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Michael K. Webster

Brooklyn, N.Y.

(H) 718 855-8713 (W) 212 589-0480 (C) 917 412-0756

michael.webster@verizon.net


 

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.

·          Installed and upgraded client applications, including Oracle client, terminal emulation and in-house applications.
 

Peoples Securities inc., Bridgeport, Ct.

LAN Administrator, Registered Broker

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.

 

Education:

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).

Fairfield University. Fairfield, Ct. - Continuing Ed. C.S. student - 1996-1997 (4.0 GPA).

Western Ct. State University. Danbury, Ct. - B.A. Applied Economics - 1988 -1991.

Bentley College. Waltham, Ma. - A.S. Paralegal Science - 1984 - 1986.