CHRIS BELLOS
***A County Street 203-***-****
Norwalk, CT 06851-5619 ******@*****.***
ARCHITECTURE
C#, .NET, ASP.Net, SQL, C++, VB*, C
SSIS, SSRS & Power BI analytics with MDX, star schemas, snowflake, ADF, DataLake & DataBricks
SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2 UDB, Sybase, My SQL
ASP.Net, WCF and WPF, WinForms, MFC, ATL, COM, Sockets
Service Bus, Event Hub, SignalR, Activ, ActivMQ, Spring NMS, TIBCO / Rendezvous and COM
Ruby, Python, JavaScript, React.js
AWS & Azure cloud, DevOps, CI/CD, AAD, API & microservices
OBJECTIVE
Develop, lead, design, analyze & architect in leading industries with technical prowess, utilizing existing knowledge and skills, while acquiring new ones. Collective, team-oriented, while delivering excellence. Lead by example, technical expertise, core competencies and industry prowess.
EXPERIENCE
MunichRe - Hartford, CT 06/2023 – present
Enterprise Architect (Contract)
Analytics and reporting solution architecture aligning insurance and reinsurance P&C, Life/Health, Industry & Public Sector clients with resources and products. Reinsurance as a decisive protective shield for national economies against major risks. Well-balanced portfolio and leading risk management. In-depth understanding of risk and reliable reinsurance capacity. Clarity for a sustainable cyber insurance market protecting a thriving, interconnected future.
Design and architect, implement, configure, provision, test, deploy and support global greenfield & cloud migration implementations, using full agile, full SDLC, D365, CRM, ERP, F&O, PCF, ADF, DataBricks, DataLake, KingsWaySoft, including performance tuning, logging and review.
Working with both on and off shore resources, the business, stake holders, networking and infrastructure, to produce BRDs, FRDs, user stories and acceptance criteria, removing blockers, managing backlog, CI/CD pipeline automation, IAM, AAD for users around the globe.
Custom CRM workflows with C# & connections to ADF, DataBrick & Data Lake with C# .NET & APIs, PowerBI with SQL for BL & ETL reports for the business to run analytics
InfoSys - Remote 06/2022 – 06/2023
Enterprise Architect (Contract)
Legacy migration & greenfield cloud implementation, full agile, full SDLC, full stack, D365, CRM, ERP, F&O, PCF, ADF, DataBricks, DataLake, KingsWaySoft, AWS & Azure, requirements to delivery.
Capgemini- Remote 02/2020 – 06/2022
Enterprise Architect (Contract)
Legacy migration & greenfield cloud implementation, full agile, full SDLC, full stack, D365, CRM, ERP, F&O, PCF, ADF, DataBricks, DataLake, KingsWaySoftAWS & Azure, requirements to delivery.
Moran - New Canaan, CT 08/2019 – 02/2020
Enterprise Architect (Contract)
Liaise in the enterprise amid architects, networking, infrastructure, development, stake holders & end users to implement & integrate various custom, 3rd party & legacy applications for MDS. Service catalog & configuration database governance, compliance & certification
Unum & Hiscox insurance & reinsurance
Heroku, GCP, AWS & Azure Cloud, CRD CRIMS, Eagle 17, APIs, Microservices & ASP.Net
IoT Azure SaaS Data Lake Arvo to SQL via Azure functions
Big Data, SSIS, SSRS, Data Bricks, DataLake, ADF & reports, git, Jira
Scripting, DevOps, CI/CD, AAD
PowerApps, Business Central, Navision Financials, D365, CRM, C#, .Net Core
Cedar Gate Technologies - Greenwich, CT 02-07/2019
Lead Architect (Contract)
PII & claims transactions architecture, design & implementations with development, infrastructure, networking & stake holders, realizing a tenfold performance improvement
Legacy to cloud migration using a dedicated Dynamics CRM 365 instance
GCP, AWS & Azure Cloud, APIs, Microservices & ASP.Net
Dynamics, C#, Azure, Reporting, Scripting
Big Data, SSIS, SSRS, DevOps, CI/CD, git, Jira, AAD
BNY Mellon - Greenwich, CT 07/2018 – 02/2019
Application Architect (Contract)
Trading implementation for the #1 hedge fund in the world
