Application Migration Boosts Performance & Savings
When GM wanted to buy a web-hosting trading front end, personally tasked with evaluating and migrating the application into data center with strict guidelines on controlling expense and strengthening the product architecture for high availability. Very young group of...
Adept Audit Management Ensures SAS70 Compliance
Faced with SAS70 Type II request from a client and SOX on the horizon, commenced work with independent SAS70 auditor to outline requirements to achieve Type II compliance, wherein every control had to be demonstrated every six months. Faced with defining a consistent...
New Product Design Cultivates Data Center Profitability
Personally charged by general manager to generate revenue from data center. Client revenue was generated by brokerage transactions entered in to company systems…
Custom System Development Secures Major Contract
Client prospect challenged company to demonstrate a system that could process 1M trades per hour before signing $20M dollar per year contract for services. Team had only two weeks to secure a mainframe, stress test applications, and produce results that would gain the...
System Migration Skyrockets Availability & Cost Savings
Data center was faced with 60 checkpoint firewall Sun servers that were failing every week. Needed to find a solution to protect individual client IP circuits within backbone LAN network from hacker activity. Using a server-based firewall solution for each individual...
Development Innovation Prompts Multimillion-dollar Savings
Installing a new Tandem mainframe for performance reasons required changing all TAL procedure calls in COBOL85 applications, which was projected to take three years by the development group. Needed to find a way to change 5,000 programs without freezing the code for...
Customized Management Solution Begets Company-wide Information System
Division was faced with understanding the dynamics of client satisfaction and documenting ongoing service levels of product delivery.
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