Nov 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs · New York City Metropolitan Area

Jan 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Jun 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Founded Bloomberg's Engineering office in San Francisco. Built center of excellence for Python and Data Science within Bloomberg. Built new, emerging products for financial quantitative analysis. Grew team to 25 engineers, developed and executed technology community engagement strategies to grow Bloomberg's brand in the developer community, and investigated strategic opportunities for Engineering department.

Mar 2011 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Oversaw 10 teams of 100 developers and quantitative researchers focused on building real-time financial pricing systems, message scraping systems, and infrastructure for the Bloomberg Professional Service. Re-organized department to provide better management structure and focus for development teams. Designed modernization plan for Fixed Income software infrastructure to provide faster, more flexible development environments for developers and product research teams. Developed hardware plan to migrate legacy software infrastructure to more cost-effective Linux hardware. Co-presented yearly business plans to board of directors and won approval for doubling headcount to research and improve MSG scraping infrastructure. Performed due diligence on potential acquisition of 3rd party software companies. Led multiple firm-wide multi-year projects to improve infrastructure and standardize customer experience with all financial products. Developed interoperability between customer-facing systems while providing uninterrupted service to clients of all versions.

Dec 2009 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Oversaw 6 development teams of 45 developers and quantitative researchers building real-time financial pricing systems, message scraping systems, and Credit Derivatives applications. Set technical architecture and hardware vision for teams. Led quantitative research team responsible for building statistical models to model market phenomena. Led technical expansion of the MSG scraping product from user base of 75,000 to 200,000 users (email and chat parsing system to read and extract pricing quotations from messages exchanged between Bloomberg users). Led Credit Derivatives R&D teams building market monitors and analytics for the Bloomberg Professional Service. Worked with auditors to receive 3rd party certification - Systrust - for development practices, audit ability of evaluator actions in system, protection of client data. Responsible for setting compensation levels and bonus structures for developers and team leaders.

Aug 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led the development of a new product for Bloomberg - Fixed Income Evaluated Pricing (BVAL) - a financial product providing transparent, end-of-day mark-to-market prices on securities in Corporate, Government, and Municipal bond markets with strict on-time delivery requirements. Worked closely with quantitative research team to develop models and algorithms that properly reflect market events. Worked closely with product and sales teams to develop yearly/quarterly business plan for new business. Determined yearly hardware requirements and budgets for systems growth. Created and implemented regular release schedule (bi-weekly) for software packages to provide more reliable deployment schedules. Created processes for development teams and QA teams regarding code review, UAT, SLAs for production delivery. Vetted all technical designs for proper system architecture. Grew the team from 8 developers to 20; mentored and promoted 3 developers to team leaders.

Mar 2006 – Aug 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Oversaw a team of 7 developers focused on building real-time pricing applications used by over 200,000 users on the Bloomberg Professional Service. Optimized startup times for applications to ensure they produced results for users within 500ms. Developed schedules and ensured all team projects stayed on track and within budget. Coordinated large development projects between multiple technology and product teams. Delivered feedback regularly to team members; wrote and delivered yearly evaluations.

Oct 2002 – Mar 2006 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Designed and developed financial applications and system infrastructure in C and C++ for the Bloomberg Professional Service. Worked closely with product and sales teams to develop requirements for fixed income analytics. Specialized in building robust, reliable pricing engines to provide global markets with real-time bond prices for OTC markets. Modernized legacy FORTRAN code bases by refactoring and providing interfaces and services for use by other development teams.