Information Technology professional with extensive background providing data-interactive software, workflow automation, and better business intelligence.  Expert at resolving operational and oversight issues through process improvement and technology integration.
Functional Strengths.  Keen sense of inefficiency and a strong ability to optimize through reengineering. Highly skilled at taming complex data to ensure integrity, create insightful reports, enable simpler interaction, and reduce maintenance demands.
Leadership Abilities.  Experienced managing concurrent, critical projects.  Capable of uniting a broad base of interested parties including management, end-users and technical contributors.  Adept at balancing competing interests and demands on resources.
Digital Structures Corporation, Chicago 2000 - present
Managing Principal.  Provide custom software development services to a diverse client base.  Analyze business operations issues and engineer solutions.  Manage and participate with the technology development.  Oversee training and implementation.
Partial Client List -
The Northern Trust CIGNA HealthCare Labsource Illinois Institute of Technology
Regal Securities Caesars Entertainment eOption Boston Consluting Group
WhittmanHart Draper and Kramer Jays Chips Emmis Interactive / Q101
The Northern Trust Company, Chicago 1998 - 2000
Technology Manager (1998-2000).  Led a 125-employee divison through critical software implementations. Improved the quality and quantity of output from the division and 350 downstream staff by providing solutions and fostering integration into operations.
Securites Operations Manager (1999-2000).  Oversight of trade audit for $100 billion in managed assets led to 80% productivity improvement.  Increased yield from digital document archival team by 60% to over three million pages annually.
Regal Securities, Chicago 1995 - 1998
Projects Manager/QA Director (1997-1998).  Reported to the COO in a variety of trading, technology, and compliance capacities. Improved customer satisfaction, increased staff productivity, and decreased operating expenses.
Equity Trading Manager (1996-1997).  Oversaw a 12-representative equity trading desk.  Ensured efficient, accurate order processing while minimizing risk exposure.
Trade Group Leader (1996)Trade Representative (1995).
Gruntal & Company, Chicago 1994 - 1995
Account Executive.  Marketed equity, fixed-income, and derivative investments to institutions and high net worth individuals.
Academic coursework and over 25,000 hours professional experience in software design, development and deployment utilizing numerous programming languages across a wide range of platforms.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S. in Finance 1994
Licensed General Securities Principal (Series 24) / Registered Options Principal (Series 4) 1996 - 1998