Engineer System

ROBERT J. SACKS

*** ******* ****. ? Bayonne, NJ *7002 ? Home: 201-***-**** ?

Email:***********@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

A productive, resourceful and experienced individual who is able to work

independently and as a part of a team. Experienced with several

programming languages and computer systems including C++, X, MOTIF,

SYBASE, sockets, tcp/ip, Rogue Wave tools.h++, PERL and UNIX shell

scripting, UML, CLEARCASE configuration management system.

EXPERIENCE

Princeton Information Systems, Edison, New Jersey April 2007 - March

2009

Software Consultant to Merrill Lynch - Maintained and added enhancements

to Merrill Lynch Awesome allocation system.

. Enhanced the system to handle a new input message type.

. Created new user reports and added new functionality to existing

reports.

. Developed a new application that automatically updated the database

when pools were reserved or released by traders.

Environment: C++, SYBASE stored procedures and SQL, UNIX scripting on

SUN Solaris system

Think International, Massapequa, New York July 2006 - February 2007 and

January 2004 - November 2004

Software Consultant to New York Stock Exchange - Continuation of work

done at SIAC involving the Stockwatch application.

. Modified Application to use new data field

. Enhanced application to process messages from regional exchanges

. Testing and validated alert generation model implemented while working

as a Lead Design Analyst at SIAC.

. Wrote system documentation and test tools.

. Provided instruction and guidance to new Stockwatch developers.

Environment: C++, UNIX scripting on SUN Solaris system

Alliance Consulting, New York, New York July 2005 - March 2006

Software Consultant to Moody's Corp - Maintained Moody's automated

billing system.

. Performed trouble shooting of problems reported by billing analysts.

. Supported day to day operations and implemented enhancements.

. Implemented changes to base fee prices.

Environment: C++ on MS Windows

Securities Industry Automation Corp (SIAC), Brooklyn, New York December

1996 - December 2003

Lead Design Analyst - Developed and enhanced software systems that

support Market Surveillance by NYSE analysts Redesigned an application

which accesses and combines information from several sources of

information regarding executives and corporations. The new system is more

efficient, easier to support and eliminated several thousands of dollars

in licensing fees.

. Enhanced applications to add capabilities to access Who's Who

biographies and combine this information with data from other sources

. Implemented a new method for computing suspicion of insider trading to

executives and directors

. Implemented a new alert generation model for the Stockwatch

application which uses recent trading history to adjust for overall

market movement when flagging for unusual stock price movement.

Environment: C++, SYBASE stored procedures and SQL, PERL, UNIX scripting

on SUN Solaris system

Senior Engineer - Enhanced components of the Floor Information Display.

. Created new functionality to allow the system to process decimal

prices and higher resolution (up to 64ths) fractional prices as well

as foreign ordinaries.

. Implemented the changes to the system interface for a new data

distribution system.

Environment: C++, PERL, UNIX scripting on SUN Solaris system

Qualcomm Inc. San Diego, Ca. May 1995 - December 1996

Senior Software Engineer - Designed and developed software tools that

system engineers, field engineers and analysts used to analyze the

performance of CDMA Infrastructure.

. Developed a graphical tool which displays histograms and position

contours of CDMA parameters as well as text based spreadsheet format

summary files.

. Developed an interactive plotting tool which constructs plots of

various parameters via a TCL based scripting language

Environment: C++ and UNIX and TCL/Tk scripting on SUN Solaris system

EDUCATION

BS Mathematics, Polytechnic Inst. of NY, June 1978 - Graduated Magna Cum

Laude

MS Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 1981

Additional coursework at San Diego State University - Self Directed study

within Computer Science Dept. Classes taken included Database Modeling,

Computer Networks, Computer Security, X/MOTIF, C++

OTHER TRAINING

While at SIAC, completed courses in SYBASE, JAVA, Requirements Analysis

(UML) and CLEARCASE

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