Rodney D. Earl

 

PO BOX 884 · Kaysville, Utah 84037 ·            E-mail:  rearl3@hotmail.com

 

Objective

My objective is to be a viable and valuable technical asset to my employer, and to build myself and my team into an integral and profitable part of the company as a whole.

 

 

Employment / Related Experience

 

Technology Officer- Vice President, JP Morgan Chase & Co - (Jul 07 – Present)

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Manage teams relating to OE (Order Entry, C++/Java) for IdealLink trading (Stocks, Futures, Forex, Options, etc.) tool including all JSF and Mobile server deployment and development projects. Manage both Linux and Windows environments.  Also manage teams responsible for Market Data server testing and project management.
•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Release Engineering (Ant/Java/Bash), design and coding for custom test case repository, OCR, & general OE release/development.
•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Direct implementation of international server deployment for global trading infrastructure, as well as helped implement framework changes needed for Forex, Futures, and various derivative instrument trading tools along with typical equity flow.
•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Consulted on and designed various server monitoring tools, automated GUI testing tools, results repository Database/Interface, OCR tool, etc.

 

Software Developer, Fidelity Investments System Co - (May 05 – Jul 07)

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Designed Code Generator and various components of enterprise automation tool built on Rational (IBM) RFT (Java IDE) as well as Adobe Flex & SQL
•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Provided extensive training and presentations for tool use and integration
•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Worked as the General PM for all implementations of QFrame / Aries, and previously lead small teams on various components/implementations of QFrame (International team experience) 

 

QA Lead, Fidelity Investments System Co - (May 05 – April 07)

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Team Lead for Wealth-Lab Pro applications and various SIT teams/apps related thereto
•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Designed automated test cases (Java, Pascal/Delphi) for back-testing tool integrity checks
•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             SDS, TSD, SRA reviews, approval, etc. Test Plan & Strategy writing, Test Case modeling and design, as well as managing large and diverse multiple-site teams. Heavy involvement in entire Project lifecycle

 

Software Engineer, Neovest, Inc. - (Nov 04 – May 05)

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Designed ECN/MM simulator used in Order Execution Server Testing & FIX messaging, as well as other OE Server applications.
•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Functional and Load Testing for OE server and First Alert/IdealLink applications.  Other Responsibilities included leading OE testing, designing test scripts/plans, and developing testing procedures for QA team in general.

 

Software Engineer, Veritude (Fidelity Investments Systems Co) - (Aug 03 – Nov 04)

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Process Design & automated testing in Fidelity’s Active Trader Pro™ & Wealth-Lab Pro™
•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Developed automated Java testing scripts for large data sources (streaming and static), manually testing GUI for financial applications (Windows based) as well as some automated GUI testing, designed and modified  test cases/plans,  modeled procedures using UML/ Rational Rose™.

 

Nuclear Medical research, University of Utah Radiology Dept. - (May 02 – Aug 05)

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             SPECT Imaging noise reduction research included computing 2D Fourier transforms, code conversion for back projection 3D image reconstruction algorithms, implemented the Simplex optimization method for the Solstice ™ imaging system, tested boundary and variable conditions & documented results extensively.  Research published in the Journal of Medical Physics.

 

Software QA Engineer, (internship) Fidelity Investment Systems Co - (May 02 - Aug 02)

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             C++ and Mercury Tools manual GUI testing for trading application and calculation verification for market filters/indicators

 

Web Developer, SQL Admin, Self Employed - (Mar 02 - Present)

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             PHP, SQL: Various small businesses – references and sites furnished upon request

 

 

EDUCATION

 

 

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: WESTMINSTER COLLEGESalt Lake City, Utah

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (WITH HONORS)MAY 2007

 

MASTER OF SCIENCE: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Salt Lake City, Utah

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (EMPHASIS ON RADIOLOGY)MAY 2005

 

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE: UNIVERSITY OF UTAHSalt Lake City, Utah

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AUG 2003

 

 

Other Awards/Achievements: Ironman , University of Utah Racquetball Team captain, University of Utah Honors at Entrance, Honors Program, ASUU student P/VP candidate, Bausch & Lomb outstanding Physics student, Outstanding H.S. Physics student, Kiwanis  student, Eagle Scout, Captain-Various Sports teams (all-state honors), Member-Various clubs & organizations, 10 year 4H member pin, Sterling Scholar Runner-up Mathematics,  outstanding community service awards, various civic/church leadership awards & responsibilities.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS / TRAINING / SKILLS

 

·         Publication: Earl RD, Zeng GL, and Zhang B: Optimizing the Acquisition Time Profile for a Planar Integral Measurement System, Med. Phys., vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 2793-2798, 2005.

·         Abstract: Zeng GL and Earl RD: Optimization of the acquisition time profile for a planar integral measurement. Society of Nuclear Medicine's 52nd Annual Meeting Abstract, Toronto, ON, Canada, June, 2005.

·         Java, PHP, SQL, Mongo, C++, MATLAB, Maple, Flex, Mercury & Rational Tools, MS Project, Crystal Ball, ProcessModel, some TCL, C

·         Series 3 Futures broker course and training (some series 7 training)

·         SPII Certification

·         Various Foreign Language Skills (Dutch, and Spanish)

·         Good people skills and willing to always go the extra mile

·         Excellent mechanical/thought process skills

·                    Ability to work hard and learn quickly