.
All development was done in C/C++, the frontend was MOTIF
Projects:
- Created Drip Orders: Allowed market makers to drip large orders out to the market in small timed chunks to avoid moving the market.
- Increased Stability: Led small team to perform code and core dump analysis. Simplified code, reduced instability and increased customer satisfaction.
- Simplified Time in Force Code: Used Object Oriented Programming to simplify and centralize TIF code. Reduced related lines of code by 50%.
- Performed Bug Fixes: Wrote various bug fixes and customer requested enhancements.
Achievements:
- Increased core stability of the system, hunting down the top instability issues.
Software Developer — University of South Carolina Computer Services Department (Columbia, SC)
June 2000-January 2001
SQL and GUI developer responsible for data integrity in transition of all alumni information from mainframe storage to relational databases.
Projects:
- Created Data Cleaning Scripts: Wrote hundreds of sql data validation scripts to find unusual data for review and PowerBuilder frontends to display results to users.
Achievements:
- Reduced mailing costs and increased data integrity.
Honors and Recognition
- CEDA SEC JV Debate Championship, 1998
- SC State Debate Championship, 1995
Miscellany
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Education
- B.S. in Computer Science, December 2000
Univeristy of South CarolinaGPA in Major: 3.9.
In major with weighting for honors courses.
Interests
- SCUBA. PADI Certified Open Water Diver