KEVIN E. BREIDENBACH B.SC. (HONS) MIEE

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Nico Trading

Architect / Technical Lead

Chicago Illinois

June 2010 November 2010

-Lead a team of 15 developers building trading platforms

-Responsible for overall architecture of the delivered products

-Applications were built using C#.Net 3.5 and C++

-Utilized messaging technologies from Informatica/29West including LBM and UME

-Worked with team to design replacement Auto Quoter which had significant performance increases and functionality

-Introduced agile best practices by hiring ThoughtWorks consultants to manage projects and act as business analysts

-Data stored in clustered SQL Server databases

Cygnus Atratus LLC

Lead Architect / Lead Developer

Chicago Illinois

November 2008 March 2010

-Lead a small team of developers producing trading software

-Responsible for overall architecture of the delivered products

-Built a new risk system from ground up using C++ for math libraries and multi-threaded Java for core application and UI

-UI written using Swing components

-Replacement risk system removed multiple spredsheets and third party software and allowed for much faster assessment of risk

Bank of America

Principal Architect Global Markets

Chicago Illinois

October 2003 October 2008

Worked on a number of high visibility projects that assisted development teams across the enterprise

Worked with teams from all global markets business units

-Assisted in defining technical direction for the organization

-Worked with various messaging platforms to select the best fit for Global Markets including:

-29 West LBM Tibco RV Sonic MQ Websphere MQ BEA JMS

-Defined agile best practices that could enable better productivity from development teams

VP & Architect Global Foreign Exchange

-Worked in a large development team producing foreign exchange trading software

-Applications were built using core Java and J2EE and deployed on BEA WebLogic

-Utilized Tibco RV and BEA WebLogic JMS for messaging platforms

-Oracle RDBMS was te primary data store for the applications

-Built connections to outside trading partners including FXAll and Currenex

-Increased performance significantly over previous commercial platform raising B of A to the top six for FX trading

Encore Consulting

Chief Technology Officer

Chicago Illinois

2002 2003

-As well as setting technical direction for the consultants I was billed to a number of client projects

-Developed C#.Net application for major insurance company

-Developed Java application for trade clearing house

BEA Systems inc

Senior Principal

Chicago Illinois

2000 2002

-A J2EE and core Java expert within BEA s professional services organization

-Produced J2EE applications for a number of high profile firms including:

o Leading satellite TV company

o Large utility copany

o An online university

o Medical electronics firm

Greenbrier & Russel inc

Senior Consultant

Chicago Illinois

2000 2000

-Placed at a .com startup to help them produce a Java customer management system

-Lead the design and managed a team of four developers

ADC Metrica

Development Manager

1999 2000

Developer for ADC Metrica subsidiary of ADC Telecommunications

Lehman Brothers

1998 1999

Senior Developer

Developer for Lehman Brothers investment bank

EDUCATION

University of Kent at Canterbury

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) with honors in Computer Science

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (MIEE) UK

Stage 1 chartered engineer

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