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SEAN B CUSACK
Friday, September 14, 2018
Experience |
➢ 17 years software development industry experience on all levels of implementation from systems, through database and networking, up to UX, primarily on UNIX ➢ 16 years financial industry data processing and team management experience ➢ 14 years academic experience teaching introduction to programming & languages ➢ 4 years as a committee chair, board member, or secretary-treasurer of an alumni assoc. ➢ 4 years experience running a startup company in the game-based learning industry |
Software |
➢ Architecture & design for financial systems and organizational support ➢ New products for clients, upgrades and patchwork with legacy systems of all sorts ➢ Automation mechanisms for system administration and support staff ➢ Technical documentation and functional requirement specifications |
Coding |
➢ C/C++/C#, Perl, Python/Django, Javascript/jQuery, Java, CSS, HTML, FORTRAN ➢ Database design for MySQL, MSSQL, sqlite, and custom databases ➢ Legacy remediation and interfacing with deprecated technologies ➢ Systems level, middleware, and UI; multithreading, parallel-processing |
Finance |
➢ FINRA Certification – Series 7 and Series 63 – November 2007 ➢ Managed data processing infrastructure team, covering most financial data types: stocks, mutual funds, private placements; futures; options; pool & CMO mortgages; corporate, government, municipal bonds; currencies; commodities ➢ Managed real-time pricing feed data team: NASDAQ, Dow Jones, EUREX & more ➢ Senior Programmer on a $50m financial data processing service ➢ Designed database conversion and comparison software at major banks ➢ Worked on quantitative analysis projects on secure co-lo servers |
Management |
➢ Project management of 20+ programmers, support staff, financial subject matter experts, and sysadmins across global time zones ➢ Managed multiple teams of 10-15 programmers, both in large scale processing of static security master data, and real-time binary pricing data ➢ Managed Nomination and Communications committees of 10-20 volunteers, employees, and officers, as an elected executive officer of a board |
Legal |
➢ As Secretary-Treasurer for a board, managed finances and taxes, including filing for 501c3 ➢ Negotiated a three-party settlement with the Assistant Attorney General of NY State & Chair of the Cooper Union Board, regarding the Alumni Association’s legal responsibilities ➢ Drafted documentation now part of a NY State Supreme Court finding; see - Exhibit A here |
Entrepreneurship |
➢ Client relationship management and beta test client development ➢ Design and implementation of normalized data-driven curriculum interface system ➢ Kickstarter design, including script and prop construction |
Education
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, GPA 3.8, 1998
Honors
Cooper Union Alumni Association Alumnus of the Year 2014
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, New York Iota Chapter, 1998
Work History
| The Cooper Union | ||
| CS102: Introduction to Computer Science | Assistant Adjunct Professor | Sept 2003 – Present |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | ||
| CS280: Programming Languages | Adjunct Professor | Sept 2016 – Present |
| Deutsche Bank via Mthree Consulting | ||
| Legacy analysis, process remediation, system design, tools | Senior Software Engineer | July 2014 – July 2016 |
| Learnosaurus Inc | ||
| Data-Normalized Educational Gaming Platform | President & CEO | April 2010 – April 2014 |
| Jefferies & Co via Consumer Evaluation Systems Inc | ||
| C# Currency Transaction Database UI | Senior Software Engineer | May 2012 – April 2014 |
| Bank of America – Merrill Lynch via Rose International | ||
| Financial Futures and Options | Senior Software Engineer | Sept 2010 – Jan 2012 |
| Merrill Lynch | ||
| Quantitative Statistical Arbitrage / Automated Market Making | Senior Software Engineer | Sept 2007 – July 2009 |
| Bloomberg LP | ||
| UI Infrastructure | Senior Software Engineer | 2005 – Sept 2007 |
| Market Data Feed Team | Senior Software Manager | 2003 – 2005 |
| Data-License Infrastructure | Software Manager | 2000 – 2003 |
| Data-License Infrastructure | Software Engineer | Aug 1998 – 2000 |
Volunteerism
| Cooper Union Alumni Association, elected Secretary-Treasurer, Nominations Chair, Council | 2012 – 2017 |
| Co-Scoutmaster of Troop 999 at Icahn House West | 2005 – 2007 |
| Chief Fire Warden for 731 Lexington, Third Floor West, leading 10 wardens & searchers | 2004 – 2007 |
| Homework Help program at Icahn House West, Art Access program at Icahn House East | 2003 – 2006 |
| Red Cross, God’s Love We Deliver, NYC Parks Dept, Habitat for Humanity | 1998 – 2007 |
Languages
Passed Japanese Language Proficiency Exam Level 3 – 日本語能力試験 – Dec 2017
Hobbies
PADI Level 3: Rescue Diver, Drawing, Skiing, Cooking, Baking, Origami, Video Games, Piano, Japanese
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