Raymond Edwards Email & Phone Number

Des Plaines, Illinois, US

Swift River Concepts has the simple purpose to improve our client's business activities through computing solutions.Discovering our client's actual needs is the keynote of a successful and swift development process. We apply standard methods: project management and implementation, while leveraging the appropriate technology, new and proven.Salvaging.

New York, NY, US

I pitched in as an individual contributor to the development team creating the new Pillar high-frequency/ultra-low latency exchange platform aimed to reduce complexity while offering faster development time. My contributions included messaging acceleration for client access; leveraging model-driven architecture to expose internal messaging for operational.

I was initially retained as a consultant for my expertise in detailed implementation of high-performance systems to fix a failed trading platform which had never worked properly. Within a week I had it operating and trading.Subsequently I was hired as the CIO where I used my management experience to create a tight team, and my technical skill to architect.

This private trading firm had decided to develop an ultra-low latency/high-frequency trading system to run complex risk and risk-less trading algorithms using real-time data from multiple exchanges. The algorithms would be written by traders who would integrate with this common platform and infrastructure. After presenting a proposal and project plan I was.

New York, NY, US

After 10 years as a consultant to NASDAQ I was hired as a Senior Technical Specialist utilizing my Unix, C/C++ and networking skills to work on the Workstation II API, internal dissemination and order entry systems. I was quickly promoted to Director I, then Director II (Director of Market Data) where I managed the internal and primary external market data.

New York, NY, US

Architectural and development consulting for high speed, low latency mission critical client interface network. Market Montague display and data delivery as well as quote and order entry systems. Data distribution systems optimization.

Provided Unix architectural and development consulting for premier Service Delivery Platform providing simplified access to the complex systems of the NASDAQ OMX data center. This resulted in an environment for investors to actively track the market through data montages and tickers and rapidly respond to changes though integrated order entry.

Mitigated the impact of a change to the SIAC CTS data feed format using Solaris and “C” allowing the end user uninterrupted service by eliminating the need for end user changes.

Created fraud control system using Solaris, “C” and SQL for Southern New England Telephone targeted at revenue savings by real-time sensing and eliminating fraudulent call charges.

Hartford, Connecticut, US

Married a DEC VAX with a Prime computer using TCP/IP and “C” giving employees instant telephone access to their pension information.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Assured quality of RS6000 computer based routers in the bandwidth upgrade for the Internet Backbone (NSFNET) providing reliable and swift data transfer to World Wide Web Internet users.Verified the reliability of TCP/IP and router products in joint ventures with Yale and Princeton Universities providing an inexpensive network alternative to the educational.

US

Helped companies control their contracted utility usage through development of a kilowatt load shed program to mitigate the risk of kilowatt over-usage penalties.Simplified the lighting of Walt Disney World EPCOT using compiler technology to read a time table and action list and send messages to keep the theme park lighting under control.Oversaw the.

Assembled and repaired pioneering SCELBI computers that started the microcomputer industry.Authored and co-authored eleven books ranging from system software to games educating the burgeoning microcomputer industry in software development at the assembler level.Oversaw the order processing and international shipping of SCELBI publications delivering this.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Computer Science