Resume

January 2008 – Present

• Founded an invest­ment club focused on gen­er­at­ing con­sis­tent, peri­odic income by using the aid of custom-developed ana­lytic method­olo­gies and com­puter pro­grams to trade options
• Coor­di­nated the research and analy­sis efforts for myself and two partners
• Devel­oped and auto­mated sev­eral quan­ti­ta­tive analy­sis algo­rithms that assist in the invest­ment process by pro­vid­ing rank­ings of pub­licly traded com­pa­nies based on finan­cial fun­da­men­tals, list­ings of stocks with the high­est options pre­mi­ums, and pre­dic­tions of stock move­ment based on trend­ing and momen­tum cri­te­ria. Cre­ated the algo­rithms using the fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples of weighted trade stud­ies and later auto­mated them using Ruby on Rails. Applied this method­ol­ogy to trad­ing activ­i­ties, which resulted in an approx­i­mate 40% return on invest­ment dur­ing the 2009 cal­en­dar year — nearly 14% higher than the S&P 500 in the same timeframe
• Cre­ated a web­site that enables the pub­li­ca­tion of invest­ment arti­cles and pro­vides access to the afore­men­tioned auto­mated algo­rithms, a port­fo­lio man­age­ment tool, and edu­ca­tional resources
• Per­formed mar­ket research on pub­licly traded com­pa­nies, focus­ing on indus­try stand­ing, his­tor­i­cal per­for­mance, com­pet­i­tive advan­tage, and future prospects
• Man­aged legal, finan­cial, account­ing, logis­tics, long-term strat­egy, and invest­ment objectives

August 2006 – March 2010

• Man­aged time­lines, resources, and a staff of up to 10 soft­ware devel­op­ers and testers in the tech­ni­cal imple­men­ta­tion of a project man­age­ment appli­ca­tion that allowed over 4,500 users on 500 projects to eas­ily col­lab­o­rate on key deliv­er­ables, orga­nize project sched­ules, review bud­gets, and cre­ate finan­cial pro­jec­tions. Coordinated the efforts of staff from mul­ti­ple depart­ments across the firm to imple­ment a new devel­op­ment process that reduced the num­ber of hours needed to cre­ate and test new soft­ware by more than 50%, elim­i­nated the need for over­time work, and ensured the timely deliv­ery of new func­tion­al­ity. Received a per­for­mance award for ensur­ing prod­uct qual­ity, meet­ing dead­lines, and effec­tively man­ag­ing personnel
• Led and man­aged the tech­ni­cal imple­men­ta­tion, logis­tics, time­lines, and activ­i­ties of myself and two other devel­op­ers in the deliv­ery of a web-based traf­fic sim­u­la­tion engine that pro­vided a test­bed for industry-specific appli­ca­tion devel­op­ers to test their pro­pri­etary algo­rithms. Received a per­for­mance award for “lead­ing the team and ensur­ing crit­i­cal dead­lines were achieved with­out sac­ri­fic­ing quality.”
• Assisted in domain admin­is­tra­tion for a server farm con­sist­ing of Share­Point front-end web servers, Microsoft SQL Servers, domain con­trollers, and a SAN
• Lead devel­oper for a Ruby on Rails and Flex-based appli­ca­tion designed to auto­mate the deploy­ment of SOA-based mil­i­tary ser­vice offer­ings. Imple­mented a REST­ful method­ol­ogy for sav­ing and deliv­er­ing data to a Flex front end
• Par­tic­i­pated in uni­ver­sity recruit­ing and inter­view efforts for the firm. Pro­vided rec­om­men­da­tions that led to the hir­ing of approx­i­mately one-quarter of the total staff on sub-team, as well as the hir­ing of approx­i­mately 30 junior staff straight from college
• Pro­gres­sively increased man­age­r­ial respon­si­bil­i­ties over the course of two pro­mo­tions in three years

June 2006 – August 2007

• Worked with a team of web devel­op­ers to cre­ate an Inter­net busi­ness cen­tered on a web­site that would allow its users to eas­ily man­age and inter­act with their real-life groups in an online setting
• Devel­oped wid­gets for com­mu­ni­ca­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion, per­mis­sion mod­els and secu­rity imple­men­ta­tions, and user inter­faces for site features
• Cre­ated soft­ware using Ruby on Rails, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Pro­to­type, script.aculo.us, and MySQL
• Assisted in recruit­ing 500 alpha users and raising $20,000 in angel investments
• Par­tic­i­pated in board meet­ings to determine long-term strategies

May 2005 – August 2006

• Pro­vided a fully func­tional, database-backed web appli­ca­tion for use by over­seas mil­i­tary per­son­nel in a short­ened time­frame of 3 weeks as part of a 3-person devel­op­ment team
• Cre­ated a col­lab­o­ra­tion site that pro­vided Navy lead­er­ship with near-real time crit­i­cal infor­ma­tion to stream­line the deci­sion mak­ing process in the Navy Gulf Coast Region in the after­math of Hur­ri­cane Katrina
• Designed and cre­ated sev­eral web part solu­tions using APIs from Active Direc­tory, Microsoft Map­Point, Microsoft Pow­er­Point, and Microsoft SharePoint
• Cre­ated a Macro­me­dia flash proof-of-concept dash­board for a sta­tus report­ing appli­ca­tion inte­grated with SharePoint

August 2005 – May 2006

• Coor­di­nated the efforts of a five-member team focused on devel­op­ing an approach to opti­mize the use of resources on wire­less sen­sor networks
• Designed, imple­mented, and main­tained a sim­u­la­tion engine capa­ble of sim­u­lat­ing enemy solider move­ment and sen­sor net­work func­tion­al­ity in cus­tomized, load­able, user-defined sce­nar­ios. The appli­ca­tion was writ­ten in C#, sup­ported XML-based load­able sce­nario files, and uti­lized var­i­ous opti­miza­tion algo­rithms (such as Dijkstra’s algo­rithm and A*). The sim­u­la­tion engine pro­vided users with an intu­itive graph­i­cal user inter­face for sim­u­la­tion con­trol as well as the abil­ity to view and report on sim­u­la­tion progress
• Per­formed sta­tis­ti­cal and quan­ti­ta­tive analy­sis on results to deter­mine opti­mal resource allo­ca­tion pol­icy for the tested scenarios
• Lead author and pre­sen­ter of a paper at the IEEE Sys­tems and Infor­ma­tion Engi­neer­ing Design Sym­po­sium describ­ing results