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Brad Lunsford

Astoria

Summary

Seasoned IT executive with 20+ years of experience driving infrastructure, cybersecurity, and SaaS transformation for global financial and technology organizations. Proven track record leading enterprise IT operations, implementing secure and scalable systems, and guiding compliance with SOC2, PCI, GDPR, and ISO27001 standards. Skilled in designing and managing high-performance trading platforms and cloud delivery models, with expertise in virtualization, security architecture, and global team leadership. Recognized for delivering cost savings, operational resilience, and strategic technology innovation across financial services and enterprise SaaS environments.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SVP-IT

Smartstream Technologies
06.2009 - Current
  • Focused on expanding the SaaS business and related client issues -increased to over 50 enterprise level on-demand clients.
  • Oversaw creation and expansion of cloud delivery teams to reduce client implementation time and reduce implementation risk.
  • Designed new solutions as required - including a secure system for dealing with highly sensitive sanctions data.
  • Custom designed access requirements and methods for clients with specific needs.
  • Manage internal and external audit teams to achieve and maintain SSAE 18 (SOC2/3) compliance, PCI, and C5 compliance for our on-demand systems.
  • Continued infrastructure architecture and management of next generation Reference Data Utility.
  • IT Manager for Smartstream Technologies, technical operations and management for on-demand businesses, and infrastructure architecture and management for the Smartstream Reference Data Utility, servicing over 100 enterprise customers.
  • Converted over 600 internal systems to virtualized environments (on premise and cloud) – reducing costs by 45% and increasing scalability.
  • Designed, implemented, and managed infrastructure for reference data utility systems – high volume and highly available - serving high value institutional trading clients.
  • Designed and implemented cloud based SaaS infrastructure for new on-demand business
  • Re-engineered on-demand systems to achieve better performance and lower costs per client.
  • Provide guidance to development teams on hardware/software interactions for time and performance critical systems.
  • Managed team of up to 35 staff across multiple locations in US, Europe, and India.
  • Planned and oversaw initial ISO27001 certification for internal systems.

Vice President/Director of Infrastructure

BondMart Technologies
09.2007 - 03.2009
  • Responsible for all aspects of current and future infrastructure for a fixed-income exchange platform:
  • Scaled the initial system to achieve significant performance improvement.
  • Designed next generation system using best of breed hardware messaging technologies to have sub-millisecond order match performance.
  • Re-engineered business processes to achieve optimal operational efficiency and systems performance
  • Audited security of the current systems and designed security for future systems and network
  • Planned and implemented collocation setup including local HA and remote DR
  • Gathered and documented requirements, documented workflows and developed specifications for software projects
  • Performed system administration functions as necessary on all Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD systems running the exchange and managed contract sys admin staff.
  • Capacity planning and budgeting for current production systems, development, and future exchange needs.

IT Director

Applimation, Inc.
03.2004 - 09.2007

Technical/Security Consultant

Tefen, Ltd.
10.2002 - 03.2004

Vice President and IT Manager

Tokai Bank, Ltd.
05.1997 - 03.2002

Education

BA - Mathematics

New York University
New York, NY
05.1993

Skills

  • IT risk management, IT service management, Software development, Enterprise architecture, DevOps principles, Disaster recovery, Machine learning, IT strategy development, IT service delivery, IT operations management, Information security, Network administration

Certification

CISSP

Timeline

SVP-IT

Smartstream Technologies
06.2009 - Current

Vice President/Director of Infrastructure

BondMart Technologies
09.2007 - 03.2009

IT Director

Applimation, Inc.
03.2004 - 09.2007

Technical/Security Consultant

Tefen, Ltd.
10.2002 - 03.2004

Vice President and IT Manager

Tokai Bank, Ltd.
05.1997 - 03.2002

BA - Mathematics

New York University

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