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Bali, Indonesia

Bali, Indonesia

The most undervalued natural resource in Indonesia is the human resource. We are here to change that.The typical young Indonesian professional is technical, multilingual, and an obsessive team player. Yet an entry-level US salary would EASILY catapult him into the top 10% of Indonesian earners. This represents a golden opportunity for US businesses seeking to do business in Asia!John Galt Services provides top-tier customer & technical support to your Asian customers, in their… Show more The most undervalued natural resource in Indonesia is the human resource. We are here to change that.The typical young Indonesian professional is technical, multilingual, and an obsessive team player. Yet an entry-level US salary would EASILY catapult him into the top 10% of Indonesian earners. This represents a golden opportunity for US businesses seeking to do business in Asia!John Galt Services provides top-tier customer & technical support to your Asian customers, in their own business hours, and in their own language.Forget everything you know about offshoring support services to the third world. Your Bali team is JUST as capable as your US workforce, and they can meet your Asian customer on the job, in high definition, and in his own language. Your Bali teammate is your Asian customer's neighbor!If you do business in Asia, John Galt Services can help you create a better Asian customer experience and a stronger Asia bottom line.Get in touch today! Show less

Richmond, Virginia, United States

VeteranCrowd allows merchants to offer discounts and rewards to certified United States Military Veterans. The process is entirely frictionless: Veterans simply validate their status with VeteranCrowd, register a credit card, and go shopping. VeteranCrowd receives transaction notifications, matches the Veteran to any qualified offering, and delivers the rewards!Under the hood is a generic, serverless, PCI-compliant architecture that can validate membership in virtually ANY affinity… Show more VeteranCrowd allows merchants to offer discounts and rewards to certified United States Military Veterans. The process is entirely frictionless: Veterans simply validate their status with VeteranCrowd, register a credit card, and go shopping. VeteranCrowd receives transaction notifications, matches the Veteran to any qualified offering, and delivers the rewards!Under the hood is a generic, serverless, PCI-compliant architecture that can validate membership in virtually ANY affinity group, ingest & match transactions from virtually ANY payment method, and scale to thousands of merchants & affinity groups and millions of users. This architecture is supported by a robust DevOps machine and Agile practice. This application exhibits a microservices architecture, including 16 distinct back-end services, a Next.js web application, serverless infrastructure entirely managed as code, and dozens of supporting libraries. Our commitment to automation is such that I can and do create production releases in every service and supporting repo, every two-week sprint, in about a day, singlehandedly. Show less

Bali, Indonesia

Knowing who to call is useful. Knowing who to call FIRST is a SUPERPOWER.The Tribify Engine was an enterprise-grade, AI-enhanced data management system that leveraged the power of the social network to find future customers, capture their attention, and engage with them at scale.While the product worked quite well, we were unable to make the case to the marketplace.

Bali, Indonesia

RINGKNOCKER was a community of former commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces.We came from all services, commissioning sources and warfare specialities, and we shared an experience that is unique in American life: while our contemporaries were enjoying life, we were manning the Line, often at great personal cost, safeguarding their ability to enjoy it.Whether an officer's career began at a service academy, an ROTC program, or the speed train to OCS, the end… Show more RINGKNOCKER was a community of former commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces.We came from all services, commissioning sources and warfare specialities, and we shared an experience that is unique in American life: while our contemporaries were enjoying life, we were manning the Line, often at great personal cost, safeguarding their ability to enjoy it.Whether an officer's career began at a service academy, an ROTC program, or the speed train to OCS, the end result is the same: we share a bond that can only exist between men and women who have carried the burden of leadership in the presence of mortal peril.Every Thursday night for almost two years, RINGKNOCKERs spent 90 minutes exchanging SAYING for DOING. We reconnected with old shipmates. We forged new connections. We offered intelligence, mentorship, and opportunities. We accepted the same. My job? My job was to herd a bunch of hyper-intelligent knuckle-draggers onto a Zoom call once a week so that magic could happen. Show less

Various

Worked as a consulting engineer on a variety of ongoing Markit EDM projects. Most of these engagements were very short--on the order of a few weeks--and were focused on solving specific challenges faced by an in-house team.

Bali, Indonesia

deltaTest was an open-source tool that enabled true automated unit testing and full DevOps integration in an Enterprise Data Management context. I developed this tool to support ongoing work in the Markit EDM space and saw some success in corporate partnerships, but left the project to other practitioners when I left the EDM space in 2020.

