With over 20 years of expertise in leading User Experience development teams, Barry implements cutting edge solutions that deliver confidence and clarity to every project.
During 9 years at Morgan Stanley, he managed all UI development for the Equity Risk Management department, confidently delivering multiple projects that significantly improved efficiency and clarity for over 500 traders across the global trading floors. These included projects that allowed teams to save up to 20 hours weekly in costly reconciliation. He also oversaw a team of up to 15 full-time employees and consultants across New York, Montreal, London, Budapest, and Hong Kong.
For 3 years working with Point72, he led a UI effort to transition a signature development project from a monolithic legacy JavaScript/Angular 1 system, through several interim and hybrid phases, toward a modernized module-based Typescript/Angular 8-based product, which encouraged his start-up’s key stakeholders to finalize on their buyout. Simultaneously, the user base grew from 100 to over 800 internal users while never missing their scheduled 2-3 week release deployment targets. This evolution greatly enhanced the feature set and flexibility of the project and, by doing so, encouraged other teams within the firm to partner on the project and attract new talent with more advanced web development skills.
During his tenure at Moody’s Investors Service from 2000-2007, Barry designed, architected, and developed the evolution of the primary ratings system for Moody’s Investors Service, portions of which remained use for at 15+ years afterward. Between 2005 and 2007, he led a technical effort to evolve portions of that web-based system onto the .NET 2.0 WinForms platform, to adopt current best user interface practices for the time, and achieve complex hierarchical grid features.
Vendor evaluation and engagement has been a key part of Barry’s career experience. From directly interacting with Sun Microsystems support teams in his early Unix DevOps days, to comparing and demonstrating best-of-breed Windows .NET Grid and UI Toolkit solutions in the mid-2000’s, to formalizing licensing agreements for modern Rich-text Web Editing tools in recent years, ensuring solid engagement and communication with external vendors is key to resolving the ever-existing buy-vs-build argument.
During his spare time, he enjoys learning new programming techniques and languages (from organizations like Frontend Masters) and attending tech conferences, with his modern favorite languages being TypeScript and Rust. Additionally he also regularly mentors high school students and plays the guitar.
Barry resides in Peekskill, NY (where the views are gorgeous and peaceful, yet with easy access to the big city) and enjoys traveling whenever possible – having met business clients and colleagues from San Francisco to London to Hong Kong.