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Projects
The two brothers continuously have worked with each other for more than twenty years. We collaborated as a
proper team and we worked separately on personal projects, but each assisted when personal projects were
developed. Below is a list of projects which we solved as a team to some degree.
Index
• Brooks Brothers Inc. March 1996 - January 1997, ( CASE TOOL product )
• Enabling Systems, Inc.., (3rd party developer) December 1994 - August 1995
• G.E. CAPITAL CORP July - December 1994
• The Fund for the City of New York, Inc.. (The Ford Foundation) June 1994 - August 1994
• CITIBANK, N.A., Dec. 1993 - Mar. 1994 (Authorized Vendor for Citicorp since 1984)
• G.E. CAPITAL CORP. Capital Markets Group, May 1992 - Nov. 1993 (Authorized Vendor)
• COASTAL BEND COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, 1993 - 1995
• PRIVATE BANK, CITIBANK, N.A., May 1992 - December 1993 (Technology Vendor)
• BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB, CORP., June 1991 - January 1992
• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, February 1990 - June 1991
• CONSUMER BANK, CHEMICAL BANK, June 1989 - July 1990
• CITICORP, N.A., 1985 - 1991 (Authorized Technology Vendor (Documator))
• SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT, 1983 - 1984 (independent contracting) Singapore, India, Thailand
• TELCOM & VIDEOTEXT INDUSTRIES, , INC., 1978 - 1983 (Internet)
• Cataldi & Associates, Inc., 1990 - Present
EXPERIENCE
Brooks Brothers Inc. March 1996 - January 1997
Senior systems C/C++ analyst, architect and programmer primarily responsible for the development of an Oracle
Server (7.3.2) "Dataport" for migrating CICS COBOL mainframe data processing to a RISC 6000 AIX 4.1.2
(UNIX) platform. The Dataport (based on Logical Calculus and written in C++ for AIX 3.1 and Pro C 2.2.2),
processes daily financial feeds from the company's international cash register operations for redistribution to
other in-house UNIX systems. The systems is designed as a Interface CASE TOOL, providing (near) real time
setup of interface requirement specifications (eliminating need to re-program and test interfaces). The AI
Dataport provides a flat-file (ASCII, EBCDIC) inter-process communications facility utilizing rule-based
translation (physical & logical) to the Oracle DBMS. The System lexically scans and processes a 14 mg flat file
(approx. 2.5 million fields) with a CPU time under 1 second. (project expectations were around 10 minutes), and
interfaces are setup in minutes (not days).
Other responsibilities involved evaluation, selection, negotiation of the Oracle Server; and setup
guidelines/strategies for database structure, memory structures and processes, instance parameter files,
tablespaces, transaction management and data recovery. Worked closely with C-C++/SQL programmer; &
cross-training four in-house COBOL programmers in SQL92/Client Server programming techniques.
Enabling Systems, Inc., (3rd party developer) December 1994 - August 1995
Developer of an office automation system, integrating 3rd party software packages and automating the daily
transaction processing of professional CPA practices. The multi-user DB server supports concurrent application
threads on a local area network (NT, PowerBuilder 4.0, C++, Sybase 10).
Cataldi & Associates, Inc., (developed for G.E. CAPITAL CORP..) July - December 1994
Senior systems analyst, architect and programmer responsible for developing a cash flow modeling system
(Windows 3.1, PowerBuilder 3.0, C++/C DLLs, Oracle 7.0), supporting DBMS migration / data consolidation
efforts involving real estate holdings. The system was broken down into the following:
Cashflow Engine: Server generates financial forecasts based on pattern recognition algorithms.
Forecast Models: Ten year Standard Prorata/Cumulative Balance by Real Estate property type
Intelligent Agent: Server hunts for data migration / consolation problems in property DBMS.
The Fund for the City of New York, Inc. (The Ford Foundation) June 1994 - August 1994
Programmer on platform migration/ porting project. Compiler upgrade project (Turbo DOS C to Visual C++)
involved building a "Wrapper" around a self optimizing scheduling system (MFC, DDEML, ODBC).
CITIBANK, N.A., Dec. 1993 - Mar. 1994 (Authorized Vendor for Citicorp since 1984)
Consultant involving several Multimedia Client Server prototypes (PowerBuilder 3.0; ODBC SQL Driver).
G.E. CAPITAL CORP., Capital Markets Group, May 1992 - Nov. 1993 (Authorized Vendor )
Lead architect - programmer/analyst of three cash flow modeling tools, providing quantitative analytical time
series analysis of RTC/FDIC S&L real estate portfolios (forecasting, valuation, risk mitigation). These tools
unified the portfolio analysis process for large, diverse pools of mortgage backed securities, rolling up cash
flows, & drilling down sensitivities providing NOI, ROI, IRR, etc..
COASTAL BEND COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, ( CASE TOOL product ) 1993 - 1995
Developer of a CASE Tool (C/C++, Paradox), providing core services to the South Texas Emergency Response
System (relied on for processing of 911 emergency calls throughout South Texas).
