About Me
I was born and raised in the foothills of San Diego in California. Spent most my time in school, building models, fishing, hunting, and building computers once I had a bit of disposable income.
I have been very fortunate to live in a variety of states and countries, including Washington, Wisconsin, Florida, Illinois, and London. Finally, I'm currently in Brooklyn, NY, with my wife, who is a local photographer and my two children, Amelia and Wade.
Current interests are visiting the local library every Saturday with the kids, learning the Violin, camping, and figure out where to take the family Subaru next.
Current Role
CME Group
Senior Director Data Services - Market Data Platforms
February 2016 to Present
Responsible for CME Group Data Platforms Product Management and Business Intelligence including strategy, customer engagement, execution, and all commercial aspects of half billion dollar revenue enablers. Solutions include high-speed data redistribution via CME Group Market Data Platform, historical data redistribution via CME DataMine, and Data Licensing, Billing and Business Intelligence via Data Services Platform.
Currently focused on bringing Real Time Exchange Market Data into cloud solutions removing barriers to entry for global customers.
Prior Responsibilities In Role:
New data product development, including requirements, competitive analysis, commercial licensing approach, pricing, and execution.
Data storage strategy enabling seamless commercialization and licensing of CME Group intellectual data products.
Managing third party relationships using CME Distribution technologies: S&P DJIA Indexes, ERIS, B^3, Dubai Mercantile Exchange, KRX, MGEX, and Bursa Malaysia
Inbound data acquisition, budgeting, licensing, and purchasing in support of the entire CME Group global enterprise. Includes large data vendors like Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, index providers like LBMA, and brokerages such as ICAP, Tullet Prebon, and Tradition Financial Services (TFS)
Senior Director Trading Solutions
February 2015 to February 2016
Responsible for creating, refining, and ultimately driving customer-centric products and solutions as they relate to Pricing of all asset types, Data Repositories supporting Data Science and Market Data solutions for CME Group.
Work with Executive Management teams providing consistent and complete visions for internal development and support teams who will be expected to deliver the required solutions.
Solutions are broad in application, fit into industry best practices and align to future technological abilities.
Require extensive data modeling from big data technologies including Hadoop and Spark, data analysis in Python, R and Alteryx as well as the presentation of complex information via Tableau.
Lead transformational initiatives and process improvements including the application of Lean UX principles to create immediately usable solutions.
Lead a team on a complete rewrite of dated option valuation tools leveraging Lean UX design and offshore development teams in collaboration with onshore resources.
Senior Director, OTC Energy and Metal Settlements
November 2010 to February 2016
As Senior Director of Settlements at CME Group, I'm was responsible for the team, software, workflow, and models used in pricing over 1000 OTC Energy & Metal Products on a daily basis. My team was task with building the strategy and the execution of advanced pricing approaches to achieve the CME Group’s daily price discovery objective for both liquid and illiquid products. Current key interests include the application of ‘Big Data’ and Data Science utilizing a number of advanced data management and programming technologies.
Innovative Projects
Hadoop Front End Solution
Tableau Data Visualization Approaches
Domestic Power and Nat Gas with Weather Modeling
Intraday OTC Energy Pricing Via Machine Learning Techniques
Held prior roles of Director of OTC Energy and Metal Settlements
Senior Program Manager
May 2008 to December 2010
Responsible for delivery of crucial enterprise business and technology programs across multiple business and technology divisions
Accurately delivered in coordination with outside legal, business, and technology teams for the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Registered Clearing House designation for CME Europe Clearing.
Successfully delivered major CME and NYMEX merger activities to capture merger-related synergies. Oversaw all aspects of the Global Operations division integration including NYMEX trading floor consolidation, price reporting, and wallboard migration to Tandem system, Trading floor fee changes, monthly membership notices, and ITC feed migration. Delivered entire 1-year merger project on the original timeline, under budget, and with no change controls
Held prior role of Program Manager
Prior Roles
TradeStation technologies
Product Manager
May 2005 to May 2008
Worked with C levels, developers, QA, and clients to create award winning and industry-leading trading, charting, and automated trading software products.
Requirement gathering, analysis, execution path, and final user acceptance testing for high-speed equity, future, option and forex trading platform.
TDAmeritrade
Solutions Consultant
February 2000 to july 2004
Technology Consultant to current and prospect institutional investors in Pacific Region. Provided in-office training, integration and integration of various software.
March to July 2004 closed three large accounts worth over $150 Million in assets.
Held various other roles prior including Equity Trading Platform Product Manager for the RIA Veo platform and Supervisor of Technology Support Services.
Education
Northwestern University
Masters of Science in Predictive Analytics
Cum Laude - May 2018
San Diego State University
Masters of Business Administration and Information Systems
July 2003
National University
BBA Finance
Cum Laude - July 2001