MARK
V. ANDERSEN, Ph.D., CFA
781-307-1944
SUMMARY
Highly
capable, self-motivated contributor with management experience. Exhibits a broad range of technical and analytical skills spanning software
engineering, financial analysis, and statistics. Passion for detail-oriented problem solving
and analysis: understanding the business proposition, identifying critical
problems, and engineering solutions.
SKILLS
Project Management, Fixed Income/Finance, Statistics,
Excel
C#/VB.Net, SQL (SQLServer
2000), C/C++, JavaScript, XML/XSLT
WORK HISTORY AND
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
VISTAPRINT, 2005-present
Technology Manager
Manager and contributor in development of technologies
for successful marketing enterprise.
(VB.Net, SQLServer2000)
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Architected and
managed workflow project for website translators.
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Managed
integration of web analytics platform.
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Rearchitected website split run technology.
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Integration of
email data with acquisition and retention partners.
EVARE, 2004-2005
Senior
Technologist, DBA
Individual contributor architecting systemic changes, designing and scripting database solutions, and engineering self-validating systems. (C#, JavaScript, SQLServer2000)
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Wrote SQL Server
2000 stored procedure and static data validation and transformation
process.
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Tuned stored
procedures. Educated staff about SQL
2000 profiling, tuning, and best practices.
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Analyzed and
certified proposed database server and storage solutions.
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Identified and contributed
improvements in application scalability ranging from user interface design to
stored procedures. Created tool for
dynamic stored procedure profiling.
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Adapted Evare system for MQSeries
messaging. Managed related client
technical relationships.
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT COMPANY, 2003-2004
Vice
President, Senior Systems Analyst.
Quantitative Investment Systems
Project manager and individual contributor in areas
of fixed income systems, operations, quantitative fixed income. Technical and project manager for fixed income benchmark project.
(Perl, Oracle)
· Reengineered daily and monthly fixed income benchmark systems encompassing ftp procedures for vendor data, bcp into database, computation of aggregate statistics, and backfilling existing reports. Created automated outlier detection rules. Reviewed individual and aggregate statistics for accuracy and consistency.
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Analyzed and
outlined improvements for fixed income managers to receive timely reports. Analysis encompassed WMC’s
nightly cycle across disparate systems, printing, and delivery.
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Integrated newly
available MBS loan disclosures into existing system.
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Quantitative
backtesting of fixed income default risk models.
MERRILL LYNCH, INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES
GROUP (acquired DESoFT), 1999-2002
Vice President. Project Manager , Developer, Performance
Tuner
Manager and individual contributor for multiple
products supporting retail customers and financial consultants. (C++, JavaScript, DB2)
· Managed technical development for order review workflow system critical to ML’s internet brokerage launch. Developed database API, managed revisions for reporting, white labeling, XML data sourcing.
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Developed ISAPI
server for real time equity quote streaming.
Developed informational teasers.
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Tuned performance
for quote caching and customer web notification.
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Technical advisor
for data aggregation initiative, interfacing with ML business and vendor.
D.E. SHAW FINANCIAL
TECHNOLOGY (DESoFT), 1996-1999
Database Designer, Performance Tuner,
Developer
Individual contributor as application developer,
performance tuner, and principal database architect for web brokerage. (C++, TCL, Sybase)
· Identified database bottlenecks. Tuned performance and revised coding practices. Established nightly database regression practices. Instrumented transactions and added performance monitors to production system.
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Analyzed
performance of business logic; identified and optimized time critical code
sections.
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Developed functional
and interface enhancements to Registered Representative tools.
Senior Software Engineer. Architect, Developer
Individual contributor for front, middle, and back-office system for foreign exchange, money market,
futures, options, and derivatives products. Designed system architecture, wrote modules,
and interfaced with banking clients, business development, and sales staff to
develop requirements. Responsible
for guiding developers in implementation techniques. (C++, MSSQL,
Sybase, Oracle)
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Architected
multi-platform, client-server treasury system and development tools which
featured automatically generated SQL transactions.
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Wrote foreign
exchange (spot, forward, swap) and segmented fixed rate modules.
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Developed
client-customizable GUI interface for touch screen trades, wrote real time
quote and calculation objects, currency calculations, and cross-currency date
calculations.
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System
performance tuning: user interface, database, resource utilization.
Additional
professional experiences include database optimization (SQL2000), data archive
processing (Paradox), creditor management system consulting (Dbase), and video
game development (6502).
EDUCATION
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CFA. Passed three consecutively levels in 2004,
2005, 2006.
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PhD,
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MS,
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AM,
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SB, SB, MIT,
Physics, Political Science, 1989. (GPA: 5.0/5.0)
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Valedictorian, Mater Dei
High School, 1985. (GPA: 4.0/4.0)
PUBLICATIONS
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Communities and Curriculum: The Distribution of Educational
Opportunities in
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Tsipis, Kosta,
and Andersen, Mark, "New Technologies and Defense Policy for the European
Theater," 1992.
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The B-2 Bomber: A Comparative Assessment, MIT, 1989.
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"Some
Applications of Emerging Technology" in Kosta Tsipis, New Technologies, Defense Policy,
and Arms Control, 1989.
ACTIVITIES
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Gifted &
Talented Advisory Council to the
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Toastmasters, Advanced
Toastmaster-Silver. Past Division
Contest Winner. Past Club officer. 1996-present