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10+ years Java experience, in both academic and corporate work environments

Good working knowledge of financial markets, equities in particular

Extensive team-based work experience

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Strong leadership skills, including teaching experience

Graduated magna cum laude, May 2001

Double Major - Computer Science (B.S. with departmental honors), Mathematics (B.A)

Cumulative G.P.A. 3.7, Major G.P.A. (Computer Science) 3.8

Honors & Activities:   Rutgers College General Honors Program, Dean's List, Rutgers University Presidential Scholar, National Merit Scholarship Recipient, Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar, Rutgers Ski Team

Major academic projects included: A Servlet-based online store; Encryption/decryption packages using elliptic curve cryptographic methods (written in Java); An Internet-enabled Java chat application

Relevant Coursework: Algorithm Design and Analysis, Data Structures, Database Management Systems, Discrete Math, Internet Technology, Mathematical Logic, Number Theory, Cryptography, Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Ranked 4^th in graduating class of 322

4-year varsity letter winner in track & field; Academic Decathalon; Math League; Science League

1996 SAT: 1560 (800 Math / 760 Verbal); 1997 SAT II Subject Tests (each out of a possible 800 points) - Math IIC: 800, Chemistry: 790, Writing: 770

Co-founder of Renaissance Trading Technologies, a financial software vendor, formed after the shutdown of Robertson Stephens in October, 2002, and purchased by Nyfix in 2003

Java developer on a team developing the firm's flagship product, a client-server based stock trading system for the Nasdaq stock market

Created various user interface screens using Java (Swing) and HTML, and algorithms for corresponding business tasks

Designed and implemented a major subsystem to buy and sell stock which is fully configurable to traders' preferences, is persistent on a user-to-user basis, and as of January 2005, has been used to buy and sell over $70 Billion of stock

Wrote algorithms to ensure the best possible price and liquidity on a given stock transaction

As webmaster, developed and maintained the public corporate website www.renaissancett.com (live from 10/2002 - 5/2004) using PHP, HTML, and JavaScript; created a suite of PHP utilities to easily add new pages, images, and menu items

Internally documented all code written and wrote general user documentation for selected features that I developed

Wrote manual and automatic unit test cases in Java and for WinRunner

Recieved development team's first "Outstanding Service" Award, April 2004

Skills/Software used: Java (Swing, JDBC), HTML, PHP, SQL, Object-Oriented Design, Relational Database Design; Borland JBuilder (Java IDE), Rational ClearCase (source code control), Mercury Interactive's WinRunner (automated testing) and TestDirector (defect tracking)

Worked on a team developing DotFlow, a "Workflow Engine" used to automate business processes using rules-based configurations, using Java (EJB, Servlets, JSP), XML (with XSLT), in conjunction with the IBM WebSphere application server

Wrote a Java package to represent boolean expressions in a tree structure, evaluate the results of those expressions, store the tree in a realational database table, and convert between tree, table, and XML formats

Wrote XSL Stylesheets which formatted specific XML data in HTML format, created and modified relational database tables using JDBC, and executed the aforementioned Java code upon invocation of the Xalan (Apache.org) XSLT Processor

Wrote EJBs and Servlets as components of the Workflow Engine, using IBM VisualAge for Java

Web-Development intern for internet solutions company whose clients include the American Stock Exchange, Hewlett-Packard, and Jupiter Media Metrix

Worked on a team developing an online transaction-based accounting system for (the now defunct) Flooz.com with Enterprise JavaBeans and BEA's Weblogic Server

Developed an interactive test environment using Java Servlets, XML, and Beanshell, a lightweight Java scripting language, which was used for regression and unit testing of the system

Wrote entity and session Enterprise JavaBeans to conform to project specifications

Configured and maintained personal Linux-based PC on which I developed all of the above

Developed custom web applications using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java, and SQL in conjunction with Bluestone Software's Sapphire/Web Application Server Framework

Developed custom Java applications using Borland JBuilder

Interacted directly with clients to design applications to their specifications

Worked in Networked Systems Operations department as a summer intern

Supported company's nationwide network of primarily Unix and Windows NT based machines

Developed interactive web applications using CGI (Perl)

Analyzed and escalated system alerts using Netcool and many Unix utilities

Tought calculus I and II recitations to undergraduates; Graded homework assignments

Offered input regarding ways to improve course structure