Kevin Flynn

Innovative Technical Leader
Highly skilled AWS Certified Technical Professional with history of delivering innovative IT initiatives and cross-functional leadership. Possesses excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills

My Skills

The normal list of Gobbledygook
Linux, Unix, Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate,
AWS Certified Developer - Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate,
PSM1-Scrum/Agile Certified, Windows, Android, Python, Kubernetes, IOS, Mac OS X, Raspberry PI, Bitcoin Mining, TCP/IP, HTTP, C, DHCP, DNS, SQL, FTP, Sybase, vi, ssh,…
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Technical Manager
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Cloud Computing
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Linux/Unix
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Programming Languages C/Shell/Python

My Experience

History of managing deep technical teams supporting real time Market Data Datafeed servers, Market data workstations, and infrastructure
2014 - 2016
Thomson Reuters, NY
Director – Technical Specialists - Enterprise
Managed team of 90 2nd level technical staff located in North America, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, and Gdynia.
Responsible for hardware and software Break/Fix of client sited real-time market data and low latency datafeed servers for products including TRDFD, Elektron EED, TREP, EZD, and other datafeed API’s.
Provided follow the sun 2nd level technical support coverage for 5,000+ customer sited Linux, Windows, and Unix datafeed servers.
2010 - 2014
Thomson Reuters, NY
Global Head of Investors Technical Specialists
Led team of 83 2nd level Technical staff managing and supporting market datafeed servers, Datafeed API’s, and Wealth management windows workstations in North America/Europe.
Proactively monitored and managed 4,300 Unix/Linux servers, 1,100 Routers, 1,200 Customer Circuits, and 300,000 Wealth Management workstations.
2007 - 2010
Thomson Reuters, NY
VP Technical Services
Managed team of180 Technical staff supporting and installing market datafeed servers and Windows Wealth management workstations in North America/Europe.
Technically supporting explosive growth of 6,000 Unix/Linux servers and 200,000 Wealth management workstations to become the #1 provider of Wealth management market data workstations in North America.
2002 - 2007
Thomson Financial, NY
Manager, VP Systems Support
Led team of 160 Technical staff supporting and installing Unix market datafeed servers and Windows Wealth management workstations in North America and Europe.
Oversaw technical integration of servers and staff for two datafeed trading systems and workstations after company acquisitions. AT- Financial and Digitrade.
1990 - 2002
ILX Systems, (Startup - Subsidiary of Thomson Financial)
Manager, Unix Support Manager
Managed a team of technical specialists to support Rapid growth of Client sited UNIX real-time market datafeed servers from a few hundred to 3,000 supporting new customers like Merrill Lynch with 20,000 Broker workstations.
Designed and implemented new monitoring systems to reduce MTTR and customer downtime.
kevflynn@gmail.com
917-370-1526