I recently had a rash of excellent opportunities come my way. I have always said if you work hard, study your domain, and are passionate about your work; people notice. If you are a leader at heart – people will follow. By some stroke of luck, connections through my accountant, phone calls from old friends, etc, I was lucky enough to be presented with some excellent opportunities. It is amazing that with no effort – amazing work opportunities present themselves. I will say that Wll St is ripe with opportunities for qualified software developers.

I will be moving from consulting with Finetix to a full time role at a major investment bank here in New York as a VP in their Equity Derivatives area. I have spent some time in credit derivatives, fx derivatives, so I guess it is time for some equity derivatives. I will be working on a global desktop front office trading framework. There will ultimately be many desks using this desktop framework/ component set and there is a great opportunity to impact these trading desks and lots of software developers. This is all right up my alley. Needless to say – I am eager to get into it.

Making a move in jobs is always very hard. I am immensely thankful to everyone that was a part of the switch to my new role. I wish there were more copies of me as there were quite a few things I would like to do and would have been given the opportunity to do. Alas – I am only one and I had to choose.

I am also thankful to Finetix and the clients that I have been with during my time at Finetix. Several times I have said about software consulting; “sometimes you are the president, sometimes you are the janitor – either way you are compensated well”. I am sure that president is overstating it and janitor is also an exaggeration, but the sentiment holds true. This is the nature of consulting. A short while ago – I got an email from a former consulting client (a good engagement in the long run) about how their global credit derivatives trading application had rolled out to ~1000 desktops. This project was one of my pets so I am glad of course for it to be in the wild. From what a friend on that project says, the technical goals we shot for are met and tey are reaping the rewards and forthcoming versions of this software should be more stable, faster to deliver, less brittle, and simply more flexable Consulting, you will often miss these times (I had already moved on by the time this project had ‘rolled out’). I will be eager to evolve a portfolio of software over a period of years again. Working as a ‘perm’ at an investment bank will give me this opportunity again.

Anyhow – the details of the whole thing are long and boring – so, I will not get into it. Enough of my blabber.
There you have it;
Chris

2 Responses to “Moving on, new gig, yet-another-investment-bank for me”

1. netflings, on September 8th, 2006 at 11:30, said:
   

   Sounds like an excellent oppurtunity, go forth and multiply.

   Congratulations

2. sduskis, on September 8th, 2006 at 13:48, said:
   

   congrats!!

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