Expert Details
Products & Technology, Financial Services, IT Strategy, and Transformational Leadership
ID: 736978
Connecticut, USA
Expertise includes (but not limited to):
• Transformational Leadership
• Product Management
• Product and IT Strategy
• Product Vision and Roadmap
• Team management and mentorship
• Alternative Data, Market and Tick Data
• Data Engineering and Science
• Algorithmic Trading and Execution
• Data Architecture
• Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
• Software Development
• Trading Systems
• Big Data Analytics
• Distributed Systems Design
Business/Financial Specialization: Alternative Data, Front-office technologies, Equities Electronic Trading and Execution Strategies, Algorithmic Trading, Smart Order Routers (SORs), Equities Market Microstructure, Real-Time and Post-Trade Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), ATSs, ECNs, Dark Pools, Product Management and Development, Business Analysis, Order Management Systems (OMS), Execution Management Systems (EMS), Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Analysis
Technologies: Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, AWS Cloud, Airflow, AWS Redshift, Athena, Tableau, Microstrategy, OneTick (Time-series database similar to KDB)
Programming Languages: Python, C#, Java, SQL, C++
Certificates: FINRA Series 7, 24, 55, 63 licenses
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2001 | Degree: BS | Subject: Computer Science | Institution: NYU - Polytechnic University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2013 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Head of Front Office Technologies, Trading, OMS, EMS, TCA, Alternative Data, Data Engineering & Science | Department: IT |
Responsibilities:Leads cross-functional teams consisting of product managers, developers, data scientists, quants, consultants, and architects that develop and execute the strategic vision for the trading, treasury, and investment platforms. Manage market data, alternative data, consultants, and vendor technology budget. Managed relationships and negotiated contracts with data vendors and technology partners.● Implemented transformational changes in the organization by creating a data lake and deploying new alternative data and big data processing and analytics platform. Implemented operational models to improve operational excellence. Defined and owned the vision to create Company's data analytics platform in the cloud, thus transitioning Company into the cloud for the first time. ● Defined product roadmap, led the design, architecture, and multi-phased buildout and product delivery for the next-generation platform and global data infrastructure in the cloud, leveraging open-source and other emerging cloud technologies (including AWS Cloud, Airflow, Databricks Spark, Snowflake, Great Expectations, data observability and monitoring solutions, AWS Redshift, AWS Athena, Tableau, and other technologies) to deliver unified data platform. ● Worked directly with portfolio managers, investment analysts, executive managers, fellow technology teams, and business leaders to ensure the platform unlocks optimal business value across short and long-term objectives. Proactively communicated roadmap, milestones, and outcomes for all data platform deliverables to a global audience of partners and stakeholders. ● Introduced DevOps and DataOps processes by switching to continuous testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment methodology and fully automating deployment processes. This enabled us to reduce the release cadence from days to hours. ● Evangelized Infrastructure as a Code (IasC) methodology and transformed Viking IT organization into using Terraform to define, manage and deploy cloud infrastructure. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2009 to 2013 | Employer: Deutsche Bank | Title: Director, Head of Algorithmic Trading | Department: Equities Electronic Trading |
Responsibilities:Led Deutsche Bank’s Algorithmic Trading Products in U.S., Canada, and LatAm. Products under management: Stealth, SuperX Plus, VWAP, TWAP, Volume Participation (In-line), Implementation Shortfall, Target Close, and Smart Order Router.● Designed and led the transformation of the Electronic Agency Trading to a new algorithmic trading platform and helped build out SuperX ATS that went from zero to being in the top 4 dark pools on the street. ● Designed requirements and detailed specifications for the flagship algos, Stealth and SuperX Plus, as well as a whole suite of advanced trading algorithms and Smart Order Router (SOR). Worked with the quants to tune econometric models that combined high-frequency trading ideas and partnered with development teams to implement and deliver algorithms to the internal trading desk and external institutional clients. ● Brought the algorithms into the new markets: Canada, Brazil and Mexico. Did roadshows with the executive sales team. Provided white label of Deutsche Bank algorithms in LatAm markets to other banks and brokers. ● Represented Deutsche Algo Trading in industry conferences (TradeTech) and helped Deutsche Bank’s Electronic Trading achieve #1 ranking. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2011 to 2012 | Employer: Online Social Gaming Startup | Title: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) | Department: IT |
Responsibilities:The company developed a subscription-based online game and social website with the goal to develop more games in the future. Managed all IT divisions in the company: Dev, Infra, QA, Cloud Administration, and Support. Built and managed a top-caliber development team across the globe: US, Russia, Ukraine, and India.● Together with the Executive Team and Board of Directors developed the company’s strategic vision and future direction. Presented vision and platform to potential investors. Assessed, evaluated, and recommended technologies for the delivery of the platform and to support the company’s needs. ● Responsible for technology roadmap and delivery on that roadmap. ● Guided development team to the successful buildout of gaming and back-office platform. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2004 to 2009 | Employer: ITG Inc. | Title: VP, Global Product Manager | Department: Algorithmic Trading |
