Email: ClarkSims@AcumenSoftwareInc.com
| Cell Phone | (239) 994-2941 |
Background
Languages/Systems/Tools
Employment
| Acumen Consulting Inc | 2006 - Present | President | Wrote billing software and managed corporate matters. |
| Credit Suisse | June 2010 - present | Programmer/Consultant | Wrote acceptence test for FIX protocol for ultra high volume smart order router |
| Options Research and Technology Services | Dec 2006 - present | Programmer/Consultant | Wrote low latency black box trading systems Wrote a database to cache real time quotes from the OPRA and SIAC feeds. |
| Genesis10 / Bloomberg LP | April 2009 | Programmer/Consultant | Prototyped real time data compression software to synchronize databases for interest rate swaps. |
| WCA Corporation | Jan 2007 - May 2007 | Programmer/Consultant | Wrote software to convert raw price data for CBOT Agricultural options and store the implied volatilities and Greeks in a SQL database |
| Advanced Market Systems | Jan 2006 - June 2006 | Programmer/Consultant | Wrote real time data compression systems |
| Sydan LLC | Sep 2003 - Dec 2004 | Trader / Programmer | Wrote a FIX program which cut commissions from about .75 cents/share to about .15 cents / share and managed 50,000 limit orders per day |
| Pelican Capital Management LLC | Sep 2001 - Aug 2003 | Managing Partner | Wrote and traded statistical arbitrage model took money out of the market for 17 out of 18 months |
| Templar Trading | June 1999 - Aug 2001 | Programmer/Analyst | Wrote database to do accounting for bond and bond futures trades wrote a database for charting and analyzing Eurodollar futures |
| Stafford Capital Management | June 1998 - June 1999 | Quantitative Analyst | Wrote software for testing long / short equity strategies |
| Continental Grain | 1992 - June 1998 | Futures and Options Analyst | Wrote software for testing futures trading strategies |
| J.P.B. Partners | 1988-1991 | Trader and Researcher | Wrote valuation models for options and index futures wrote software for traders to value options |
Education
2009
BrainBench Master in C++ scored in 99th percentile
BrainBench Certified in Linux Administration scored in 92nd percentile
BrainBench Certified in Mysql
2009-2010
Florida Gulf Coast University
Took courses in assembly language and C#
1994-1997
Rochester Institute of Technology
-Took courses from the Masters program in Software Engineering
-Emphasis on Object Oriented Design
-Extensive work on software documentation
1983-1987 University of Chicago
B.A. with Department honors in Physics
Extensive course work with Economics and Mathematics