PRIVATE BANK, CITIBANK, N.A., May 1992 - December 1993 (Technology Vendor)
Responsible for a Decision Support System for the Private Bank, in the area of investment management
strategies. The LAN based system (C, C++, ODBC SQL, Sybase 10) provided a unified analytical platform for
strategic analysis/ management of depositors with personal assets exceeding $10 million.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, February 1990 - June 1991
Senior programmer/ programmer analyst of the Structural Integrity Information Management System (SIIMS),
providing quantitative analytic modeling of load bearing structural defects and safety related conditions, for the
bi-state agency's interstate rail and road transportation structures and facilities. The system analyzed the
George Washington Bridge and 175 St. Terminal; and 42 St. Bus Station; and Lincoln and Holland Tunnels; and
3 Outer Gothels Bridges; and Path Train tunnels, ramps and bridges.
SIIMS provided an analytic platform supporting a standardized periodic infrastructure inspection process,
analyzing qualitative and quantitative readings of defects, thermal displacements and stress conditions. This
network-based Expert System, (C & Paradox), was designed to track, correlate and predict the issues
comprising the Federal Audits and Major Work & Capital Programs.
• Established strict programming formats, procedures, and development reports to permit learning from
historic development statistics and created a proprietary objective c programming library to decrease
redundancy within the code. Result over three years was increased efficiency of scheduling, developing,
testing, debugging, and modifying code; development time was reduced by nearly 50%.
• Designed 'expert' system switch with objective code design. Runtime self-configuration provides
flexibility to configure easily to any document type. System builds the documents with assembly-line
efficiency, yet simply and inexpensively. Easily configures to any document type. Documator is currently
under license to Citibank, NY, where system has reduced production time of multiple-part banking
contracts by 98% and clerical errors by 99%.
• Developed highly-structured code and documentation and a detailed development report. Product now
under license by a major bank and reduced production time of multi-part banking contract by 98% and
reduced clerical errors 99% over previous production methods.
• Trained and directed technical staff and production artists. Training covered use of the proprietary
system, and database and knowledge base design.
This services was provided to: North American Investment Bank, N.A. (Citibank NA); Specialized International
Finance and Exotic International Products Divisions; Citibank International Investment Bank, S.A. (CIBSA); Latin
American Investment Bank, S.A. (LAIB); CitiTrust, Bahamas, Ltd.
Senior programmer/ analyst responsible for developing five Intelligent Document Generation Systems
supporting CitiCorp's TWd derivative trading floor operations (currency swaps). These 'Expert Systems'
streamlined the secondary distribution efforts (highly structured swaps, forwards & options) of Third-World debt
and other international debt/ obligations & multinational loan syndication participation.
Our Systems provided real-time analysis of customized, multi-lingual, multi-party swap environments, preparing
and tracking documentation and related correspondence (pre & post trade, execution) for active deals to internal
team, participants and referenced or affected parties. The systems modeled the deal making environment
preparing defect-free contracts, exhibits, schedules, consents and notices.
Designed and developed preliminary specifications for proprietary virtual packet switch, providing user-oriented
solutions for networking, processing, and data throughput requirements for internet (videotex) system. Designed
and developed cost-effective synthetic-video generator that dynamically constructs and formats information on
demand, incorporating high-resolution imaging/alpha-geometric graphics and presenting them as an "electronic
cartoon magazine". Mapped and directed installation and operations of hardware and software components
during public trials of both applications.
• Consulted with major department store to analyze retail-internet user requirements; Consulting
continued for three years and redirected on-going field trial activity. During this period imaging
technology progressed from alpha mosaic through alpha-geometric and then on to full color images.
• Designed and developed financial pro-forma and strategic marketing plans; these plans were constantly
modified over a five year period under the guidance of the worlds largest venture capitalist.
• Designed and developed preliminary specification for a proprietary system software (VANSYS),
analyzing and developing user-oriented solutions for user networking, processing, and data
requirements for public and residential internet (videotex). Provided communications backbone by
combining interactive virtual-packet switching and store-and-forward message switching. Designed
layering to be compatible with international standards and protocols established by the International
Standards Organization.
• Designed and developed retail advertising service: a switch to generate streamed data and provide
point-of-sale with synchronized audio. System operates passively and interactively through touch-screen
response; it dynamically constructs and formats information on demand, incorporating high-resolution
imaging and alpha-geometric graphics and presenting them in cartoon fashion.
• Designed and developed artists workstation. This mouse controlled screen editor captures images with
thousands of colors from an NTSC source, crops the image to a package size, translates the image to
best-fit within a dynamically constructed color map, and loads the image with synchronization
coordinates. Animation routines are sequenced and initialized from a database at runtime and when
activated generate a stream of data output as an RGB signal.
• Mapped and directed installation and operations of hardware and software components during public
field trials. Ran point-of-sale field trial in major department store as holiday spectacular; received multi-
national press as industry leader and received queries from as far as Paris and Sydney. Responsible for
budgeting and scheduling, and coordinating thirty specialists from five organizations and two countries.
Hardware specialists adopted my installation-planning format after first installation slid together 80%
ahead of schedule.
• Trained and supervised technical staff and production artists. Training covered use of the proprietary
system and various third-party frame creation and graphics/image editors.
• Ported retail system (c) from MS-DOS to Unix. Managed six month project to analyze and identify
obstacles to perfect portability, to analyze throughput capacity of proprietary system running on an ATT
7300 processor under UNIX and to analyze SQL capabilities.
Installed and managed computer operations of time-sharing service ( before CompuServe); designed and
developed system to collect usage data toward evaluating user requirements for retail and residential internet
(videotex) designed and developed software to analyze objectively statistical usage; designed and managed
field trials for residential services.