Responsibilities:Product Manager for ITG Algorithms, including VWAP, TWAP, Volume Participation, Flexible Participation and Market-On-Close execution algorithms, as well as monitoring and alerting systems (internal and client-facing). Designed algo logic, finetuned algos, responsible for the product roadmap, product planning, execution throughout the entire product lifecycle, and lunching of algos with new and existing institutional clients.● Responsible for the product roadmap, product planning, and execution throughout the entire product lifecycle. ● Designed algo logic, new features and wrote technical specifications for development teams; working with each developer to explain the business purpose and ensure the best implementation. Headed internalization efforts for all algorithms. ● Architected a real-time order monitoring system based on Aleri CEP engine that aggregated all ITG’s algorithmic trading flow and provided a flexible frontend that could be dynamically customized by each user. The system is used by the trading desk, support, and development teams. ● Worked directly with the research team to analyze and optimize performance, come up with new ideas, and improve the execution quality of algorithms. Personally tested algorithms in simulation and beta environments to make sure they work as intended. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2001 to 2003 | Employer: Redshift Technologies Inc | Title: Developer/Technical Lead | Department: IT |
Responsibilities:● Developed and supported community web portal application that was the centerpiece of the client’s business; some of the system’s features include creating/managing virtual towns, organizations, calendars, polls, articles, files, links, fully customizable layout, email notifications and reminders, searches, email subscriptions, management of ads and more.● Designed and implemented from the ground up a system for document management and distribution via internet, email, fax and mail; played leading role in all of the phases of the project ● Developed Telecom Information Management System software that helps manage telecommunication services and audit bills. Technologies: Java, Servlets, C/C++, SQL, Oracle |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2019 to 2001 | Employer: Merrill Lynch | Title: Programmer Analyst | Department: Mutual Funds Research |
Responsibilities:Programmer Analyst on Mutual Funds Research Team |
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Career Accomplishments
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Series 24 - General Securities Principal Series 7 - General Securities Registered Representative Series 55 - Equity Traders Series 63 |
| Professional Appointments |
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| ● Founded Investment Data Engineering & Data Science division at "Undisclosed," supporting Alternative Data efforts across the firm in public and private equity and ESG domain. ● Founding member of Data Strategy Group responsible for setting the course of data strategy for the firm. ● Represented Deutsche Algo Trading in industry conferences (TradeTech) and helped Deutsche Bank’s Electronic Trading achieve #1 ranking |
| Awards / Recognition |
|---|
| Series 24 - General Securities Principal Series 7 - General Securities Registered Representative Series 55 - Equity Traders Series 63 Speaker @ TradeTech: Presented on the topic: Improving Buy-Side Performance By Optimizing Dark Pool Strategies TradeTech: Presented on the topic: Improving Buy-Side Performance By Optimizing Dark Pool Strategies Speaker at the TradeTech West panel Speaker at the TradeTech West panel: "Evolving Trading Tactics To Compete Against High-Frequency Trading (HFT)" |
Additional Experience
| Vendor Selection |
|---|
| - Data Exchange Data Sharing Data Marketplace Platforms (Snowflake, Crux, AWS Data Exchange, Google Data Exchange, etc) - Alternative Data Vendors (credit card transactions, healthcare records (medical and pharmacy claims), airlines data, flight data, web traffic data, mobile apps data, medical inventory, point-of-sale data, web scrapes across consumer and B2B websites, etc) - Cloud Data Warehouse (Snowflake, AWS Redshift, BigQuery) - Database Vendords (MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc) - Order Management Software (EZE Castle, Charles River, etc) - Execution Management Software (FlexTrade EMS, Portware EMS, ITG Triton, ITG Radical) - Portfolio Accounting Software (Advent, Geneva) - Cloud Vendors (AWS, Google, Azure) - SaaS Vendors (Snowflake, Databricks, etc) - Data Observability and Data Quality Vendors (BigEye, Monte Carlo Data, Soda, DataKin, Anomalo, etc) - Business Intelligence Platforms (Tableau, Microstrategy, Looker, etc...) - Market Data and Tick Data vendors (Reuters, Refinitiv, Bloomberg, FactSet, TickData, MorningStar, etc) |
| Other Relevant Experience |
|---|
| Alternative Data, Algorithmic Trading, Front-office technologies, Equities Electronic Trading and Execution Strategies, Smart Order Routers (SORs), Equities Market Microstructure, Real-Time and Post-Trade Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), Dark Pools, ATSs, ECNs, OMSs, EMSs, Product Management and Development Technologies: Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, AWS Cloud, Airflow, AWS Redshift, Athena, Tableau, Microstrategy, OneTick (Time-series database similar to KDB), GreatExpectations, Data Observability Platforms |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| English | Native |
| Russian | Native |
| Ukrainian | Native |
Fields of Expertise
cloud computing, AWS, Big Data Analytics, big data, batch data processing, streaming, information technology, information technology engineering, information technology management, Information technology outsourcing, leadership, technical leadership, Digital Transformation Strategy, IT Strategy, product management, digital strategy, innovation & strategy, product innovation strategy, Project Management and Execution, project management software, software project management, project management software development, computer algorithm, technology, Public Cloud, Private cloud, Red Hat, AWS, Amazon Web Services, Data-center, Telecom, 3G, 4G, 5G, LTE, Analytics, Management, Program Management, project management, Python, .Net, Java, Web development, Software Development, software development methodology, software development environment, software development tool, database, database design, database management system, database development, database technology, data warehouse, automated data collection, analytical monitoring