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1) Stabilized, enhanced and assessed the HMC Router application.
- This is a key operational application which provides a 'soft switch' between:
- HMC's internal systems such as trade capture, cash wire and security feeds
- An off-site accounting system
- An off-site SMAC (securities management and control) system
- The Router application:
- Maps and routes transactions (messages) to and from all the above systems.
- Records acknowledgement of receipt of information and creates cross-reference information.
- Forms the basis for reconciliation among these systems.
- Positions HMC well for the approaching T+1 settlement requirement.
- The application is implemented in C/Sybase.
- Stabilization was achieved by identifying and resolving problems:
- within the application logic.
- with implementation (i.e. memory leaks).
- Enhancements included adding transaction types such as stock loans and cash wires to the Router
- Assessment resulted in a series of recommendations, which were adopted, that improved reliability, supportability, etc.
2) Rearchitected a critical database transformation and replication application to improve performance and reliability.
- Performance gains were realized by:
- Introducing parallelism
- Employing intelligent ordering techniques
- Reliability gains were realized by:
- Implementing sophisticated, positive status checking and recovery to ensure:
- Availability of necessary resources
- Resolution of deadlock conditions
- etc
3) Designed and implemented a web based reporting and data distribution application that provided real-time information to traders at Harvard Management.
- This HTML/C/CGI based application allowed users to:
- select from 40 reporting options
- select from a set of flexible selection criteria
- indicate a preference for
- formatted HTML output
- data formatted for import into a spreadsheet or database
- both
- Retrieve relevant data from relational database(s).
- Dynamically format HTML, including drill down links.
- Optionally deliver importable data to the desktop.
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