Team Lead @ Strategy Trading Interfaces (Smart Order Routing, Execution Strategies, etc) From July 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Melbourne Area, AustraliaProgrammer @ IRESS is a principal supplier of sophisticated share market and wealth management systems in Australia, Asia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom. From March 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) Director @ Formed a software consultancy specialising in systems modelling and artificial intelligence (regression, forecasting, and decision support). From July 2009 to Present (6 years 5 months) Senior Systems Developer @ • Managed a team of 3-5 programmers and web designers implementing and maintaining CentOS-based Internet Content Filters. • Implemented rule-based filtering and alerts, asynchronous task queues, traffic accounting, web services, network client code, caching, thread and process synchronization and signalling mechanisms, system configuration, captive portal system, LDAP synchronization, and the web-based interface for managing these systems. • Developed patches for the Squid Proxy, extending the connection-specific information available to external ACLs (accepted into Squid trunk). • Liaised with key stakeholders for requirements extraction and to prioritize the product backlog From November 2010 to November 2011 (1 year 1 month) Systems Developer @ From May 2010 to October 2010 (6 months) Software Developer @ • Implemented and maintained a CMS specialised for recording and analysing sports and casino betting. • Developed software for statistical analysis and automatic bet placement on the TAB NRL Margins. This software leveraged expert knowledge of the likelihood of margin results and knowledge on public bet distribution to evaluate, report and place all bet combinations with a minimum expectation. • Developed decision-support programs for assisting with finding appropriate bets for Major League Baseball and AFL. • Developed software to play online Blackjack and Texas Hold’em poker. These systems used custom OCR systems, statistical and rule-based reasoning, reporting 2 and input automation. • Prototyped an algorithmic trading system for FX Trading. This ran Windows on EC2 and automatically reoptimized models under a Linux-based EC2 cluster. From April 2005 to May 2010 (5 years 2 months) Software Developer (contract position) @ • Developed ExpressionEngine modules and plugins for synchronizing property listings between Rock Property’s Real Estate CMS and realestate.com.au. • Implemented realestate.com.au’s FTP import via an asynchronous process, ensuring responsiveness. • Transformed data to realestate.com.au format via XSLT, ensuring easy updates From January 2010 to February 2010 (2 months) Software Developer (contract positions) @ • Developed a secure online order management system for a component-based AV product. • Implemented an SQL rule-based constraint system to ensure quotes were valid when generated. From June 2005 to September 2005 (4 months)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computing @ Computing From 2004 to 2005 Bachelor of Computing (Honours), First Class @ Computing From 2003 to 2003 Bachelor of Computing, Software Engineering, Algebra, Operations Research @ University of Tasmania From 2000 to 2002 James Bowe is skilled in: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, Java, Agile Methodologies, Python, Git, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, CSS, UML, Web Development