Rodrick Brown

Current

Founder / Senior Consultant / High Freq. Low Latency Eng. @ Credit Suisse at Orvid Technologies

Past

VP - Environmental Manager / Infrastructure Architect - Municipal Bond Trading Technology at Citi
VP / Director of Engineering at Ballista Securities LLC
Production Manager High Frequency DMA at Lehman Brothers

Subject Matter Expert - Associate Vice President at Banc of America Securities
Senior Systems Architect - FXCM at Forex Capital Markets
Senior IT Consultant/Architect at Mass.gov Information Technology Division
Manager of UNIX Engineering at The City of New York DoITT
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 high performance systems infrastructure build out and engineering for high frequency, low latency trading environments.

I can provide very low cost consulting services in the areas of co-locating trading systems for the lowest possibly latency to various trading venues in the NY, and Chicago areas. Establish and manage exchange & network connectivity to all major US stock, futures, and options exchanges.

I’ve help built out many high frequency, low latency real-time Linux/Unix solutions for various clients, assist in negotiating leased lines with various network providers to find optimal paths for the lowest latencies, evaluated emerging technologies such as 10gbe, Infiniband, CEP engines, FIX engines, messaging products such as Solace, Tervela, Tibco, 29West and IBM MQ to fit your business needs.

My services are ideal for proven traders, hedge fund and portfolio managers looking to go off on their own and build very reliable trading infrastructures with out having to worry about the intricate technical details of establishing relationships between various IT vendors, exchanges, or technical staff. I can be that bridge you need to clearly take your business requirements and turn them into technical deliverables.

Extensive knowledge working with FIX based applications, exchange and ECN connectivity, network connectivity, tools development in Java, Perl, SQL, and UNIX shell.

Equity Markets (cash markets)
Bond Markets / Fixed Income markets
Foreign Exchange (FX) markets
Options and Futures Derivatives markets
Trade order management systems (including FIX)
Order routing and display systems
Order matching systems (ECN, ATS)
Clearing and Settlement systems
Risk management systems
Market data systems / Market Data Feeds - networks, feed handlers, data aggregators
In-Memory / Tick / Event / Stream processing databases

Rodrick Brown’s Specialties:

Linux kernel tuning for high transaction, low latency trading systems, FIX, FAST, Quickfix/J, Appia, Fixecution, Verifix, ActivFeed, Solace, Netezza, NVIDIA® Tesla S1070, electronic trading, program trading, algorithmic trading, UNIX systems, clustering, Solaris, Linux Engineering, Arista Networks, Exegy, Coral8, Gemfire Cache, Dtrace, SystemTap, Java, JMS, Perl, SQL, TibcoRV, various hardware and software based messaging products and toolkits.

Rodrick Brown’s Experience

VP - Environmental Manager / Infrastructure Architect - Municipal Bond Trading Technology

Citi

(Public Company; C; Financial Services industry)

April 2009 — October 2009 (7 months)

Working on various technology projects in the fixed income municipal bond trading group at Citi.

Key Projects Tibco EMS, Solaris => Linux migrations, Gemfire Cache
VP / Director of Engineering

Ballista Securities LLC

(Financial Services industry)

April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Technical manager responsible for Ballista's proprietary equity options trading infrastructure. I manage and lead a team of engineers responsible for all trading system components and infrastructure engineering for of a high volume, low latency block trading alternative trading system (ATS) for US equity options.

Key projects: Infrastructure build out, Systems Engineering, Production Management, Tools development Java/Perl.
Production Manager High Frequency DMA

Lehman Brothers

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

May 2007 — April 2008 (1 year )

Senior member of the core U.S. equities technology and client connectivity group responsible for various components of Lehman’s real time, high frequency, low latency (sub milli) DMA/OMS equities and options trading environment R.A.P.T.O.R.

Key technologies: Appia, Tradescope, Perl, Java, FIX, FAST, TibcoRVD, Wombat
Subject Matter Expert - Associate Vice President

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 highly specialized and technical team which recommended, developed, and implemented innovative solutions for the global trading infrastructure (GTI) division at Banc of America Securities LLC. Key projects worked on we're Netezza a hardware based database appliance and Redhat Global File System.
Senior Systems Architect - FXCM

Forex Capital Markets

(Privately Held; 501-1000 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.

Key projects: UNIX LDAP and Kerberous integration
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.
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 that lead the UNIX systems engineering and design group that implemented all major systems initiatives for the city of New York such as NY311, NYC.GOV, GIS, NYSERV, DATASHARE, NYCAPS, CITYSHARE, Sun Fire 15K, Hitatchi HDS 9980 and the city's global LDAP build-out using Novel eDirectory on Sun Fire hardware.
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.