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3/2014 - Present

Founder and President

AWS cloud consulting company

1/2012 - 3/2014

CTO

Comlink Data is a market intelligence product for the telecom industry.I was hired to get their technology stack up and running. At once I set up servers on Amazon’s cloud, with scripts to off load the from a SQL Server and store it in a Amazon S3, then kick of a job on Amazon’s EMR (elastic map-reduce). This EMR job was Hadoop cluster running Hadoop Pig. This EMR job would take about 20 minutes to process a day’s worth of data. When the EMR job finished, the kicking off/monitoring job would detect it and load the processed data into Amazon Redshift server. Redshift is a analytics server by being a column-oriented implemented across a cluster.After this was done, I set up a web service and implemented an interactive web site using jQuery and D3js (an interactive graphics framework for browser side javascript graphics).

6/2006 - 12/2011

Vice President

State Street is a financial services company, featuring services like portfolio management (accounting and custody of the cash and securities—including a majority of the U.S. mutual fund), active management of portfolios, a worldwide FX platform and several individual products (like SPDR stock index funds).The Office of the Cloud Architect The purpose of the Office of Cloud Architect is to implement an internal PaaS cloud platform. My Responsibilities:Review the architecture of the application with the owner and their software leads to work up a scorecard for the application, and prioritizes them in the application conversion queueWork with the application owner and their software leads to changes needed for the cloudWork with training office to set up a mentoring programAfter the first class of mentors graduates are trained, set up a mentoring program to, a) exchange problems and assertions, and 2) disseminate information Work and central point to match applications who need help moving forward, and knowledgable mentors from the mentor groupEvaluate new technology for Cloud ComputingVice President, Chief Architect for Enterprise Risk ManagementBasel II, Regulatory Compliance, and Reporting groupThe Basel II, Regulatory Compliance, and Reporting group is a $50 million per year group implementing systems to comply with the Basel II international banking accord and other federal requirements. This group is monitored monthly by the board of directors. It is also monitored by the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) internal auditors, the Federal Reserve, the United States Comptroller of the Currency, and the Department of Education.Responsibilities:Chief architect for all applications in the group, both internally developed and commercial, off-the-shelf softwareDesign and implementation of integration of all systems within the group and with systems from other groupsDesign and implementation of security architectureInteract closely with the Office of Architecture and the corporate Chief ArchitectParticipate in architecture reviews for systems around the bankInteract informally with senior technical managers across the bank to share information and coordinate the strategic and tactical direction of the corporationManaged several implementation streams of work: market risk, regulatory capital, operational risk, and credit limit management. This involved managing the relationship with internal clients, managing project deliverables, plan, and the analysis, implementation, and testing teams.Senior technical advisor other work streams in the group: credit risk, the counterparty management system, the probability of default system, risk data warehouse, business intelligence and reporting.Acquisition and build-out of systems and infrastructure: Solaris, Linux, and Windows servers; Oracle database systems; and EMC SAN storage arraysReview, selection and purchase of application

4/2004 - 6/2006

Director of Integration/Director of Security and Networking

Hands on coder and team leader who worked on a range of projects, including optimizing compute resources to delivering database-marketing systems for clients. Also responsible for information security, including encrypting and hashing sensitive data, responding to Visa PCI/CISP, Sarbanes-Oxley, client security and internal audits, developing and maintaining security policies and procedures.Technologies used:Java, J2EE, Ab Initio ETL, Data Junction ETL, Perl, Awk, Korn Shell, Bourne Shell, .Net, C#, encryption, one-way hashing, Oracle, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server, Transact SQL, ERwin Major projects include:Information SecurityDeveloped processes and programs to secure sensitive personal information within the Harte-Hanks customer data management center. Using one-way hashing and encryption, this was offered as a service to existing clients. This project brought in an additional $10,000 of revenue in the first month alone.Optimization and Resource UtilizationDeveloped programs that optimized resources used for Harte-Hanks customer data processing. This project produced reports for management and the technical developers that provided detailed information about the efficiency of data transformation processes, as well as over-all utilization.

2/2001 - 4/2004

Assistant Vice President

Used business requirements to design and implement complex, stable and reliable financial accounting systems.Technologies used:Java, J2EE, Jini, SOAP, Visual Basic, COM/DCOM, ASP, JavaScript, JSP, encryption, MS Sql Server, Transact SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms, Oracle Applications, Erwin, BroadvisionMajor projects include: CRM ImplementationTechnical lead and lead architect on the corporate CRM system using Onyx, an off-the-shelf CRM system. Responsibilities include technical architecture, integration with the Actuate reporting system, the Netegrity Siteminder authentication system, change management, development prioritization, project management, and managing consultants. Technologies used are ASP, Visual Basic, JavaScript and JSP. Oracle Financials ImplementationAdded intranet web gateway to execute predefined SQL queries and return result as a native Excel spreadsheet. This gateway was able to execute multiple queries and return the results as multiple sheets.Implemented distributed check printing system. This system used an Oracle Forms front-end coupled with a pair of Java programs to send a formatted check file over a encrypted connection to a Windows 2000 server running BottomLine’s check printing software. Portal ImplementationImplemented an intranet portal to access financial information. This portal, implemented with IBM WebSphere Portal Server, used SOAP to access Oracle Financial security and functionality.

