Christopher McGuire

· Enhanced team effectiveness by leading strategic hiring of 15 professionals, establishing a structured onboarding process, and increasing team satisfaction through re-organization, defining career growth, and providing mentorship to a growing management team.
· Orchestrated the integration of real-time analytics across applications, optimizing operational efficiency, and enhancing product releas

· Led agile development for 20+ front-end applications, optimizing product strategy and release cycles using React, Svelte, C#.NET, Python, Docker, and Kubernetes.
· Cultivated leadership within engineering teams, achieving significant improvements in system governance and performance, and providing mentorship to 3 new direct-report managers.

· Overhauled UI/UX strategies while leading a 5+ person team and introduced a design system library for use in 10+ firm applications, significantly improving product design coherence.
· Devised a fintech product roadmap for an options block trading dashboard and was instrumental in building wireframes, graphical assets, and prototypes to automate workflows.

· Spearheaded the first globally distributed UX/UI design and 20+ person development team, establishing front-end development as a cornerstone of product strategy.
· Implemented a scalable microservices architecture, resulting in significant performance improvements of the 25+ Equity focused applications.
· Led the creation of a React micro-UI library, supporting custom user workflows.

· Directed the design and deployment of a mobile platform based on a customized JavaScript mobile framework, optimizing user workflows for users while remote, based on extensive research.
· Reduced development time by 15% through a reusable control library for WPF and web projects, contributing to an increase in firm revenue.

· Launched the Equities Research Broker Vote/Broker Research platform, enhancing user interaction and design.

• Redesigned an internal research library system, resulting in a centralized, web-based resource catalog improving resource usage by 15%, designing a custom database schema and optimizing SQL queries through analysis and requirements definition with the CIO.
• Designed and deployed GUI and backend of an internal development portal, including a PHP/XML middle-tier and Sybase database

• Designed an internal, online test management tool. used across the GE Medical Systems teams to digitally store test cases, test results, and manage the design and test process
• Designed multiple process and automation tools for the engineering teams, using PHP, Perl, mySQL and Macromedia Flash
• Key contributor to testing the Radiology Information Systems software products

· Conducted a detailed brand and website analysis, along with a competitor benchmarking, setting the stage for a strategic rebranding initiative.
· Orchestrated the development of a new brand identity, encompassing a comprehensive style guide, logo redesign, and the creation of cohesive graphical assets to establish a distinct brand voice.
· Led the redesign and development of a responsive site

• Assisted in all levels of the software lifecycle with regards to the Motorola GSM, GPRS, and UMTS products, having involvement in the feature / product(s) inception, assisting the software architecture process in requirements gathering and system design, through the regression testing and field trials
• Provided field support to key customers in testing the GSM, GPRS, and UMTS products