Chicago

HotQuant was a boutique consultancy that designed, implemented, and serviced Enterprise Data Management systems for some of the world's most important financial institutions.As Chief Engineer, I was responsible for developing and extending the patterns and practices that were HotQuant's stock in trade. As the history below will attest, I did this work in the field and in person, solving real problems for real clients with real assets on the line.

Washington

Joined an ongoing Markit EDM implementation to transition the project to the new Core Matcher, implement a pricing engine, and establish the infrastructure and processes to support automated testing.

Kentucky, Texas & Ontario

Returned to this client to implement the accounts management system designed the previous year, on the Markit EDM platform. Applied Test-Driven Development and a highly modular design to master five entities, provide comprehensive infrastructure and user interface support, and deliver a required artifact to the SEC, with a team of only three developers, in just ten two-week sprints.

California

Joined a mature Markit EDM implementation to conduct an in-depth best-practices review and lend expertise around performance optimization, testing, and Markit’s Datastore product. Designed a testing strategy that will enable the client to switch from manual test scripts and inadequate test coverage to true, comprehensive, automated test-driven development.

Kentucky & Texas

Led the client through a nine-week planning exercise that produced a powerful business case, as well as high-level architecture, design, and development plan, for the implementation of a comprehensive accounts management and party mastering system on the Markit EDM platform. This effort relied heavily on the HotQuant Toolkit, an extensive collection of best practices, development tools, and design patterns intended to bring the benefits of modern software engineering techniques like… Show more Led the client through a nine-week planning exercise that produced a powerful business case, as well as high-level architecture, design, and development plan, for the implementation of a comprehensive accounts management and party mastering system on the Markit EDM platform. This effort relied heavily on the HotQuant Toolkit, an extensive collection of best practices, development tools, and design patterns intended to bring the benefits of modern software engineering techniques like interface-based design and test-driven development into the Data Management space. Show less

Chicago

This aggressive Markit EDM implementation consumes and integrates security and corporate action data on all exchange-listed securities, worldwide. The goal was to achieve a time advantage over the market in correctly pricing the effects of corporate actions. We consequently had to parse corporate actions files in their earliest, most fractured, lowest-quality forms. This required a novel architecture and extensive automation.

Wisconsin

Served this client through numerous phases of a 5-year project serving the asset management end of a global insurance company. The system will ultimately consume over 50 source artifacts and feed over a dozen target systems, replacing fractured business logic spread across many legacy systems with an efficient, cohesive data distribution engine that will eliminate risk, significantly reduce operating costs, and serve as a solid foundation for future growth. Led the initial implementation as… Show more Served this client through numerous phases of a 5-year project serving the asset management end of a global insurance company. The system will ultimately consume over 50 source artifacts and feed over a dozen target systems, replacing fractured business logic spread across many legacy systems with an efficient, cohesive data distribution engine that will eliminate risk, significantly reduce operating costs, and serve as a solid foundation for future growth. Led the initial implementation as well as various significant system extensions and enhancements. Show less

Connecticut

Participated in an unusual implementation of Markit EDM as a high-volume trade messaging pipeline connecting multiple investment management systems on the front end with parallel clearing houses on the back end. My contributions included: • Developed a high-capacity, low-latency process to validate, enrich, and move large volumes of trades rapidly, accurately, and with minimal user input.• Combined trade feeds from CRIMS and a proprietary investment management system with… Show more Participated in an unusual implementation of Markit EDM as a high-volume trade messaging pipeline connecting multiple investment management systems on the front end with parallel clearing houses on the back end. My contributions included: • Developed a high-capacity, low-latency process to validate, enrich, and move large volumes of trades rapidly, accurately, and with minimal user input.• Combined trade feeds from CRIMS and a proprietary investment management system with ACK/NACK/LACK response flow into an integrated pipeline.• Generated parallel outputs in SWIFT and FpML message formats supporting a comprehensive variety of security classes.• Constructed an efficient user interface to support trade flow monitoring, management, and exception handling.• Performed performance profiling & optimization to maximize trade throughput. Show less

