• Project Management / Business Analysis.  Introduced RAP, SCRUM, AGILE techniques to development and testing teams.  Integrated iterative development to assure accurate schedules and deadlines.
• Project Leadership. Accomplished team leader who has experience working with both technical staff and senior management. Has strong relations with vendors and firms across the financial services industry including trading desks and the back office.  Supportive and mentoring role with staff.  Successful and productive relationships with members of a development team dispersed internationally.  Responsible for all aspects of university research computing facility.
• Systems Planning and Architecture. Deep and broad experience overseeing and successfully completing the deployment of clearing and trading software from initial strategy through concept, design, development, testing and implementation.  Quick, dynamic support of requests for programs and tools for investigation and research.
• IT Operations Management / Production & Infrastructure Support.  Supported multiple national and international internal/external groups and teams. Mission Critical systems include Web, Banking, Clearing, Pricing, Post-trade.  24x7 Unix Systems Administration.
• Methodology Driven Application Development.  Extensive background as productive developer, creating well-instrumented code that supports ongoing maintenance and enhancements.  Participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle with formality levels varying between projects.

Sr. Linux/Unix Sys Admin – Client: Northern Trust, Chicago, Illinois    December 2010 to January 2011

• Created New Build Tools – Shell scripts for Oracle data volume and Linux file system logical volume setup.
• Created shell scripts to audit newly built Solaris hosts to verify that packages, patches, and build tasks have been installed and performed.

Unix Technical Specialist – Client: ICE Trust, Chicago, Illinois    March 2006 to October 2010

• Project Manager/Sr. Unix Sys Admin  (Unix Technical Specialist 2006 – 2010)
• Business Analyst/Project Manager/Design Lead (Technical Specialist 2002 – 2004)
• Senior Analyst/Developer (Senior Applications Systems Analyst 2001 – 2002)
• Analyst/Developer (Applications Systems Analyst 1997 – 2001)

• Production Operations and Infrastructure
• Managed projects to re-engineer, upgrade, or migrate infrastructure systems and services.
• Served as Unix System Administrator for production servers, supporting 1,000 users, maintained robust 24x7 operation, supporting Chicago and Atlanta data centers, while interfacing with vendors, trading, and clearing partners world-wide (i.e., New York, London, Johannesburg) to resolve targeted system issues while ensuring all transactions and data are processed accurately and securely.
• Administered / configured monitoring platforms to ensure optimal performance and alerting capabilities; test and apply new software and maintenance patches, including patch management services. Worked with development staff to troubleshoot or improve trading systems software; completed security audits on a routine basis; performed administrative scripting with Perl and shell-scripting.
• Maintained system integrity, support change management, problem management, peripheral connectivity and release distribution.
• Managed, Designed, and Contributed to the engineering of new systems and re-engineering of existing systems.

• Traveled to South Africa to manage implementation for their client. Served as project manager and principal IT engineer for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange migration and implementation of the ECS product for clearing Equities and Derivatives; Also assisted with the installation and configuration of the hardware and software; helped establish a robust and reliable platform.  Helped establish development environment at JSE.
• Collaborated with JSE to get them up and running, taking them to the point where they could assume operation, maintenance, and testing, as well as, development of the source code.
• Directed the implementation of the Bloomberg Price Server installation, which required troubleshooting, overcoming and developing solutions for various price interruption and incidents.
• Reimplemented and Managed the SWIFT Alliance servers on the Solaris Platform in close collaboration with the Treasury Department; completely replaced the entire system from the network links and hardware through software, producing an extremely stable system with multiple redundant components spread across two data centers that provides increased reliability and reduces risk, and which continues to provide dividends to ICE Trust and its participants.
• Performed production builds for Weblogic and Websphere apps; performed Subversion, Perforce, and Clearcase builds, which were released to both internal and external clients.
• One of five people authorized to reboot ICET production servers.
• Coordinated infrastructure moves and office move.

Textura, LLC, Chicago, Illinois    September 2005 to February 2006

• Apache/Python (LAMP) web application development.
• Author IT Operations Guide.  Author IT Operations Plan.  ITIL
• Coordinated office move and infrastructure verification.
• Tools- Fogbugz.

Project Manager – Client: 7ticks/BigTick Inc., Chicago, Illinois    November 2004 to May 2005

• Managed architecture, design, development and deployment of a large-scale financial derivatives and securities trading system.  (Entire dev team was offshore).
• Wrote use cases.
• Coordinated international development team tasks and deliverables. 
• Managed conformance testing and approval of product with CBOT and CME exchanges.
• System administration on Suns.
• Configured SVM disk mirrors.
• Networking and Security Implementation.
• Authored Operations Manual. 

ICE Trust / The Clearing Corporation, Chicago, Illinois    March 1997 to September 2004

• Project Manager/Sr. Unix Sys Admin  (Unix Technical Specialist 2006 – 2010)
• Business Analyst/Project Manager/Design Lead (Technical Specialist 2002 – 2004)
• Senior Analyst/Developer (Senior Applications Systems Analyst 2001 – 2002)
• Analyst/Developer (Applications Systems Analyst 1997 – 2001)

