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Work Experience

• Vice President / Shared Services, BlackRock

  Jan, 2025 - Present

  Early joiner in a new team modernizing the Aladdin Lists and Custom Investment Data System security and portfolio reference data applications used for portfolio analytics and compliance rules.

  • Wrote C++ client library for agnostic Lists/CIDS queries and integrated with compliance codebase

  • Use of Devin & internal AI framework for draft code changes, code reviews, troubleshooting, and log analysis.

• Vice President / Aladdin Dashboard, BlackRock

  Aug, 2023 - Jan, 20251 year 5 months

  Managed a team developing optimizations and enhancements to Aladdin Dashboard blotter application for portfolio management, trading and OMS workflows.

  • Modernized existing application to Java 17 compile and runtime.

  • Team leadership for next-generation web-native application replacement

• Vice President / Aladdin Order Routing, BlackRock

  Jun, 2019 - Aug, 20234 years 1 month

  Development of Aladdin Order Routing product allowing Aladdin clients to self-service JavaScript automation rules for fixed income and foreign exchange trading workflows.

  • Transitioned to fully self-service rule management by trader citizen developers

  • Added ingestion of order updates via Aladdin Event Bus / Kafka messages

  • Managed and mentored team members including one Associate, several rotating Analysts, and three summer interns during their time on the team

• Vice President / Listed Sales & Trading, Morgan Stanley

  Apr, 2014 - Apr, 20195 years

  Development of order management systems for the firm's program sales and trading business, using C++14 for backend server processes and Python for testing and analysis.

  • Handled development on sales and trading applications covering the entire lifecycle from receiving client orders via FIX protocol, pre-trade order enrichment, routing to internal algorithmic trading engines, crossing facilities, and external exchanges

  • Implemented all relevant business and regulatory requirements for handling agency and principal orders, e.g. regulation SHO position keeping and order marking, regulation NMS checks for internal executions, and trade reporting

  • Implemented a new compiler for configuration templating DSL using Java Stream API, and ANTLR4 library, delivering a 10x speed increase over previous Perl implementation

• Senior Research & Development Engineer / Source Code Governance, Bloomberg

  Nov, 2011 - Mar, 20142 years 4 months

  Evangelized and administered development tools including Git, Subversion, Jenkins, and Coverity within the R&D organization.

  • Delivered training classes and one-on-one consulting to front-line software development staff on recommended workflows

  • Wrote several Jenkins plugins in Java for automatic configuration of CI/CD pipelines

• Assistant Vice President / Equity Quantitative Analytics, Barclays Capital

  May, 2009 - Aug, 20101 year 3 months

  Implemented data feeds for ex-Lehman TAPAS (Trade and Portfolio Analytics Services) platform with NY-based team, focusing on stock and index/ETF composition data from Bloomberg & Sungard.

• Manager / Client Research, Barclays Capital

  May, 2009 - Aug, 20101 year 3 months

  Enhanced customer-facing Client Research portal with an AJAX RSS consumer, and implemented syndication of research with Bloomberg & legacy Lehman Brothers research sites.

  • Ported CGI pages to mod_perl, with custom Apache LDAP authentication module

  • Worked directly with the business to distribute research content to clients according to their regulatory requirements

• Manager / Reference Data, Barclays Capital

  May, 2006 - Dec, 20067 months

  Lead development of BAU changes for Asset Control-based internal Reference Data platform components using Perl, Visual Basic and C++, on Sybase & SQL Server databases.

  • Worked with local Project Managers and technical staff to set up projects and work environments

  • Interviewing and onboarding new hires

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