Career Profile
IT Professional in the Trading Industry with 20+ years of IT, industry and management experience.
Excellent command of technologies, analysis, and best practices. Collaborate cross-functionally
across organizational levels to analyze system behavior, troubleshoot emerging issues, and develop solutions.
Capital Partner of Belvedere Trading from January 2011 to present.
Professional Experience
Oversee Infrastructure, Release, Support and Trading Desk Teams
Manage firm-wide projects and own the Production Environment
Produce annual budget forecasts and authorize expenditures
Negotiate annual and multi-year service contracts
Launched the Business Intelligence Team from ground up
Normalized data across proprietary software systems for reporting
Created dashboards for trading desk and trader evaluations
Developed complete employee review platform used by 175 employees
Managed 400+ endpoints across 6 sites with Linux/Windows environments
Utilized HP servers, Force10 (Dell) and Arista switches
Implemented trading systems: OptionsCity, ProOpticus, Orc, TT, Actant
Ensured low latency and proactive monitoring via multiple tools
Performed all IT functions as sole IT resource
Managed Application Support, Systems Admin, Network Admin, Telecom
Promoted to Special Projects group after 6 months
Led mobile command center and infrastructure upgrade projects
Technical Skills
Windows Server/Desktop
Linux
CentOS
Mac OSX
VMware
Citrix
oVirt
BGP
Multicast
Juniper
Arista
Cisco
Palo Alto
Data Center Management
SaltStack
Puppet
Splunk
Nagios
Grafana
Telegraf
SmokePing
Python
Perl
Bash
PowerShell
SQL
HTML/CSS
Flask
OptionsCity
Trading Technologies
ProOpticus
Orc
Bloomberg
Market Data
Exchange Access
MariaDB
PostgreSQL
MSSQL
InfluxDB
OneTick
SAN/NAS
Key Contributions
Automation of Workflows
Belvedere Software Authorization System, Employee Management System, and Employee Change Notification System
External Trading Groups Integration
Successfully embedded external traders into Belvedere's environment with various trading software and exchange access requirements
Performance Monitoring
Created custom monitoring solutions and load testing tools to optimize infrastructure performance and detect inefficiencies
General Purpose Websites
Company Directory, Crypto Positions tracker, Interview Rooms system, and Belvedere Office Maps
Infrastructure Projects
Led 10+ datacenter and office migrations, moves, and expansions across multiple locations
Environment Segmentation
Implemented secure development/production environment separation to prevent unauthorized access to trading systems
Core Competencies
Project Management
Leadership
Team Management
Troubleshooting
Problem Solving
Budgeting
Contract Negotiations
Financial Markets
Data Analysis
Cross-functional Collaboration
