James Tuan
Telephone (845) 454-1215
Email Address: james@tuan.net
CAREER
HIGHLIGHTS:
Financial
Industry: Architected and implemented
front end trading systems for Mortgage Back Trading, Government Repo Trading,
Currency Options, Wavelet Analytics for Currency Prices and U Government Bonds.
Managed and developed software projects for Prime Broker Backoffice and Hedge
Fund Reconciliation systems.
Internet: Technical
Manger/Sr.Developer for internet development company, clients including
Petrochem.net (online subscriptions), eHammer.com (online auction site),
g4guitar.com (e-commerce),Raceserch.com (e-commerce) and Praxair.com (corporate
identity)
CURRENT TECHNOGIES: UNIX
/ Perl / MVC / Sybase / UNIX Shell Scripting / Apache
WORK HISTORY
5/05 – Current - Vice President
- Bank
of
Application
Lead for Primer Broker Back Office. The group consisted of 5 programmers of
various skill levels and 2 business analysis. Duties include reporting at
bi-weekly business meetings, weekly infrastructure/release/manger meetings,
project coordination with business users and prioritization/assignment of
projects.
Developed
Equity Triparty platform for the Central
Fund Desk. The platform aggregates data from multiple sources and post the
results to various trading systems for tri-party execution. Once the counterparties have pledged their
funds, excess inventory is relayed to Depository Trust Company (DTC) via MQ.
DTC will then process the inventory and forward the data to Bank of New York’s
Repo Edge system for client allocations. The resulting allocations are
retrieved by the platform and journal entries are created for posting to
ADP. This system is written on a Sun
Solaris platform with ksh, Perl scripting language along with a Sybase DBMS.
Implemented
Middle Office Reconciliation processes between Repo Trading System and ADP back
office book & records. The reconciliation includes
information about trades, positions,
securities and prices. The data is brought in daily from an existing Sybase and
DB2 systems and warehouse in a new Middle Office database. The new Middle Office database can be adhoc
queried via a .net application and exported to Microsoft Access. The data is retained for 30 days and
includes all end of month information. The process is written in a Sun Solaris
platform using ksh and Perl scripting languages.
Developed
interfaces for internal bank business initiatives for Fix Income Prime Broker,
Whole Loan Repo Trading and Proprietary Repo Trading to vendor's
front end trading system. This include extending data feeds to back office
systems, trade processing, margin reporting and developing new feeds to
external system such as BONY RepoEdge.
6/02 – 5/05 - Senior Systems Programmer - Lazard
Asset Management 30
Project
Manger for Hedge Fund Accounting and Operations Reconciliation System. Created
business specifications detailing the existing business process and presented
alternative business flows. The research and design phase involved coordinating
business practices among the Marketing, Operations and Accounting
departments. Reviewed Business
specifications with senior IT management and proposed software systems
solutions for the Operations and Accounting Group. Provided detailed
time/production milestones in Microsoft Project.
Architected
the Hedge Fund Reconciliation System platform based on UNIX/Apache Tomcat/
Apache Struts / JSP/ Java /Oracle based on MVC - Model 2 framework as described
by Sun Microsystems. Coordinated and
implemented Vendor data integration to the new AI System via FTP/Java/Oracle.
These include data feeds for Subscriptions/ Redemptions/ Products and Investor.
3/97 – 06/02 - Senior Systems Programmer - Internet Industry
Corporate
identity site for Parxair.com developed in Lotus Notes. Customized Lotus Notes template Discussion
and Mailing List databases to conform to overall web site design and enhance
functionality (www.praxair.com).
Technical
manager and lead developed for the e-commerce web site www.g4guitars.com. The e-commerce software
is written in Java/JDBC/Servlets with a MySQL or
Oracle database backend. The application suite consists of a browser base
administrative functions and a public e-commerce site. The administrative
software allows multiple e-commerce sites to be managed from one web server.
This software sub-system system allows the administrator to manage all aspects
of e-commerce such as category-subcategory configuration, inventory control and
product delivery. The public e-commerce site is a mix of statically generated
and dynamically generated HTML pages. The credit card processing is completed
with SecurePay transaction API.
Developed Server Side Java (servlets) for
a www.ehammer.com , auction site,
employing JDK 1.2 beta and JDBC to connect to Oracle DBMS.
The Servlets dynamically displays the home page, categories, list of
auctions, auction watch, bulk auction uploads, and auction search
functions. Established Business to
Business relationship with GoTo Auctions. Cross platform functionality included
Verification of Auctions, Auction Creation, Auction Update, and Retrieving
Auctions by User, Retrieving Auction Details, User Verification and the Ability
to Leave Feedback for both the seller and buyer.
Integrated
CyberSource Gift Certificate, Chat and Bulletin Board for www.racesearch.com . The integration was
executed with in a SUN/ORACLE/PERL environment.
3/97 - 6/00 T3 Technologies,
6/00 - 12/00 RaceSearch.com,
6/00 - 8/01
Ehammer.com,
9/01 – 6/02 G4guitars.com,
153 East Streets,
12/89 - 3/97 - Senior Systems Programmer/Analyst - Financial
Industry
Collaborated
in the design and implementation of a Government Repurchasing (Repo) Trading
System. Phase I deliverables include on-line Position, Trade, Funding Blotters,
Trade Entry, Customer, Broker. Look up windows for Cusip, Open Rate Management,
Cash Pledges and Swing Tickets.( C/C++/Sybase/Motif)
Reorganized
data flow and data structures of the current implementation of the firms
Mortgaged Backed Securities trade application. Lead the porting efforts in the
ACSII based systems to a C/Sybase/Openlook Sun Workstation environment.
Supported and maintained Government Bonds Trading desk. Duties included intra-day trading desk and clearing support as well as code maintenance of a Unix/C/C++/Motif/Sybase Trading System.
Developed
software in UNIX/C/X11 environment to present currency prices in graphical
form. Wrote technical analysis routines to provide market insight for the
Option Traders. Historical data was
stored and retrieved from Sybase RDMS using DB-Client interface and "Price
Watch" API's were used to gather real time data from Reuters and Telerate.
11/96 - 3/97
Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette,
06/94 - 11/96
Smith Barney,
12/91- 6/94
Mabon Securities Corporation, 11
12/89-12/91
Societe Generale, 50
Rockefeller Plaza,
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of
Science Degree,
REFERENCES: Available upon request