Matthew Katz

                           147 Amity St, Apt 1
                           Brooklyn, NY 11201
                                 U.S.A.

                       Home Phone: +1-646-285-3817
Email - please include eggplant in subject line: resume@MoreLightMoreLight.com


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
    
    Software developer for the BofA Securities Prime Brokerage, which
    has been consistently ranked #1 in technology among PB's in the
    Global Custodian Prime Brokerage Survey.
    
    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:
    * 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:

    This resume is composed in resume xml. *One* source file can be
    processed through various XSL transforms to produce many output
    formats.
    

Education:

    B.S. in Computer Science, December 2000
    Univeristy of South Carolina
    
      GPA in Major: 3.9. In major with weighting for honors courses.
    

Interests:

    * SCUBA. PADI Certified Open Water Diver