1/1996 - 2/2001

Director of Integration

ed, architected, designed, developed, tested and implemented n-tiered business applications for a consulting firm specializing in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Areas of focus included Java, J2EE, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), usability and personalization.Technologies used:Java, J2EE, SOAP, C++, Visual Basic, COM/DCOM, ASP, JavaScript, JSP, encryption, MS Sql Server, Transact SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, Erwin, BroadvisionMajor projects include: Database Vendor EvaluationLed team to chose a database vendor. The database needed to support mix-mode queries (transactional and analytical) for a customer data mart that support both front-end customer touchpoints and business intelligence analytics. Customer Experience Audit/High-level Architectural DesignLed team to translate customer relationship management business requirements to a high-level architectural specification and obtain agreement from all major business groups and other consulting firms. Observation Server Requirements AnalysisLed team to identify requirements for what business intelligence metrics are needed to analyze the behavior of Web visitors, and the observational data needed to support these metrics. Integration Architecture Analysis and RecommendationLed team to identify gaps in the architecture of a client that had acquired a dozen separate companies running community Web sites. The major thrust of the work was to implement a scalable, flexible, cost-effective architecture. The candidate:Gathered business requirementsDesigned the architecture BroadVision E-Commerce SiteSenior architect and BroadVision technical resource for a major clicks-and-mortar eCommerce vendor. This vendor was rewriting their first generation Web site from Netscape LiveWire to BroadVision. The user could browse the product catalog, conduct searches over products, compare similar products, add products to the shopping cart and purchase them. Featured products were personalized to the user using the built in BroadVision rules engine. To support this project, the candidate:Served as the BroadVision technical consultantDeveloped the data schema for the product tables, product comparison tables and visitor preferencesInstalled, configured and programmed the Verity search engineWrote numerous BroadVision JavaScript pages E-Book Publisher SiteArchitect, engineer and programmer for an eBook publishing WWW site. The client contracted to replace their first-generation, non-Internet based, ePublishing software with a Web-based server and sales site. This site displayed the book catalog, took credit card transactions for payment, and delivered the electronic document to the customer. During delivery to the customer, the system inserted customer and cryptographic information into the document to both allow the customer to unlock it (and no one else) and to track major “opinion influencers” by noting the customer id as the document was p

2/1994 - 1/1996

Senior Officer

Web-Based Management Information SystemDesigned web-based intranet homepage to plot management information as 3D graphs using Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). These VRML Web pages were generated on-the-fly using Perl-based CGI scripts. Intranet Home PageImplemented a CERN server-based intranet homepage to access publish reports and monitor the status statistics of the production UNIX servers. Used Perl and Bourne shell CGI scripts as a gateway to Sybase tables where statistical data was stored. Administered a CERN httpd server (including security). Integrated CD-ROM Financial Report Publishing SystemTechnical leader designing and implementing high volume, Netscape-based report publishing system. This system produces month-end reports on CD-ROM using Netscape Navigator for document navigation plus plug-ins to display summary charts as well as print report images. In addition to design and initial implementation, responsible for tasking and guiding a group of programmers in the product roll-out. This included making design and implementation decisions, plus mentoring junior MS-Windows and Unix programmers. Specifically created:HTML templates reflecting a document's table of contents, using JavaScript to implement collapsible indention;HTML templates for tables summarizing reports, using JavaScript to implement collapsible columns;A Netscape plug-in to view and print HP LaserJet printer files (PCL);A Netscape plug-in to display various types of charts;An OLE 2 container and server to integrate PC produced memos and documents with the UNIX produced reports.A Java applet that produced dynamic, hyperlinking pie charts.A Java applet that flexibly displays columnar data in sets of rows, based on a supplied template.HTML producing versions of the report RPC servers.Reference Data Update System Created a UNIX-based reference data (spot exchange rates, pricing, fund information, etc.) downloading and updating agent using C++ and Rogue Wave templates. Integrated Print Financial Report Publishing SystemDesigned and implemented a high volume, PCL print stream-based report publishing system. This system produces month-end financial reports. Specifically created:Sybase tables and stored procedures that queue and run financial reports.UNIX-based queue manager that ran report jobs.UNIX-based financial report RPC servers that built dynamic SQL queries to produce a PCL-formatted report.A PCL formatting library that, among other things, performed font switching and left, center, and right justification using HP supplied font metric files.A PCL viewer for Windows 3.1 that accurately displays a PCL file. Financial Data Messaging SystemDesigned and implemented a message parsing system to update foreign exchange information on Sybase tables. Also implemented a testing system using C-Shell and Perl scripts to retrieve production messages.

8/1984 - 1/1994

Senior Signals Analyst

Performed analog and digital signal processing (DSP) on communications and radarDeveloped new DSP software for Sun, Convex and Cray networked and graphical user interfaced (GUI) applicationsDirected analysis and research in state-of-the-art signal theory for 10 person DSP laboratoryDetermined hardware purchasing requirements for ongoing processing capability upgrades, in excess of a million dollarsBriefed at all levels, including presentations to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff membersPerformed theoretical and practical research in a variety of signal theory disciplines, including Electronic Warfare and Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) transmissions, under the direction of senior analysts and scientists.

EDUCATION:

8/1980 - 6/1984

Bachelor's Degree

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INTERESTS & HOBBIES:

Amateur Telescope Making

Amateur Astronomy

AFFILIATIONS:

Rotary Club