​Vice President - Client Connectivity Services     

 Morgan Stanley                                                                                                                                                      05/2020 -12/2024

• Led client onboarding for Morgan Stanley's ultra-low latency platform, completing HFT client setups, including FPGA-based solutions that reduced trading latency by up to 70% and ensured direct access to major global exchanges.
• Managed sponsored access client onboarding, achieving a 30% faster setup time on average, enabling clients to trade seamlessly under Morgan Stanley’s membership.
• Facilitated product enhancements by collaborating with product teams and stakeholders to gather requirements, driving the development of key features that increased platform adoption by 15%.
• Streamlined client testing and UAT processes, acting as the primary liaison and successfully supporting over 50+ client certifications and testing phases annually, ensuring on-time launches.
• Executed exchange upgrades and conformance testing across 10+ European exchanges, ensuring 100% compliance with exchange protocols and maintaining seamless platform integration.
• Optimized colocation environments, coordinating regular hardware checks with network and server teams, resulting in 99% uptime for client-ready environments and cross-connectivity.
• Ensured regulatory compliance by collaborating with trading, risk, and compliance teams, enabling 100% adherence to industry standards for all new developments and deployments.
• Enhanced operational efficiency by implementing advanced troubleshooting protocols using Corvil analytics and Wireshark, resolving technical issues 25% faster and introducing automated testing procedures through DevOps, cutting deployment times by 20%.

Client Connectivity and FIX On-boarding Consultant

Bank of America Merrill Lynch                                                                                                                             12/2012 - 12/2019

• Migration of client connectivity platform from legacy to next gen platform including FIX engine to routing layer, migrating more than 2000 EMEA based FIX clients.
• Designed a solution which became the de-facto method for the invisible and seamless transfer of client's trading flow from the legacy to new system, without any system downtime, that also that enabled cross regional migrations to be sped up by 150%
• Analyzed client trading patterns to and flow types to refactor their legacy rules into the next gen platform and project managed the EMEA part of migration completing 30 days ahead of project tolerance.
• Wrote scripts that automatically created and produced config files that reduced manual work by 20 days for about 1000 clients.
• Technical onboarding of clients globally for Equities and Derivatives DMA, ALGO, Program and Cash trading
• Continuous improvement in the form of routing rule refactoring and simplifying complex client workflows​​​​​

Vice President - Exchange Connectivity​

Morgan Stanley                                                                                                                                                       06/2010 - 11/2012

• Maintain the technical account relationship and connectivity to European exchanges and MTF's and to vendors and brokers to for emerging markets and other venues where the firm is not a member.
• Worked on exchange platform / software upgrades (IDEM-SOLA, LIFFE-UTP, CME platform upgrade) and new connectivity to Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and London Metal Exchange (LME)
• Co-ordinate testing with the front office application teams and operations, during exchange platform upgrades and the upgrades to any internal applications
• Work closely with trading and risk management and compliance teams to make sure that the compliance or regulatory requirements are met.

Assistant Vice President - Electronic Trading Services​

Merrill Lynch                                                                                                                                                             11/2007- 05/2010

• Member of the DMA service desk handling the day-to-day application support and onboarding queries from external clients and vendors relating to Cash Equities and derivatives trading
• Designed/Architected, configurated, tested and implemented a new flow for EMEA FFO Direct Market Access (DMA) clients to route the orders to the different exchanges.

Senior Analyst Programmer - Mission Control QA​

Goldman Sachs                                                                                                                                                         04/2007- 10/2007

IT Analyst - IT development, testing and support.

Tata Consultancy Services                                                                                                                                       04/2001- 03/2007