Scott is our CTO. He enjoys walking, especially in colder weather and was at one point a FIDE rated chess player.
Scott also works extensively with charities aimed at marginalized communities.
September 2012 to Present – Trading Systems Design and Development
Developed algorithmic identification of institutional trade signatures for the purposes of detecting short term directional trading opportunities and market making for both futures and FX markets.
Developed custom models related to order book dynamics, estimated position in queue and micro term directional prediction utilizing custom calculations based on arrival rates, order book ratios, order spoofing recognition, hidden liquidity detection and volume anomaly recognition, among others.
May 2011 to August 2012 – Hedge Fund, New York, NY
Director of Quantitative Trading
March 2008 to April 2011 – Proprietary Trading, Chicago, IL
Trading Systems Design and Development
October 2006 to February 2008 – GtG Analytics, Greensboro, NC
Trading System Developer
September 2002 to September 2006 – Greensboro, NC
Self Employed Developer
February 1997 to August 2002 – BCE Emergis / InvoiceLink, Greensboro, NC
Lead System Architect at a venture capital backed startup.
Developed an overall system architecture for the InvoiceLink Product Suite as the original Chief Technical Architect and second overall person to join the company.
Developed a complete Data Architecture for the InvoiceLink Product Suite
Developed the overall database design for the main InvoiceLink product
Provided the primary technical input for decisions relating to the hiring of senior technical staff
Assisted in the development the technical portion of business plans
Provided technical assistance to the legal staff for InvoiceLink patents and copyrights
April 1994 to January 1997 – Developer / Independent Contractor
Provided technical design and development services to Volvo Truck Finance utilizing Oracle and Visual Basic
Taught Visual Basic classes to several major corporations Designed, developed and implemented a PC based database testing system utilizing SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 as the database source/targets and C++ and Visual Basic as the language components
Amherst Software, Houston, TX – Product Manager/Developer
Governmental Agency – Field Operations
Classified
BMC, Houston, TX – Founder/Developer
Scott is the holder of several software patents.
Shell Oil, Houston, TX – Internal Auditor
Education
University of Houston, Masters of Business Administration
Mississippi State University, B.S. Finance