Director of Systems Engineering at Ballista Securities
Greater New York City Area
Director of Systems Engineering at Ballista Securities
Greater New York City Area
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.
FIX, Quickfix/J, Appia, electronic trading, program trading, algorithmic trading, UNIX, Solaris, Linux, Java, JMS, Perl, SQL, messaging, Tibco.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
IEEE, NYJavaSIG, BUG, UNIGROUP, USENIX, SAGE