• Implementation Manager- Proposed, analyzed and modeled redesign of ticker processing, including TIBCO RSF and KRF price feeds. 
• Project Leader for implementation, directing six staff and coordination between three departments.
• Project Manager/Technical Lead/Design Lead for successfully completed $15 million project replacing a derivatives clearing system used to clear trade transactions of CBOT with OMX Secur.
• The upgraded system provides real-time position information and on-demand profit/loss functionality, increased throughput and real-time access to market information.
• Supports new clients requiring expanded functionality. 
• The system was developed using Xml, C++, Perl, Oracle, Solaris, OMX Secur.
• Acted as primary business domain expert for project.
• Achieved repeatable throughput in excess of 1.1 million transactions (four times CBOT peak day) in less than four hours.
• Wrote evaluations of team members (matrix management).
• Structured and defined central derivatives product database specifying trading and backoffice features of products traded at the CBOT, CME, and Eurex futures exchanges.
• Designed, Specified, and Deployed real-time application level monitoring capabilities to facilitate operational control, performance analysis and process scheduling.  System was developed using AppMind and Patrol.
• Project Manager- Introduced automated testing tools to the development process, reducing costs.
• Led acceptance team of 8 developers and testers.
• Wrote acceptance test scenarios and requirements, defined performance levels.
• Ensured that vendor delivered system components met specific acceptance criteria by analyzing, defining, preparing and executing a battery of automated tests to validate system functionality and performance.
• Subsequent use of the automated tests facilitated a performance tuning effort that achieved a four-fold transaction volume increase necessary to meet new business requirements. 
• Project Manager- Integrated a vendor provided system, OMX Secur, through a flexible (XML interface) multi-user message gateway that centralized logic to interface with upstream and downstream (Mainframe and Unix) clearing systems. 
• The process architecture proved extremely valuable and flexible when it became necessary to introduce complex business logic not supported by the vendor’s software.
• Specified requirements for failover and recovery.
• Verified vendor conformance.
• Led integration team of 10 developers and 3 testers plus database, network, and infrastructure groups.
• Applied relational database components to provide straightforward and reliable inter-system data communication resulting in a scalable and resilient design that permits applications to process required volumes of information without risk of data loss.
• System includes Oracle clustering and Veritas clustering.
• Clarified understanding of factors impacting system performance and application stability by integrating monitoring and control points into critical applications. 
• While the immediate benefits included improved response times and significantly fewer service interruptions, the adoption of application monitoring generated increased attention toward application performance among developers and testers.

A.B. Coxe and Associates/ABC Trading, Chicago, Illinois    January 1997 to March 1997

• Computing facility design and requirements. Budget and purchasing. Software system requirements and design.

Logical Information Machines, Chicago, Illinois    April 1995 to January 1997

• Senior MIM product support and Senior Unix System Administrator
• Requirements gathering for next generation of MIM product, including management of alpha testing of new releases.
• Supported technical staff in London, Tokyo, New York, Austin and Chicago offices. Supported sixty trading clients in ten countries, including remote Solaris system administration for forty sites.

Applied Financial Management, Chicago, Illinois    April 1994 to April 1995

• Computer room and technical office design for facilities move. 
• Design and develop financial performance monitor, giving a snapshot report of 30 billion dollar commodities portfolio.

DT Trading/AM Investors, Chicago, Illinois    November 1987 to March 1994

• Designed, developed, coded, and supported proprietary financial modeling and real-time risk management tools for multi-million dollar options trading firm, providing emphasis on correctness, usability, availability, performance and robustness.  Improved risk run performance from hours to seconds.
• Automated exchange floor trading operations.
• Managed and specified computing, networking and datacomm facilities.
• Up and running throughout the Great Chicago Flood. Accomplished with no down time to traders, because I had redundant systems already setup and configured as part of a fully implemented disaster recovery plan.
• Supervised and directed development staff and contractors.

University of Chicago, Computer Sciences Department, Chicago, Illinois    February 1983 to November 1987

• Developed and maintained a state of the art computing facility to support computer science faculty research.  Built a heterogeneous Unix-based computing facility.  Designed MacLab for students.
• Responsible for all aspects of departmental research computing facility, including design, planning, budget writing, purchasing, installation, maintenance, system administration and staffing.  Six full and part-time reports.
• Principal architect of university-wide networking facilities.  Participated in the design of the Chicago regional network.  Cisco. TCP/IP.

University of Chicago, Mathematics Department, Chicago, Illinois    October 1982 to February 1983

• Wrote software to support faculty teaching programming courses.

• GSEC Certified, 2011
• Improved portability and readability of the Blowfish encryption algorithm.  Developed and coded testing routines. Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography, 2nd Edition (1996)
• Macintosh owner. (1984-present)

• SANS Security Bootcamp (2010), Storage (2010), DNS (2009), UC Booth: Derivatives (2008), Linux (2005), Bloomberg (2010,2005), Omne (2004), OMX (2003-1999), DB2 (2001, 2000), EstCalc (2001), RUP/UML/Rose (1999) Sybase (1999, 1994), Forte (1998), VB (1998), Java (1998), TIB (1995), Firewalls (1994), Tufte: Envisioning Information (1993)

1. Automated near real-time clearing of trade transactions. (OMX Secur).
2. Risk management and reporting based on aggregated portfolio data. (OMX Secur).
3. Intraday reconciliation of positions and trades. (OMX Secur).
4. Automated giveup processing. (ACT).
5. Automated capture of price and reference data from feed vendors and exchanges. (TIB and direct).
6. Continuous intraday compliance monitoring and alerts. (Realtime Pay/Collect and Net Debit Cap).
7. Monitored FX impact on portfolio. (Realtime Pay/Collect).
8. Generated electronic payment (via SWIFT) and settlement (via Deliveries) instructions. (OMX Secur).

• eXtreme Programming/SCRUM, Object Oriented Design & Development. C, Java, C++, csh, sh, awk, sed, perl, tcl/tk,  SQL Oracle/Sybase/MySQL.  Html/XML. Relational Database Design, Unix/Linux/Mac, Windows, MQ, Mercury testing tools, Rational Unified Process, Purify/Quantify/Clearquest/Clearcase, BMC Patrol, AutoSys scheduler, AppMind and OmneMon application monitoring.