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Brian Strong

Wake Forest,NC

Summary

Accomplished professional with extensive experience in business operations, process optimization, automation, and strategic planning. Expertise in project management, data analysis, and investment decision-making. Highly skilled in developing initiatives to streamline and standardize business operations. Seeking to leverage background to take the next career step with a respected organization that rewards talent, hard work, and results.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Vice President

MicroQuant LLC
Raleigh, NC
12.2016 - 07.2024
  • Led and managed company-wide operations, resulting in substantial cost savings and enhanced efficiency across multiple departments.
  • Researched and evaluated current internal technology against outside technology to determine whether it could improve our bottom line through increased revenue or efficiency.
  • Led initiative to build and document internal and client-facing processes into our company knowledge base.
  • Found and onboarded a customer-facing AI chatbot that leveraged our company knowledge base to help clients faster and improve the support team's efficiency.
  • Leveraged data-driven insights to inform strategic decision-making, identify growth opportunities, and mitigate potential risks.
  • Spearheaded initiative to create a data warehouse (BigQuery) that pulled data from all departments and systems into a single source of truth. Key business intelligence reporting metrics were calculated and visulized using Looker Studio.
  • Managed IT systems, Administered Amazon AWS, Google Workspace, Infusionsoft(Keap) CRM, Zendesk support desk, and BambooHR.
  • Implemented complex direct-response marketing automation campaigns, including overseeing asset creation, building out and designing conversion-optimized opt-in pages, and upsell sequences.

VP of Development

MicroQuant LLC
Raleigh, NC
06.2013 - 12.2016
  • Managed a team of developers and quality assurance testers while designing and creating a scalable web application. My duties included assigning tasks, creating schedules, and meeting deadlines. I reported directly to the company's president and owner.
  • Directed outsourced and contractor-based projects, working with and managing our out-of-house technology vendors.
  • Development director for customizing a white-labeled web application and social networking app for traders. The technology stack was .NET, C#, and AngularJS.
  • Lead developer on an e-commerce web application built to integrate with a white-labeled web trading application.
  • Developed a library of proprietary technical trading indicators across several trading platforms, including TradeStation (EasyLanguage), SierraCharts (C++), NinjaTrader (C#), ThinkOrSwim (ThinkScript), eSignal (JavaScript), and TradingView (Pine Script).
  • Developed an authentication and authorization REST API using PHP and MySQL. This system authorized our technical trading indicators on various trading platforms at the client level. The system included a management frontend that enabled support agents to manage client authorization manually.

Senior Software Engineer

MicroQuant LLC
Wake Forest, NC
03.2009 - 06.2013
  • Developed a scalable cloud-based web application/social networking site for traders. The application was written in C#, using .NET, LINQ, ADO.NET Entity Framework for database communication, and WCF for communication between the application and the service, for the Silverlight platform.
  • The application utilized Amazon AWS cloud services, including S3 for storage of images, layout files, user preferences; EC2 for web hosting as well as data servers; RDS for a fully sharded MySQL database system to allow for continued growth and up-time of the application; and SES for sending e-mails to customers.
  • Architected database design used by the web application to power all aspects of the application, including all social networking features.
  • Developed WPF version of the Silverlight application for use on major 3rd party trading terminals (Bloomberg)
  • Developed and maintained an in-house-built e-commerce store and membership website. The website was built using PHP CodeIgniter MVC architecture and utilized Braintree's API for payment processing.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
05-2002

Skills

  • Strategic leadership
  • Operational Excellence
  • Staff Development
  • Project Management
  • Business Analytics
  • Marketing expertise
  • Software Engineering
  • IT Management

Timeline

Senior Vice President

MicroQuant LLC
12.2016 - 07.2024

VP of Development

MicroQuant LLC
06.2013 - 12.2016

Senior Software Engineer

MicroQuant LLC
03.2009 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

North Carolina State University

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