GCP, AWS & Azure Cloud, APIs, Eagle 17, Microservices & ASP.Net, SSIS, SSRS
Front, Middle and Back office for the biggest hedge fund in the world. C# & SSRS Deadline MVC tracker, via asynchronous controller, Jira
PACE, Eagle, GO, Encore spoke – hub, Trade Tracker Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, JavaScript, JavaScript
TDD CI/CD Oracle based framework
TD Bank Securities - New York, NY 05-06/2018
Tech Lead (Contract)
Prime Broker Loan .NET Exchange clearing and settling
GCP, AWS & Azure Cloud, APIs, Microservices & ASP.Net
SSIS, SSRS, C# DevExpress to Infragistics virtualization POC
MS SQL Server performance tuning and reporting
PCR - Wilton, CT 04=05/2018
Tech Lead (Contract)
Architect & implement cloud migration
10,000+ SSRS Azure Cloud reports for ultra-high net worth individuals, 5/sec
C#, ASP.Net & SSIS, SSRS & web services
Franklin Templeton - New York, NY 10/2017 – 03/2018
Tech Lead (Remote Contract)
CRD CRIMS implementation
AWS & Azure Cloud, CRD CRIMS, APIs, Microservices & ASP.Net
C#, Oracle SQL & DevExpress CRIMS workbench & Blotter enhancements
Custom trader specific grouping and mapping for higher effectiveness
AIG Investments - Wilton, CT 10/2014 – 10/2017
Senior Systems Developer
Architect holdings solution for accounting department
Insurance & reinsurance, Dynamics CRM 365
Swift, Security and Base Data Maintenance, AD
Securities & Global Cash Management DevExpress WinForms C#, ASP.Net & PL/SQL Books & Records, Securities, Cash & Bank Account Management. Master/Detail, AD & DevExpress based reporting with SSIS & SSRS for Excel & PDF
Yale University - New Haven, CT 05-10/2014
Tech Lead
Scheduling architect
C# .NET SQL SSIS, SSRS,, BedeWorks & cvent Enterprise scheduling
ESPN - Bristol, CT 03-04/2014
Tech Lead
Scheduling architect
Playbook application development – Travel project
Microsoft .NET– VS, C#, ASP.Net, Windows Forms, WPF, MVVM and MVC, Oracle, Infragistics controls
SOA using WCF
Agile development process, working closely with BA’s and end users
MVVM methodology using a logical container on top of the physical model, independent of View layer(s)
SSIS, SSRS, Database designer for all data model changes related to Travel project
Develop harnesses in Visual Studio for back testing
Suggest and implement enhancements to logical code container (MVVM)
First New York Securities, LLC - New York, NY 12/2010 – 03/2014
Senior Systems Developer
Core architecture of hedge fund software
Private equity prop trading firm core reusable HF OMS/EMS/SOR framework design, architecture and development
Trade Capture, Execution, Reporting, Greeks, VAR via .NET, C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server and FIX
Quant, Trader and business interface via the Agile development process
Algorithmic trading via Black Scholes, Intercontinental Exchange, Trading Technologies, Logic Scope, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch FIX, WCF, WPF, C++, C#, SQL & Web Services Blotter, PosMon, P&L, Equities, Options, Commodities, Futures & FX development.
Small intersection table based star data warehouse servicing the various trading desk needs. Design of INSTEAD OF triggers, UPDATABLE views, stored procedures, indexes, user defined aggregate functions for pivot tables.
Office 365 and SharePoint integration
Deutsche Bank Asset Management - New York, NY 05-12/2010
Senior Application Developer – Architect
Core risk management architecture with PMs
Private Equity Alpha Risk Modeling via Greeks and Barra Factors
Markov Chain Monte Carlo & Axioma Portfolio Optimization Suites with C++ and SQL on Windows & Linux. Bloomberg API, FactSet CornerStone & CRD CRIMS Charles River Clearing. Visual Studio 2010 .NET, RogueWave Source Pro and component SDLC based development. Portfolio Manager deployment & Control-M enterprise monitoring of service based RTDS multi-process $6 billion fund management.
