Brooklyn, N.Y.
(H) 718 855-8713
(W) 212 589-0480 (C) 917 412-0756
Seasoned IT professional with extensive knowledge of market data systems, front-end trading systems, OMS and order routing systems as well as backend hardware and network infrastructure. Effective team leader and technical business liaison with excellent communication skills.
Licenses
and Certifications:
NASD Series 7 & 63. Microsoft MCP. Member, SIA/DMD.
Professional
Experience:
U.S. Clearing Corp./Fleet Securities inc., New York, N.Y.
- Jersey City, N.J.
Trade Systems Manager, Trade Systems Analyst, Network Administrator/Level II support March, 1997 - pres.
· Provide multi-level support and performance monitoring, tuning and documentation of trading floor systems including NASDaq, Brass, QMS/UMA and Instinet.
· Setup and administer desktop equity trading and market data applications including: Reuters+, Open Bloomberg, Instinet R&A, ILX, ADP, Bridge Station, Optimark.
· Interface with business unit executives, traders, compliance personnel and vendors to address functionality problems with trading systems and related order message routing via SuperSoes, SelectNet, FIX, Bnet and ECNs.
· Attend Nasdaq user and technical forums to help assess the business and technical impact of OTC market structural changes related to decimalization, SuperSoes and SuperMontage.
· Manage projects for installation and upgrade of trade floor systems and infrastructure including capacity planning, specifications, fail-over ability and response to business concerns.
· Coordinate efforts of vendors and our internal network engineers and system administrators to properly integrate outside systems into our LAN/WAN.
· Leverage network technical knowledge to continually interact with trade system and market data vendors to upgrade/add services and address concerns regarding application performance, flexibility and cost.
· Manage production support department of 2 technical personnel including project assignment, employee development and performance evaluation.
· Document IT departmental procedures and business unit material including user instruction, training and logs of service outages.
· Monitor Brass and QMS/UMA display server and Nasdaq SDP performance and load balancing on a weekly basis.
· Coordinated conversion from Unix-Solaris workstations to NT and managed technical problems related to trading volume increase from 15k to 100k+ trades per day for Nash Weiss (later renamed Fleet Trading).
· Responsible for installing/troubleshooting ADP terminal and printer emulation sessions in DOS and Windows environments.
· Setup and managed bindery/NDS objects within Netware 3.12/4.11 environment, including application access (btrieve), network printing (pconsole, printdef, printcon) and WAN access (inetcfg, nwipcfg, flexcon, unicon).
· Second level troubleshooting of workstations and servers including network and application access and hardware maintenance.
· Migrated DOS/Windows 3.x workstations to Windows 95/NT on Dell and Compaq platforms including upgrading ROM, upgrading/replacing hardware/peripherals and configuring network access.
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Installed and upgraded client applications, including
Oracle client, terminal emulation and in-house applications.
Peoples Securities inc., Bridgeport, Ct.
October, 1992 - February, 1997.
· Responsible for day-to-day operation and support of 80 user network segment within 3000 node WAN.
· Responsible for user maintenance and security, group maintenance and file security.
· Provided PC support, troubleshooting, optimization and one-to-one training.
· Setup necessary hardware, system and application software on new workstations; upgraded and/or replaced as needed.
· Setup and documented IP addressing for workstations using NetManage suite.
· Managed network performance and monitored storage availability.
· Maintained job rating exceeding requirements for four consecutive years.
· Efficiently performed client trading activities within a fast paced brokerage environment.
· Analyzed and interpreted data for corporate strategy committee using Access and Excel.
Hibbard, Brown & Co. inc., New York, N.Y.
Account Executive
August, 1991, June, 1992.
· Advised clients on financial plans in a self-motivating sales environment.
· Responsible for originating, managing and maintaining customer accounts.
Technical
Qualifications:
Market Data systems: Nasdaq NWII (SDP/PD), Primex, Instinet Book (16/32 bit),
Brass, Brut/QMS-UMA, FSI Tools of the Trade, Triad, Reuters+, ILX, Instinet
R&A, Open Bloomberg, Bridge IOE, Bridge Station.
Applications: MSOffice, OpenConnect/WebConnect
& Rabbit 3270 emulation, Netscape Navigator 2.0 to Communicator, MS
Internet Explorer, Ghost Pro 4.0, TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, PPP, IPX/SPX, HTML.
Systems: Windows 2000/XP, Windows NT 4.0
(Workstation/Server), Windows9x-3.x, Unix-Solaris, Linux, Netware 3.2 - 4.11
(NDS), MacOSX.
Hardware: Compaq server (EISAconfig, SmartStart), PC compatibles
(386 to Pentiums), ISA EISA and PCI adapters, RAID Arrays, Ethernet NIC's
(10/100baseT), hubs, UTP cabling, fiber-optic cabling, TSU/DSU, modems, network
scanners/testers, fixed storage, tape storage devices, SCSI, print servers (JetDirect,
Castelle, ExtendNet), UPS.
Learning Tree
International. New York, N.Y. - Training
classes in Windows NT 4.0 track - 1998-pres.
New York Institute of Finance. New York,
N.Y. - Classes in securities industry technology - 1998-pres.
Baruch College (C.U.N.Y.). New York, N.Y.
- Continuing Ed. C.S. student - 1997-pres. (4.0 GPA).