EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• 22 - year track record as an acclaimed Turnaround Specialist, Enterprise Architect, Business Analyst & Senior Project manager.
• I have been the Lead Designer & Developer of numerous highly-successful programs, platforms and methodologies in the areas of finance, information technology, trading technology, legal, training, marketing, management, commodity sourcing, supply-chain/distribution/warehousing, customer service and call-center departments.
• 22 years’ experience in all areas of Financial Services & Wealth Management with a strong focus on the trading & research of global equities, indices, futures, derivatives & fixed income.
• Six years’ experience as a Trading Technology Platform Developer/Designer/Quality Assurance Analyst/Troubleshooter & Team lead.
• Five years’ experience as Senior Project Manager/Chief Market Strategist.
• Five years’ experience in Annuities/ Insurance/Life Insurance/Factoring.
• Developer of proven, time-tested, highly successful Grey Box (semi-discretionary) and Black Box (fully automated) high/mid/low-frequency trading algorithms and signals.

SKILLS:

Algorithm Design: Advanced knowledge of algorithm design, coding, development, testing, optimization, implementation, back-testing, position sizing and risk management. >15 Years’ experience with multiple optimization methodologies, Walk-forward analysis, Monte Carlo analysis. Able to evolve extremely complex, multi-strategy trading concepts into working models & programs. Developing Machine Learning algorithms but have spotted critical flaws in traditional machine learning architecture.

Trading Platforms: Fully proficient on multiple trading platforms including Bloomberg Terminal, Tradestation, Lightspeed, Redi, ZenFire, TT, X Trader, Interactive Brokers, Sterling, CQG, Anvil. Advanced knowledge of trading platform design, process implementation, coding and testing. Quality Analyst/Beta Tester for Tradestation Securities; Troubleshooter. Beta Tester for Interactive Brokers. Beta Tester, Team Coordinator & Troubleshooter for Redi Plus/Tibco Software.

Software: High-level knowledge and proficiency in Tradestation Easy Language -- regarded as a proprietary version of C++, Java, Microsoft Office, Windows, Excel, Word, Act, Access/database, PowerPoint, Adobe, Cloud Computing and Financial Modeling. Intermediate knowledge of C++ with 20 years’ experience writing custom indicators and algorithms. Introductory knowledge of Python scripting, API’s, network security protocols and Machine Learning algorithms. Proficient in Agile/Scrum methodology.

Hardware: PC construction & component design, network infrastructure, LAN/WAN/WiFi, inbound/outbound Call Center operations & setup

Business: Advanced-level leadership and management training/skills. Insightful manager and performance analyst of traders & in-house trading teams. Tactful negotiator and intermediary. Superb written and oral communication skills.

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE EXPERIENCE:

Corporate Turnaround Specialist/Enterprise Architect & Senior Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Successfully restructured, improved or launched multiple corporations, partnerships, hedge funds, trading technology companies and partnerships in the financial/investment management (CTA’s/wealth managers/hedge funds/trading firms,) industrial, biotechnology, real estate, warehousing/supply-chain/distribution, legal and consumer product sectors.
• I worked directly with Owners, Partners, CEO's, and all echelons of management to coordinate effective, timely, lucrative and lasting improvements to companies seeking to modernize, streamline & update various processes.
• Conducted exhaustive top-down analyses of IT, customer service, sales, marketing, advertising, compliance, logistics, public relations, legal, accounting/banking administrative and call-center departments.
• Prepared concise, accurate, cost-benefit analyses for immediate review & implementation and communicated with all departments simultaneously, keeping everyone appraised of rolling changes/improvements.
• Liaison between management, traders, front/back office admin, coders & programmers.
• Sourced and secured seed, angel investor & venture capital.
• Created custom business plans and flowcharts (Six Sigma/TOGAF). Evaluated and streamlined highly complex systems and procedures.
• Restructured and rebuilt a bankrupt financial services company into the largest purchaser of lottery annuities in the

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Opened and staffed numerous branch offices nationwide. Hired, trained & supervised new staff & team members.
• Assisted a top global philanthropist with an array of critical projects including the international allocation and distribution.
• Gained and applied knowledge of alternative investment strategies such as market timing, equity long/short, sectorsspecial situations, event-driven, distressed securities convertible and merger arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, market- neutral, growth/value, baskets, ETF’s and options/derivatives hedging techniques.
• Performed exhaustive due diligence, research and technical/fundamental modeling of companies to develop trade investment theses.
• Strong balance sheet analyst.
• Researched valuations of stocks/companies based on relative value ratios and proprietary formulae.
• Regressed data & variables to determine correlations, trends and forecasts.