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Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Responsible for architecture, analysis, and design of solutions to incorporate new health plan products into existing portfolio of offerings. Additionally, provide guidance and mentoring to staff on modeling and the SDLC.

Responsible for architecture, technical vision, resource planning for a financial services startup.Created the technology vision based on a rough MS Access demo. Reduced funding requirements by 25% due to the work performed. The service required high scalability, reliability, and speed. The design incorporated requirements to provide both web services access and present pages to be incorporated into other host sites using customization to maintain the look and feel of the host site. Additional work involved the design of a separate system to handle data import, validation, and a calculation engine capable of handling an arbitrary number of financial computational models while providing lights-out usage coupled with detailed monitoring and logging of all processes.

Westlake, Texas, Us

Architect/Director, SchwabFunds Technology/Help & AdviceResponsible for architecture, analysis, design of:Schwab Equity Ratings:• Incorporated compliance, high availability, security, integrity, integration, control, auditing• Led enthusiastic, dedicated, nimble team coupled with offshore; project on time/on budgetMIDAS (Fixed Income/Money Market Mutual Funds Portfolio Management): multi-million dollar, multi-year effort involving 20-30 people.• Created first pre-trade compliance system, allowed 300% increase in assets with few extra personnel• Fully integrated credit, portfolio, trade, compliance, executive management and reportingMatrix (Equity-based Mutual Funds Portfolio Management):• Incorporated list-based trading, feeds, order splitting, routing, and recon, vendor int and data warehouse• Used offshore resourcesOther Achievements of Note• Architecture team for Grid Computing Pilot, resulted in production system• Used: OO, UML, XML, .Net, SOA, RUP

Created first system to offer check clearing independent of the Federal Reserve Bank. This system quickly cleared checks for all the major California and Western region banks faster, more frequently, and less expensively than the Fed. Performed systems integration and new software development for a leading North Bay hospital and a major lighting manufacturer

Emeryville, California, Us

Managed a heterogeneous set of 100+ computers and 7 employees and contractors.

Cinisello Balsamo, Mi, It

A small consulting firm, specializing in research of electromagnetic interference. Created software models used to predict the impact of lightning strikes on aircraft.