Programmer/Analyst

Edward Radke

**** ***** ****** **. - **** City Il, 61070

815-***-**** - **********@*****.***

Objective

Challenging position in IT in a team-oriented environment utilizing my technical skills to maintain and enhance a

firm’s data processing environment

Summary of Qualifications

• Analytical problem solver – able to resolve existing concerns, anticipate potential problems and create

new systems to streamline operations and advance projects to completion.

• Over 25 years of experience in Futures industry working with state of the art Back Office systems

• Project design – able to relate business requirements to technical resources and identify creative

solutions, able to work with big picture overview and day to day details of operation.

• Project management – able to identify milestones, keep managers appraised of progress and keep

developers on target.

• Computer skills include: RPG, RPGLE, COBOL, CLLE, SQL, FTP, MQM, XML, Stored Procedures,

ODBC, Linux, ILE, AS/400 subfiles, prototypes, display files, etc.

Professional Experience

2008 – 2014 Rolfe & Nolan/Ion Trading, Chicago IL - Senior Business Consultant

• Managed the planning, design, development and implementation of new systems to integrate Rolfe & Nolan

Commission and Fees rate information into GMI environments for FCM clients

o Extract of fee details from Fees Data Service XML message feed into GMI production Fee table.

o Extract of Commission Schedule rates from Fees Direct into GMI production Commission and Fees

tables

• Planned, designed, developed and implemented conversion process to automatically load Fees Direct

Commission Schedules from GMI commission tables

o Account load process to allow client to automatically load FD account information

Client controlled reporting at Firm, Location, Salesman or Custom levels

Schedule load of converted GMI Commission table information to FD XML messages

o Created similar process to load commission schedules from RISC commission tables

• Managed Fees Direct release updates for US environments

o QA testing

Tested new releases from London development team

Reported discrepancies to London and worked with them to validate the new release

o Scheduled and installed releases for US client environments

• Developed AS/400 Stored Procedure programs for ODBC driver to utilize RISC processing data in Margins

Direct application on Oracle server.

o Position and Trade information with five levels of Position and Trade detail summaries to allow MD

users to see results with various levels of granularity

2002 – 2008 SunGard Futures Systems, Chicago IL – Senior Programmer/Programming Team Leader

• Developed program changes and enhancements to GMI Core processing system

• Assigned as Team Leader for Core III and IV and Point Balance system with eight programmers reporting

directly me

• Member of Planning and Advisory Committee evaluating all programming requests from clients and all

Exchange requirements and proposed enhancements

Edward Radke 815-***-**** - **********@*****.***

1996 – 2002 ING Financial Service, Chicago IL – Programming Consultant/Programming Manager

• Hired as a Consultant programmer for AS/400 GMI processing system

• Traveled to London, Tokyo and Amsterdam on fact finding/development projects

• Hired as full time Programming Manager when initial consulting contract ended.

Additional experience includes:

• Programmer/GMI systems manager for First Options of Chicago. Chicago Il

o Managed GMI environment, installing release updates, program changes and liaising between FOC

users and GMI consultants

o Developed custom add-on systems for enhanced productivity from GMI system

• Data Processing Manager for Rosenthal/Collins Group, Chicago Il

o Supervised System 36 to AS/400 conversion for FCM

o Managed BSI Tracs system for Futures processing, scheduled upgrades and testing, programmed

custom enhancements.

• Programmer/Consultant for Brokerage Systems Inc. Chicago Il

o Developed programs, installed changes and updates, managed client requests for FCMs in Chicago,

Los Angeles, Tokyo and other locations.

• Programmer for Computer Information Service Inc. Chicago Il

o Programmer/ Lead Programmer for Futures processing system using IBM 360 and 370.

o Daily processing systems involved handling up to 40% of all Futures trades world-wide

o Developed programs for micro-fiche processor to automatically archive all client reports daily

• Data Processing Manager for Dana Manufacturing, Elgin Il

o Managed all Data Processing requirements for small manufacturing company using IBM System 34

in MAPICS environment

o Served as programming consultant for three other Dana branch offices in Michigan and Ohio

Education

• B.A. Degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Il

o Math and Computer Science major

o Accounting and Economics minors

References available upon request.

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