Matthew Katz

189 Schermerhorn St, #25J Brooklyn NY 11201 U.S.A.

+1-803-753-4613 resume@MoreLightMoreLight.com

I believe in servant leadership, paying off technical debt, and investing to build technical capital that pays dividends. Computers should invisibly handle uninteresting work so that we can work on interesting and difficult problems. I make sure that they are doing their job in a way that helps us do ours. I lead teams to focus on interesting problems that yield big wins. We automate away uninteresting work and focus time where it provides tangible rewards. C# .Net C++ PERL JavaScript HTML5 CSS3 XML XSL Ruby on Rails Python PHP SQL Android Development VB Processing Vim Git SQL Server Visual Studio XML Spy jQuery AngularJS EmberJS Excel Subversion Graphical Display of Quantitative Information training from Edward Tufte User Experience Design FIX Equities Derivitatives Fixed Income Front Office Flow Trading Systems Back Office Booking and Reconciliation Client Interaction Trader Interaction Trading Floor Experience Prime Brokerage Project Lead on Orbital, a feed reader plugin for WordPress Wireframes and design on There on Time, a commuter alarm clock Featured on Open Processing for several photo art sketches Proposed, designed, and coded Valentun.es for NYC MusicHackDay, leading a team of 7. Valentun.es, a way to send a playlist over a phone, was written in Django/Python in 24 hours and won the MusixMatch prize Maintainer on Ditz, a distributed bug tracker written in Ruby One of the original developers on the Add-art plugin Executive Director - Head of Software Development and Support Perella Weinberg Partners New York NY April 2014 As Head of Software Development and Support: Revamped development process to include Jira issue tracking, estimation on efforts, on-time delivery and revamping and refactoring of old projects for speed and efficiency. Instituted practice of documenting decisions and new procedures in Confluence wiki. Converted team from Visual Source Safe to Git/Bitbucket and converted projects to Continuous Delivery/Integration/Test using Bamboo Improved rotational support and the ability for developers to assist in each others projects, breaking silos. Revamped technical hiring process, training employees on how to interview and evangelizing proper code tests for prospects across the bank. Initiated Development Summer Intern program. Liased to external vendors and technical providers including Admiral, Workday, EvalueServe, Geneva, Bloomberg PolarLake, One Source Virtual and Silverline. Took over legacy projects without current dev lead, brought up to spec and made them supportable. Launched multiple new SF orgs, with custom VisualForce pages and integrations with internal systems. Set up video training project to for new hire onboarding Managed the launch of Workday and decommission of home-grown internal HR system. Assumed the Integration and Security administrator roles. Decreased developer support time by launching an .Net MVC/Angular.JS/Microservice based portal for the business to manage processes directly. Set up a structured plan for fund launches to avoid technology firedrills. Expanded desktop support team to include application support, freeing developer time from support functions. Retrained dev team from .Net to Python. Trained support on Python scripting. Established Knowledge Centered Support. Support team able to lessen response time and repurpose documentation to provide onboarding training for new users. Shifted support team from purely regional model to global team with regional expertise. Vice President - Product Development Bank of America Merrill Lynch New York NY August 2013 March 2014 As lead of Product Development for Reporting: Organization and design of plan for decommissioning a redundant reporting facility and security master, for multi-million dollar cost savings. Worked with senior management to define requirements and mockup for new operational dashboards. Designed swap and equity report integration, extracts for dividend and coupon accruals, transfer analysis, commission summaries, UBIT monitoring, Fully Paid Lending. Initiated, planned and created new Reporting Wiki, giving business documentation on major client reports and extracts for the first time in years, up to date sales report demonstration docs, and integrating with client on boarding tools. Dead documents were changed to Living documents integrated into the development and release workflow. Designed new Reporting workflows for correct report reruns, led UAT effort. Standardized presentation of currencies, dates, times, report names, and extract report structure. Vice President - Head of Mobile Development BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage New York NY January 2013 June 2013 Managed the Mobile Design and Development team, reorganized iPad App development, managed development resources and implemented