Professional experience

February 1997 – September 2007 OppenheimerFunds , New York , N.Y.

Senior Market Data Specialist

Responsible for the installation, testing, maintenance, and development of Market Data systems for the Equity and Fixed Income trade desks, and the applications used by the Portfolio Managers and Analysts for those departments. Knowledge of The following applications: Reuters, ThomsonOne, Charles River , CSFB Holt, SNL, Yieldbook, Merrin (XIP), Bloomberg, and ECN packages for electronic trading (STP+1). Technical knowledge of networking,TCP/IP, SQL, Windows, Citrix, and Router configurations.

April 1992 – January 1997 Metro North Commuter Railroad, New York .

LAN Administrator/ PC Technician

Responsible for the installation and maintenance for PC systems and the LAN servers for various departments throughout the railroad.

September 1988 – February 1992 ILX systems, New York , N.Y.

Market Data Technical Support

Responsible for the development, installation, and maintenance of Market Data systems on turnkey mainframe servers.

May 1985 – September 1988 E.F. Hutton, New York , N.Y.

Systems Manager

Responsible for maintaining the Hutton news and data feed systems, and the development of the Hutton/COMPASS market data systems.

September 1979 – May 1985 Peabody House, New York , N.Y.

COBOL programmer/Data Entry Manager

Responsible for coding programs and managing a team of Data Entry Operators for the CAMP II system (Comprehensive Apparel Manufacturing Package).

Education

September 1976 – September 1979 Bernard M. Baruch college New York , N.Y. Graduated cum laude, Bachelor of Arts degree, music major and computer science minor.

September 1975 – June 1976 John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York , N.Y.

Training courses include CISCO's Basic Networking, CITRIX at Horizon, UNIX, LAN Administrator from Novell, Microsoft office (advanced), PC repair, Network communications repair, Windows for the PC.