2000 - 2009
Principle Software Architect/Lead Developer/Owner
- Strategic design, implementation and management of high performance and extreme low latency solutions for several key Stock Exchanges based in the US and in Europe.
- Reported directly to firm ownership
- Managed the training and development of staff members to develop their skills and maintain state of the art knowledge in their of area responsibility.
- Acted creatively to facilitate complex business and technical needs, develops complex action plans and strategies, analyzes the impact of decisions, and mentored others through the solution process.
- Manage infrastructure architecture related services by using knowledge of firm standards to determine appropriate infrastructure architecture, and reviewing infrastructure operations project schedule, budget variance, and operational issue status reports.
- Oversaw complete reengineering of MST products to an open architecture based upon open source solutions.
- Negotiation of contracts and Service Level Agreements with vendors in the areas of procurement, telecommunications, supply, service and support.
- Conceptualize, design, develop and maintain $4M Index Calculation System used by the American Stock Exchange
- Build and maintains productive relationships with a wide range of clients within international and area business units.
Hardware / Operating System
Stratus Technologies, Linux on 64-bit ftserver
Hewlerd Packard, HPUX on 64-bit Itanium based systems
Various vendors, Red Hat Linux on 64-bit Intel based systems__
Technology
Programming languages
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java - Eclipse RCP
- PL/1 - interfaces to new services
Products
- Market Data Network (MDN) - low latency messaging system that directly competed in functionality and speed against Tibco Rendezvous, Wombat Mamda, and 29 Wests LBM
- Market Access - high speed market data system with direct connectivity to all US market centers
Company Background
Market Systems Technology, Inc., formerly a division of Dow Jones and Co., has been a premium provider of ticker plant solutions for the financial services industry using the Stratus Technologies platform.
Address
Suite 1520
99 Summer Street
Boston MA 02110
United States
Phone: +16177378530
Website: http://www.mktsystech.com