Ben Lackey

Current

Quantitative Analyst and Developer at Unnamed Proprietary Trading Group
Solutions Consultant at TIBCO Software Ltd.

Past

Consultant at TIBCO Software Inc.
Senior Architect at TrakWell Medical Technologies
Founding Partner at Z-edit.com, LLC

Intern at University of Colorado, Boulder
Software Developer at Mountaintop Graphics

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Education

Colorado School of Mines
University of Colorado at Boulder

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Computer Software

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Ben Lackey’s Summary

Presales representative with a strong technical background and successful experience selling across verticals, building relationships from the CxO level to the developer level. 12+ years of experience in IT presales, evangelism and development.

Ben Lackey’s Specialties:

Ultra Low Latency Messaging, Complex Event Processing (CEP), Event Driven Architecture (EDA), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Ben Lackey’s Experience

Quantitative Analyst and Developer

Unnamed Proprietary Trading Group

(Financial Services industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Worked with a team of fixed income traders to build strategies based on the analysis of order book dynamics.
• Architected and built black box framework using Trading Technologies XTrader, Trading Technologies FIX Adapter, QuickFIX and in house trade engine.
Solutions Consultant

TIBCO Software Ltd.

(Public Company; TIBX; Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

• Promoted TIBCO’s value proposition to a variety of hedge funds and finance ISVs resulting in sales of TIBCO’s ultra high performance messaging products such as RV IPM as well as recurring OEM revenue from trading platform embedding.
• Led POC at top 5 London investment bank. Demonstrated how TIBCO CEP can provide complex trade transformation and routing across the entire bank at 40,000msg/sec resulting in ongoing service revenue.
• Built value proposition and use case for top 3 Contract Research Organization (CRO) using TIBCO tools, resulting in multiple sales as well as recurring OEM revenue.
• Led POC and built relationships with a partner resulting in the selection of TIBCO as both BPM and ESB vendor across an agency handling over £2 billion in claims annually.
Consultant

TIBCO Software Inc.

(Public Company; TIBX; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 2 months)

• Led POC at top 5 London investment bank to integrate legacy batch transfer, IBM MQ and Java systems into a SOA using TIBCO’s EAI and SOA tools with TIBCO’s rules engine, BusinessEvents for SLA compliance monitoring.
• Worked with GFI Group to design a system to coordinate trades between London, New York and Singapore using BusinessEvents and JMS, resulting in both license and service revenue.
• Prototyped EAI infrastructure and AJAX Comet/web service client for Royal Bank of Scotland resulting in RBS choosing to use a TIBCO based solution.
• Worked with Rand Merchant Bank to architect a credit application system using TIBCO’s BPM suite exposed to an AJAX client as web services.
• Demonstrated TIBCO’s EAI tool to London hedge fund, resulting in a sale after a 2 hour demo.
Senior Architect

TrakWell Medical Technologies

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 4 months)

• Architected and developed flagship .NET CF application to remotely gather medication compliance statistics and modify prescriptions in real time using smart phones.
• Presented Prescription Management application to HMOs, clinics and investors.
• Consulted with General Mills to develop an application for assessing employee health using Windows Mobile smart phones.
• Successfully led a team of engineers developing the prescription management system’s JMS based communications infrastructure and .NET and SQL web application back end.
Founding Partner

Z-edit.com, LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1999 — January 2002 (2 years 3 months)

• Designed CGI, PHP and HTML for corporate web site front-end enabling customers to submit papers for proofreading and automatically dispense work to proof readers.
• Administered UNIX Open BSD server DNS, Sendmail, Apache, etc.
Intern

University of Colorado, Boulder

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1999 — June 2000 (10 months)

• Developed a Java web application used by the L3D group for collaborative design.
• Built Swing and AWT GUI to visualize network connections allowing the disparate groups to connect.
Software Developer

Mountaintop Graphics

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 3 months)

• Built VRML model of the Front Range with hyperlinks to major ski resorts for client demo.
• Constructed a high resolution (120mb) Inventor model of San Francisco for trade exposition.
• Automated VRML generation in C, C++ and Perl. These programs were used to automatically generate place names directly on terrain in a production system.
• VRML interface design for the manipulation of a 3d globe used on corporate home page.

Ben Lackey’s Education

Colorado School of Mines

MS , Computer Science: Machine Learning , 2003 — 2005

• Generalized support vector machines for polychotomous classification in Matlab, a Java package for WEKA and as a computationally efficient C library for MySVM on Windows.
• Automated segmentation of Visible Human Database in C, C++ for Linux allowing hand segmentation work to be done five times more quickly.

Lackey, J. (2005). A Kernel Method for Polychotomous Classification. Masters Thesis. Colorado School of Mines, Golden. http://ben.nonplatonic.com/kernel.pdf

Lackey, J. and Colagrosso, M (2004). Supervised Segmentation of Visible Human Data with Image Analogies. Proceedings of the MLMTA 04, Vol. 2. http://ben.nonplatonic.com/segmentation.pdf
University of Colorado at Boulder

BA, BS , Math, Computer Science , 1999 — 2003

• Designed a spiking neural network for time series prediction of self-organized critical systems in Java showing that spiking nets have practical applications.
• Found information theoretic evidence for unifying theory of attractor nets, Bayesian nets and spiking nets using Mathematica neural networks and Java.

Lackey, J. (2003). Computational Dynamics of a Spiking Neural Network. Honors Thesis. University of Colorado, Boulder. http://ben.nonplatonic.com/spike.pdf