I am an Independent Technology and Finance Consultant.

 

I have over 14 years of hands-on experience building large scale systems in the Financial (Electronic Trading Platforms), Risk, Insurance and Life Science sectors. I am self-driven and passionate about Finance, Distributed Systems, Functional Programming, Big Data, Semantic Data (Graph) and Machine Learning.

 

From 2017 to 2018, I worked at Elsevier as a Distinguished Engineer (hands-on subject matter expert) on Machine Learning, Functional Abstractions, Semantic/RDF and Property Graphs, TinkerPop/Gremlin, Big Data Pipelines, PAAS and Microservices applied to Life Science datasets.

 

From 2015 to 2017, I worked for Nephila Capital  as a Senior Developer where I was responsible for the development of Nephila’s next generation software solutions.

 

Prior to joining Nephila, I spent four years at BlackRock  in London as part of the core trading team focused on scaling the equity capabilities of BlackRock’s Aladdin platform.

 

From 2005 to 2011, I was a front-office developer for Morgan Stanley’s Capital Markets division in New York. I was responsible for the design and implementation of the precious metals trading platform, mortgage pricing systems and other real-time tools for the sales-force.

 

In 2004, I also worked as a systems developer for Maryland Institute College of Arts  in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

 

I hold a Master in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA. I also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Computer Science from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA.