• eCapitalist
• Fidelity Investments

I plunged both feet into the stock market bubble by joining eCapitalist after my first year of graduate school. Unfortunately, e*trade, Charles Schwab, and others had quite a head start.

Nonetheless, this was a wonderful professional experience. Seeing the irrational exuberane coming to fruition was a humbling experience as fortunes started to vaporize after March 2000.

eCapitalist provided on-line brokerage equity trading services to ethnic Chinese in North America and Asia. US Operations ceased in 2002.

Specific Work:

• Responsible for quantifying and architecting a technology infrastructure necessary to operate a global, online brokerage for retail customers (Web site front end, order routing daemons, database requirements).
• Participative Management: Managed group of five IS professionals tasked to develop an order routing daemon that is designed to accept FIX based orders from the front end and route these into ADP's FESNET interface using ADP's Internet API. This middleware software maintains a local order book (Oracle), intelligently handshakes with each connecting system to handle various types of exceptions (i.e. when ADP is down), and performs various account/balance/position ADP querying functions.
• Main point of contact to our market maker (Herzog Heine Geduld [Merrill Lynch]). Responsible for passing Herzog's rigorous testing requirements in the authentification of our middleware software so that every retail customer order is accurately and timely passed into ADP's order matching systems.
• Translated business requirements into technical specifications for the following: Electronic Trade Confirmations, Broker/Customer Web Messaging Interface, and all web page content for the brokerage web site.
• Technical liaison tasked to communicate company needs to our external business partners: Stockpoint (developer of our financial web content), Exchange Market Systems[a Sunguard company], eCheck Secure, ADP, and Herzog Heine and Geduld.
  

Arrived at Fidelity after returning to the states from Japan.

Specific Work:

• Worked on a new initiative to implement a Defined Benefit software system that manages individuals pre and post retirement benefits. Published architectural specifications and performed various liaison functions.
• Published top-level client/server application architectural documentation for this Defined Benefit system.
• Defined business processes and methods with business analyst's, and coordinated these rules to senior technical developers in the development of Defined Benefit software.
• Provided technical and architectural advisory services to several project teams.