Kevin J Smith

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
* Hands-on CTO with over 14 years experience designing, building, and managing e
nterprise-class infrastructure for the financial services industry. Especially
strong in translating client and business requirements into high level technical
design. An expert in integrating new technologies to provide best-of-breed, co
st-effective technology solutions. Former Nuclear Navy Officer with strong leade
rship & communication skills.
* Entrepreneurial Experience - designed and built a Hedge Fund Network providing
infrastructure services to over 100 Hedge Funds; including Bloomberg, Reuters,
VOIP telephone system, Internet and Remote Access, Microsoft Exchange Email and
Enterprise Blackberry with email archival, file and print services, data center
diversity and data replication, onsite desktop support and 24x7 Help Desk...
WORK HISTORY:
STRATEGIC VALUE PARTNERS, LLC JUNE 2008 - PRESENT
Chief Technology Officer
* CTO of a multi-billion dollar global hedge fund with 200 employees operating i
n 7 different countries - directing a team of engineers in the US, UK, Germany,
and Japan.
* Chief Architect of SVP's new global headquarters in Greenwich, CT - designed a
nd built dual active-active data centers for near real-time disaster recovery
* Redesigned IT services to take advantage of the active-active data center mode
l, including Microsoft clustering, synchronous SAN replication, VMWare clusterin
g, Microsoft DFS, etc.
* Designed and implemented a global electronic message archival and e-discovery
solution to support SEC registration
* Designed and built a European Data Center in the UK to consolidate and central
ize IT services for SVP's global offices

KJSMITHCO, INC. JUNE 2006 - JUNE 2008

President
* IT Architect to the Financial Services Industry - expertise in disaster recove
ry & business continuity; data center designs, build-outs, and migrations; Voice
and Data circuit management, IP Telephony, and Market Data infrastructure
* Strategic Value Partners - Scaled and upgraded all IT services after a year in
which the company nearly doubled in size. Built an Operations team to manage c
ritical services and provide the firm with appropriate service levels
* Cisco Systems - Program managed a national VOIP Telephone roll-out to Merrill
Lynch's 650+ Financial Analyst Branch Offices. Managed HP Field Support Technici
ans, AT&T Telecommunication Engineers, and Cisco VOIP Engineers
* WNYC - Designed the IT infrastructure for this public radio station's new offi
ces in downtown Manhattan and project managed the migration of services from the
old data center to the new data center
* Covance, Inc. - Project managed a Global WAN Upgrade across 31 countries inclu
ding Cisco hardware replacement, circuit ordering and installation, Vendor Manag
ement, QOS, and IP Telephony roll-out

BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES, PRIME BROKERAGE 2002 - 2006

Infrastructure Director
* Built and managed a Global Hedge Fund Network from London to San Francisco - p
roviding technology and compliance infrastructures to over 100 Hedge funds
* Designed and built 7 Data Centers utilizing IBM Blade Servers, VMWare, and 3Pa
rData SANs for server and storage virtualization
* Managed Vendor relationships with major national WAN carriers: AT&T, Verizon,
MCI, Broadwing, and Sprint - Tracked and managed the carrier's Service Level Agr
eements
* Managed and grew an IT department from 10 to 40 personnel with 6 direct report
s: Systems Engineering Manager, Network Engineering Manager, Operations Manager,
Project Management Officer, Client Technical Support Manager, and Help Desk Man
ager (Tech Support & Help Desk included remote teams in Dallas, San Francisco,
London, and Boston)
* Managed a Call Center, M-F 7am-7pm, in NYC with after-hours support in San Fra
ncisco, and implemented a Help Desk ticketing system - established performance m
etrics and SLAs (e.g. Call-Wait Time, Avg Call length, Dropped Calls, Tickets pe
r hour, queue, etc.)
* Managed a 10 million dollar per year Budget, analyzed competitive intelligence
, designed pricing strategy, measured SLAs, worked with Legal department on Cont
ract and SLA negotiation
* Managed Prime Brokerage's infrastructure and applications: OMS, Real-time PNL,
Insta-Quote (real-time market data), GiM2 portfolio management database, portfo
lio accounting, and Website Reporting Infrastructures
REGISTER.COM 2001-2002
Director of Enterprise Engineering
* Managed all production systems for this large, publicly traded, 24x7 e-Busines
s company - ensured production up-time of 99.95% SLAs were met
* Designed and built a Disaster Recovery Data Center in Newark, NJ - architected
the replication strategies for databases and web server farms
* Managed the upgrade of all production and development databases and data wareh
ouses to Oracle 8i and installed Quest's diagnostic software tools to enhance pe
rformance monitoring
* Managed the SAN infrastructure and transaction-based replication - EMC Symmetr
ix and Clarion arrays
* Managed a 25-person department: Linux and Solaris Administrators, Systems Oper
ations, Database Administrator's (Oracle and SQL), Network Engineering, and Info
rmation Security

TRADESCAPE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC 2000-2001

Manager of Network Engineering
* Migrated Tradescape's primary data center from in-house to a new Tier 2 data c
enter in downtown Manhattan
* Designed and built a Disaster Recovery Site at IXNet's Co-location facility in
Newark, NJ
* Designed an Institutional ECN Infrastructure to re-launch MarketXT as a subsid
iary under Tradescape Corporation and launch Tradescape's Institutional Trading
business
* Built a National Client Network using AT&T and Qwest as carriers for client Fr
ame Relay connections into our Data Center's ATM backbone.
* Evaluated HP vs EMC SAN solutions for Tradescape's high-speed transactional da
tabase "Smart Order Routing" engine
* .com ended in Chapter 11, sold to E-Trade

MILLENNIUM PARTNERS HEDGE FUND 1997-1999

Infrastructure Manager
* Responsible to COO for architecting centralized IT services during this hedge
fund's growth phase from 60 to 120+ employees.
* Managed the firm's Data Centers, Market Data connectivity, PBX, and ECN connec
tions. Designed centralized network services for traders including secure remo
te access VPNs.
GENERAL ELECTRIC AND LOCKHEED MARTIN: KAPL, INC. 1992 - 1996
Advanced Engineering Program
* Shielding Design Engineer - developed computer simulations to analyze effectiv
eness of radiation shielding design for Naval Reactor's Advanced Reactor Project
.
* Pursued Master's degree while working full-time
* Participated in Leadership development coursework: Effective Presentation, Eff
ective Listening, Kepner-Tregoe management, project management, Six Sigma, etc.

EDUCATION

Masters of Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY
Major: Computer Systems Engineering GPA: 4.0
9 of 10 courses completed towards Masters Degree
GE's Advanced Course in Engineering
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY SCHENECTADY, NY
Major: Mechanical and Electrical Engineering GPA: 4.0
Emphasis: Public Speaking and Technical Writing
Naval Nuclear Power School
United States Navy Orlando, FL
Emphasis: Engineering Officer of a Naval Nuclear Power Plant GPA: 3.5
Bachelor of Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY
Major: Nuclear Engineering GPA: 3.1
Full Scholarship - Navy ROTC