My goal in trading is to apply analytics, process, and technology in creating new efficiencies in the interaction with financial markets. I have been challenged by both customer trades and proprietary strategies. My detailed understanding of how the markets work has allowed me to optimize trading while creating scale. I like the direct interaction that I have with exchanges while taking new ideas in trading and producing large scale real-time distributed systems around them. I have applied my skills to the trading of Stocks, ETF's, Options, and Futures in Listed, OTC, and European Markets. I have also done a fair amount of personal investing.

My main technical interests lie in the application of high performance UNIX based computers to problems requiring a combination of programming and analytical skills. My educational background is in Physics, however, for the past 10+ years I have done work as a Software Engineer and System Administrator, or have directed other people in those roles. I enjoy the learning opportunities that computer science provides and the process of turning a given set of requirements and algorithms into operational systems.

As a programmer I like open standards like UNIX, SQL, XML, and FIX. Although my first programming language is C and I have long since picked up C++, STL, and the Object Oriented paradigms. I have explored the use of Java, which provides a more substantial framework and comprehensive set of standardized classes to build software systems with. However, for scale, control, and speed I still find C++ most useful.

I have also followed the development of the Internet from its early days. I have used the Internet both as a source of information and as a set of open technologies that can be exploited to solve many Client-Server problems. One of my favorite hobbies has been tracking the growth of Linux, an operating system which has been developed over the Internet. I use Linux in my home network and I've helped to convert large scale proprietary UNIX systems to Linux at several Corporations.