Sargon Hasso

Park Ridge, IL  60068, USA

(224) 935-3039

sargon.hasso@gmail.com

Career Summary

An experienced solutions architect and software development manager with diverse field of experience in software development integrating large applications with different technologies; content supply chain; financial and trading industry experience; web applications development; advanced software architecture; advanced object oriented analysis and design; software testing; relational/non-relational database applications development; project management, training, sales support, product specifications, and marketing research.

Professional Experience

Wolters Kluwer, Chicago, IL

Enterprise IT Architect12/2009—09/2015

·               Partner with stakeholders to define functional and non-functional requirements and shape a solution to fit business needs

·               Provide subject matter expertise and technological guidance to various project initiatives across multiple products

·               Develop systems concepts and design high level solution architecture designs and documentation

·               Assist project teams in planning a project’s technology and technology resource needs

·               Review project team requirements to ensure the design would meet business needs and objectives

·               Develop the detailed solutions design documentation

·               Facilitate the development, testing, and integration efforts of projects as needed

·               Propose models and proof-of-concepts; and lead technology R&D efforts

·               Design and lead infrastructure environment build-outs

·               Monitor, mentor, and review the work of junior team members and outside consultants and vendors

 

Selected Accomplishments:

·               Led and guided an effort to consolidate 40 disparate mobile applications into 4 frameworks (iPhone, iPad, Android, and Black Berry)

·               Provided guidance in transferring hosting and operational support from a 3^rd party vendor that resulted in infrastructure cost reduction from $4K/month to $20/month

·               Created an architectural framework for product lines that resulted in first year revenue of $1.4M

·               Created an architecture for a web application that served as a blueprint for further derivative products that resulted in meeting business sales quota for the year in just the first 3 months of its deployment to production

·               Led two initiatives integrating enterprise content feed with Recommind Decisiv Search platform and iManage IDOL search engine

 

Sr. Manager, Platforms Development12/2007—11/2009

·               Plans, coordinates and manages software development projects

·               Prepares overall project plans, communicates resource requirements, executes and monitors the project against the plan, updates the plan and reports status as necessary

·               Identifies and addresses roadblocks to successful completion of projects

·               Prepares, analyzes and improves accuracy of work estimates

·               Completes and utilizes critical success indicators for improving processes

·               Directly supervises on-site and off-shore employees

·               Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies

·               Interviews, hires, and trains employees

·               Plans, assigns, and directs work; appraises performance; rewards and disciplines employees; establish career tracks; addresses complaints and resolves problems; help with budgeting

·               Reports and analyzes data for quality metrics during internal Quality Assurance meetings

·               Analyzes all software defects for severity and frequency on a continuous basis

 

Selected Accomplishments:

·               Managed an off-shore team develop and maintain user admin J2EE-based application for a web research platform

 

Sr. Solutions Architect02/2006—11/2007

Selected Accomplishments:

·               Designed and managed the development effort for a software that migrated users seamlessly to a new web research platform

·               Managed a development team maintaining a web research platform and backend services until its eventual sun setting

 

Quantitative Analytics Inc., Chicago, IL08/2005—1/2006

Software Developer

Software Developer responsible for complete SDLC developing exchange interfaces for order flow, order routing, and options quoting on the Microsoft Visual C++ .NET platform. Exchanges developed for included: CME, CBOE, and BOX. Backend exchange components were developed using FIX 4.2 protocol, VQI, and MMTP APIs.

