## BIO
**EDUCATION**
MASTER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (MS), The University of Chicago, 12/05
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA), Southwest Missouri State University, 06/96
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (BS, BA), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 12/93
**EXPERIENCE**
***PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT,*** *Access2IT Consulting, Chicago
2/02-Present **
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· Provide project management, software testing, **applications design and development**, IT management consulting
Examples:
Independent consulting practice with clients in US and Canada
\---|- Bank, Fixed Income Division, New York, NY, 09/04-Present
- Worked with the front office team where the primary role was to develop and enhance spreadsheets used for trading and risk management of a variety of fixed income derivative products- These spreadsheets push Excel to its limits in terms of complexity and sophistication- Projects rangeD from enhancements to improve control/efficiency in existing sheets- Involved in development of new spreadsheets for new business initiatives and the implementation of newly developed in-house interfaces and technologies- Was also responsible for project specification, development, testing and smooth rollout to the production environment of the new enhancements
Chicago, IL, 07/04-09/04
- Developed a customized VBA/Excel application for the Financial Analysis Department - Used VBA Macros, Command Buttons, List and Check Boxes to create a user-friendly front-end application - Designed an application to submit data directly to the Bank One mainframe system for daily and weekly processing
BJ Inc., Chicago, IL *03/02 – 01/03*
· database programmer and administrator developing a retail system for a specialty store using VB, VC++, MS SQL Server and MS Access on Windows NT operating system
· responsible for implementing, maintaining and performance tuning of 5,000 lines of Transact **SQL** code (scripts and stored procedures)
Confidential Investments, Chicago, IL * 01/02-05/02*
· write from scratch and maintain real-time event-driven multi-threaded server applications in C++ on Linux and Solaris for use with **option trading system** for a hedge fund
***IT DIRECTOR****, BCM, Chicago 07/00-01/02 *
· Job duties include providing leadership in creating and managing the Programming and Applications Development Team
· Develop and enhance **automated trade execution** capabilities using VB, VBA, Activex controls, Access, Excel, etc.
· Utilize **Bloomberg**, AT, Microhedge, Redi, and other financial data feeds to develop short-term price prediction mechanisms for **equities**
· Successfully designed, back-tested and implemented a variety of proprietary financial trading models based on input from quantitative research team. These models undergo rigorous testing standards on and off-floor before being used to generate real-time 6 to 7-figure revenues
· Liaison with traders, dealers, **market makers** to ensure accurate and efficient dealing
· Implement **financial models** based on mathematical and statistical input, ratios, formulae
· Work directly with technical architecture team, marketing, finance and senior management on the design and deployment of applications in a two and three- tier environment
· Responsibilities also include development of offering tools, screen design and development, and conversion of VB Code to extensive database development
***BUSINESS PROGRAMMING ANALYST****, MBI Inc., Chicago 02/96-06/00 *
· Used AC Nielson, IRI and proprietary **market research methodologies** to establish and develop entire research efforts from the start-up, including managing teams of research analysts
· Performed RDBMS design and development in Oracle, SQL Server, generation of tables, screens and reports using **Oracle** Forms 4.5 and Reports 2.5
## Area of Expertise
**COMPUTER PROFICIENCY**
***Programming Languages*:** Expert: C, C++, HTML, VB Script, SQL
Intermediate: Java and XML technologies (JDBC, Swing, Servlets, Applets, DOM, DTD, XSD), BASIC, Perl, MS Active Server Pages, Fortran, Unix shell script
*GUI*: Expert: Visual Basic 6.0, VBA, Visual C++
*RDBMS/ Database Engines*: ORACLE 8i, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server, Developer 2000, SQL Forms 4.5, SQL Reports 2.5, Jet (MS Access)
*Operating Systems*: MS Windows, MS-DOS, UNIX (AIX, NCR, Solaris), Linux, MacOS, Windows 98/NT/2000/95/3.1,
*Software Applications*: SAP, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Internet Explorer and others *
Knowledge of SYBASE, SPSS, SAS, Front Page, software testing, ERP systems*
