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Manager Quality Assurance

Location:
Forest Hills, NY, 11375
Posted:
August 03, 2010

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Resume:

HOWARD HONG ***********@*****.***

**-** **** ***, ****** Hills, NY 11375 718-***-****

PROFILE:

A hands-on technical project leader with solid application experience and

a strong developer orientation. Unique skills include tool development

used for programming support. Experience includes rapid application

development, process re-engineering, regression testing, legacy

application bridges and low-level library development. Broad and

extensive knowledge base spanning large scale architecture design, low

level API's, database design, and regression testing/quality assurance

SOFTWARE/SYSTEMS:

. Java, C/C++, Perl, ksh/bash/csh/sh, awk, sed

. Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Embedded SQL, JDBC, ODBC

. XML, XSLT, XPath

. MQ-Series, TCP/IP, Pthreads

. Geneva, Kondor, Portia, FactSet, TrackData, FT Interactive data feeds

. Solaris, HP/UX, Windows, Linux, VMS, VM/CMS

WORK HISTORY:

Credit Agricole: Treasury IT Consultant 4/10 - Present

. Coded support modules for Kondor and Helix trading platforms.

Developed enhancements for FX accounting and General Ledger.

Ported stored procs to Sybase 15. Debugged and enhanced

Korn shell and Perl scripts. Ported stored procs to Sybase 15.

GlobeOp Financial Services: Project Architect/Manager 1/07 - 4/09

. Architected and developed high performance (~500 trades/sec), multi-

threaded data loaders for Geneva using Java, XSLT, JDBC, Swing, JSP

and shell and Perl scripts. Loaded trade types included equities,

options,

futures, spots, forwards, repos, and cash-flows from Kondor and

LongView

trading systems. Coordinated development across functional teams

(trading, security master, and database and systems admin) to design

data formats,

database tables, stored procs, and messaging infrastructure (MQ-

Series).

. Project management: work delegation, analysis, development, milestone

tracking, and programmer mentoring. Responsibilities also included

primary root cause failure analysis and resolution.

. Developed a multi-threaded, high availability client/server Java TCP/IP

socket based report server used for Geneva/Kondor reconciliation and

OLAP.

. Designed and implemented company wide disaster recovery shell scripts

with emphasis on fast, simple, and easy fail-over recovery.

. Implemented Advent Workflow Manager.

HOWARD HONG

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OpenLink Financial: Senior Software Developer 2/04 - 1/07

. Developed internal C API and Oracle/Sybase enhancements for the Endur

energy trading platform. Coded real-time position pages, enhanced the

commodity transport-link instrument type, and developed modules for

hourly gas and commodity scheduling (CMotion/GMotion).

Phoenix Investment Partners/Zweig: Systems Architect 6/97- 10/02

. Developed the Java/C/Unix based equity trading system. Completely

rewrote the trading system and migrated it from the Raima hierarchal

database engine to Informix. Reverse engineered the previously

existing

code, redesigned and rewrote the entire code base. Also added major

performance boosts to the system. This was a three man, two year

project.

. Coded all the Java, C and embedded SQL low-level libraries. Also

developed

the following modules: rebalancer, slicer, average pricer, portfolio

trade allocator,

nightly batch processes and reports, and application integration with

Portia,

FactSet, Instinet, ITG Quantex, and Excel. Also developed a real-time

quote

monitor utilizing TCP/IP sockets, shared memory, and POSIX threads

. Primary Informix and Sybase database administrator. Developed tables,

views, triggers, and stored procedures. Designed and coded Java and C

API interfaces.

. System Administration: Designed and implemented disaster recovery

systems. Wrote backup and recovery shell scripts. Installed Windows

security patches.

Paine Webber: Senior Programmer/Analyst 10/95 - 6/97

. Programmed Builder Accessory/Motif user interface screens used in

trade clearance. Re-engineered real-time position screens. Designed

and programmed the C/C++ message library for PTC communications.

Coded low-level Sybase and Motif utility functions for the Paine

Webber company-wide C API system library.

Lehman Brothers: Senior Programmer/Analyst 7/94 -

10/95

. Programmed the automated journal entry process and GUI screens using

Object Interface. Designed interface classes using Rogue Wave

tools.h++.

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JYACC Inc.: Software Engineer 9/87 - 7/94

. Co-authored the JDB SQL database engine. Programmed all back-end

processing including physical reading/writing of data in a machine

portable

format. Designed and coded the fast cache mechanism, database

journaling

and the commit/rollback/roll-forward processing

. Member of team that designed the JAM/DBi SQL API for the JAM GUI

IDE toolset. Developed an automatic SQL generator based on end-user

data input to a screen. Created the entity-relationship diagrammer for

toolkit programmers to define database table column mappings to JAM

screen

fields. Coded the C library interface for ODBC compliant databases.

. Jyacc QA. Developed the JTL test specification language for automatic

test suites. Implemented keyboard and mouse ard record/playback for

automated regression testing in X windows.

. Consulting: Coded risk calculators and ported C risk management

routines

to the Macintosh for JP Morgan. Designed and programmed a point-of-

sales system for the NCR 7052 cash register. Designed and programmed a

petty

cash system that tracked expenditures and initiated electronic funds

transfers

for Motorola.

Advanced Access Data Systems: Programmer 1/86 - 9/87

. Designed and implemented the CBridge programming toolkit (An ISAM

file manager for accessing RM/Cobol data files). Wrote a parser for

extracting Cobol record definitions from source code and translating

them into C structures. Coded Btree record access/update/delete and

multi-user locking algorithms.

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Education/Professional groups

. City College of New York

. New York Open Solaris Users Group

. New York Linux Users Group

References available upon request



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