Chris O'Brien

Assistant to the Regional Manager at Highly Valued
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(386) 825-5501
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Canada, CA

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Credentials

  • Statistical Inference
    Coursera Verified Certificates
    Aug, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • Exploratory Data Analysis
    Coursera Verified Certificates
    Jun, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • Reproducible Research
    Coursera Verified Certificates
    Jun, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • The Data Scientist’s Toolbox
    Coursera Verified Certificates
    Jun, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • Getting and Cleaning Data
    Coursera Verified Certificates
    May, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • R Programming
    Coursera Verified Certificates
    May, 2015
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Assistant to the Regional Manager
      • Aug 2022 - Present
    • United Kingdom
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Product Analytics Lead - Mobile
      • Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
    • Kuwait
    • Consumer Services
    • Lead Data Engineer
      • Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Trading Application Support Engineer
      • Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • C++ and KDB Developer, VP
      • Jan 2015 - Jan 2018

      Responsibilities• Managed a global team across London, New York and Shanghai• Scope, design and build analytics requirements from infrastructure, data warehousing to software design• Modifications in C++ to trading software to support analytics requirements• Review of pull requests in Git to analytics code• Review of test case design and code coverage• Review infrastructure and toolset utilization to minimize project requirements• Strategic planning on analytics requirements for algorithmic trading• Review of project budget funding to ensure work for key stakeholders were met• Reporting to Head of European Electronic Trading on direction and projects• Identifying potential commercial opportunities marketable to clients• Writing business cases for planned team projects • Hiring, goal setting and performance evaluations for on and offshore team members.• Managing team priorities, workload and resource delivery• Running training and workshop sessions to bridge knowledge and technical skills gaps• Graduate recruitment, providing short to long term projects and mentorship to new startersAchievements• Promoted global data consistency to ensure faster development times and guarantee proper warehousing of data that complied with legal confidentiality requirements• Led the development of anomaly detection algorithm for latencies to equity exchanges across Europe and North America to detect changes to network routing by providersProjects• Global data warehousing solution in KDB+ • Regulatory reporting framework for MIFID II requirements in Python• Performance analytics and machine learning suite in Python Show less

    • Equity and Algorithmic Application Support
      • Feb 2013 - Jan 2015

      Responsibilities• Technical lead for application support issues• Write and maintain technical support procedures and documentation• Change scope and risk assessment for production deployment• Change implementation and evaluation• Incident preparations for global events such as Brexit and US Elections• Incident triage and prioritization• Incident management, resolution and post incident reviews• Hiring, goal setting and performance evaluations for on and offshore team members.• Managing team priorities, workload and resource delivery• Running training and workshop sessions to bridge knowledge and technical skills gaps• Graduate recruitment, providing short to long term projects and mentorship to new startersAchievements• Designed and implemented a “ready for business” monitoring framework to support teams across the globe to provide consistent support overview at shift start• Support tooling to automate manual tasks to minimize the occurrence of human error in evaluating the impact of production incidents• Ran social events committee for European application support teamsProjects• “Ready for Business” application written in Python• Refactoring support tool code• Datacentre power-down planning Show less

    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • IT Operations
      • 2012 - 2013

      Responsibilities • Infrastructure implementation on-site and exchange co-located • Design and build automated monitoring solutions around infrastructure and applications • Workflow process planning • Technical support lead • Third party and internal application deployment, setup and configuration • Development of support automation and functionality • Capacity monitoring and enhancements • Financial markets relationship management • Support for desktops, printers and telephony • Monitoring and backup solutions Show less

    • United Kingdom
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Equity Derivatives Support, AVP
      • 2011 - 2012

      Responsibilities • Technical lead for support team • Server and application build and install • User and client application on-boarding • Front office and 3rd line technical support • Plant capacity monitoring • Development of support automation and functionality • Delegation and review of 1st level support team tasks Achievements • Migrated peripheral application code from SQL style queries to program functions to improve performance by over 5 – 10 seconds (30% decrease) Projects • Refactoring of support tooling from bash to Python Show less

    • Matrix Application Support
      • 2010 - 2011

      Responsibilities • Technical support for Matrix Application and FX infrastructure • Critical alerting and trend analysis for capacity monitoring • Coordination between users and business analysts on functionality and design • Escalation of application issues to internal development teams • Support tooling development, automation and package maintenance • Plant capacity monitoring Achievements • Built and managed a web portal to consolidate application log retrieval and monitoring information enabling the team to investigate issues faster Show less

    • United Kingdom
    • Retail Office Equipment
    • Windows and Applications Engineer
      • 2008 - 2010
    • United Kingdom
    • IT Support
      • 2007 - 2008
    • United Kingdom
    • Graphic Design
    • IT Support
      • 2005 - 2007

Education

  • Victoria University of Wellington
    BBMedSci, Biology
    2004 - 2007
  • Birkbeck College, University of London
    BSc, Financial Economics
    2014 - 2018

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