Rodrick Brown

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Director of Systems Engineering at Ballista Securities LLC

Past

Production Management Engineer at Lehman Brothers
UNIX Engineer - Subject Matter Expert (SME) - AVP at Banc of America Securities
Senior Systems Architect at Forex Capital Markets

Manager of UNIX Engineering at The City of New York DoITT
Senior IT Consultant/Architect at Mass.gov Information Technology Division
UNIX Systems Administrator at New York Life Insurance

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Rodrick Brown’s Summary

My primary expertise are in the area of large scale UNIX/Linux systems infrastructure build out and systems engineering for high frequency trading environments. I've worked on many proprietary trade order management, DMA (Direct Market Access), and market data platforms.

Experience with FIX protocol, exchange connectivity, network connectivity and tools development in Java, Perl, SQL, and UNIX shell.

General business/IT knowledge of Equities, Options and FX markets.

Rodrick Brown’s Specialties:

FIX, Quickfix/J, Appia, electronic trading, program trading, algorithmic trading, UNIX, Solaris, Linux, Java, JMS, Perl, SQL, messaging, Tibco.

Rodrick Brown’s Experience

Production Management Engineer

Lehman Brothers

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

May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Member of the U.S. equity technology group responsible for various components of Lehman’s real time, high frequency DMA/OMS equities and options trading environment.
UNIX Engineer - Subject Matter Expert (SME) - AVP

Banc of America Securities

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

May 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Worked on a team which recommended, developed, and implemented innovative solutions for the global trading infrastructure (GTI) division.
Senior Systems Architect

Forex Capital Markets

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

January 2006 — May 2006 (5 months)

Senior architect and systems administrator responsible for the growth, resilience, and scalability of FXCM’s complex real-time spot FX trading infrastructure.
Manager of UNIX Engineering

The City of New York DoITT

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

February 2002 — December 2005 (3 years 11 months)

Chief systems architect responsible for the UNIX engineering and design group that designed and implemented all major systems initatves for the city of New York such as NY311, NYC.GOV, GIS, NYSERV, DATASHARE, NYCAPS, and CITYSHARE.
Senior IT Consultant/Architect

Mass.gov Information Technology Division

(Government Relations industry)

October 2005 — December 2005 (3 months)

Technical systems designer and implementer of the Massachusetts Information Technology's AIX to Linux Migration and capacity upgrade project.
UNIX Systems Administrator

New York Life Insurance

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

February 2000 — May 2002 (2 years 4 months)

UNIX system administrator responsible for New York Life's J2EE middleware infrastructure environment.