Jorge Silva

* Used Python to interface with Equilend and developed a Historical Price database, resulting in savings of $5M. * Developed an fee reporting and allocation system for Firm internal inventories and daily reports – reducing time and costs. * Developed a process to identify excess borrows, resulting in a daily 2 time savings and better balance sheet management. * Used Python Flask and SqlAlchemy to develop a web application for historical price, PnL and position data, * Developed PowerBI dashboards for desk.

I managed the company's technological requirements and took care of PC and Linux administration. I led a developer in the creation of trading algorithms in Java. I developed a price feed handler in C and Javafor the Toronto and Montreal exchanges and an adapter for price data into the Marketcetera Order Management System in Java.

I traded and managed a single stock swap, traded and managed a dividend reinvestment book. I was front office IT liaison/business analyst for the Anvil upgrade project.

Responsible for re-architecting and commissioning of Orc Liquidator trading infra-structure (hardware & software) as a result we were top ETF market maker in Canada, we were routinely doing in excess of 1Million trades a day. Traded Futures/ETF arbitrage. Responsible for rolling out DMA algorithms using fix protocol for internal/external clients

Flight Dynamics and Control of an Agile Remotely Piloted helicopter. Investigation of flight controller synthesis using modern and classical techniques. Numerical modelling and identification of dynamic systems using Genetic Algorithms. Designed and assembled PCBs