Wisconsin

Joined an ongoing implementation that had just passed the security mastering milestone. Some highlights:• Engineered a custom migration package that virtually eliminates the complexity and workload associated with promoting a Markit EDM project through multiple environments.• Moved client from a single development environment to a four-tier system featuring connections to corresponding target system environments, scheduling logic managed via Tidal, and environment promotion… Show more Joined an ongoing implementation that had just passed the security mastering milestone. Some highlights:• Engineered a custom migration package that virtually eliminates the complexity and workload associated with promoting a Markit EDM project through multiple environments.• Moved client from a single development environment to a four-tier system featuring connections to corresponding target system environments, scheduling logic managed via Tidal, and environment promotion managed via RedGate and the Migration Console. Performed multiple Markit EDM version upgrades.• Managed the development of both batch and ad-hoc export solutions for Geneva and CRD.• Drove mastering of Index, Organization, Price, F/X Rates, and Corporate actions. Data sources included Bloomberg, FactSet, ITG, MSCI, StateStreet, and back-office systems.• Created workflows and user interfaces to manage all entity masters, process monitoring, exception handling, reference data, and exports.• Created a comprehensive Security & Strategy Authorization Request and Review process that met highly complex functional requirements and a very tight SLA.• Trained in-house developer to build high-quality user-interface workflows. Oversaw the construction of tools to manage custom entity lists for export to CRD, custom security creation, and master table underlay values. Show less

Colorado

A new implementation for a large institutional client. Specific accomplishments included:• Aggressively managed requirements in order to bring clarity to new engagement and rapidly transition from requirements gathering to component construction.• Created data load support for external data from Atlas, Bloomberg, FactSet, MSCI, and POINT, as well as internal data from Dimension and several back-office feeds.• Created workflows and user interfaces to manage security… Show more A new implementation for a large institutional client. Specific accomplishments included:• Aggressively managed requirements in order to bring clarity to new engagement and rapidly transition from requirements gathering to component construction.• Created data load support for external data from Atlas, Bloomberg, FactSet, MSCI, and POINT, as well as internal data from Dimension and several back-office feeds.• Created workflows and user interfaces to manage security mastering, process monitoring, exception handling, and reference data.• Trained new in-house developer in all aspects of Markit EDM development. Show less

Chicago, Il

LiquidPoint provides order entry, routing, and execution services to several options exchanges and a number of large, institutional clients, touching one out of every four options contracts traded in the United States. My most recent function at LiquidPoint was to build a Business Intelligence system aimed at monetizing this data stream, using SQL Server DB/Integration/Analysis Services 2005/2008, C# .NET, and a number of XML and HTTP-based methods to retrieve and integrate outside… Show more LiquidPoint provides order entry, routing, and execution services to several options exchanges and a number of large, institutional clients, touching one out of every four options contracts traded in the United States. My most recent function at LiquidPoint was to build a Business Intelligence system aimed at monetizing this data stream, using SQL Server DB/Integration/Analysis Services 2005/2008, C# .NET, and a number of XML and HTTP-based methods to retrieve and integrate outside data. This system supported order flow, quality of execution, and ad hoc reporting as well as routing network analysis and routing algorithm design via a number of VBA/Excel applications.Other accomplishments included:• Worked with senior LiquidPoint and CBOE management to invent the option industry's first universal Post-Trade Allocation method, opening up a new and significant revenue stream. Tools & Skills: VBA, Discrete Optimization, Consensus Building.• Found a system-configuration solution enabling the creation of a new and lucrative class of client while saving hundreds of man-hours of development time. Tools & Skills: Network Analysis.• Created a flexible platform to automate the transmission of post-trade changes directly to OCC, saving dozens of man-hours per week and nearly a half-million dollars a year in service fees. Tools & Skills: C# .NET, FIXML, XSLT. Show less

Schaumberg, Il

Profit Rank is an internet marketing firm that focuses on strategies amenable to automation and quantitative optimization. My job was to implement those strategies. Specific accomplishments included:• Developed and implemented a quantitative client-evaluation tool to model prospective client internal sales projections using public data. Tools & Skills: Control Theory, MS Excel/Word VBA.• Designed and built automated requirements-capture and sales support system for major… Show more Profit Rank is an internet marketing firm that focuses on strategies amenable to automation and quantitative optimization. My job was to implement those strategies. Specific accomplishments included:• Developed and implemented a quantitative client-evaluation tool to model prospective client internal sales projections using public data. Tools & Skills: Control Theory, MS Excel/Word VBA.• Designed and built automated requirements-capture and sales support system for major technical publisher. Implemented solution as a custom DotNetNuke module. Tools & Skills: Discrete Optimization, U/I Design, ASP.Net AJAX, C# .Net, SQL Server 2005, MS Word/PowerPoint VBA.• Developed, implemented, and maintained sophisticated, multi-client DotNetNuke installation. Tools & Skills: ASP .Net, C# .Net, VB .Net, System Administration (Windows Server 2003), DBA (SQL Server 2005). Show less

