Illinois State University

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Chief Strategy Officer - Fineqia International Inc.

London, England, United Kingdom

Fineqia

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)

Member, Consultative Working Group, Financial Innovation Standing Committee

Global Blockchain Business Council

Member, Organising Committee of Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL)

Expert Group member consulting the EU Commission's Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services, and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) on regulatory hurdles to financial innovation.

European Commission

Member, DG FISMA - Expert Group on Regulatory Hurdles to Financial Innovation (ROFIEG)

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

Lead Blockchain Architect & Developer - Emerging Technology

- Lead Blockchain Technology and other emerging technology initiatives and their strategic development, including proofs-of-concept, investment, and new initiatives.
- Represent the group in UK, EU, and global regulatory and policy making bodies in relation to the impact of Emerging Technology on Financial Market Infrastructure.

Head of Digital Asset Strategy

Royal Mint Gold

Evaluate multiple major players in digital asset and FinTech space to create one of the first digital asset offering including a trading platform, multi-signature wallet, and underlying blockchain.  Formulate technology strategy and architecture for RMG Blockchain technology selection.
- Architecting, and building a new Blockchain for Gold with our FinTech partners: Conduct in-depth technical analysis of a variety of digital asset blockchain platforms including understanding of P2P, and PoW/PoS consensus protocols
- Creating new Digital Asset Exchange: Evaluate multiple digital asset exchange platforms tech-stack, enterprise integration ability, banking integration, and flexibility to provide trading platform requirements for RMG.
- Leading a development team:  Build enterprise-grade solution to integrate with RMG blockchain and RMG trading platform.



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CME Group

Development Lead and Solution Architect  - Tech Labs Team

In my on-going technical advisory role I have performed the following:
- Developed start-up IT infrastructure strategy using Amazon and Google Cloud services to minimize cost and reduce time to market.
- Implemented development standards, practices and tools such as Git, requirement management through JIRA, and collaboration tools using Confluence.
- Advised on data persistence strategy to normalise data from a variety of sources and databases for consumption by Tableau for customer data visualization.
- Developed tool suite and strategy for parsing and normalising customer health-care data from a variety of commercial health-care systems.
- Architected and designed front and back-end strategy to deliver cost-effective web front-end minimal viable product, using Ruby and NodeJS
- Hired and oversaw front and back-end developers and conduct technical reviews of deliverables while controlling cost, scope, and managing tight timelines.

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Mimir Health

Strategic Technical Advisor

CME Clearing Technology Group
-  Specialize in designing and adapting high volume CME Clearing / Trade Management and Risk Mangement Systems (both messaging and User Interface)
- Developed and enhanced trade risk management systems and integrated Calypso with existing exchange and risk systems for processing of Interest Rate Swap trades, and Swaptions.
- Developed, designed, enhanced trade processing and clearing systems for:
- Futures/Options/Forwards and OTC products.
- Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, OTC Trading Markets and products and 3rd party matching platforms.
- Supported firm and trading platform FIX / FPML messaging standard
- Adapt distributed architecture for low latency / high volume / distributed trade clearing applications.
- Designed Splunk dashboards, alerting and advanced analytics, and metrics for both business and IT users.
- Designed automated testing tools and framework for full end-to-end test execution using Cucumber and Bamboo.
- Experienced Managed on-shore off-shore developers, and in effective delivery of projects involving coordination of global offices.

Development Languages & Frameworks:
- Java  1.7 / 1.8
- Spring 2,3
- AngularJS
- JDBC
- JMS
- Testing Frameworks: Cucumber / JUnit / TestNG /Selenium
- Unix / Linux
- Calypso systems
- Apache Libraries
Tools:
- Bamboo
- UC4 Job Management / Scheduling
- Splunk Monitoring and Stats and Dashboards
- Toad for Oracle
- Git Source Repository
- Atlassian Suite /JIRA,  Confluence, BitBucket, FishEye
- Maven 3
- Eclipse IDE
Application Environments and Infrastructure:
- Oracle 10g/11/12
- MongoDB
- Weblogic Application Server 10,11,12 / Weblogic Cluster
- IBM MQ Series
- Weblogic JMS Queue infrastructure supporting multiple units-of-order
- RedHat Linux
- Apache Tomcat
- Amazon Cloud (AWS) / Chef / Ansible

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Senior Associate

Java Developer (Associate)

Michael Coletta