Correlix - New York, NY 05/2009 – 05/2010
Professional Services Engineer
Core latency monitoring architect
Develop and configure latency monitoring and reporting systems using shell scripting, Perl, C++ and stored procedures for protocols TTM, ETS, EBS, BATS, ARCA, ICAP EBS FX, FIX, TIB RV, NASDAQ ITCH, OUCH, soupOUCHTcp, MoldUDP, Chi-X, Chi-TECH, NYSE ARCA Direct OX, ESpeed
PoC, installation, configuration and support systems for Infinium, Group 1, 7ticks IDC, HSBC, NASDAQ OMX, Deutche Borse, Deutche Bank, Credit Suisse, Chi-X, Chi-TECH, BNP Paribas, Tora Trading, Barclays Capital, BGC, Allston Trading, Nomura, Schneider Trading, CBOE HotSpot
ERF, PCAP, Endace NinjaBox, NetScout, VMWare, Windows, CentOS C++, PostGreSQL, protocol agnostic message latency computation, including Race Team for cross venues, strategic partnerships, buy & sell side plus exchange latency reporting. NAT, DAS, NAS & SAN
Activ Financial - New York, NY 02-05/2009
Technical Lead
Core financial data architecture
C++, boost & C#, FX, Fixed Income and Risk management application development and configuration with Monte Carlo, Black–Scholes and the Greeks on volatility and VWAP of custom deployments on Windows, Linux, VMWare trading systems for OPRA, CME, CBOE, NYSE, PHLX, NASDAQ, FX, EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Americas market data, including inside, BBO and full depth, followed by Apama, Derivix, Sybase CEP, PanOpticon, UI, BL & RTDB, VHDL, FPGA, 1/10GE, InfiniBand and iWARP TOE, DMA, ITRS, Corvil and TS&A, CVS, ftp, telnet, WinSCP, SecureCRT, RTDS and XML schema driven messaging
PoC, deployment and post deployment infrastructure data solutions including index, equity, futures, currency and options. Improved QoS, documentation, process, bandwidth and latency measurements
Clients include Goldman Sachs, Genesis Securities, Ubuntu Securities, McKinsey, Pershing, Citibank, Ninja Trader, Kane Capital, Morgan Stanley, Tachyeon, Mitsubishi, CIBC, Jefferies, prop and algo trading firms and high net worth individuals
Chicago and Cambridge, U.K. deep technology sessions with peers, including ingress, egress, conflation, virtual book, RTDB, hardware acceleration and fan-out
Bank of Itau – Bahamas 01/2009
Core Systems Developer
Core Architect
PBX recording CTI PIKA auto answer WinTel MS VC++.NET multi-process, multi-threaded, MySQL, ODBC services including logging
Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy - Wilton, CT 07-12/2008
Front Office Application Developer
Core financial data middleware architecture
C++, C#, .NET, VB, JavaScript and SQL architecture, design and implementation of multithreaded, multi-process Windows services. ActivMQ, Spring NMS queue and topic 15000 messages / second MOM implementation and TrayPort XML RTDS
Real time commodities trading and batch ETL, including Platts spot data, via DevExpress and WPF, MatLab, Enterprise scheduling, Oracle, OD.NET, ftp and Toad. Full SDLC, including AccuRev and Jira, scripting, VSTO, Java, web development, cygwin, Lunt, Maven, rsync and ssh
Streaming more than 10 million daily messages, as well as TrayPort and Platts data to traders and risk managers via Excel via publish / subscribe ActivMQ based MOM, yielding millions of dollars in company revenue
Diversified Investment Advisors - Purchase, NY 07/2007–07/2008
Technical Lead
Core financial statements architecture
Pension plan statements system with four developers, interfacing with state holders for 64 bit migration, resulting in 25% error reduction, qoq
