15+ years of DevOps Technology Management experience leading highly productive and cohesive teams in the FinTech and Electronic Trading spaces. A true IT Professional experienced in agile practices in the complete software development pipeline using continuous delivery principles. Extensive experience in build/release management, environment/configuration management as well as application and infrastructure maintenance and monitoring – for both pioneering startups and large global companies.
- DevOps Management
- Release/Change Management
- Environment/Configuration Management
- Risk Mitigation/Management
- Solutions Innovator
- SIFMA Disaster Recovery
- JIRA/Confluence Administration
- Process/Standards Consolidation
- External Audit Liaison Highlights:
- Managed full release lifecycle for the leading fixed income global trading system, which averaged roughly $350 billion in trades daily.
- Continuously improved operational processes involving both technology and staff, substantially reducing costs while ensuring compliance.
- Recognized repeatedly for accomplishing difficult integrations between 3rd party and in-house that avoided consulting fees and added $ millions to the bottom line.
- Managed front/back-end, web and database technologies used in Financial Trading Applications.
- Mitigated risk of system downtime during trading hours through thousands of decisions regarding system issues that arise over a 15+ year career.
- “Go-to” resource for peers across the organization (both tech and business) on change management.
- Built highly productive teams of tech professionals; saw minimal turnover of top performers; known for staff development, many saw promotions.
- Languages/Technologies/Protocols – Perl, SQL, JIRA, CVS, Web, Windows Server, LINUX, Python, FIX
