Michelle Beck - Palomar College

“One person with passion is
better than forty people merely
interested”.- E.M.Forster
Edwin B. Savarimuthu
Chicago, IL
edwinbritto@gmail.com
Phone: 312-546 3652
What do I want to be?
I would like to be a CIO/CTO of a large financial services company in USA. I would like
to reduce the software complexity, leverage existing infrastructure or create new cost
effective infrastructure to create elegant technology solutions for the company, and in
doing so I would like to create and lead a world-class information technology team that
the business can count on.
What have I done so far?
• 50+ months as the Head of Global and Technical architecture and Infrastructure Tools
at Citadel Investment Group, US since October 2007
o Leading the team (Technical Architecture) responsible for many enterprise
services such as MQ, Apache web servers, Agile Development tools,
ClearCase and License Management.
o Leading the team (Global Architecture) responsible for designing and
developing enterprise level infrastructure components such as configuration,
logging, security, database and persistent queue connectivity libraries. This
team also offers Security, Location and Preferences Services to the rest of the
firm.
o Leading the team (Infrastructure Tools & Enterprise Monitoring) responsible
for many third party software tools used by Citadel. This team also is
responsible for Server, Network monitoring at Citadel.
o Closely working with other businesses such as Wealth management (the
hedge fund business Citadel is known for), Back Office, Global Equities, High
Frequency Trading and Execution Services to fulfill their technology needs.
o Designed and architected some of the customer facing applications for
Citadel. Designed Citadel web application architecture. Streamlined the
software approval and evaluation process. Deprecated some of the legacy and
hard to maintain applications, technologies and third party libraries and
replaced them with more modern and easy to manage versions of the same.
• 20 Months in Product design and architecture at Citadel Investment Group, Chicago,
US since January 2005
o Consulted by many business teams to fix and improve their existing software.
o Reduced the total runtime of the mortgage loan matcher from 3 ½ days to 1
hour.
o Replaced the C++ persistence distributed cache layer in the financial
instrument service. The new layer is auto generated from the model and hence
there is no need to manually update the map of database to cache.
• 44 Months in Product design and development at Lucent Technologies, US since
November 2000.
• 7 months in Product design and development at Future Software, India for the clients
NEC and NTT.
• 16 months in product development at HCL-CISCO, India for the client CISCO, US.