Full SDLC, UML, and STL, multi-process, multi-threaded architecture, design, development and refactoring of 401K, 402b, 403K and similar statements system. VS 2005 64-bit, C++, C#, COM InterOp, WCF, .NET 3.0, IBM DB2 UDB SQL, Xerces, PS, PDF, batch ETL Xerox process
Fuji Film Medical Systems- Stamford, CT 04-07/2007
Sr. Application Developer
ASP.NET C#, .NET, ATLAS, AJAX web services as clients to C++ .NET windows services, HTTP, TOAD, C++, ISAPI, ATL Server, IIS, SOAP, WSDL, HTTP, Oracle, ODP, ADO, OLE DB, XDS, XDS-I, WADO, DICOM
NASDAQ - Trumbull, CT 08/2000–03/2007
Sr. Technical Specialist Analyst / Programmer
20 million user, 12.5 msec latency, highly reliable and available, 58 Kbps, TotalView, OpenView, NQDS, ADAP, BBX and QDS. TIBCO / Rendezvous and socket based n-tier stock market distributed system implementation and INET integration
Full SDLC, including RAD, OOD and Zachman with C++, IIS, ASP, .NET, C#, SQL, RV, Hawk, OLE DB, XML, MFC, ATL, COM, VB, UML, IT, QC, packaging, deployment, 99.998% SLA support
Dictaphone - Stratford, CT 1999–2000
Principal Software Engineer
daVinci bottom –up concept to product CTI DTI OOA&D and UML R&D development with COM, DCOM, ATL, ADO, C++, IDL, STL SQL and SQL Server
COM, DCOM and MTS distributed systems for DTI and DTI-2 CODEC based voice recording, database storage, retrieval and playback
Engineering department technical lead including problem resolution plus technology focus, direction and project management, documentation, full SDLC, UML and ER diagrams and testing
Pitney Bowes - Shelton, CT 1997–1999
Project Software Engineer
Click Stamp Plus and online full SDLC and implementation with MS VS C++, including MFC, DAO, COM, DCOM and ATL for cross process and system communication, logging, SQL, VB and data bound grids
Coordinated design and code review meetings as the engineering and group lead
General Signal Networks –Data Switch - Shelton, CT 1996–1997
Sr. Software Engineer
Windows based 3990 Fiber Channel DASD control system development with MS VS C++, including MFC, TAI, data bound grids and OLE
Features include MDI, call home, property sheets and form views with OLE controls
Thomson Software Products - Norwalk, CT 1994–1996
Systems Programmer
NOMAD cross platform RDBMS, C, NETBIOS, EHLLAPI, APPC and TCP/IP on Windows and Unix
EscoTel Software - Norwalk, CT 1993–1994
Software Architect
Call management and text-based editor implementation with Greenleaf presentation, search and Btrieve persistence capabilities
Norwalk Community Technical College - Norwalk, CT 1992–2000
Professor
Office, C, C++, SQL I, II and III, Oracle RDBMS, PL/SQL and WebDB
Katherine Gibbs - Norwalk, CT 1994–1995
Professor
Office and Desktop publishing
DMS - Norwalk, CT 1990–1993
Application Software Engineer
Full SDLC telecom matrix switch in C for DOS and Windows, using Novell IPX/SPX, including DB entry system
UNICOM - Norwalk, CT 1989–1990
Systems Engineer
PC based NOX and software installations, solutions and training
Hyper Logic - Kastoria, Greece 1988–1989
Application Developer
Novell network installations and Clipper plus dBase III Plus custom clearing house application development
BBC - Salonica, Greece 1988
Professor
DOS Pascal, data structures and file management
UNH - West Haven, CT 1986–1987
Lab Assistant
Held lab sessions and was responsible for the physics lab
EDUCATION
MSEE, University of Bridgeport - Bridgeport, CT 1988–1992
Communication Systems Principles, DSP, adaptive signal processing, Microwaves, Linear and non-Linear control systems, VLSI and advanced engineering mathematics
BSEE, University of New Haven - New Haven, CT 1984–1988
Fiber Optics communications, microprocessor systems and peripherals, digital filters and digital systems