Matthew Katz

147 Amity St, Apt 1 Brooklyn NY 11201 U.S.A.

+1-646-285-3817 resume@MoreLightMoreLight.com

To write powerful software that frees humans to work on interesting problems. C# .Net C++ PERL JavaScript XML XSL Ruby on Rails PHP SQL SQL Server VS 2005 XML Spy PDF Generation Graphical Display of Quantitative Information training from Edward Tufte User Experience Design FIX Equities Derivitatives Fixed Income Front Office Flow Trading Systems Back Office Booking and Reconciliation Client Interaction Trader Interaction Trading Floor Experience Associate Vice President Bank of America New York NY April 2004 Software developer for the BofA Securities Prime Brokerage, which has been consistently ranked #1 in technology among PB's in the Global Custodian Prime Brokerage Survey. Excel front end VSTO C# .Net system that provides real time profit and loss changes to hedge fund clients. Client side Aspx pages that queried SQL Server and output to html, Excel, or pdf Support tool for help desk to monitor EOD trade files using a Windows Forms GUI and web services. Simple aspx page that reduced developer support time by 80%. Used to build our staging, production and development environments from automatically built MSI files. Built out support for Ezecastle, High Velocity Trading and other formats, built UAT environment, wrote client documentation package for this C# server that imported client trades to SQL Server. Aspx page that used stored procedures to pull data into XML transform it to client's expectations using XSL. Developed Real Time PNL 2 in 6 months with 75% resources. PNL2 supports 6000 simultaneous positions with real time pricing. Trade Support Analyst UBS Stamford Connecticut March 2002 March 2004 Software developer and trade support analyst for equities trading client connectivity team on the world's largest trading floor. IRC and PERL bot that monitored multiple databases for Program Trading desk. PERL system to do deployments and intraday 1 second failovers for the A4 high velocity trading system. From hardware to network to software to FIX messages. Responsible for client to market trade flow. Won award: "Best Chatbot - UBS Global Equities" for interactive program trading flow monitor bot. Saved traders time and preserved client business, freed up 1 full support staff. Software Developer Sungard Data Systems Rochester NY January 2001 March 2002 Software developer on the BRASS/UMA/U2 system, NASDAQ Market Maker software that processed up to 70% of the volume of the NASDAQ. All development was done in C/C++, the frontend was MOTIF Allowed market makers to drip large orders out to the market in small timed chunks to avoid moving the market. Led small team to perform code and core dump analysis. Simplified code, reduced instability and increased customer satisfaction. Used Object Oriented Programming to simplify and centralize TIF code. Reduced related lines of code by 50%. Wrote various bug fixes and customer requested enhancements. Increased core stability of the system, hunting down the top instability issues. Software Developer University of South Carolina Computer Services Department Columbia SC June 2000 January 2001 SQL and GUI developer responsible for data integrity in transition of all alumni information from mainframe storage to relational databases. Wrote hundreds of sql data validation scripts to find unusual data for review and PowerBuilder frontends to display results to users. Reduced mailing costs and increased data integrity. 1998 1995 This resume is composed in resume xml. One source file can be processed through various XSL transforms to produce many output formats. B.S. Computer Science December 2000 Univeristy of South Carolina 3.9 In major with weighting for honors courses. PADI Certified Open Water Diver Dave Neigler SAC Capital 917.710.1214 dneigler@gmail.com http://snappynat.com/blog Chris Acton Sungard Data Systems 585.843.8472