Philip Brazina

• Onboarding and implementation for new FI and FX clients including firewall, routing, and application setup for order routing, drop copies, and allocations using FIX 4.4 and 5.0 protocols.
• Certify existing clients for the new BTBS and BTBU venues as well as certification of these clients for all existing venues (MTF/SEF) when upgrading from a lower version to the current version of the FIX spec.
• Project management.
• Primary markets: FX, Fixed Income and Equities

• Manage a team of developers and QA to ensure deadlines are met for future releases which include enhancements and bug fixes.
• Participate in daily scrum calls and periodic queue reviews to ensure backlogged items are currently being addressed.
• Onboard new clients onto the platform ensuring all connectivity and accounts are set up correctly in all environments.
• Manage client requirements onto a statement of work to gain estimates from the developers for date of completion to set client expectations and following up with my team until the work has been completed and signed off by the client.
• Responsible for all US-based clients trading on the platform; backup for clients residing elsewhere.
• Provide enhancements to the system based on my experience with other asset classes including new functionality as well as design/look-and-feel to ensure the system contains aspects for which new/potential client may be seeking.
• Enhanced troubleshooting for all aspects and flow of the environment including products (spot/forwards/swaps) and netting capabilities.
• Certify with OMS vendors and clients using proprietary OMS setups.
• Daiily use of Jira for bug tracking, product enhancement, and release schedules.
• Primary markets: FX

• FIX certifications for all equities and options flow from clients to all downstream systems.
• Analyze performance, discuss and recommend strategies for improvement, and implement plans to improve the operation and efficiency of the client-facing environment.
• Third level production support for FIX-related routing issues.
• Communicate and work effectively and efficiently with all cross-functional groups including System Administrators, QA and Development teams.
• Responsible for setup, certification, and support of clients connecting to the OUCH (binary) environment to our darkpool environment.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate talent for multitasking efficiently.
• Self motivated with strong organization skills.
• Able to work independently as well as a part of a team.
• Identify and validate software code fixes in response to customer concerns and API enhancements.
• Proof of concepts for new logic and trade flow.
• Daily use of Linux/UNIX including shell scripting.
• Primary markets: Global Equities, Futures, Listed Options

• FIX certifications and onboarding for the client-facing side to the FXCM ECN institutional environment from order entry to Traiana matching, including an STP drop copy API.
• FIX certifications and onboarding for liquidity provider-facing side for market data, orders, and STP drop copy.
• Documentation of all onboarding and daily support policies, procedures, and FIX specifications in order to provide the same quality of service for all members of the department globally for all regions.
• Create dashboards based on statistics from reports on cases opened in SalesForce.
• Working knowledge of tradecapture reports flow from ECN to Traiana Harmony/Netlink.
• Communicate and work effectively and efficiently with all cross-functional groups including Networking/Firewall, Sales, Account Management, and Development teams.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated talent for multitasking efficiently.
• Project Management.
• Self motivated with strong organization skills.
• Perform weekly metrics on all clients to ensure fill ratio is as expected or diagnose and suggest logistics as to why client may be receiving poor fill ratio and suggest alternative trading methodologies.
• Perform QA to ensure bug fixes and newly implemented features behave as anticipated.
• Monitor all FIX-related aspects of the production and UAT environments to ensure client connectivity, LP connectivity, and post trade (i.e TradeCapture reports) messages are functioning without delay and are maintained in a healthy state.
• Able to work independently as well as a part of a team.
• Daily use of Linux/UNIX.
• Create and modify shell scripts as needed.
• Primary markets: FX

• FIX certifications and onboarding for both the client-facing and broker/exchange-facing sides for all equities/options/futures flow (DMA, algos, program trading, and cash) from clients to all downstream brokers/exchanges/LPs.
• Analyze current routing, recommend strategies for improvements on latency, and implement plans to improve the operation and efficiency of the ULNet hosted ECN environment.
• Responsible for creation and testing of XML-based and java-based validators and translators to ensure that proper flow and UL tags are set based on input FIX tags.
• Communicate and work effectively and efficiently with all cross-functional groups including Networking/Firewall, Account Management, and Development teams.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated talent for multitasking efficiently.
• Project management of client onboardings with all needed documentation for knowledge sharing and portability of the certifications.
• Self motivated with strong organization skills.
• Able to work independently as well as a part of a team.
• Daily use of Linux/UNIX.
• Create and modify shell scripts as needed.
• Primary markets: Futures, Global Equities and Listed Options

• FIX certifications and onboarding for all equities flow (DMA, algos, program trading, and cash) from clients to all North American downstream systems.
• Analyze performance, discuss and recommend strategies for improvement, and implement plans to improve the operation and efficiency of the client-facing environment.
• Tier 3 production support for FIX-related routing issues.
• Responsible for creation and testing of XML-based and java-based validators and translators to ensure that proper flow and UL tags are set based on input FIX tags.
• Communicate and work effectively and efficiently with all cross-functional groups including System Administrators, Networking/Firewall, Business and Development teams.
• Migration of 500+ FIX clients to new version of UL platform.
• Reduced latency on above 500+ FIX clients by eliminating redundant rules and tag checks.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated talent for multitasking efficiently.
• Identify and validate code fixes in response to customer concerns and API enhancements.
• Proof of concepts for new logic and trade flow.
• Project management.
• Self motivated with strong organization skills.
• Able to work independently as well as a part of a team.
• Responsible for maintaining the healthy state of the UAT environment.
• Perform QA to ensure bug fixes and newly implemented features behave as anticipated.
• Documentation of all onboarding and daily support policies, procedures, and FIX specifications in order to provide the same quality of service for all members of the department globally for all regions.
• Daily use of Linux/UNIX and ULLink.
• Tweak existing shell scripts as needed.
• Primary markets: Global Equities and Listed Options

• XML, Java, shell scripting, DHTML, C, HTML (hard code), XHTML, Javascript, BASIC, Pascal, Modula 3

• Linux/Unix, Windows server (2008/2003/2000/NT), Windows workstations (7/XP), DOS

• FIX 4.x and FIXML 4.4 messaging tags
• VeriFIX, CertiFIX, TradeScope, FIXometer, Appia, Coppelia/FIXBOX, Cameron 6.2/6.3
• Windows 2003 Administrator
• Production knowledge of web and application servers
• Hardware and software technical support
• Extensive knowledge of the construction and architecture of computers
• Knowledge of graphics and web design

• Auxiliary Sergeant - New York Police Department - (March 2008 - July 2012)
• Auxiliary Police Officer - New York Police Department - (February 2000 - March 2008)