IT Engineer + Finance MBA
Goal oriented, passionate about new challenges
Strong Software Background with Analytical Thinking
Support/Project/Management experiences
Problem Solving Mindset
Work well under pressure
At ease blending IT, business development and finance
Fast learner, Technology smart
Worked/studied in 5 countries/3 continents
Fluent in English and French, decent in Japanese
Working Permits:
- EU Citizen
- Singapore
- Canada (until Oct/2014)
Specialties: Cross-cultural Business Development (Europe/Japan), Entrepreneurship
Company Management, Accounting, Negotiation, Purchasing
Development, IT management, Project Management, Architecture, Monitoring
Windows (all), Unix (HP-UX), Linux (Debian, Fedora Core)
Trading Platform, APIs, Reporting & Analysis, Data Mining
Data Center build-up &maintenance
Hardware expertise (semiconductor) in secure embedded systems
Trained in ASM, C++, VBA, SQL, PERL, PHP, JScript, Visual C#, JAVA, .NET, multithread, TCP/IP
Associate Director of Operations - Real-Time Solutions, APAC @ From February 2013 to Present (2 years 11 months) SingaporeOwner @ From November 2002 to Present (13 years 2 months) Network Manager @ QuantHouse is an independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions founded in 2005. This includes ultra low latency market data technologies, algo-trading development framework, proximity hosting and order routing services with presence in NYC, Chicago, London, Paris, Franfurt, Zurick and Stockholm covering more then 50 exchanges; to help hedge funds, market makers, proprietary desks and latency sensitive sell side firms to take the lead.
My current position involves:
- Managing the Network Team
- Supervision of infrastructure roll-out
- Negotiation of technical details with partners/customers
- Analysis/tests of monitoring solutions
- Network requirements trends following
- Capacity planning
- Technical presentations From December 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 2 months) Trading IT @ FLOW -- a state in which you are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) -- is a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago with an Earth preservation side.
I was in charge of trading post-trade tools development/optimizations (Visual C#, scripting, VBA) as well as infrastructure upgrades roll-out and monitoring (DELL IT Manager, WSUS, OpenNMS). From February 2011 to November 2011 (10 months) Managing Director @ Managing Director, Shareholder
- Incorporated the company and set up accounting and auditing structure
- Purchasing and contractual negotiations with financial exchanges (SGX/SMX) and clearinghouses
- Software/Hardware IT virtualized infrastructure planning, R&D, programming
- Data Center redundant cloud system setup and maintenance
- Daily business activities, monthly accounting From October 2009 to February 2011 (1 year 5 months) MBA Summer Internship @ 11 weeks (Investment Bank Market Data System) designing and implementing internal reporting/cost optimization in Excel/VB and Perl/HTML + one week Equity Derivatives shadowing. From June 2008 to August 2008 (3 months) Field Application Engineer @ - Responsible for the promotion, support and follow-up of all smartcard products
- Consulting customers in security management and secure software development
- Coordinating main Division activities (France, Prague, Belgium) with local customers requests/constraints
- Conducting technical training and formal sessions on state-of-the-art security technologies
- Main achievements: first VISA Level 3 certification, e-Passport tender won, I2C integration of TPM From February 2000 to August 2007 (7 years 7 months) MIS - Paris @ Asset-Backed Securities Back/Middle-office IT Management, relying heavily on distributed Databases Systems (HPUX/Windows). Crystal Report and Excel driven applications for User/Customer access. From August 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Trainee - Nagoya @ Full GUI Development in VB5/6 to control production barcode/label thermal printers (including Drivers, file format and ActiveX compatibility) linked to Factory Production Line Databases (ODBC). From January 1999 to June 1999 (6 months) Help Desk @ Part-Time student job: in charge of calling back computer-unskilled customers with a Windows, Software or Hardware problem on their newly purchased PC (supermarket market outsourced to IBM) and fixing it by phone. This was the time of the AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS and tricky MS-DOS CD-ROM drivers! From December 1997 to June 1998 (7 months) Trainee @ Database management/export/reporting (DB2) to demonstrate a proof-of-concept temporary migration from local factory to Middle-East technical service facility. From 1998 to 1998 (less than a year)
MBA, Entrepreneurship, Finance @ McGill University From 2007 to 2009 MBA, Finance @ HEC Paris From 2008 to 2008 ESIEE Engineering, MsC in Computer Science/Information Technology @ ESIEE Paris From 1994 to 1999 Computer Systems, Master of Science, Engineering Computer Science @ Ecole supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique From 1994 to 1999 Summer intensive Japanese courses @ KICL (Kyoto Institute of Culture & Language) From 1998 to 1998 Julien Wilk, Eng. MBA is skilled in: Company Management, Software Development, Project Management, Cross-cultural, Embedded Systems, Web Development, C/C++ STL, VBA, PHP, E-commerce, Database Administration, Data Center Architecture, Smart Cards, Purchasing, Shell Scripting
Websites:
http://julien.wilk.fr/CV.pdf,
http://julien.wilk.fr/CV_fr.pdf,
http://www.lddb.com/