Greg Jessup

Current

Senior Financial Systems Analyst/Developer at SAC Capital

Past

Senior Financial Systems Support Analyst at UBS Investment Bank
Network Administrator at Sagamore Hill Capital Management
Systems Admin/Trade Flr Support at Sagamore Hill

Systems/Internet/Sales Engineer at Kidsenergy Inc
Desktop Support Technician at Cambridgeport Bank

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Education

Northeastern University

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Industry

Financial Services

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Greg Jessup’s Summary

Creative Application developer specializing in tools for the Financial Industry. Particulaly interested in streamling and automation of processes and workflow through the use of technology.

Greg Jessup’s Specialties:

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) devlopment. Most recently architected a FLEX based dashboard for monitoring internal trading systems.
Proficient with Linux and all Microsoft Windows platforms.
Adobe FLEX, Adobe AIR, Actionscript, WebOrb, PERL CGI, SHELL, PHP, SQL, WMI Scripting, Windows Batch, Coldfusion, HTML, XML, XHTML,MYSQL, MSSQL, .NET, C#

Greg Jessup’s Experience

Senior Financial Systems Analyst/Developer

SAC Capital

(Privately Held; Investment Management industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Responsible for analysing systems and processes, then developing and implementing tools and technology which better the ability of a support team and other system analysts.

Main technologies used: C#, Perl and Adobe FLEX
Also using weborb for real time messaging.
Senior Financial Systems Support Analyst

UBS Investment Bank

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UBS; Investment Banking industry)

October 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Responsible for managing, implementing and maintaining proprietary Options Market Making system for market making in 5 options exchanges with strict quoting obligations. This includes all market links for pricing and quoting.

Developed archiving database of trading and system statistics for historical reference to catch possible bleeding and negative trading performance.

Analyze bad trade reports to pinpoint system slowness, causing pick-offs.

Work face to face with traders pre-open and intraday to maintain competitive advantage while quoting.

Leverage PERL and SHELL scripting expertise to deliver system and trading statistics to traders and quant team on demand.

Automated all repetitive tasks.

Developed a CGI user interface for global patch management, to eliminate the chance of human error and reference historical changes when the system seems slow.

Work closely with the global development team, to implement changes and resolve system issues.
Network Administrator

Sagamore Hill Capital Management

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

May 2002 — October 2005 (3 years 6 months)

Responsible for maintaining and supporting the desktop, server and network infrastructure for a 3 site WAN in US and London.
Included 50+ Servers and
100+ Desktops including trading floor applications such as Bloomber and Reuters
Mixed Windows/Linux enviromnet
Implemented full disaster recovery envirmonent.
Implementation and supported of virus, spyware and security techniques.
Development and maintained company Intranet.
Systems Admin/Trade Flr Support

Sagamore Hill

(Financial Services industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years )
Systems/Internet/Sales Engineer

Kidsenergy Inc

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

November 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 7 months)

“Jack of all trades." Maintained this job while attending Northeastern University." Was hired to handle the technology for the production web servers, development web servers, as well as the LAN, email etc for all employees. This included implementation and support of a VPN for remote users.
Also provided some development and QA for the product. (A web interface for students and teachers to work on school projects).
Did trade shows and visited with potential customers to explain the product and the technology.
Desktop Support Technician

Cambridgeport Bank

(Financial Services industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years )