Experience

Eurex

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Vice President - Head of Section Derivatives and Cash Trading Infrastructure and Operations

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  Operations Manager for Derivatives and Cash trading applications at Deutsche Boerse. Working with my highly dedicated teams to provide very reliable technical operations as well as server and storage infrastructure support for trading, clearing and risk applications in cash and derivatives markets of Group Deutsche Boerse and its partners. For our trading applications special focus is on low latency and jitter of the entire solution stack (HW, OS and in house application).

• Senior Expert Performance/Infrastructure

  • Apr 2015 - Jul 2017

  Responsible for performance and capacity improvements for the derivatives (Eurex T7) and stock (Xetra) trading systems of Group Deutsche Boerse. Identify possible improvements in hardware, configuration and software. Manage entire change process until rollout in production.Escalation mangement for operational problems in the trading infrastructure of Eurex T7 and Xetra.

• Senior Vice President - Head of Section Trading Interfaces

  • Apr 2013 - Mar 2015

  Line management responsipillty for the teams building the software for message based access to the Eurex T7 trading system (external and internal gateways and definition of message flows) as well as the GUI for trading on and administration of the system. Evaluate and determine introduction strategy for technical changes to the Eurex T7 plattform. Continued responsibility for Performance/Capacity analysis of the system.

• Manager Performance/Capacity Analysis

  • Aug 2011 - Mar 2013

  Lead efforts to identify appropriate hardware and operating system configuration for the trading systems of Eurex. Cooperate with Deutsche Boerse application development to identify opportunities to speed up and//or achieve higher throughput on in-house developed trading system applications.Provide technical expertise in discussions with our customers on how to use Eurex Infrastructure in an optimal way.



Deutsche Boerse Systems Inc.

• Head of XEops North America

  • Aug 2001 - Jul 2011

  Responsible for a technical operations team running complex systems with high performance and availability requirements. This included day to day operations, system administration and hardware support as well as second level application support.Ensure operations team is working with appropriate organizational units to implement corporate initiatives.Technical contact person for partner exchanges in Chicago (USFE/Eurex US/CBoT aka a/c/e).General technical consultation for Eurex representative office in Chicago.



Deutsche Boerse Systems AG

• Systems Programmer

  • May 1998 - Jul 2001

  Second level support for trading applications of Group Deutsche Boerse (Eurex and Xetra exchange backend systems). Support SW lifecycle from acceptance test and simulation to productive use. Development of operations procedures Second level support for trading applications of Group Deutsche Boerse (Eurex and Xetra exchange backend systems). Support SW lifecycle from acceptance test and simulation to productive use. Development of operations procedures



SAS

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Mar 1995 - Apr 1998

  Second level technical support and consulting for SAS Software customers in the EMEA market. Specialities: Unix/OpenVMS, Client/Server and database integration. Manager of Web applications support team. Second level technical support and consulting for SAS Software customers in the EMEA market. Specialities: Unix/OpenVMS, Client/Server and database integration. Manager of Web applications support team.



Gesellschaft f. Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI)

• Scientfic Assistant

  • Oct 1991 - Feb 1995

  GSI is one of the national Labs in Germany. I worked there while doing research for my PhD. My main duty was the development and maintenance of the data analysis software for the Large Area Neutron Detector (LAND). GSI is one of the national Labs in Germany. I worked there while doing research for my PhD. My main duty was the development and maintenance of the data analysis software for the Large Area Neutron Detector (LAND).