·               Modified, adapted, and tested an existing exchange server application to interface with BOX using sockets and MMTP as an IPC mechanism

·               Developed an application to download security information from BOX and wrote a loader utility to add the data to the in-house database

·               Modified, adapted, tested, and integrated an options quoting library (DLL) to submit option quotes to CBOE environment using Vendor Quote Interface (VQI)

·               Developed, integrated, and tested an order routing and option quotes library (DLL) to connect to CME using FIX 4.2 protocol

·               Developed a utility to download security information from CME using market data APIs

 

Lisle Technology Partners, Lisle, IL04/2005 – 08/2005

Software Engineer Consultant

I was a consultant responsible for enterprise data modeling. Specific responsibilities and accomplishments include:

·               Conduct customer’s interviews to solicit project requirements and review existing project requirement documents

·               Assisted in developing enterprise data architecture by mapping old data models to new simpler and relational data models

 

Citadel Investment Group, Chicago, IL9/2004 – 3/2005

Software Development Consultant

I was responsible for developing libraries that interface to securities database servers. Development was on the Linux using C++. Specific responsibilities and accomplishments include:

·               Design, implement, and test software libraries

·               Document and track product delivered and changes

·               Developed, tested, and released an enhanced financial instruments library with new fixed income products. This library was a front end to company-wide financial instruments databases

·               Developed, tested, and released a fixed income financial instruments library for use by high frequency trading applications.

 

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago, IL4/2004 – 8/2004

QA Test Engineer

A consultant member of Quality Assurance (QA) team responsible for validating product’s functional specifications. These J2EE-based client/server tools used TIBCO bus and TCP-based sockets for inter-process communications to interface to different software components. Specific responsibilities and accomplishments include:

·               Write testing plans and develop testing strategies for trading match engine

·               Write test cases and test scripts

·               Develop automated software tools to execute test cases and test scripts

·               Document and track results of executing the test scripts

 

Archelon LLC, Chicago, IL4/2001 – 12/2003

Senior Systems Analyst

I was responsible for developing and integrating large client/server sockets-based trading and financial applications. Accomplishments include:

·               Developed applications that interface to electronic exchanges, such as submitting and managing quotes and orders; and subscriptions to market information to collect prices, trades, and other contract data (equities and options). Exchange APIs worked with: Xetra, Euronext/LIFFE, and CME’s TIBCO

·               Applications were high-availability, high-reliability servers based on sockets, non-GUI, multi-threaded (POSIX threads), real-time, and event driven. I developed objected-oriented code in C++ on UNIX machines running Sun’s Solaris 8 or Linux. Sun’s C++ and GNU compilers were used. Other tools used: SCCS for source code control, Rational’s Purify for monitoring memory usage and detecting memory leaks, Rational’s Quantify for performance optimization.

·               Used advanced techniques to produce inherently safe and maintainable code such as memory management using reference counting, e.g. auto- and shared-pointers; extensive use of STL containers and algorithms; type-safe exception handling; flexible designs that utilized template-based and policy-based programming, and the use of Design Patterns.

 

Lucent Technologies, Lisle, IL1997 - 2001

Software Quality Engineer2000 - 2001

I worked as a member of a metrics team in Software Quality Department responsible for maintaining and evolving the overall software metrics.

·               Base lined the quality and reliability metrics of software releases; results were used to re-calibrate metrics and models used to control software quality

·               Provided and monitored quality control packages for software projects from planning through deliveries

·               Applied cluster analysis techniques to reduce the number of software subsystems. This resulted in reducing the cost associated with maintaining many subsystems and the resources required to manage them

·               Developed and maintained software quality metrics tools, characterized the capability of the development processes, and developed models to transform high-level customers’ metrics into operational metrics

 

Software Developer -- 7R/E Cable Project1999 - 2000

I worked as a member of Cable Project development team responsible for developing Cable Access Gateway application using Network-Based Call Signaling protocol (NCS)

·               Network Programming:  Developed NCS transport layer using TCP/IP network protocol

·               System Level Services: Developed wrapper classes for platform independence for Multi-threaded, IPC, Synchronization, Signal, and Event handling system calls

·               Performance Testing: Developed and executed continuous and automated tests to improve the stability of a developed code using automatic call generator

·               Tested third party devices for compliance with NCS published standards

 

Member of Software Technology Group1997 - 1999

Main responsibility was to research, identify, train and introduce new technologies, methods, and tools into the development environment which supported software process simplification and automation. Major project completed was Designer Assistant (DA) Re-engineering to facilitate the administration, maintenance, and enhancement of knowledge content in the fastest and most efficient way. The following technologies were used in this project: C/S, Oracle database, Oracle APIs, Web application, ColdFusion, and Rule-based Expert System shell (CLIPS) as an inference engine.

