Michael Tepp

Current

Director at Michael Tepp Consulting Pte Ltd

Past

Principal Developer at TradingScreen
Technology Specialist at UBS Investment Bank Japan
Professional at Lehman Brothers Japan

Consultant at JP Morgan Japan
Senior Analyst at Barclays Japan
Consultant at Merrill Lynch Japan
Scientific Programmer at A.I. Laboratory, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Intern at DFKI GmbH

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Education

State University of New York at Albany
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Connections

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Industry

Financial Services

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Michael Tepp’s Summary

I have a degree in computer science, am a certified IT project manager, Sun certified Java programmer, and certified Scrum master. I have more than 15 years of experience in the development of low latency, highly reliable electronic trading systems and algorithmic trading applications. I have worked on software projects for basket trading, single stock trading, derivatives, portfolio management, PNL calculations, index arbitrage, and more.

Michael Tepp’s Specialties:

server side Java development, financial software, front office IT, electronic trading, algorithmic trading, EMS, IT consulting, IT project manager, Scrum master, low latency, highly reliable

Michael Tepp’s Experience

Director

Michael Tepp Consulting Pte Ltd

(Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

I am offering software development services for the financial industry. Since founding the company, I have been working with TradingScreen on electronic trading server applications written in Java.
Principal Developer

TradingScreen

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

August 2004 — November 2009 (5 years 4 months)

At TradingScreen, I am taking care of core Java services like order routing, client data server, product data server. etc. to enhance reliability and functionality.
Technology Specialist

UBS Investment Bank Japan

(Public Company; UBS; Investment Banking industry)

August 2002 — July 2004 (2 years )

At UBS, I designed, developed, and supported a high performance, distributed automated trading platform for index arbitrage at the automated trading desk. In this context, I also worked with vendor staff to integrate third party TSE and OSE line handlers. In addition, I helped in the development of other algorithmic trading strategies.
Professional

Lehman Brothers Japan

(Public Company; LEH; Capital Markets industry)

January 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 8 months)

At Lehman Brothers, I supervised two consultants to implement a warrant market making system. I also developed and supported front office desktop applications for the CB desk. For Japanese Government Bond trading, I performed the Tokyo implementation of a global bond trading system.
Consultant

JP Morgan Japan

(Public Company; JPM; Investment Banking industry)

January 1998 — January 2001 (3 years 1 month)

At JP Morgan, I headed a team of four developers to maintain and support the proprietary equities trading system. Before that, I was part of the development team that built the trading system.
Senior Analyst

Barclays Japan

(Public Company; BARC; Banking industry)

January 1997 — January 1998 (1 year 1 month)

At Barclays BZW, I developed, maintained, and supported a position keeping and P&L system for the convertible bond desk.
Consultant

Merrill Lynch Japan

(Public Company; MER; Financial Services industry)

February 1994 — January 1997 (3 years )

At Merrill Lynch, I developed the graphic user interface for a technical trading system that was based on genetic algorithms. Later, I ported the prop desk's execution management system from Unix to Windows NT. I also built a number of desktop applications for the portfolio trading desk.
Scientific Programmer

A.I. Laboratory, Erasmus University Rotterdam

(Research industry)

January 1991 — December 1993 (3 years )

At this A.I. Laboratory I designed and implemented a modeling tool for causal reasoning. This was part of a research project to develop a decision support system for the management of dairy farms.
Intern

DFKI GmbH

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1988 — July 1989 (8 months)

At the DFKI, I implemented unification algorithms for the automated reasoning group.