Suketu G

Responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating all activities associated with creating software across multiple functional areas and products. - Drive software development across multiple phases to ensure that engineering solutions are aligned with business objectives. - Participate in the strategic decisions about technology, definition, and implementation of the software products. - Prioritize and allocate projects and resources including the hiring of additional staff. - Member of the System Effectiveness Committee responsible for ensuring that the trading system functionality is consistent with Exchange Rules and applicable regulations and laws. - Architected and developed changes in C++ for SIP Binary Market Data and Tick Pilot initiatives. - Led team development to ensure market data is sent to the SIP before it is sent to NSX customers. - Automated the process of creating the daily Symbol master file used throughout Blade trading system. - Developed Coding Standards documentation to create more manageable and defect free code. - Responsible for updating and ensuring all developers understand and follow the SDLC. - Architected and developed trading system changes in support of major SEC Limit Up-Limit Down initiative.

Administered all aspects of project management including resourcing, budgeting and communications with senior management. Successfully executed technology cost synergies across multiple merger and acquisitions (Archipelago, Euronext, Wombat). Collaborated with business partners to manage product feasibility, features and timelines. - Worked on multi-platform collaboration Project X initiative, which reduced latency by 97% while increasing message rates by 20x. - Managed team in porting core products to Linux as part of migration to new data center and increased system performance by 50%. - Increased efficiency of development by implementing long term strategy of developing re-usable component-based framework. - Managed development of real time research tools used by NYSE trading floor users, supervisory personnel and market surveillance to more effectively monitor trading activities as part of hybrid market initiative. - Maintained employee productivity and commitment to quality by encouraging and facilitating involvement in process improvements and implementing applicable suggestions. - Worked with business partners and quality assurance (QA) to create design documents along with comprehensive integration and system test plans that ensured delivery of high quality applications.

Built system in C++ (HP-UX) to receive and process drop-copies of orders and reports transmitted by proprietary / 3rd-party floor order management systems and stored in Oracle database. Developed proprietary Financial Information eXchange (FIX) engine following FIX 4.1 specification on HP-UX written in C++. - Created, managed and supported ORACLE 8i database by creating tables, setting indexes and developing shell script for end of day cleanup of database. - Created daily and monthly statistical reports using Java and HTML giving the NYSE Surveillance group a way to track all trading activities on a firm by firm basis. - Automated build and installation of application using UNIX Make utility reducing deployment time by 200%.