Kevin McGuire
Summary
- Hardcore architect with “soft” skills, and a track record of delivering value
- “Team Player” Leader/Manager, eager to mentor and build teams
- Continually learns and adopts innovative technologies
- Works to highest professional and ethical standards
- Excellent communication skills, with experience in architecture, security, creating specifications, development, and deployment
Skilled Senior Manager skilled in cross-functional collaboration. Optimizes processes and communication and drive results. Dedicated to continuously improving professional knowledge and business operations by applying top-notch skills.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager
Accenture
10.2013 - 12.2023
- Full ownership of architecture, development, and delivery, including management
- Business development and solution architecture: Software Architect, Technical Lead, and manager, developing large commercial web sites for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 clients
- Technical architecture for high volume commercial web sites hosted in cloud platforms and on-premises, including system integration, using AWS, Azure, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Apache httpd, OSGi, Spring, Docker, Bluemix, SOAP, RESTful web services, Java EE stack, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript frameworks
- Development and delivery in AWS and Azure; prototyping in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and IBM Bluemix
- Built a large commercial highly available web site and support systems in Amazon EC2, EBS, EFS, and ELB in virtual private clouds
- Security analysis for banking web applications: risk assessment, threat analysis, best practices
- Project Management: Atlassian JIRA, Azure DevOps
- Investigated emergent technologies, innovation and thought leadership
Consultant (Manager)
Acquity Group
08.2009 - 09.2013
- Software Architect, Technical Lead, and manager, developing large commercial web sites for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 clients
- Same role and technologies as used at Accenture (above)
Chief Architect
Webster Capital
09.2008 - 04.2009
- Designed infrastructure architecture (network, data center, collocation), configured networking, and built out in data centers in New York and London to trade currencies and energy futures
- Built CentOS 5 servers and deployed them to Equinix data centers in Chicago, Jersey City/Secaucus, and London
- Designed and implemented a retrofit of a FIX FAST price feed using C# and .NET
Architect/Developer
Allston Trading
10.2006 - 08.2008
- Designed, developed, and maintained high-performance multithreaded algorithmic trading systems in core Java (J2SE) for trading stocks, agricultural and energy futures
- Trades implemented in core Java: market-making scalper which performs arbitrage using dual instruments, market-making arbitrage across outright instruments and spreads
- Integration using CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, ICE, and ARCA
Senior Software Architect
DBS Communications, Inc.
06.2004 - 09.2006
- Designed and developed J2EE (JEE) components and applications with UML, JBoss, Hibernate, Oracle, servlets, Struts, JSP, EJB, and XML
- Designed and implemented development processes and workflows for full software development lifecycle (SDLC) to SEI CMM Level 3
- Defined and documented development standards and training the development, build, and deployment staff in implementing them
Associate Director
UBS Investment Bank
09.2002 - 05.2004
- Architect for global monitoring solutions for equities trading systems
- Designed, architected, and developed J2EE-based web applications running on Solaris, WebSphere, Oracle, and Sybase using Java/J2EE, XML, Perl, expect, Bourne shell UML, Together/J, Rational Rose, Java, servlets, Struts, and EJB
Education
A.S. - Pre-engineering
Waubonsee Community College
Sugar Grove, IL05-1989
Work On BSEE - Electrical Engineering
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, ILSkills
- Software, microservices, and system architecture
- Cloud computing
- Networking
- Security
- JEE (J2EE)
- Web services (RESTful, SOAP, XML)
- Infrastructure and full-stack development: operating systems, kernels, compilers, and development tools
- Project management
- Managing people, mentoring, and coaching
- Cloud platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Azure, IBM Bluemix, Salesforce
- Big data: Hadoop, HDFS
- Programming Languages: Java, SQL, Python, Perl, C, C, JavaScript, Bourne shell, Haskell, Ruby
- Java Technologies: Full-stack Java API (SDK), EJB, J2EE (JEE), JNDI, JDBC, servlets, JSP, JSTL, JMS, Java Beans, JNI, Hibernate, EJB, Spring
- Architecture, design, and modeling: UML and design patterns
- Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, BSD/FreeBSD, Solaris, System V, Windows
- Component technologies: Spring, Hibernate, OSGi, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
- Networking: TCP/IP, sockets, RPC, XDR, CGI, NDR, ssh, HTTP, ftp
- Software: Docker, JBoss, Eclipse, NetBeans, WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat, Maven, git, EC2, EBS, Subversion (svn), Ant, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Endeca, MQ Series, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL (Postgres), MySQL
- Project Management: Atlassian JIRA, Azure DevOps
- Multi-processing, interprocess communication, and concurrency using mutexes, locks, semaphores, and global shared memory
- Wrote real-time software for trading systems with hard real-time requirements using Java, C#, C, C, and various assembly languages
- Cloud architecture
- Software development
- System integration
- Security analysis
- Business development
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder engagement
- Technical documentation
- Agile methodologies
- Resource allocation
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Operations planning
- Cross-functional team coordination
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Talent development
- Business performance management
- Process improvement
- Customer relations
- Revenue forecasting
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Performance management
- Plan projects
- Problem resolution
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Https://www.credly.com/badges/6d05d63a-4b07-4dbf-8ece-87916411d965/public_url
Trading Synopsis
- Equities, currencies, futures in agriculturals, metals, and energy
- Developed a personal trend-following trading system for trading futures, indexes, currencies, written in Scala, using the Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation (TWS) API
Timeline
Senior Manager
Accenture
10.2013 - 12.2023
Consultant (Manager)
Acquity Group
08.2009 - 09.2013
Chief Architect
Webster Capital
09.2008 - 04.2009
Architect/Developer
Allston Trading
10.2006 - 08.2008
Senior Software Architect
DBS Communications, Inc.
06.2004 - 09.2006
Associate Director
UBS Investment Bank
09.2002 - 05.2004
A.S. - Pre-engineering
Waubonsee Community College
Work On BSEE - Electrical Engineering
Northern Illinois University
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