Chicago, Il

Nova was a high-tech startup working on a functional replacement for GPS that relied on naturally-occurring pulsar signals instead of timing signals from artificial satellites. My task was to figure out how to do it. Specific accomplishments included:• Developed a number of novel theoretical approaches to the detection and timing of very weak, periodic signals cloaked in high levels of background noise. Tools & Skills: Digital & Statistical Signal Processing, Discrete Optimization… Show more Nova was a high-tech startup working on a functional replacement for GPS that relied on naturally-occurring pulsar signals instead of timing signals from artificial satellites. My task was to figure out how to do it. Specific accomplishments included:• Developed a number of novel theoretical approaches to the detection and timing of very weak, periodic signals cloaked in high levels of background noise. Tools & Skills: Digital & Statistical Signal Processing, Discrete Optimization, MatLab/Simulink, Mathematica.• Invented a high-performance method for evolving real-time 3D navigational fix and area of uncertainty signals based on a continuously variable set of timed pulse sources. Tools & Skills: Digital & Statistical Signal Processing, MatLab/Simulink, Mathematica.• Developed and built software & hardware platforms to simulate & test these approaches under both laboratory and field conditions. Tools & Skills: Data Acquisition, Custom PCB Design, RF Antenna Design, Hardware Integration, U/I Design, MatLab/Simulink, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005. Show less

Chicago, Il

e-Insure Services was in the business of capturing and selling Internet insurance leads. My function was to redesign and rebuild the firm’s core web application, from scratch. My efforts generated a sustained annualized growth rate of over 150% during my tenure. Specific accomplishments included:• Developed and implemented a sophisticated, web-based lead-generation application. Tools & Skills: U/I Design, C# .Net, SQL Server 2000.• Created a smart, predictive lead routing system… Show more e-Insure Services was in the business of capturing and selling Internet insurance leads. My function was to redesign and rebuild the firm’s core web application, from scratch. My efforts generated a sustained annualized growth rate of over 150% during my tenure. Specific accomplishments included:• Developed and implemented a sophisticated, web-based lead-generation application. Tools & Skills: U/I Design, C# .Net, SQL Server 2000.• Created a smart, predictive lead routing system that maximized revenue by routing leads based on minimal data capture and past commission performance for statistically similar leads. Tools & Skills: Cluster Analysis, SQL Query Performance Optimization. Show less

Chicago, Il

Focused on low-investment, high-return projects that depended on creative quantitative analysis for success. Some highlights:• Conducted research into sensor fusion techniques for the U.S. Navy. Tools & Skills: Linear Programming, Discrete Optimization.• Developed & constructed enterprise-level system enabling a large law firm to identify, solicit, and track bankruptcy-services clients based on public home-foreclosure data. Tools & Skills: Multivariate Cluster Analysis, U/I… Show more Focused on low-investment, high-return projects that depended on creative quantitative analysis for success. Some highlights:• Conducted research into sensor fusion techniques for the U.S. Navy. Tools & Skills: Linear Programming, Discrete Optimization.• Developed & constructed enterprise-level system enabling a large law firm to identify, solicit, and track bankruptcy-services clients based on public home-foreclosure data. Tools & Skills: Multivariate Cluster Analysis, U/I Design, C# .Net, ODBC.• Designed & implemented functional enhancements to a leading mathematical tool suite. Tools & Skills: Probability & Statistics, C++, Gauss Script. Show less

Seattle, Wa

Fairygod was a small proprietary trading outfit that focused on the equity markets. The fundamental strategic approach was mine.• Developed mathematical model for trading equity markets. Tools & Skills: Statistical Signal Processing, Control Theory, Discrete Optimization,• Designed and implemented real-time stock market trading system. Tools & Skills: C++, Hyperfeed Server, MS Excel VBA.

Worldwide

• Developed and implemented computer tactical decision aids that significantly improved ship's ability to track and prosecute enemy submarine contacts.• Consulted with Joint Operations Officer, U.S. Forces, Korea, regarding specifications for a command tactical data suite supporting future joint combat operations in the Korean theater.• Led team of 85 in maintenance and operation of $250 million in dry cleaning, air conditioning, cryogenic, hydraulic, diesel power generation… Show more • Developed and implemented computer tactical decision aids that significantly improved ship's ability to track and prosecute enemy submarine contacts.• Consulted with Joint Operations Officer, U.S. Forces, Korea, regarding specifications for a command tactical data suite supporting future joint combat operations in the Korean theater.• Led team of 85 in maintenance and operation of $250 million in dry cleaning, air conditioning, cryogenic, hydraulic, diesel power generation, and other equipment aboard oldest active commissioned vessel in U.S. Navy. Show less