features. Managed implementation and contributed to iOS development. Worked with clients and business to test concepts. Worked with IT Security, Legal and Compliance to clear path for new features. Presented and got approval from Executive Committee. Reorganized team to provide proper source control under Git, generated documentation with AppleDoc and a testing and deployment pattern with TestFlight. Transformed the project from multiple single-points-of-failure to be supportable and maintainable. Vice President - Client Facing Technology BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage New York NY October 2008 December 2012 As lead Client Technology Relationship manager, drove technology innovation, client onboarding and satisfaction by representing clients in technology. Travelled to regional offices to visit clients to maintain relationships and drive sales. BNPP PB ranked #1 in total Global Custodian Prime Brokerage Survey 2012. Featured in COO Connect and Global Custodian in July 2012. With constrained resources implemented a 2 phase deployment, wrote lead collection teaser form. Primary technology representative during sales and onboarding for the group's most valuable clients. Designed, organized and implemented custom solutions to fit client needs for $1 billion+ hedge funds. Business had poor visibility into what was being rolled out when. Changed culture and process to serve both groups better. Planned and managed rollout of new PB Portal, Corporate Actions Portal, Wire Transfers, SMART Risk, Margin Reporting, International PB, and Securities Lending. Designed and wrote guide to working with PB web services for clients, welcome packet, PB Technology Newsletter, marketing brochures, client updates, guide to reports, etc. Guided from conception through execution. During transition from BofA to BNPP, transitioned over a hundred backend reports. Associate Vice President Bank of America New York NY April 2004 October 2008 Software developer for the BofA Securities Prime Brokerage, which was consistently ranked #1 in technology among PB's in the Global Custodian Prime Brokerage Survey. Excel front end VSTO C# .Net system that provides real time profit and loss changes to hedge fund clients. Client side Aspx pages that queried SQL Server and output to html, Excel, or pdf Support tool for help desk to monitor EOD trade files using a Windows Forms GUI and web services. Simple aspx page that reduced developer support time by 80%. Used to build our staging, production and development environments from automatically built MSI files. 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. Aspx page that used stored procedures to pull data into XML transform it to client's expectations using XSL. 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. IRC and PERL bot that monitored multiple databases for Program Trading desk. PERL system to do deployments and intraday 1 second failovers for the A4 high velocity trading system. From hardware to network to software to FIX messages. Responsible for client to market trade flow. 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 Allowed market makers to drip large orders out to the market in small timed chunks to avoid moving the market. Led small team to perform code and core dump analysis. Simplified code, reduced instability and increased customer satisfaction. Used Object Oriented Programming to simplify and centralize TIF code. Reduced related lines of code by 50%. Wrote various bug fixes and customer requested enhancements. 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. Wrote hundreds of sql data validation scripts to find unusual data for review and PowerBuilder frontends to display results to users. Reduced mailing costs and increased data integrity. Proposed, organized and led Team Valentunes to create a site that finds songs to serenade your sweetheart, then calls them and plays them the playlist. Django based site and iPhone app completed in 24 hours from pitch to working demo. Won the MusixMatch best api use award: a trip to Italy. 2011 Charles Yu and Wired held a contest to win the all-metal version of his debut novel. I won the contest with an auto-illustrating short story. 2010 1998 1995 How to Make Your Own Engagement Ring Gizmodo.com http://gizmodo.com/5616983/how-to-make-your-own-engagement-ring I announced our engagement and elopement on my website with three articles: How to keep a secret, How to make an engagement ring, and How to elope. They were cited by the DIY community including Make Magazine and the How to make an engagement ring article was republished by Gizmodo. This resume is composed in resume xml. One source file can be processed through various XSL transforms to produce many output formats. B.S. Computer Science December 2000 University of South Carolina PADI Certified Open Water Diver Furniture design and construction Small batch beer brewing