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)

·         Architected and managed workflow project for website translators.

·         Managed integration of web analytics platform.

·         Rearchitected website split run technology.

·         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)

·         Wrote SQL Server 2000 stored procedure and static data validation and transformation process. 

·         Tuned stored procedures.  Educated staff about SQL 2000 profiling, tuning, and best practices.

·         Analyzed and certified proposed database server and storage solutions.

·         Identified and contributed improvements in application scalability ranging from user interface design to stored procedures.  Created tool for dynamic stored procedure profiling.

·         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.

·         Analyzed and outlined improvements for fixed income managers to receive timely reports.  Analysis encompassed WMC’s nightly cycle across disparate systems, printing, and delivery.

·         Integrated newly available MBS loan disclosures into existing system.

·         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.

·         Developed ISAPI server for real time equity quote streaming.  Developed informational teasers.

·         Tuned performance for quote caching and customer web notification. 

·         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.

·         Analyzed performance of business logic; identified and optimized time critical code sections.

·         Developed functional and interface enhancements to Registered Representative tools.

 

BOSTON TREASURY SYSTEMS, 1993-1996
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) 

·         Architected multi-platform, client-server treasury system and development tools which featured automatically generated SQL transactions.

·         Wrote foreign exchange (spot, forward, swap) and segmented fixed rate modules. 

·         Developed client-customizable GUI interface for touch screen trades, wrote real time quote and calculation objects, currency calculations, and cross-currency date calculations.

·         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

·         CFA.  Passed three consecutively levels in 2004, 2005, 2006.

·        PhD, Harvard University, Political Science, 1996.  (Statistical methodology, economics)  (GPA: None)

·         MS, Case Western Reserve University, Computing and Information Sciences, 1992. (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

·         AM, Harvard University, Political Science, 1991. (GPA: None)

·         SB, SB, MIT, Physics, Political Science, 1989. (GPA: 5.0/5.0)

·         Valedictorian, Mater Dei High School, 1985. (GPA: 4.0/4.0)


PUBLICATIONS

·         Communities and Curriculum: The Distribution of Educational Opportunities in Massachusetts, Thesis, 1996.  Statistical and case study examination of relationship between school and community characteristics and secondary school curriculum.  STATA used for analysis.

·         Tsipis, Kosta, and Andersen, Mark, "New Technologies and Defense Policy for the European Theater," 1992.

·         The B-2 Bomber: A Comparative Assessment, MIT, 1989.

·         "Some Applications of Emerging Technology" in Kosta Tsipis, New Technologies, Defense Policy, and Arms Control, 1989.

 

ACTIVITIES

·         Massachusetts Assoc. for Gifted Education (MAGE), Past President.  Former Chairperson. Board Member, 2001-present

·         Gifted & Talented Advisory Council to the Massachusetts Board of Education. 2002-2005

·         Toastmasters, Advanced Toastmaster-Silver.  Past Division Contest Winner.  Past Club officer.  1996-present