Mark R. Nazzaro
143 Oldfield Avenue
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604
Phone: (201) 288-6029
Email: nazzaromark@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
Masters of Science in Information Systems, May 2001
GPA: 3.8
Classes include: Telecommunications, Java OOP, Java Client Server, Systems Analysis and Design, Development in a GUI Environment, Developing Enterprise Wide Applications

Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, May 1998
Minor in Math
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
GPA: 3.6 (overall), 3.7 in major
Dean's list (all semesters)
Classes include work in: C++, Java, Databases, Operating Systems, Algorithms, Data Structures, Compilers and Automata Theory

EXPERIENCE

• Deploy Appia FIX engines to support US Equities connectivity.
• Liase with developers to fulfill new functionality and exchange requirements in Java/Appia
• Design solutions for low latency trading on the following exchanges: NYSE/ARCA, Nasdaq, Direct Edge, BATS, CME, ISE, ICE, BOX, TSX, TMX. Also work with other banks to set up connectivity to their dark pools and various matching engines.
• Leverage extensive network of contacts to maintain relationships with major exchanges and venues to determine upcoming mandated changes and new features to implement.
• Global team lead for exchange and client connectivity with members in New York, London, Moscow and Singapore
• Subject matter expert for exchange connectivity to the U.S. equities, futures, options and FX markets and expanding knowledge of foreign markets.
• Responsible for circuit redesign project for Equities low latency connectivity to major exchanges and clients.
• Liaise with all electronic trading development groups to establish exchange connectivity, architect trading systems and establish production monitoring
• Develop and deploy monitoring systems to ensure trading systems are available at all times.
• Work with all infrastructure groups such as Network Engineering, Network Operations and Server Operations to create high frequency and low latency trading platforms.
• Lead cost savings initiative to reduce the firm’s yearly spend by $2,000,000+ annually by turning down unnecessary connectivity and refreshing connectivity with cheaper and faster solutions where possible.

July 2005 – September 2008
Morgan Stanley, New York, New York
Application Architect, Operational Risk IT

• Lead in the design, development and deployment of an in-house J2EE web application for the Firm’s SOX 302 quarterly and SOX 404 yearly assessment process. Technologies included Struts, JSPs, JavaScript, AJAX, SQL, Sybase Stored Procedures and SQL.
• Develop and support third party issue and action tracking application developed in Java with extensive use of Spring, Hibernate, JSON and AJAX
• Develop an in-house J2EE web application to track the Firm’s financial losses for compliance purposes
• Develop flows in Informatica to import reference data from Microsoft SQL Server and flat files into Sybase SQL Server.
• Develop SOAP interfaces to integrate with a vendor application used for action plans and issue tracking using internal SOAP toolkit.
• Work with business users to assure the application is developed to the specifications
• Configure monitoring applications for end-to-end production monitoring using SiteScope, Netcool and internal Java logging library in order to ensure maximum uptime
• Lead for troubleshooting both application and infrastructure issues involving databases, Java application servers, load balancers, Unix/Linux server issues and browser issues
• Oversee offshore team of Informatica and Java developers. Team was responsible for developing mappings based on requirements drafted by full-time staff (including myself). Team was responsible for developing web components using JSON, AJAX, JSPs and Struts to interact with vendor application based on requirements drafted by full-time staff (including myself)
• Developed standard build mechanism using Ant to compile all classes and create Web Application Archives (war) in order to ensure consistency across all applications

January 2002 – July 2005

Morgan Stanley, Morristown, New Jersey

Administrator, Web Operations

• Manage production environment by running turnover meetings, approving production changes and acting as a technical lead inside and outside of the organization
• Advise offshore staff of 10+ consultants located in Canada and Manila on day to day issues, outages and resolutions
• Responsible for installation, administration and support for over 600 webservers across the company
• Provide 24 by 7 support for internal and external global web farm and infrastructure consisting of Java, Perl and ASP applications
• Install software such as iPlanet, Apache, Tomcat and ServletExec on Solaris and Linux servers and Microsoft IIS/.Net on Windows 2000/2003 servers
• Administer Cisco Load Balancers all over the world. Tasks include creating new services, content rules and scripts
• Assist and guide developers on solutions within our global web environment using development technologies such as Java, ASP and Perl/CGI
• Develop applications using ASP.net with SQL server database for creating service requests and weekend work plans
• Provide support for developers by debugging and solving application issues in a development and production environment
• Troubleshoot issues related to web applications and servers in which the cause could be the proxy, network, firewall, server, database or the application itself

June 1998 – December 2001
Lucent Technologies, Warren, New Jersey
Member of Technical Staff, eAssociate

• Administer web/application server running Oracle 9i Application Server and Oracle HTTP Server (powered by Apache)
• Responsible for sizing the infrastructure using Sun Enterprise E4500 servers
• Responsible for applying patches and updates on both the web/application server and the database running Oracle 8i
• Responsible for installation and administration of Netegrity Siteminder for authentication against Active Directory
• Lead the team in regards to security using solutions such as SSL (ApacheOpenSSL), Netegrity Siteminder and IPSec
• Responsible for sandbox, development and production environments including upgrades, administration and monitoring
• Gather requirements on existing systems in order to collapse business system functions into one enterprise wide portal
• Participate in the design of overall architecture which included integrating search engines, taxonomies, authentication servers, web servers, content stores and databases
• Offer solutions for integrating business systems using technologies such as Java, LDAP, Single Sign On and XML
• Research solutions for portals such as Vignette, Oracle, Plumtree and Epicentric
• Communicate solutions to both the development team and business analysts using system documentation
• Suggest cost savings to group in order to keep team within budget

Lucent Technologies, Whippany, New Jersey
Production Support Team Lead, CIO Central

• Design hardware and software architecture solutions for several web sites
• Support web-based application consisting of a pool of web servers which implemented Microsoft’s Windows Load Balancing Service and Internet Information Server
• Administer SQL Server 7.0 database for both production and development environments. Responsibilities include Database Backups, Database Maintenance Plans, User creation, Table creation and troubleshooting data issues
• Execute and oversee the promotion of code to production for several application websites
• Automate the nightly loading of the log data and the monthly reports for every one of the websites
• Software Developer, CBIS
• Develop solution for updating nightly personnel feed for chargeback system
• Design, develop and administer web based reports to deliver internal financial data
• Install, configure and administer Oracle Application Server 4.0 (both production and development) to be used as delivery channel for web based reports

Software Developer, TASS

• Enhance and maintain Oracle 7.3 RDBMS used for Telecommunications Inventory and Provisioning
• Add new functionality to RDBMS such as new products and enhancements to data and structure
• Installed and administered Oracle Web Application Server 3.0.1 for use with Oracle 7.3 RDBMS for both production and development environments
• Project Lead for upgrade of Business Objects 3.1.1 to Business Objects 4.1.3
• Created enhancements to client software to ensure client software was kept up to date
• Write PL/SQL and Java (using JDBC) scripts used for the web, data manipulation and data loading
• Plan and implement reports environment for growing user base of 200 people

SKILLS

REFERENCES: Available upon request