OCC - The Foundation for Secure Markets

Options Clearing Corporation is a United States clearing house based in Chicago. It specializes in equity derivatives clearing, providing central counterparty clearing and settlement services to 16 exchanges.

20 members

Contact info

Link

theocc.com

Members

Syed Farhan

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3rd+

Lead Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services

Daniel S. Konar II

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3rd+

Experienced legal executive and in-house general counsel delivering effective strategic direction, business-focused solutions and strong department management. Valued by boards and management for consistent judgment and effective management of cross-functional teams on critical initiatives. Clients - including those in complex, high risk, global markets - can turn to me for: Board governance and management Internal corporate governance and management Public company reporting Public and private offerings Fund formation Financing arrangements M&A counseling Complex commercial agreements Compliance program implementation Policy architecture and design Legislative and regulatory strategy Internal investigations Dispute resolution and management Litigation strategy Antitrust Insurance coverage and claims Risk management International regulatory counseling Talent development and management Bar Admissions: Illinois, District of Columbia

Matthew Karwacki, MBA, PMP

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3rd+

Matthew is a detailed, motivated professional offering strong planning and execution skills focused in the financial services vertical. Demonstrated ability to manage large projects that included detailed research to formulate data, giving clients multiple avenues of execution to achieve superior results. When in a consulting environment, success has resulted from building strong client and vendor relationships and in optimizing logistics to gain strong revenue streams. Specialties: Matthew has extensive experience within financial services clients managing multi-year initiatives involving regulatory work, trade flow system integrations and program management offices.

Floyd Gardner III

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3rd+

IT Service Management, Operations, and Infrastructure Leader. Highly skilled negotiator and charismatic leader. Skilled cross-functional team-builder. Excellent performance manager and tactical task leader and goal setter with extensive front-line operations management experience in a robust, dynamic multi-site 24/7/365 always on environment. Calm, conscientious tactical collaborator focused on the functional development of strategic partnerships that provide the internal capabilities to drive consistent results through the development repeatable processes. Advanced MS Excel and Visio skills. Familiar with various service and project management platforms and productivity suites.

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Jeffrey Kolar is an accomplished IT consulting executive with Top Secret Security Clearance and over 30 years of experience in federal, public sector, and commercial IT solutions. He has extensive expertise in leading large-scale, complex, high-performance, and high-availability IT integration projects. Passionate about driving value through partnering with clients to plan and deliver custom development and Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) solutions, leveraging cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises infrastructures. He has a proven track record in building, leading, and mentoring high-performing teams. Teams successful in on-time delivery, high client value return, while mindful of ROI. With a strong focus on client relationships, strategic planning, and innovative IT methodologies, he has successfully delivered critical projects for organizations such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the United States Postal Service (USPS), the Department of State (DOS), and the United States Senate. Key Skills and Competencies: • Leadership & Delivery: 28+ years’ experience managing application integrations, IT infrastructure operations, and multi-tiered system development and implementations. Developed trusted C-Suite client relationships while facilitating cross-functional delivery teams. • Proposals: Experience shaping federal proposals through the development of functional & technical response proposals • Technology Expertise: Skilled in IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, custom development, COTS, and financial management systems. • Framework & Methodologies: Agile, SAFe, DevOps, and Waterfall. • Cloud Computing: Proven success by reducing costs and modernizing solutions using Azure and AWS Cloud Services. • IT Outsourcing: Experience managing onshore and offshore technology teams, with a focus on leading Quality Assurance (QA) project team Specialties: Technology Organization Leadership, Mentoring Employees for Success, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Business Transformation Outsourcing (BTO), Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO), Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Logistics Management, Software Application Development (Agile, Spiral, Waterfall), Quality Assurance (QA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Business Intelligence (BI), C++, Java/J2EE

Veera Venkata Hari Kishore Gunda

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3rd+

• Proven ability to manage, architect, design and develop web applications overcoming development challenges and time constraints with JAVA/J2EE Technologies. ● Technical Lead and Sr. J2EE Developer with more than 15+ years of solid IT experience combined with Strong domain knowledge of financial industry. ● Expert in Designing and implementing Large Scale Enterprise Framework based N-tier solutions. ● Successful track record of providing competent technical leadership in multi-project development and integration efforts. Demonstrated capability to work across company division/groups to deliver projects within Scope, budget, time constraints. ● Used Automated Tools (AIM) for Application Deployment to SIT, UAT & PROD Servers. ● Good Decision Maker for Design Changes that arises during Integration Phase & UAT Cycle. ● Extensive experience in implementing and maintaining full lifecycle of complex distributed software systems using Java, J2EE, Spring, Struts, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, Angular JS, AJAX, XML, XSD, SOAP/WSDL, Restful Services and testing frameworks like Junit, ATDD, Cucumber and build tools like Apache Ant and Maven extensively. ● Experience in working with Bea Web logic 9.2, Web sphere 6.0 Application Servers and Tomcat 8.0 ● Exposure to Financial Domain and HR Domain. ● Proficient in web designing using HTML5 and experienced in various JS Frameworks like jQuery, Angular. ● Experience with an Agile, Scrum methodology to ensure delivery of high quality code with biweekly iteration in a rapidly changing environment. ● Experienced in Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL. Involved in Database Design, performance tuning, writing Stored Procedures, Packages, Functions, REF Cursors, DML SQL queries. ● Worked on Bug Tracking Tools like Atlassian JIRA, Version ONE, Clearquest and Quality Center. ● Experience in both Test Driven development Agile and SDFC based Waterfall software model Methodologies Development.

Blake Brockway

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3rd+

I turned my fascination with financial markets into a career.

Ryan Treftz

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3rd+

Executive Director Stress Testing & Liquidity Risk Management

Thomas Krabbe

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3rd+

Strategy Implementation | Corporate Development | Market Infrastructure | Energy Transition