 

Wallace Computer Services, Hillside, IL1992 - 1997

Research and Development Programmer

I provided programming, research, development, and support for engineering and business-oriented software and hardware products.

·               Designed and developed client/server barcode duplicates check software system in heterogeneous network environments. This was an event-driven application developed under VC++ environment using MFC and ADO. Both sockets and XTI (X/Open) networking APIs were used

·               Designed and managed the assembly of a barcode verification software and hardware system for company-wide plant deployment

 

NEC Technologies, Inc., Wood Dale, IL1987 - 1992

Senior OEM Project Engineer

Managed a project from customer's preliminary specifications to mass production; delivered product and technical presentations, and conducted marketability and research studies

·               Assisted in the development of a new firmware for CD-ROM drive that shortened the project's completion time and enabled the company to enter the bidding process

·               Designed an algorithm for mapping logical to physical sectors for a CD-ROM drive

·               Provided instructions and guidance to the development team to implement SCSI-2 firmware

Core Qualifications

·               Passionate technologists with years of professional experience and a strong foundation in application development and architecture

·               Excellent knowledge of Software Architecture, Design Patterns, Architecture Tactics and Patterns, and Software Design best practices

·               Extensive programming experience in C#, LINQ, and C/C++

·               Excellent knowledge in RESTful Architecture, HTTP, Object Relational Mapping (ORM), ASP.NET MVC/ASP.NET, ASP.NET Web API, OData, and WCF

·               Very comfortable with a range of languages, web technologies and frameworks including HTML 5, CSS, bootstrap, XML, JavaScript including AngularJS and jQuery; .NET and J2EE development frameworks

·               Extensive experience in full SDLC from inception through deployment and operational support

·               Excellent in the iterative development methodology and comfortable with agile, test driven (TDD), and user experience design driven development (UXDD) methodologies

·               Solid foundation in relational database modeling, design, and very comfortable with SQL and MS SQL database products; comfortable with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Cassandra

·               Comfortable working with cloud computing platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google App Engine (GAE)

·               Extensive Experience and knowledge in Visual Studio IDE, NetBeans IDE, and modeling tools such as Sparx System Enterprise Architect design tool, BPMN, Visio, and UML

·               Good experience using various open source tools like Jira, Git, Lucene/Solr search engine

·               Good experience and foundational knowledge of Data Analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning Algorithms and related technologies and tools such as R Language, RStudio, MATLAB, Octave, Rapid Miner, Azure Machine Learning platform, and Hadoop’s HDFS and MapReduce

·               Solid knowledge of all aspects of scaling web applications technology stack

EDUCATION

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Ph.D. Computer Science 2007

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

MS Computer Science1996

Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

BS Computer Science1988

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

BS Nuclear Engineering1982

Summary of Professional course work

Coursera.org and edx04/2014—Present

Enrolled and completed several courses in Data Analysis and Statistics, Machine and Statistical Learning, Text Retrieval and Search Engines, Massive Data Mining, Cluster Analysis, Cloud Computing Applications, Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics, Linear and Integer Programming, Image and Video Processing, Mapping and Geospatial Technologies, and Healthcare Informatics.

PUBLICATIONS

Presented and published several professional papers on software design patterns, software architecture, and computational lexicography in international conferences and journals. A selected list of my publications and papers can be found on my LinkedIn profile at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sargonhasso#background-publications

Professional MEMBERSHIPS

IEEE; ACM

References

Provided upon request