Experience

Conquest Capital Partners

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Quantitative Developer

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  14+ years of broad hands-on experience with all aspects of running a hedge fund, focused on quant research and trading 14+ years of broad hands-on experience with all aspects of running a hedge fund, focused on quant research and trading



blockerDNS

• United States
• Software Development

• Owner

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Cloud-Based Private Encrypted DNS Service - Private DNS service offering categorical as well as user-customizable content control and blocking - Target market includes individual/household users, small businesses, schools, libraries and churches - Individual and multi-user family use cases range from simple ad blocking to more complex setups such as blocking adult, social media or streaming video on kids’ devices to circumvention of ISP censorship, traffic manipulation and data collection - Use cases for business and education include protection of company or student data from ransomware/malware threats as well as blocking dubious data collection by marketers and data brokers - All code designed/developed from the ground up and available for white labelling through software license Show less



Conquest Capital Group

• United States
• Financial Services

• Vice President Research

  • May 2008 - Jul 2019

  Systematic CTA hedge fund specializing in low-cost liquid alternative beta with $1.1B peak AUM and 20-year track record - 14+ years of broad hands-on experience with all facets of running a hedge fund, focused on quant research and trading - Developed trading algorithms that ran in the firm’s short-term and non-beta strategies (System 1: traded 2011–2017, System 2: traded 2013–2019, System 3: traded 2012–2019, Typical total portfolio weighting between 1.5% and 3.5% for each system, with total P&L of $14MM+) - Overhauled and modernized firm’s portfolio monitoring and trading infrastructure - Developed infrastructure for firm’s entry into higher frequency trading - Developed secure web and mobile apps with tick-by-tick live streaming of all portfolio data - Functioned as liaison between quant research and marketing - Daily order generation, entailing acquisition and inspection of final price data, generation of next day's orders, reconciliation of system-anticipated positions versus actual booked trades and distribution of orders to brokers - Sunday trading desk coverage for Asia market Monday open, including order execution and manual order management based on market liquidity - Monitor and maintain proprietary home-brewed reporting systems and infrastructure - Brought firm’s tech and security management in-house to limit exposure to third-party security breaches, while at the same time saving the firm thousands of dollars in fees paid to service providers Show less



Fortigent, LLC

• United States

• Quantitative Analyst

  • Sep 2006 - Dec 2007

  Wealth management research, due-diligence and solutions provider - Developed proprietary portfolio optimization method used for building bespoke per-client fund of funds portfolios - Qualitative and quantitative due diligence on hedge funds and funds of funds for inclusion on firm platform Wealth management research, due-diligence and solutions provider - Developed proprietary portfolio optimization method used for building bespoke per-client fund of funds portfolios - Qualitative and quantitative due diligence on hedge funds and funds of funds for inclusion on firm platform