| Client | Project | Comments |
| KPMG Peat Marwick | SAMS Application Enhancement | SAMS is a product marketed by KPMG to mortgage servicing firms that calculates the servicing value of mortgage portfolios. We were engaged to inspect the client server application and address several serious problems. The engagement increased the performance of the application by more than an order of magnitude and greatly reduced the error rate. |
| Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. | MarketSite | Nasdaq MarketSite displays statistics and quotes from the market on a large display consisting of multiple monitors. This application can be found at the Nasdaq office in downtown Manhattan as well as on the side of a building on Times Square (CNNfn often broadcasts from the downtown location). I led a team that was engaged to examine the existing system architecture and source code and make recommendations for fixes and improvements. Our report led to Plural being engaged to rewrite the entire MarketSite application. |
| Marriott | Organizer to Outlook Conversion | This engagement involved mentoring and managing a junior resource through the COM learning curve and helping him design and write a COM wrapper around the Lotus Organizer API. |
| Priceline.com | Development Standards Documentation | This engagement involved writing Visual Basic/COM coding standards for the development of the Priceline WebHouse Gas application. |
| Intelisys Electronic Commerce, LLC | Intelisys Portal | This troubleshooting engagement originally involved debugging a Visual Basic/Visual C++ http redirection scenario. A follow up involvement required restructuring the error handling and reporting of the entire code base to facilitate finding many system errors. |
| Swiss Bank | NT Desktop Infrastructure | This engagement involved working with the Swiss Bank team in Chicago, providing COM mentoring and coding as they ported their options derivatives application from the Next environment to Windows. |
| EIS International | Centenium | Centenium is a product marketed by EIS to run large call centers. This engagement involved managing a team of three developers in the creation of Wizards to adminstrate the call databases. |
| Siebe Environmental Controls | Application Processor | This engagement involved providing high level COM mentoring to the Siebe developers in their creation of Active documents and an Active Document host. |
| FAME Information Services, Inc | OLE Consulting | FAME is a financial information company that markets time series data from the major markets. The engagement involved writing a COM wrapper around their databases proprietary API, writing a Microsoft Excel application demonstrating the use of the COM wrapper and mentoring FAME developers for maintenance and new development in the future. |