Resume - Anthony (Tony) Ruggeri

Summary

Technology leader with significant financial technology experience in startup, small, and mid-size company environments; focus on web-based SaaS products for institutional investment consultants, investors, and asset managers. Democratic leadership style emphasizing transparency of information and strategy, knowledge sharing, team decision-making, and driving accountability for results across the entire organization.
Adept at interacting with many different business groups at the executive level and below to facilitate cross-functional collaboration, solution definition and delivery, and successful outcomes for clients and users.
Technology lead for multiple rounds of corporate transactions, including both sides of due diligence activities, divestures, and acquisitions.
Overall responsibility for various technology functions including software engineering, quality assurance, business and systems analysis, database systems, data operations, IT infrastructure and services, and technical support.
Project manager for many high-profile software projects, as well as multiple data center moves and server and related infrastructure upgrades.
Experience interacting with teams spread across a global organization, including both outsourced and captive software engineering staff.
Long history of working with software, computing technology, and multimedia predating any formal education or work experience.
Academic background and ongoing interest in biology and general science.

Microsoft application platform and desktop technologies such as Windows, IIS, and SQL Server.
Multiple computer languages including C#, JavaScript, T-SQL, VB.NET, Java, C++, and ANSI C.
Wide range of software such as Microsoft Office suite and Visual Studio, multiple source versioning, bug tracking, and SDLC tools, Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom, and many others.

Global provider of technology consulting and services based in the USA with offices in Spain, Serbia, India and the UK.

Director, Business & Technology Strategy

Consultant providing leadership on various client projects (such as mortgage servicing and digital currency custody) and internal initiatives.
Program Manager for technology due diligence projects, executed on behalf of private equity firms evaluating potential investments, and as part of introductory and evaluation services for prospective Cognativ clients.

Leading provider of institutional investment performance reporting software and market data analytics.

Head of Engineering

Resurgens Technology Partners acquired the InvestorForce business unit from MSCI in 2018 for $62 million, and merged it with Investment Metrics. InvestorForce technology lead during the due diligence process, MSCI transition services agreement negotiation, and separation/integration planning.
Project leader for separation of InvestorForce technology functions and services from MSCI; designed new hosting infrastructure and led data center migration project.
Management responsibility for InvestorForce technology team, later for overall database management and server infrastructure and desktop services within combined organization.

Leading provider of investment risk analytics and benchmarks for global financial markets.

Executive Director

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) acquired InvestorForce in early 2013 for $23.5 million. Technology lead within InvestorForce for due diligence and acquisition planning.
Led technology team within InvestorForce business unit; managed related systems, maintaining quarterly release cadence and working with MSCI global teams to transition desktop and local office services.
Led infrastructure upgrade projects to handle higher data volume and processing capacity requirements of growing client base, and migrate InvestorForce systems into MSCI-managed data center environments with greatly improved performance, availability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Technology lead for due diligence and integration planning MSCI’s acquisition of Insignis, Inc. (independent provider of custodial bank data aggregation services); technology lead for due diligence of another possible acquisition, ultimately declined by MSCI.
Recruited a new captive team of mixed software engineering and quality assurance resources in MSCI Mumbai office, doubling project development capacity.

Leading provider of performance reporting software for institutional investment consultants.

Chief Technology Officer

First technology hire and 10th overall employee; built internal software development team.
Responsible for product development activities including systems analysis, software engineering, quality assurance, and database management, as well as technology infrastructure and level 2 support (more than half of the company’s total staff); at times also led analyst team and data operations.
Technology lead for successful divestment of a subset of company’s product and data assets to Morningstar, Inc. (leading provider of financial market reference data) in 2006.
Designed and implemented a quarterly software release cycle beginning in 2004 that continued without interruption for 15 years, based around the quarterly business operations of clients.
Led training and integration efforts of an offshore team in Bangalore to supplement a U.S.-based core development team.

MIS Team Leader, Comcast Cellular (mobile phone service provider); internal software development.
Consultant, CoreTech Consulting Group, LLC (IT staffing and services); software development for telecommunications, banking, and utility clients.
Technical Consultant, Formal Systems, Inc. (computer-based training software and services focused on pharmaceutical industry); software development, IT administration, multimedia development, and client support for commercial and custom software products.
Internships and paid positions with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (education and research institution) in the departments of malacology, entomology, and ornithology.

Electronic musician: https://www.discogs.com/artist/94386-Dei-Sub.
Published entomologist: Gelhaus, Jon K. and Ruggeri, Anthony, 2012. “A review of the crane fly genus Epiphragma (Diptera: Tipulidae s.l.) in North America (including Mexico).” Canadian Entomologist 144(2): 353-375.
Active volleyball player, eager but limited tennis player, moderate bicyclist.
Nature, landscape, and travel photographer