BIO
Lawrence Walters
SUMMARY
Highly skilled Software Developer with over five years ofexperience working in the financial industry.
Experience includes working independently and in teamenvironments delivering application projects from inception throughimplementation.
Strong skills with Visual Basic, SQL Server, C++ and C#, fulldevelopment life cycle, gathering, defining and communicatingbusiness requirements using industry standard methods (SDLC, OO/OD,RAD and UML).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
William O'Neil and Company
William O'Neil + Co. Incorporated providessecurities research, advisory and trading services to more than 600major institutional clients (pension and mutual funds, banks,insurance companies, corporations and government organizations) andindividual investors.
Software Developer
Los Angeles
Oct 2000 - Present
Responsible for full project life cycle of multipleproducts. This includes design, development, integration intoexisting systems, testing, responding to user feedback andcontinued maintenance and enhancements.
Designed, implemented and maintained Option Guide web site, anew addition to [login to view URL] and [login to view URL]. The siteprovides delayed option pricing and proprietary evaluation tools.Created datafeed interface for pricing using Visual C++, optionsdatabase on Microsoft SQL Server, data transfer layer using C++/ATLand COM+/MTS to increase performance. Designed and coded web siteusing ASP and Javascript for client side interaction. Currentlyconverting to Visual Basic .NET.
Switched pricing datafeed for all online products to new vendorto save costs. Complete design and coding using C++ and vendor API.Integrated into existing databases and web products using SQLServer, Visual Basic .NET.
Automated synchronization of data between Unisys mainframe andSQL Server. Using XML in one-way update from mainframe to SQL.
Created portfolio analysis database using historical data andcurrent updates via XML to track performance of stock portfoliosand trading activity.
Susquehanna InternationalGroup
Susquehanna is the largest US option market makerand specialist, with offices in the US, Dublin, and Sydney. Also aspecialist in over 150 NYSE listings, and market maker in over 1600NASDAQ stocks.
Software Developer/SystemsAdministrator
Philadelphia
Mar 2000 - Sep 2000
Responsible for tactical software development, dayto day maintenance and PC support for office and trading floor of50 users.
Created firm wide real-time risk tracking system usingdistributed client/server architecture using Visual Basic withTIBCO Rendezvous and risk management software API.
Automated daily risk management reporting using VB and Accessdatabase.
Created system to track profit and loss from keytrades/positions in user maintained Access database.
Participated in design and implementation of wirelessenvironment on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Trained Junior Systems Administrator in application and PCsupport.
Systems Administrator/Software Developer
Amsterdam
Oct 1998 - Mar 2000
Responsible for setup of new Amsterdam office andlocal software development. Supported two trading floors with totalof 20 users, including desktop and wireless environment.
Designed, wrote, setup and supported system to automate dailyinput of position information from two clearing firms into our riskmanagement/position tracking system using Visual Basic and Accessdatabase.
Created position and risk management and profit and lossreporting system using Visual Basic, Excel/ Visual Basic forApplications (VBA), and risk management software API.
Trained and managed Dutch Systems Administrator as myreplacement
Setup original office of 7 users and 15 PCs.
Planned and supervised expansion in new space to 20 users and30 PCs.
Junior Systems Administrator
Chicago
Aug 1997 - Oct 1998
Supported office and multiple trading floors with75 users with both desktop and wireless environments.
Setup wireless PC environment at Chicago Board Options Exchange& Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Application support and some development with Excel, VisualBasic for Applications (VBA) and options pricing applications.
EDUCATION
Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois
Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science & Minor inChemistry
Area of Expertise
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Languages:
SQL, Visual Basic .NET and 6.0, C++, C#, Javascript, VBScript,PHP, HTML.
Technologies:
Microsoft SQLServer 2000 and 7.0, MySQL, XML, CSS, DHTML, ASP,COM+/MTS, ATL, MFC, n-tier, OOP, OOD, Middleware
OS/Platforms:
Windows XP, 2000, NT, 98/95, Linux, UNIX. Working knowledge ofIBM AIX, Sun Solaris.
Other:
Visual Source Safe (Version Control), and Fogbugz (BugReporting) .
